Meet Jake
We have a new family member. We adopted Jake today from the Family Dogs New Life shelter in SE Portland/Milwaukie, OR. He’s a six-year-old rat terrier, who was surrendered to the Oregon Humane Society...
Author: Patty
People, Places, Dogs and Yarn
Oregon Coast Our 25th anniversary deserved more than just a dinner, but with two big trips planned for 2007 (Scotland in May and Hawai’i in October), we opted for a quick getaway and headed...
Royal Post
Speaking of Scotland, this is just an aside to point out that as much as we complain about our postal systems, sometimes they do “work”—just not always quickly. On May 22, we stopped by...
August Shirt(s)
For our anniversary, Tom gave me a beautiful ring. There was nothing I could think of that was special to buy for him, so I decided to make him twenty-five shirts. Life happens and...
A different perspective on LYS
I have to admit that I have not frequented the LYS as much as I would like (or they would like, for that matter). It has much to do with convenience, as much as...
Local Yarn
Shortly after moving here, I marveled at the number of yarn shops in the area—fifteen when we arrived and eighteen by the end of 2005. Were there that many knitters? Could that many shops...
Knitting Japanese
It’s that power of suggestion again…It started with the Mystery Stole Yahoo group extoling the loveliness of a shawl that Queen Mudd had knit; which showed a project she was working on from a...
Fractions
One halfThe right half of the I do shrug is done. Thanks to Chrispy for pointing me to Hooks and Needles so I could stay on track. On to the left half. Five sixthsMelanie...
Decisions, Decisions
Do I stay or do I go? KatherineI finally finished the back of Katherine from Hot Knits that was started two years ago, abandoned from boredom with the K2P2 ribbing, picked up again in...