Or to put it another way, the Turn of the Screw.  Emphasis squarely on the word "screw".
Because get ready, kids — here’s where it all falls apart.  Or at least it gets a whole lot more complicated.  Turns out I picked a real doozy to start off the Playing Lessons with…!  But let’s not get ahead [...]

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 [...]

The most important piece of knitting advice I ever found was in the Holiday ‘87 issue of Vogue Knitting.  (I must have found it while I was knitting those lousy boyfriend sweaters.)
A wonderful knitter wrote a letter to the editor which made a very strong impression on me, and it greatly influenced my knitting success.  In [...]

The upsurge in the popularity of knitting in the past half-dozen years or so, coupled with the Internet, has been a mixed blessing to me.  Browsing the online knitting world, I am continually reminded that there are all kinds of knitters, many of whom I probably have little or nothing in common with.
It took me a [...]

Binding off.  Well, there’s not a whole lot to say about that, is there?  I mean, you’re done knitting, you bind off, right?
Pshaw!  Of course not!
While I don’t think quite as many techniques exist for binding off as casting on, there are quite a few.  And the CO and BO edges can make or break an [...]

Well, on Sunday evening (Sunday the 13th!) I finally cast on another pair of socks for DH.
The yarn is Lana Grossa "Meilenweit 6 fach" in a true solid dark green - his favorite color.  I like doing toe-up socks, so I don’t have to bother too much with a gauge swatch or any math or anything.  I [...]

A brief announcement, to remind anyone who is interested in the group classes at Garden Home Rec Center:  they start this week!  on Monday evenings and Wednesday mornings.
The Wednesday class currently does not have enough people registered in it for the class to run, so if you were thinking about signing up, now is the time…  it will [...]

Anyone remember this?
Ahem.  OK, I admit I’ve been stalling a bit.  Last time, I said I was going to address the fitting issues, which leads me straight to a couple of my personal bugaboos.
Let’s just state right up front that I have dinky arms.  They are so short, I can shop in the Petite section and [...]

Fact:  boxy, square sweaters hide anything you’ve got worth showing.
An image consultant came to one of our local knitting guild meetings a couple of years ago.  She had a handout that showed some “before” and “after” pictures of women dressed in various clothing styles, which either suited and enhanced their body shapes, or didn’t. Here are some [...]

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, I said I was working on my pile of UFO’s.  Two more are completed, hooray!    I swear to you I got them done by Dec 31, even if I haven’t managed to blog about them until Jan 3.  Blogging does NOT COUNT as part of finishing.
That makes a total of 21 FO’s for the past [...]