Great Towering Textiles

So it's true. I have both of these. Yes there is some crossover. Perhaps a fair bit. But hey, it was on sale. And as I was no longer ...

Before there were food blogs, there was the lovely ritual of catching the Minneapolis Star Tribune food column by Mr. Al Sicherman. I only l...

I MUST get batteries for the camera. Phone photos are lousy for color. Yarn is Dyeabolical Alter Ego. Colorway is Frogs IAB - that is, In A...

Lovely book coming out this fall. Starfall. My dear friend Diana wrote the story and is the lovely clown in the hoopskirt. I'd embed th...

My mother and I compared notes about what we did on the 4th. "My usual," she said. She cleaned and did laundry, preparing for he...

What am I thinking? Not only is this post late, the summer to summer tally is short, short, short. From Memorial Day to Memorial Day was t...

Practicing slowing down. Visiting friends. Remembering I cook. Walking. Getting rid of stuff. Thinking about blogs and letters. Going to a f...

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. ...