Knitting! Plus some gardening, cocktails, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
This is a long story, but I hope I have made it amusing. I do promise to show a little knitting at the end. All was going swimmingly here at Molecular Knitting, but then my computer CPU got a fever and shut itself down. Repeatedly. …
I just blogged yesterday, but so much has happened that I must blog again today. First, a big THANK YOU, to Sallee a.k.a Knitnana for awarding me an E for Excellent Award. I had no idea anyone found my humble little blog “excellent,” but it …
I told M yesterday after blogging that I had forgotten to take pictures of the single Braided Cable Sock before packing it up to ship. He didn’t say anything, got his box knife, slit open the box and then said, “You should have pictures and …
Things have really been hopping here at Molecular Knitting. Mostly it’s work, work, work. Good work, but tiring. Work that makes me sick of a computer by the time I get home and could blog. So it’s been a bit since I’ve posted, and I …
It’s been a bit of a tricky summer here at Molecular Knitting. Although I was delighted a few weeks ago to learn that I do not have cancer, I do, however, need a six month course of hormone therapy to “retrain” parts of me that …
As I pulled into our parking space at home today after work, I saw a box left by the mailman next to our front door. I asked M what he had ordered. “Nothing that I can remember,” he replied. I walked to the door and …
I blog about my knitting because that makes me happy. I read and comment on other knitters’ blogs because that makes me happy too. If I were to go into the reasons why I wasn’t able to finish my wimple or do any sock knitting …
I think we can all agree that three migraines in one week requires a mandatory downgrade from good week to “I survived” week. It also wasn’t the best week for knitting. I didn’t knit on a single sock. But I did want to have something …
We won’t be discussing the second pink cable-rib sock today. SSS has set in bad. Since it is the last project with my old way of tensioning the yarn, and I think I have figured out a new way that will work for me, finishing …
Well, I promised to tell you the trick I learned for diffusing light, thereby getting rid of shadows. I learned this a while ago from Domesticat. An article on photographing beadwork in the new June issue of Bead and Button magazine, spurred me to try …