Great Towering Textiles

I wonder what I would draw today, were I to follow the steps Betty Edwards describes in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain for creating...

I consider myself quite fortunate. I have had some amazing students. They work hard, they struggle uphill when they must, they challenge th...

With apologies to Shel Silverstein, as I misappropriate and misquote "I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor." Busy. More l...

I am working on gloves for my nephew but stopped on finger the second because I'm disatisfied. Can't decide my next step. So I have...

Made this for a dear friend and colleague who moved away. Should have made it earlier for the winter. Then again, she and her husband were...

Sure, I'm done counting. BIG TALK. Never slap down ultimatums, I say. I did have one more thing to toss into my list. I have a great b...

Done. Done with counting things for celebrating. Other blogs will have the clever cutesy. Here, not so much. Done gets to mean not tortur...

17. Family - past and present My dear cousin found this sweet little photo and shared it with me yesterday.

16. It is not always a curse to live in interesting times. This was on in the waiting room, I understand.

I had a rough day on Wednesday. It was hard to count good things during a countdown to a decade change. I worked hard. I got a bunch done...

I'll cut to the chase. It was a Holiday. I took it. I marked it. 11. Watched a rerun of the six hour series King while I knit. I am ...

9. I am very much at home in my city. And I enjoy being a traveler at home. I really like living in the Chicago area, for all its flaws. ...

I wasn't free for all of my Saturday, but I did get to treat myself to some good use of my time. 5. I had very wisely taken a few momen...

Three days in. Last things first: unsurprisingly, I should never have given myself this kind of challenge. Not my bag, neither the track-...

4. Woke up in time to hear NPR Weekend Edition's Scott Simon share a touching and remarkable tribute to the people of Tucson. Will try ...

So here's the thing: I got my first piece of AARP junk mail just before the New Year. Responses are mixed: a choreographer friend said ...

Happy New Year! I enjoyed a quiet and relaxed holiday break. I steered clear of obsessing about making ten million things - no Santa's ...

This got done. Exams are done. I'm wearing this without buttons. Done enough.

Need a copy of Interweave Knits Fall 2010? I find I've purchased two. In the spirit of the previous post, one needs to go.

Help someone move and downsize. That will keep you out of the stores. A few years ago we were grateful recipients of donations of sewing su...