Great Towering Textiles

I have very little on the needles. I'm making Anna Bell's Old Shale Baby Blanket for a gift. This is an active project. I've mo...

This will be much like bringing an umbrella when it doesn't rain and forgetting the umbrella to find it pours. Odds are good, you know,...

The knitting has been done for awhile. I just needed a break so I could do the fringe and not worry about the interruptions that come scree...

4 more days.... I'm definitely counting down the days until break. Definitely need the break FROM. Definitely looking forward for the b...

Even if the sewing isn't done, thought I'd catch a photo. Otherwise, I'll get them sewn and packaged and sent and once again, o...

Proof there is knitting: Today's March IS cold enough for a hat. Maybe I can get this hat done soon enough to send it to the cousin who...

Clocks sprung ahead, with much cursing. Heavy rains cleaned my car, but the puddles and the potholes? Spare me having to use the spare, ple...

Good eggs sink in cold tap water. Bad eggs float in cold tap water. Eggs from one carton were good. Eggs from another carton were bad. Guess...

I googled the How-To language above on an impulse that might better have been used doing something else. Not surprisingly, there are blog or...

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...