This sweater is easy and should have been finished by now. I’ve been working on it for a solid two months. So what’s the hold up? Length. I couldn’t decide how long to make the body so I put the stitches on some scrap yarn, and started a sleeve. Now I can’t decide how long [...]

Ok so the fruit was actually foraged from my brother’s backyard and I had to climb the trunk of the tree and reach up to the top to find any apricots that were sufficiently ripe for the tart. But it was so worth it! A few weeks ago I was inspired by a recipe I [...]

Before I left Portland I got these new babies courtesy of the generous folks at Close Knit. Thank you Sally, Adrienne, Nancy, Jenny and Elizabeth. I’m so grateful to you all! With the gift certificates I got the Malabrigo Sock you see above (the color is “rayon vert”) and the Malabrigo Lace in “lettuce” pictured [...]

I’m taking a break from knitting today and joining the rest of the blogosphere in paying tribute to Michael Jackson who died earlier. I just gotta say that nothing brings back the 70s for me like the Jackson Five. Enjoy.

It’s been a few weeks but I return with the regular Wednesday Doodle feature and it’s another one of Max’s doodles from years ago. Oh the twisted imagination of the male adolescent. Before I forget, I have a few links I wanted to share with you. The Ministry of Cats turned me on to the [...]

It appears that the illustrious Yarn Harlot and I are on the same wavelength. We are both making the same blanket, albeit in different colors. I had my niece, Juliana, and nephew, Jake, model the blanket in progress yesterday at the Father’s Day German Rouladen Fest here at Oma and Opa’s house. Juli is *such* [...]

I’ve been in California, my new home, for a week now but I haven’t done much knitting. It’s weird. Everything looks and feels different. For one thing it’s a lot warmer and the lighting is different – it’s sunny all the time! I will probably never make another hat again. However, it’s great weather for [...]

I finished the Dead Simple Lace Socks a couple of weeks ago but in the chaos of moving to California, I was unable to get them modeled properly. Along came my niece Charlotte who graciously complied and she even modeled them on her 19th birthday! She looked stunning with her freshly styled coif, perched atop [...]

I know that sounds like a cliché but in many ways it feels like the past 18 years have gone by in a nano-second. Here are my two children, Alice and Max, in 1991, when we first moved to Oregon. Alice was only about six months old in this photo. Seems like yesterday. *sigh* If [...]

Recently I had some ideas for designs swirling around in my head centered around socks and weird themes such as “sock artist”, “anatomy of a sock” and “sock flower”. I was also intrigued by the challenge of designing for black or dark t-shirts which is quite different from designing for white or light colored ones. [...]