OK, I got game.  (Whatever that means.)
I also still got plenty of UFO’s.
So, here goes:  I’m officially entering the 2008 Summer UFOlympic Games.
Welllll, kind of officially.  There’s some wiggle room there, I think.
Background:  As far as I can tell after a whole 5 minutes of online research, the UFOlympics concept started in 2006 with this blogger’s [...]

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 — [...]

Hey there!  not much to say here — I’ve been working on an overhaul of the class listings page.  It has undergone some biiiiiiiig changes that I hope will make it much, much easier for you to find what you are looking for.
I’ve sorted all the classes by location, with a separate page for each place that I teach.  Whew!  [...]

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 [...]

A little while ago, y’all learned not to ask me a certain question:
 

What should I knit?

And since I didn’t explain in that post what the second-question-I-won’t-answer was, now nobody will talk to me.  So, I guess I’d better clear this up today.
The second question I get asked by knitters, which I will not answer, is
[knitter [...]

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 [...]

If you think waaaaay back, you might remember a few issues I had while trying to make some felted slippers for myself.
Of course, these were not just your garden variety felted slippers.  No, I had to make it harder than that.  My goal was to replicate my dearly beloved, but quite elderly, pink furry bunny slippers:  Hip and Hop.
I had a couple [...]

Finally, I got my act together and have made up a schedule of tutorial subjects for the Friday Group Class for the next few months.  Click on the link above to see it — you should see a permanent link to it in the sidebar to the right also, although I had to refresh my browser a few [...]

The other day I realized I am into my 5th year of what I still think of as my "new career":  teaching knitting, writing patterns, and perhaps most importantly, not being a corporate slave.
During that time, I’ve met and taught a whole bunch of knitters.  I can’t honestly say that I remember all of ‘em — [...]