Great Towering Textiles

Hope your morning is as kind. It is fair to say that I often measure the quality of time by how productive it was. While I'm happy to s...

Will be absent for about a month. Traveling with students. Packing some knitting. Have a happy and safe New Year!

Holiday knitted gift #3 has been completed! This is a thank you gift for a colleague and friend who bailed me out one hot summer day when I...

I can't decide which picture I like. One exposure better reflects the actual colors. However, on my computer that one seems really too...

One show running, one scarf wearable.

Things are a little crazy, so I'm taking refuge in some garter stitch. Knitting this Noro sock into a Baktus kerchief. Meanwhile, to ta...

I like scarves to be around my neck. The Malabrigo laceweight ( Indigo ) used in this project is perfectly suited to this. In the blocking...

At a time when you want to say AAARRRGGGH, it's nice to receive a gift that let's you say AAAAAARRRRR, instead.

Sock knitting returns: Yarn is Cherry Tree Hill in Nantucket Red. The color is less intense than pictured. Figures, as the alternative pic...

Karius, a neckkerchief a Norwegian blog viral knit - One skein of Claudia Hand Paint in "Eat Your Veggies" - Leftover blues ...

December gift done. Yarn: Cotton Fleece - Caribbean Sea, or some such color name Amount: 1.5 skeins Pattern: Needles: As prescribed. H...

There's a nice breeze in my office today. I enjoy having the windows open for fresh, cool bits of air. It seems to buoy me up just as ...

I don't really have a whole lot of time for anything right now. I'm not enjoying that. Makes me feel like a lousy manager of my tim...

FINISHED. Somewhat inaccurate as a dinosaur, but that's because I just needed to finish and stop dawdling. His spine is a little wonky....

Elizabeth, Marcy, and Batty - thanks for your kind words. I have to admit, I was thinking of Elizabeth as spokesperson for letting things g...

Today is lovely, sunny, and a little cool - a perfect sweater day. Good day to catch a picture of the finished Greenjeans , done in Malabri...

Great season and then a few games that don't go so well, that's me. My Greenjeans sweater is done. Picture soon. On a hanger. Or ...

This is a gift for a good friend. I'll have to call now and find a time to bring it up. I don't want to mail it! Blocked out to 16 ...

What makes a week good for you? In this good week, I got up pretty early every day so I could do one thing I WANTED to do for myself. You k...

Classes begin soon, so blogging gets dumped in favor of knitting for the recreation time. I stopped in to do three things, so pictures, has...