This is everybody’s favorite verse, I think. Eddie Izzard certainly thinks so. (a bit of swearing in that link, be aware of who’s in the room before you click.) FIIIIIIIIVE GOOOOOLD RIIIIIIINGS!!! Right? Anyway, today the rings are around heads, and have tops, because they are hats. And I’m celebrating with a free pattern, so … More Five More Hats!!!!
The Christmas joy keeps flowing. Are these not fun, happy socks? The yarn is Koigu, bought at “All About Yarn” in Pittsburgh.” They are also leftovers (as Rebecca mentioned in her Day 3.) They came from what I called my “Naoimi Yarn” that I bought at the store along with some 100% silk. With 3 … More Four Fun Footsies
Explaining a tradition is like explaining a joke. You have to do it once in a while, for the uninitiated, but really, the explanation serves you more the next time you hear it and can laugh without having to discuss it. This twelve days of Christmas knitting is a little like that. I have loved … More Three Cousin Cowls
The pattern is actually called “Tinaku Mittens”; it is from Miski Book 26 by Jane Ellison. (It’s Mom again, Hi. Rebecca is carding dog hair and wool fleece downstairs on the useful but ugly drum carder; she will post tomorrow; I promise.) I bought this book from the “new” Clover Hill yarn shop when … More Two Warming Wristies
Hello Folks! It’s hard to believe this is the fifth Christmas since I started this blog. It has become our tradition to celebrate with a series of posts about all the projects we’ve been secretly working away on as presents, themed after the 12 days of Christmas. More on the subject later, when I’ve dug myself out … More One Sweater Softly
Christmas is in six days. You can start screaming now. This is about the size of the yarn pile that I had to start turning into things for the 25th. This isn’t the actual pile (that has been sort of evolving), but it’s fairly representative. I still have five hats, a pair of gloves, … More Distractions
My knitted journey through the Lord of the Rings has entered its second leg, and like the Fellowship, it is continuing at a rather sedate pace. Having read “Three Is Company,” it seems Tolkein was in no rush whatever to get his characters on their journey. Frodo, Sam, and Merry are on a backpacking pleasure tour … More Michel Delving
Two Christmases ago, I made my beloved husband a pair of felted slippers. He loved them with an enduring passion. They went on his feet every time he came home and it was even somewhat cold. They went in his knitting bag when he was on the go. My husband loves having warm feet, and … More Don’t Do This.
By popular request, here is my sermon from this morning, given at the 8:30 chapel service at Trinity School for Ministry. You’ll have to forgive the conversational style; this also served as my notes. The readings from this morning were Amos 9:1-10 and Matthew 23:13-26. * * * We’re going to be focusing on the … More Sermon: Cleaning the Beans
Remember this guy? I’ve had a bad habit lately of forgetting to blog about things until they are finished. I don’t want this blog to be all just like, “look at this cool thing I made!” That’s cool and all, but the majority of my time is spent on, well, unfinished stuff. Stuff in … More Every Inch of Purple
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