Last night, Don said he had a “dangerous” question for me.
“Did you knit me another pair of black socks?” he asked.
I knew right away what had happened.  After all, there are only two pairs of hand-knit black socks in the house.  Yes, it was quickly confirmed that the black heavyweight socks I had made for me (Mission [...]

Every so often, of course, the subject comes up. Why (the expletive) would anyone HAND-KNIT a pair of socks?
One year, at my family reunion, I presented one of my brothers with a pair of obviously hand-knit socks, in his all-time favorite color – dark purple.

(Where, you ask, did I get dark purple sock yarn? Funny [...]

On Tuesday afternoons, for the past few weeks now, I’ve been helping out my friend Patricia [(namasteknitter)->http://www.namasteknitter.blogspot.com] with an after-school knitting club at her son’s elementary school.
You have to realize that this is a completely foreign world to me. I don’t have kids. I don’t really like kids. I was the baby of my own [...]

Well, this sucks.
I was all set to go to the [Madrona Fiber Arts->http://www.madronafiberarts.com/] festival for the first time.
It’s pricey, but after several of my friends/students went last year and took a “Tailored Knitting” class with [Jean Wong->http://www.knittingwithjean.com], they all said, “You need to take this class!”  Lots of math, lots of persnickety finishing and fitting.  [...]

This gem appeared in the same book, on the very same page, as the Cossack costume.
 
And yet, some people still shake their heads over my affection for vintage knitting books. I say you just can’t find this kind of entertainment in today’s material.
And because I’m from the Midwest, where "If you don’t have anything nice to say, [...]

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 [...]