I don’t really but who cares. I was in Sausalito last week and I checked out a new LYS on my way to the beach. At the Raverly meet up a few months ago, I had won a gift card to Bluebird Yarn & Fiber Crafts and I’m sorry I don’t have any photos to [...]

My Monday afternoon Methods professor, the eminently esteem-able Dr. Eric Engdahl, gave me and my art cohorts an assignment last week – to create a work inspired by the artist Andy Goldsworthy. I hadn’t even heard of Andy Goldsworthy before last week but I’m so glad I know who he is now. I’m also grateful [...]

Kind of odd this morning that I happened to be driving down Valley View when I spotted hundreds of goats on the hill next to the road. Well it *looked* like hundreds but was probably less than a hundred all munching peacefully on the dried grass. I guesstimate that there must have been at least [...]

I actually finished this scarf quite some time ago – on May 24 say my Ravelry records -  but only recently found a model whose neck was worthy of this cotton/bamboo blend. Special thanks to Maria for wearing the scarf in what turned out to be a chilly summer day in Concord, California – it [...]

Homework, homework, homework! That’s all I do these days. It’s pretty dull, I tell ‘ya, and the knitting has been next to nil. Hang in there folks. There’s only four more weeks to go (of the summer session) and then I should have more time for the things I love most. Summer is the slow [...]

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 [...]

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