I didn’t quite stay up all night to finish In Dreams when I said I would, but I did the next morning. Not having the car last week, it took me a couple of days to get it to the new house, then to get around to blocking it, then to let it dry. But … More Dreams
I read/look at the photo-rific sustainable-farmy blog posts of fellow Marylander McKenzie whenever she posts them. She takes these scrummy pictures of wherever she’s working/whatever she’s eating that are transporting in their loveliness. So when I finally got around to making squash flower quesadillas the other night, I brought my camera with me. Every summer … More Summer Socks and Summer Squash
With a little extra effort and about eight inches of welted ribbing, June’s socks are done, only three days late. Pattern Review: This pattern, “Country Socks,” from Folk Socks, has some secret charm to it. On the needles and off the foot, they appear composed of a plain, wide rib. But put them on a … More Socks with a Secret
I guess I must not be challenging myself very much if I finished April/May’s socks on May 3rd. But I’m sticking with my previous line – I really don’t need any extra commitment at this moment, so I’m not going to push it. The reason I blasted through these socks is that I’ve bee practicing … More Flaming Yarn
We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog post series to bring you an update on another blog post series – that is, my self-imposed sock club knitting through Nancy Bush’s Folk Socks. If you’re just tuning into this wobsite, I’ve been at this since last June, knitting a pair a month in no particular order, and … More March Mischeif
Appearances can be deceiving. Jared told me once that humans are extraordinarily bad at estimating relative volume. You know this if you’ve ever had to dirty three tupperwares because you wrongly estimated the size you would need for your half-pan of pasta sauce. It turns out this is also true of body parts. When I … More Ordinary Loveliness
I’ve not had a chance to tell you that after my miserable failure to make a gradiance yarn for the Rivendell Smoke Ring, I found a way to rescue that project from the gutter. The middle skein out of five was pooling terribly, and since the ring was of a fixed circumference, there wasn’t a … More Cowl Succeed
It was a very near thing. The postman didn’t come before we had to go to school, and there was a maddening moment when his truck drove by when we were two blocks from our house. We were on foot, or there might have been a chase. But the precious package greeted me when we … More The Nearly-Midnight Oil
After five months of on-again, off-again attention, “Bethany Getting Married” for my friend Bethany Joy is finally finished – surprise of surprises, before her May wedding! The magic of blocking did its work of transforming the ramen manta ray you saw in yesterday’s post into an airy triangle of glory. (I did thoroughly vacuum the … More A Joy Forever
Happy twelfth day of Christmas, everyone! Tomorrow is the day we remember the wise men coming to bearing gifts for baby Jesus, and today I come bearing gifts for you. Big, fat ones, with imaginary ribbons. My cool boss at the farm, R. J., had stated in passing that she wanted some socks. When queried … More Twelve Knobby Knots
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