Great Towering Textiles

Some long time ago glittrgirl or skitten posted a favored and favorite quote from Samuel Beckett, playwright and novelist. As I am an avow...

1. If you really think you might not have enough yarn, you might be right. 2. If you swatch, you can risk believing your swatch. 3. Save th...

I've cast on twice for Brigitta . I'm using some indulgent yarn from The Fibre Company - Pemaquid - I picked up from a sale basket....

Baby Blanket - Anna Bell's Old Shale Baby Blanket (An old standard, but she wrote up the proportions so I didn't have to think too ...

Absent chez blog, frenzied in the work house..... Finished the last phase of a MAJOR work project this week. We're in production now. ...

One of the yarns in the middle of yesterday's post is Lorna's Laces sock yarn in Blue Jeans. I'm back to having a pair of socks...

Elizabeth said she saves pictures for occasions where blog life needs a little poke. I've been too long away. Can't and shouldn...

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...