Well I finished one – a couple of weeks ago – but I’ve been dragging my feet on the second. And these are supposed to be May’s pair. One pair per month is my objective. Oh well. I got behind last year but caught up during the summer which resulted in a flurry of sock [...]

I have been obsessing about making this cute little cropped jacket which I keep seeing at Close Knit for many months now. Maybe over a year. Every time I tried it on, it fit me so perfectly that I thought to myself “I really must make this sweater”. Well I finally bought the  pattern booklet [...]

Well I still have to knit the back. I ended up giving the first one away to a very deserving person who turned 30 (and I hope she likes it). If you are interested in making one for yourself, you can find the pattern here.

The impetus to start this pillow came out of nowhere. I was sitting quietly (!) on my sofa one day when I realized that I had the yarn for the Rose Pillow (rav link) in my stash, found the pattern and cast on. Maybe I thought  it could be a gift (if I can bear [...]

At the risk of sounding like an advertisement, I have to give a big shout out to Carla and Nicole of Lion Brand Yarn for the free yarn I received from them at the Knit and Crochet Show last Sunday. I stopped by to visit my friend Anne at the Afghans for Afghans booth (which [...]

Friday, May 29 Fleur de Lethal Cinematheque presents PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE 10 p.m. | $5 per person | 21 & over Bagdad Theater, Portland, Oregon A rare 35mm screening of the Paul Rubens classic. We are going for a world record “Largest Amount of Pee Wee Herman Look-A-Likes On Bicycle!” There will be a [...]

Here’s the scenario: bored and stranded at the airport, the kids steal my gold pen and proceed to doodle. I believe this was most likely a joint effort. I think Alice has the makings of a future designer or interior decorator. On a totally unrelated note, here’s what I was working on a year ago [...]

Anne, a wonderful and spirited knitter that I met at knitting night, lost her husband, Michael, less than a year ago to pancreatic cancer. We all know what a swift killer PC is. Michael was only 57. Recently she asked me to photograph and also knit some squares for an afghan she is creating to [...]

I found this little sketch in a notebook from my days living and working in Germany in 1981. So long ago I have no idea what I was trying to say here. You can see that I mixed German and English vocabulary. Some ideas are just better expressed in German. It’s all just musings from [...]

Yesterday, I saw a beautiful Springtime Bandit on flickr, knit with a bamboo fiber when all of a sudden I realized I had some bamboo in my stash. Where the heck was it? I frantically searched through all my baskets and bins, found it finally and before you could say “Boo!” I had cast the [...]