I did manage to finish one Pyroclastic sock but I don’t even remember when. Such is the crazy whirlwind that my life has morphed into. And I fear that I’ll suffer from single sock syndrome if I don’t start the second soon. There is also another heatwave looming so the weather’s become most un-knitterly…How I [...]

The Rebecca Shrug is officially dead. RIP. Frogged. Good God did I really start this thing over 18 months ago!?!?!? With high hopes too I might add. I’ll spare you the boring details but needless to say, it’s already been re-purposed. I LOVE when that happens! Read on… When Ali sent me a text requesting [...]

How appropriate that as I’m about to hit the road again, I began the Traveling Woman Shawl. Yesterday. Tomorrow I head to Ashland for a quickie trip to see Alice. The Traveling Woman Shawl, you may remember, was all the rage at the Ravelry meet up a few months ago so it seems fitting that [...]

I presented expectant mother Maggie, the finished baby layette one week ago but I confess that I have been slow to post the finished photos – for a variety of reasons. The jacket was inspired by one I saw on the blog of EarthChicKnits. I thought it was so cool that I immediately cast on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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