…and, I suspect, Google search. I have received a response to my call for the Tivoli Bainin Tweed yarn I need, so I can resume knitting Norah Gaughan’s multidirectional cable shrug. I don’t yet...

Tom loves single malt whisky. I, on the other hand, never acquired the taste for anything alcohol (and when I did nurse the one sissy drink per night that one year of legal age...

Shine SportMy mom loves clothes and there was a day when I knew exactly what she’d like. In fact, at Christmas she reminded me that the houndstooth sweater she’d brought was something I’d given...

It was a bill-paying morning, so I thought I’d take a look at my spending on knitting and sewing. It was quite eye-opening. Turns out I spent more on sewing than knitting in 2006,...

It’s all Tom’s fault. When we got married he had a large library (mostly Sci Fi and humor) and I had just a few. Now, after 25+ years of marriage, my knitting, sewing and...

So Saturday, I obsessed about the Winter VK—mostly the multidirectional cable shrug, so I went the stash to see if I had any yarn at the weight and volume for the pattern. There was...

Yes, I’ve had to succumb to the dreaded Windows. I blog from Windows XP, while I wait (and wait)(69% downloaded) for an application to download. Of course, I’m also writing from my Macintosh. I...

Sometimes I receive really cute emails, but forwarding them isn’t always an option in Mac Mail, so being the geek that I am—but a dog-loving geek—I recreated the email on a web page. The...

For a couple of years, I didn’t subscribe to Vogue Knitting because for a while I didn’t see more than a pattern or two that appealed. But things have changed. The past two issues...

…never mind how many left to knit. Let’s just say a lot. I’ve finished three projects.  This is Tootsie’s third sweater and it goes out in today’s mail. With luck my mom wil send...