Happy New Year! It’s the Eighth Day, or Octave, of Christmas, better known as New Year’s Day. That brings us to the number five in this Twelve Days of Christmas Knitting coundown, and today brings another scarf. Jared’s siblings do a sibling gift exchange every year, so that between all of them and their spouses, … More Five Feet of Green Scarf
This calm Saturday brings us past the halfway point on these Twelve Days of Christmas Knitting. Day seven, and number six. Today I will describe the “hat” I knit for Jared this year. By “hat” I mean “knitted thing he wants.” We knit each other something every Christmas, and for the first few years it … More Six Feet of Blue Scarf
It’s the sixth day of Christmas, which brings us, palindrome-like, to the number seven. (Not doing backwards like this again; too confusing.) Seven is the number of balls of Knitpicks “Dishie” that arrived in the post in October. I like to make a little something, see, for all the lovely women in my life. And … More Seven Pairs of Dishcloths
It started innocently enough, with a facebook message to my sister-in-law and a modest order to Knitpicks: four skeins of “Wool of the Andes Bulky.” A trip to the winder in mid-October, and they sat by the couch, needles at the ready. Then, they started appearing. And multiplying. Are they mittens or tribbles? I had … More Eight Monogrammed Mitts
The third entry on these Twelve Days of Christmas Knitting brings me, not to my needles, but to my mom’s. She wanted to make my little dancer something special this Christmas, so she made her a colorful skirt: out of stuff yarn. If you didn’t know, “stuff yarn” is made of several shorter lengths of … More Ten Crazy Skirt Stripes
This second installment of the Twelve Days of Christmas Knitting Crafting brings us, in reverse order, to the number 11. Eleven, in this case, happens to be the number of tiny top petal shapes I cut out of sealskin one October afternoon. I’m excited to learn how to work with sealskin, but I’m also intimidated. … More Eleven Pointed Petals
Oh dear, my dears, I am pooped. Permanently pooped, it feels like. Christmas is coming like a tinsel-covered nightmare train, but I am unfazed. My Christmas knitting is done and in the mail; Advent is humming along splendidly, and I am putting up my feet for the calm before the storm. I can’t show you … More An Attack of the Fuzzies
Sorry for the radio silence, friends. I’ve been beavering away on all the usual things – a sermon series on 2 Thessalonians, a series of meetings on translating the Alpha course, plowing into C. S. Lewis’s diary from his ’20s, reading the Hunger Games books twice, going for long drives in snowy landscapes, and turning … More Christmas Crazies and Beanies on Balloons
This is Rhinebeck weekend. I have never been to Rhinebeck. At this point, it’s looking pretty likely that I never will go Rhinebeck. My life just doesn’t involve going to major Sheep & Wool festivals anymore, and that’s OK. But for some reason, the fact that Rhinebeck is always the middle weekend in October is … More Relevant Information
There are two new markers of the equinox season. One is a biannual text from our cell phone company, informing us that because of the “sun transit,” the sun will be blasting directly at their satellite, and our service will be disrupted. The second is the placement of the afternoon sun such that, during our … More Two Mice In the Sun
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