Hoo boy, it’s been a rough week here at my house.  Either I’ve just had the weirdest cold ever, or I suddenly became acutely allergic to something that’s currently in the air in vast quantities.
The main reason I suspect it’s some kind of allergic reaction is that for most of it, my eyes have been [...]

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, or so they say.  And they are right.
I figured out something very wrong with my blog today — more specifically, with the way I set things up here.
First, some quick background info:  In  the wonderful modern online world, if you have a public blog and if you post [...]

OK, that Patricia is one smart cookie.  And she actually has some real-life experience and knowledge about styling, and how things ought to look.
So I took her advice on the whole "new look for the blog" thing. I have gone back to the "old" template, because it worked fine and did what I wanted it to [...]

Whoa!  What happened?!
Obviously, I’m trying out a different look for tessknits.com.  There are a few things that still need tweaking:  admittedly some of the colors on the class pages need a bit of lot of work.  But I thought I’d see what you think before I put too much more work into it.
Take a look around — [...]

What is it exactly about a tangled mass of yarn that makes everyone itch to get their hands on it and start untangling?
Well, maybe not everyone.  Usually, the person whose yarn it is has had it up to wherever with the tangles.
But bring the sorry mess into a yarn shop, and see what happens!  For those of us [...]

This post was originally going to be poignant, touching and funny.  Everything you always wanted in a knitting blog post.
Alas, due to the machinations of big business, my original vision has been forced to change a bit.
A couple of years ago, my sister Bets — who keeps EVERYTHING — went closet-diving and surfaced with a really [...]

What a week it has been.  I had a birthday, so I took a few days off — DH had the flu, so he did too.  Is it just me, or is it darned near impossible to get anything done when your husband is home?  So, not much posting going on.
Last week I did fix [...]

OK, it’s high time I wrote something new & exciting.  Hmmm…!
First, let me tell you that the site has gotten just a teensy bit better, with the addition of two new pages:  look up at the top, on the navigation bar, and you’ll see "Site Map" as well as "Knit Links".
The former will give you a listing [...]

Some questions have been raised about about how to make a comment – here’s a quick overview.
When you first start reading, it doesn’t show the comments.  The word “comments” is at the top of the post - click on that to show them.
It should take you to the bottom of the post, where it will now [...]

Well, in case either of you wondered – I tried to upgrade my blog software, and instead I killed the whole blog. We can rebuild it. We have the technology. I do have all the old posts archived (yes, I subscribed to my own RSS feed!) so just about everything is recoverable. However, it will [...]

“A year from now, you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
OK, so I’m starting today. Hiya. Welcome to my blog! I intend for this to be a blog about knitting, mainly, with some color commentary about life and whatnot thrown in.

My goals for this blog / website:
 

to disseminate good, accurate, free information [...]