Knitting! Plus some gardening, cocktails, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
Last night I taught myself the crochet cast-on and started the first striped, wide border of the “Scarf with wide striped border” from Victorian Lace Today. I knit two repeats before I needed to switch to more mindless knitting so M and I could watch …
2006 was my most knittingest year so far. I completed 14 projects, including one sweater. However, not everything I started in 2006 I finished, and I am carrying some things over. As I have a lot of knitting I want to do this year, I …
First up, if you have always wanted a like-new copy of Alice Starmore’s Aran Knitting, I am selling my copy through my parents on ebay. They are mingmags37, and the auction ends Thursday at 10 pm PDT. I bought the book new, looked at it …
M and I returned yesterday to California from visting family in Illinois and Wisconsin. Today I wondered how to get back into the blog. Recap the vacation? Show the holiday knitting loot? Sum up the year in knitting? Look forward to 2007? What to do? …
Christmas Knitting. Check. Christmas Beading. Check. Christmas Shopping. Check. Christmas Laundry (we travel). Check. We fly Thursday! Must leave home by 5:30 a.m. to make flight! Ack! M cut out a few of my Christmas beading gifts as too much (they were for his relatives). …
First off, no one who I know reads this blog can accidentally see one of her gifts, so reading on cannot spoil any surprises. Second, today we had 9 hours, 29 minutes of daylight; I spent 10 hours at work. The photos are on my …
Saturday my friend Nancy and I set up a beading afternoon, and we needed to go to our LBS, which is in a small complex of restaurants and shops built around a courtyard. At the entrance to the Courtyard stood a sign telling everyone to …