Yes folks. I’m having a little sale. I’ll be at the Oakland Art Murmur this Friday, July 2, with a table of my hand knitted goodness. If you recall, it was almost one year ago that I checked out the OAM for the first time. My exact location will be on 23rd Street at Telegraph [...]

Summer’s not complete for me unless it includes berry picking – that’s how much of a summer ritual it’s become. I was overjoyed when my friends, Paul and Marie, agreed to accompany me to the coast south of San Francisco for some olallieberry picking at Phipps Farm and Country Store. I got enough berries for [...]

Well it’s not the surprise you might think it is but I’m excited to be knitting for a baby again. My brother and his longtime partner, Maggie, are expecting a baby in September. The shower is August 1 and hopefully neither one of them is reading this blog. Mums the word, k? BTW: You might [...]

Ever since I took Nancy on the East Bay LYS tour back in April and we visited Article Pract, I have been dying to make a scarf that I saw on display there. The narrow Sailing Sea Scarf was made from Tilli Tomas Demi Plié and, as it turns out, the pattern comes with purchase [...]

Nuff said.

Yesterday I returned from Ashland where I spent a long weekend and had the extreme pleasure of seeing The Merchant of Venice outdoors, on the Elizabethan stage – a first for me. It was wonderful and the weather was perfect. While strictly verboten, I was able to quickly snap a photo of the stage just [...]

I started this sock three times! You may remember that I started the Pyroclastic socks about a few weeks ago. In the first version, on the far left, I cast on 66 stitches on a size ZERO needle. This *is* Malabrigo after all and because it’s so soft and stretchy, it needs a very tight [...]

About a week ago I was sitting in Peets (even though I have since given up coffee) when I happened across this little article in the San Francisco Chronicle. As luck would have it, my friend, Marie and I just happened to be driving down MLK on Sunday when I spotted the “T” cozy and [...]

As I mentioned in the previous post, K2Tog recently moved to a new space on 1325 Solano Avenue and yesterday, I got a chance to visit. Room after room filled with yarn… …even a whole room dedicated to sock, lace and fingering weight. My favorites. They now carry Cotton Classic in virtually every color CC [...]