Remember when the only way to get through a day of High School was to draw?

I received this lovely email from reader Christine H. yesterday: Here are my bowls.  I used Lion wool and 10.5 needles.  The little yellow one is my favorite, it’s so cute!  I am going to put cedar balls ( found them at theLoopyewe.com ) in the smallest one for my Mom’s gift.  I am out [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the fourth pair of handknit socks for 2009: I have decided to rename these socks Reptilian because they remind me of lizard skin. You may remember that they started life as Nutkin and you can see that one sock is “greener” than the other with a yellower tint. [...]

There is actually a knitting related story that goes with this photo. In 1969, our family spent the entire summer in a tent at Preston’s campground in Truckee, California while my father who was a carpenter, worked on his boss’s cabin at Lake Tahoe. Every morning he would drive away to work in his VW [...]

I’m not a tight knitter. In fact, I’m quite the opposite. I’m a relaxed knitter and I constantly find myself sizing down needles. Because of this I usually knit socks on size 0 or size 1 needles. Yet for some inexplicable reason, I bend the cords on the Addi Turbo circular needles with great regularity. [...]

This post is dedicated to Max and Alice, both of whom I miss very much.

Yesterday I splurged on Wendy Johnson’s new book, Socks from the Toe Up. It’s not often that I pay full price for a book, even a knitting book but I absolutely LOVE the socks in the book and I just had to have it. I adore those socks on the cover. It’s a gorgeous book [...]

Continuing my nostalgic trend, I unearthed this photo of myself and my siblings taken in 1973 although it looks like it could be yesterday. The baby, who is now 35, was born at the end of September so I’m guessing that it was either November or maybe even December as she looks to be about [...]

I was at Close Knit last night, like I am every Wed night and as I was helping Jessica decide on some colors for her scarf, this particular sock yarn just jumped out at me and screamed “Buy me!.” Now I’m perplexed. I don’t which sock pattern to knit use or if I should just [...]

I had finished my third pair of socks for 2009 last month but could never pin down Alice long enough to model. *sigh* Such is the life of the parent of a high school senior. One of my fellow knitters, Caprice, newly returned from India, graciously agreed to model. The socks are the no-purl variation [...]