Great Towering Textiles

My posting skills the other day were pretty sketchy. I lost part of the original post. About that Pagona. The post title was not carrie...

Finished the scarf. Enjoyed the knitting. Both pattern, Stephen West's Pogona, and yarn, Tosh Light Merino, were pleasant to han...

After funny angles and triple chins and odd incognito sunglasses, I give in. Thanks to mittenfarce for the Habu Moire which inspired the who...

Not sure what would run out soonest, the moire, the shoshenshi, my single crochet mojo, or the day. Time to sleep. I may use up the yarn p...

August can seem sometimes a month of Sundays. I love the drama queen "forever" of the phrase "a month of Sundays." Augu...

Can't put a date to the cartoon, but it has been clipped to this page for a long time. Food on a stick.

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...