During the week that the alpaca sleeve was missing, I didn’t knit much. I spun, I washed a fleece, I read webcomics, I desponded. Finally I got ahold of myself. This was stupid. I had to knit something, for goodness sake. I had to take an active role in my life, not just let it … More Preoccupation

Thanks to everyone who searched under couches and in cupholders. Turns out I did leave it at Breezy Willow, for some necessarily obscure reason, as I didn’t knit a stitch on it while I was there. It’s back, it’s safe, it hasn’t been eaten by farm animals (a sheep eating alpaca fiber… irony? poetic justice? … More Rescued

So I have been knitting… not much, but some. I have a finished sleeve on Jared’s alpaca, a sleeve that I am calling finished even though I haven’t decided what to do about a major error involving failure of forethought and requiring another two inches of knitting. I was all set to show it to … More A Big Dang Problem

I hope you know what tomorrow is. It is the day of all wooly reckoning. It is… MARYLAND SHEEP & WOOL 2010

We’d more or less decided to go to Trinity over Gordon-Conwell (pending acceptance, of course), until we looked over our receipts from last week’s trip and discovered a crucial fact. Apparently, Massachusetts does not tax yarn purchases. FINALLY, a state that UNDERSTANDS that yarn is just as rudimentary an essential as, say, milk! or broccoli! … More Deal Changers

Hidden among the hills and fields of central Massachusetts… Is a magical place for you and me. It is called WEBS. (I do not know why it is capitalized. I don’t think it stands for anything. Maybe because they have a big WEBSite.) WEBS is, I think, the biggest yarn store in the states. At … More Yarn Sale Gauntlet of Dooooooom!

Just to give you a little view of what last night’s crazy day of work. Can you spot anything unusual? Well, unusual for a normal person, I mean. Friday night, after we got our keys, we brought a few things in – one of them the suitcases with all my knitting books, sock yarn, and … More How we make ourselves at home

I cannot believe it! We are actually moved! Not only have we moved the big furniture, which I was crossing my fingers and hoping we would have moved by the end of the day today, but everything is moved; some furniture is actually assembled! I am stunned and thrilled to death. Our friends are totally … More Moving Lists

If you ever watch movies at all, you are probably familiar with the concept of the “teaser trailer.” These are advertisements for upcoming films whose releases are often over a year away. The spots are usually around ten to fifteen seconds long and provide no useful information about the movie, except possibly that it is … More Teaser