ez sweater detail, originally uploaded by alicethelma. In the early 90s I read Knitting Without Tears and discovered the knitting guru Elizabeth Zimmerman. I don’t think I quite got what ez was trying to impart to knitters which was this: gauge gauge, gauge, gauge. If you know your gauge, you can knit anything. Around that time, [...]

For a person who has knit as long and as much as I have…well…I have learned a few things about knitting needles over the years.  I tend to break bamboo especially in the smaller sizes. I mean they just don’t work for socks for me. And in my hands, the aluminum needles get bent. By [...]

Abe is quoted as saying “People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” I want to remind my darling daughter of this the next time she decides to make up her mind in advance. Before you do, decide to have a good time! green leaf socks, originally uploaded by alicethelma. [...]

 mystery sweater from vogue knitting, originally uploaded by alicethelma. All I know is that the pattern came from a Vogue Knitting magazine, one of the few VK patterns I have ever knit, I made it in the 80s, and at the time, I hated it. Why? I can’t tell you as it’s a perfectly good, [...]

it’s only temporary, originally uploaded by alicethelma. No – not forever. Not yet anyway. Today Alice left for two weeks in Germany. Hope you have a great time baby. I miss you already.

a.t. and bf, originally uploaded by alicethelma. Yesterday was the annual summer opera in the park at washington park in portland (which may be better known as the rose garden) and it also happened to be the hottest day of the year so far with estimates of the heat ranging from 100 to 103 degrees. [...]

Never thought I would say this but…I wish it would rain. There’s a kind of symmetry to the weather here. In about six months, I’ll be wishing for a heat wave. 

cable hat, originally uploaded by alicethelma.

baby surprise jacket, originally uploaded by alicethelma. It takes a lot of faith to make a baby surprise jacket (hereafter know as the bsj). Even though I have made one before, it’s still hard to be sure that you’re doing the right thing. You follow the instructions as closely as you can bearing in mind [...]

button flange pillow, originally uploaded by alicethelma. I finished knitting this pillow over a year ago, amending the pattern and extending it to fit a square 16” pillow (because I could not find a 12” by 16” pillow anywhere). So in changing the pattern, I increased the amount of buttons needed to 6 on each [...]