Molecular Knitting

Thanks to everyone for the wonderful birthday wishes for my Grandmother Frances. My mom commented on all your comments to the effect that knitters are kind people. Yes, indeed. Here’s a little look at what a week in January looks like in the northern Central Valley of California (if you look at a map, I [...]

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It may be heresy in knitting circles to say this, but Elizabeth Zimmerman is not my favorite knitter from Wisconsin. My favorite Wisconsin knitter is my Grandma Frances. Actually, since my mother is also from Wisconsin and a knitter, my favorite Wisconsin knitter born before 1937 is my Grandma Frances, my mom’s mom. She was [...]

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Many people have googled is it “smoky” or “smokey”? I’m going with smoky, as it appears the more correct. The color of the Handmaiden Merino 2/6 and Angel Hair was Smoke, and it’s an apt name. I had this yarn for ever, and I couldn’t think what to do with it (I bought it on [...]

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Ah, Autumn! “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;” Yes, well, my brain doesn’t put it quite like Keats. It wants to know: where is all the daylight going!? It doesn’t like AT ALL the sun rising later and setting sooner. The world IS ending!!! So, I have some tricks [...]

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The gist is I want to knit a pullover with this cable motif (just the central part) going down the center front: Pretty cable that looks like a river knit in midnight blue. Very nice. But it has to come out right at the neckline or it will look dorky. Not nice. Knitting top down [...]

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M’s Aunt Susan has been a cigarette smoker for most of her adult life. In late June she went to the doctor with abdominal pain and headaches. She was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer that had already metastasized to her liver and brain. Needless to say the chemo and radiation have been brutal; she is [...]

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After finishing two FOs with wintry colors and themes (FO posts coming soon!), I’ve found myself with summery colors on the needles. For example, these socks remind me of corn on the cob: That is Handmaiden Casbah sock yarn (with 10% cashmere!) and I love it. It may be the best sock yarn I’ve ever [...]

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Sorry to be gone for so long! Let’s just call this the summer of 4 work projects and 4 zillion headaches (both of which are easing up) and move on. What to do when you finish a great lace project during the rainy season? Wait until June to block it. Then what to do when [...]

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Holy Space-Time Continuum, Batman! Where do all the days and weeks go? I didn’t plan to be gone so long, but I have been busy. Just what have M and I been doing? Well, we celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary with a day in Napa Valley. We took the “Wines and Vines” tour at Artesa [...]

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April has been much more busy than I would like, and busy with picky, piddly stuff that drives even saints, which I am not, crazy. But progress and lovelies have been made and acquired despite April’s cruelty. I cast off my purple and black Frost Diamonds shawl, but I’ve not been able to block it [...]

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