Until you pointed him out to me, Kim, I hadn’t seen the new Bowser stuff on HAED. Wow. I especially like Lotus Wood—naturally, lots of green and purple. Have you seen one of the other new designers, Christensen? I recognize his Old World Santa and Wendell from who-knows-where, someplace… A long time ago. I’ve seen […]

If you have stitched for a while, can you usually pick out the DMC colors you need from memory when you go to your LNS? (For example, you know that 610 is a brown.)
Well, I almost always remember that 310 is black, and the 336x series is green, especially if I’m stitching or have recently […]

What kinds of things do you like to knit? Personally, I love knitting socks, sweaters, shawls, blankets, that sort of thing. My friend Beth shared a link to this knitted digestive system with me. The guy who knit the digestive system, even posted his as yet untested pattern. What a riot!

Things are ganging up on us again. The last few weeks have been rough, what with this and that. Nothing that can’t be easily gotten over, gotten past, gotten through, with a little perseverance, just that they all piled up at the same time. And then on Tuesday this week we had a meeting with […]

I got the beard done! Feels like it took forever. LOL I was going to rotate on Sunday, but I’m newly motivated, now that the beard is done, so think I’ll go another week on this one before rotating to the next project, which is looking like it’s going to be Lilac Basket. It seems […]

I got the KnitBits® email yesterday for Borroco’s new patterns for leg warmers, and thought I’d been taken back to the 1980s! Well, except that we didn’t wear them with high four inch heels back then. Well, at least I didn’t. LOL The only place I was caught in leg warmers back then was at […]

I got an offer in the mail yesterday for a new knitting book from Vogue: Stitchionary Vol. 1: Knit & Purl. Okay. This looks fabulous. It has 250 different stitch patterns that they’ve culled from back issues of Vogue Knitting. Some of the samples in the little flyer are totally cool. Plus, if I rush […]

Have you ever stitched something as a gift and later realized that receiver doesn’t respect your stitched gift a bit (for example it’s never on show, or you have other reason to suspect that it may even be nonexistent or at least placed in some dark storage room corner)? If so, what have you done? […]

I printed one page this evening, then discovered that I needed to print more. That first page caught Ricki’s eye, so she got up on my desk to check things out. She watched the rest of the pages as they emerged from the printer…

Diamonds or pearls? Both.
Paperback or hardcover books? Leather, hardcover, paperback, in that order.
Carpet or hardwood floors? Hardwood floors with the occasional area rug definitely preferred.
Dogs or cats? Always have a cat. Only have a dog when I have the room and time.
Fluffy or firm pillow? Firm.
Fine point or medium point pens? Fine point.
Clocks a little […]