Thanks again to mum for excellent pictures of her pretty fair isle. In a burst of inspiration last week, I started my matching sweater. And after two hours, this is how far I got: The astute among you will notice this is a cast on row. A cast on row still in progress. As a … More In the way of themselves

The Rib is done!  It was a blast to work on because: 1) I put one color in the right hand and knit it the overhand way and the other color in the left hand and use the continental way of knitting, and that makes the whole thing easy and fun. 2) I LOVE bright … More Details on the finished Corrugated Rib

I decided last Sunday that I was ready to cast on for the Alice Starmore fair isle sweater that Rebecca and I are doing simultaneously.  (Hers in different yarns and colors.)  So I decided on how wide and long I wanted the sweater, worked out how many pattern repeats and thus how long would I … More TV Watching and a Corregated Rib

On Saturday, God woke up and decided it was fall. We woke up to find the air slightly dry and the radiators on. (We haven’t figured out how the thermostat is controlled, but it certainly isn’t controlled by us.) We looked outside and the trees on Market Street, which in summer looked as if they … More Who turned on the furnace already?

After helping Rebecca and Jared move into their new place in Ambridge, I drove home knowing I could finally start the beautifully colored sweater I had worked so hard to prepare…..color design, laying out all the colors in a paint program graph, swatches, ball winding……but when I got home, I was too sad to start … More Design Decisions

“Bethenny Getting Married?” is the name of a TV show that I caught 5 minutes of on Hulu that looks like it is not worth the bytes used to transmit it to me through the intertubes. However, “Bethany Getting Married” is a real and happy event (without a question mark) coming up next spring. My … More Bethany Getting Married

With delight, I add my little samples to the mix.  Rebecca and I have completely different tastes in colors.  I love red and all winter colors.  She is more classy with subtle spring colors.  When I knit for others, I have to stay sensible, but when I knit for myself, it’s hard to not always … More Mom’s Colors

My knitting’s been a little listless lately. The hat is so tight that it hurts my wrists if I work on it for very long; the socks are boring the living daylights out of me, and even my spinning is losing its meditative charm. I don’t even have the willpower to start anything new, and … More Funk No More

Keep guessing on Jared’s sock symbol… nobody’s guessed it yet. Jared’s socks were one of a dozen things I could have been doing yesterday afternoon. I could have been cleaning one of the three narsty fleeces still taking up my floorspace, or spinning some more green Romney, or packing for our weekend away for goodness’ … More The Hat that would not be Knit