Yet another lesson learned, or if not learned, at least painfully reinforced. The lesson: read the pattern before you start knitting. That lovely top of a sock I showed you yesterday? It is exactly to gauge, with more or less perfect tension. It fits perfectly on a foot with an 8″ circumference, as the pattern … More On NOT frogging

I’ve been working at Cloverhill for about four months now. In some ways, I feel like I’ve always been here for ages. I’ve been doing everything from inventory to teaching classes, and now for the first time I get to make a shop sample. I’ve been itching for fair isle (a type of multi-color knitting), … More Sunrise

I think that, with knitting, part of the idea is that you gain the ability to recognize mistakes early on in your work. That way, before you’ve done, say, a quarter of a given piece, you realize when something has gone wonky, and you fix it before you’ve invested too much time in it. Well, … More On Frogging

I’ve got to admit… it’s kind of hard to blog when your house is a complete mess of destruction and mayhem. And it’s kind of hard to blog about your house being a complete mess of destruction and mayhem when you utterly fail to take “before” pictures. That’s right, we’ve been remodeling! Well, not remodeling… … More While You Were Sleeping

It’s not raining outside, but it’s raining in my brain… not really anything new or interesting to blog about. So I will give you this little bit of funny that I’ve been saving for just such an occasion. Every day, after I make our pb&j sandwiches, I pull out the plastic wrap, and see this: … More Rainy Day

We walked into our house when we got home from Urbana, and it was 47 degrees indoors. The heat went on. Fjord and Zerg…. we’ll get you next year. I felt all hardcore until we went to drop off my brother’s Christmas present at his Towson apartment last night. He greeted us at the door … More Defeat

Christmas is over in every possible way, but we were gone during the season’s 12 days of celebration, so the tree is still up. Taking it down has not even made it into conversation yet. Also, you haven’t seen it yet. So here it is, with another new project: (You also get a good view … More Christmas is over, but I’m not over Christmas

As Michelle so astutely observed, the eleventh day of Christmas is missing. You are probably asking yourselves why this is? Well, the reason is that I cannot count. The last post was supposed to be the eleventh day of Christmas, and the twelfth day of Christmas was supposed to be missing. So the question you … More The wrong day is missing…