Great Towering Textiles

Quiet, yes, but not absent industry.

I used to lose a lot of things when I was a little girl.  I left stuff in buses, lost track of things, etc.  We knew the way to the local CT...

Ides of March.   Snow Again. New Hat.

Weeks can be a perplexing jumble.  This was one.  (Uh oh.  This didn't post correctly last week.  Retry) Colleagues at work, waiting for...

Yeah, so I was busy.  Blogging dwindles in knitting land.  Knitting grew sluggish in jpknitsland. It's okay.  Holidays were lovely.  2...

Evidently my technology had been withholding a post. This is also evidence of how busy I have been that I only noticed - or remembered? - to...

 1. My freezer had too many "I'll remember" containers.  2. Everything is labelled now. I thawed and repackaged a couple ...

 I was just here last week.  This is fairly shocking.   Friday:  Featuring One of those Famous Finished Objects Yep.  Tab...

That was how my grandpa would say it. What Happened Here? What Happened to You? It's Not A Big Crisis, Really, right?   All summed u...

Road trip Conference Visits Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and North, Virginia near the Cumberland Gap. A couple add...

Happy to have a good reason to make and take a quick baby quilt along for a visit to one of my knit camp friends. Curiously non-babe colors ...

Why yes, it is!

My mom gave me a number of my grandmother's UFO's.  Among them was a repair project.  At their wedding, my aunt and uncle had receiv...

How nice it is to be sitting at my mother's kitchen table, looking at cookbooks, drinking iced coffee from a silly glass.  I've work...

These bags of hand piecing have been in progress for many years: I finished last week.  Meanwhile, I am redirecting the project. There was a...

Or so.... Spent about 30 minutes on one of those Warhol-like boxes I want to eradicate from my sewing space.   Had to stop because I ran out...

Machine quilting went well, though I may have a faulty machine walking foot.  I refuse to think I wore it out doing half a dozen placemats. ...

There are excellent guidelines for swatching. Sometimes I follow them: Targeted 4", extra stitches at sides, knots in the cast-on tail ...

A reminder to myself:  progress isn't only items crossed off a list.  It's a verb, too! Move from one to the next.   Move forward. I...

Earlier this week I spent a half day tidying the stash.  It was sort of like tossing the stash (cue the citations of other people's term...