messy tuesday – the dare episode

My husband dared me to show this picture. Oh wait, not that one.  This one: This is a bookshelf in our tv room that has become a depository for all things that need to go up to the attic.  That’s the attic door on the right.  See – they’re *almost* there.  Yes, that’s a collection [...]

messy tuesday

I first read about Messy Tuesdays on Mel’s blog.  Felix has dubbed it anti-”pinnyporn” and as soon as I read her thoughts on the matter, I knew this was something I had to participate in.  We all try to present our home in the best light possible, making sure the clutter is off to the side, [...]

yarn as a metaphor

When we were hiking the other week, I started thinking about fiber and how it relates to our lives.  How it is so similar to our lives, our very essence. We humans are a lot like fiber.  When we’re born, we’re soft bits of fluff.  We have a lot of potential, but we’re not very strong.  We rely [...]

maybe it’s just me

This morning started out pretty much like normal.  And then I started thinking and haven’t stopped since.  I miss my family, especially during the holidays.  It’s hard adjusting to being part of a new family who do things differently and it seems even harder if their way of doing things is better; it’s almost like [...]

$13.75 plus tax

I noticed these in my LYS recently and decided to get a pair. They’re supposed to make sock knitting even faster because you just knit around and around, no fiddling with dpns, no pulling cables through or needles dangling.  Just knit.  Around and around and around. This got me thinking about knitting, and about knitting [...]

Happy Birthday, SB!!!

I’m going to be nicer than I was last year.  Instead of posting an embarrassing picture, I’m doing a variation on a theme. Things That Make SB Happy The beginnings of chocolate bread pudding A good year for pecans Lazy canoe trips Chasing herons down the river A purring kitty The fact that my sweater [...]

yesterday on the way home

I noticed a rainbow in the sky!  I immediately pulled over to take a picture for you.  It seems like I don’t see as many rainbows as I used to.  That might have something to do with taking the time to look for them. I pulled over right in front of a house that I’m [...]

Meet my sistah, da hooka

My sister Jennifer is on the left.  She’s going to kill me for posting this picture but I bet she still makes the same face, it just doesn’t get caught on camera. Here we are riding a giraffe at Santa Claus Land in Santa Claus, Indiana.  It was a little bright that day.  Note the matching [...]

Weights and measurements

Thanks for the nice comments about the one skein Koigu footies!  I’ve written up the pattern and it’s on the right sidebar under “YMMV footies.”  If anyone decides to knit it, please let me know how your socks come out! Onto the title of this post.  Today was our last day of Boot Camp!  Hallelujah!!!  [...]

I’ve been working diligently on my Tamale Pie socks, so much so that I suffered a good quarter inch stab wound on my right index finger (my needle pushing finger).  Those Knit Picks needles ARE sharp!  This morning I pulled my sock out of the bag to knit a few rows and found this: Apparently [...]

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