Twice in my life I’ve had the opportunity to meet, by chance, particularly interesting 80 some-year-old strangers. The first was when I was about eleven and met a woman while walking home from the bank. Despite my parent’s advice, I talked to strangers. Always the bargain hunter I had walked two miles to open a…

Chuck and Bryant worked at 7:00am this weekend and I had the house all to myself. I didn’t go out all day Saturday except to walk the dog. I didn’t fix my bedhead. I made a big pot of chicken soup and one of red beans for rice and beans, a staple of my childhood…

If you’ve been reading you know about the boat ride. This was a $60 one day mini-cruise from Seattle to Vancouver. This is Part 2 of the great yarn crawl/cruise adventure. To wrap up the yarn crawl, you’ll be amazed that I exercised great self control. My recent criteria for yarn purchasing is either that…

You know it’s a good yarn crawl when: 1. You have to take a break to eat lunch in order to clear your head enough to make purchasing decisions. 2. You get a fortune cookie at lunch that reads "You will take on a new project and complete it." 3. You hit a yarn math…

Ok, I’m just knitting along on my Lady Eleanor wrap, in Noro Silk Garden, which, by the way was a terrific bargain at 40% off, and all of a sudden – I’m knitting nothing. The yarn just disintegrated mid stitch. I’ve knit with Silk Garden before, and besides a knot or two in each skein,…

This weekend I’m going on another cruise! It’s on the Dawn Princess and it cost $60! OK, so it’s for a total of 15 hours and I’m sharing a cabin with my knitting buddy Marsha, her husband, and 27 year old son. We sail from Seattle to Vancouver. What the heck, good food, good company,…

You guys are wonderful. Thank you so much for your blogiversary wishes. What a relief if it was to find out that so many people are actually reading this blog. I find that I can’t trust the stats page on Typepad, so I never accurately know what’s going on. Today, for example, it tells me…

This month, Life’s A Stitch (the original – don’t be fooled by imitations), is two! To celebrate, I’m hosting a contest. So talk to me, give me some feedback. Tell me what you like or don’t like. Isn’t that brave? Each comment relating to my blogiversary this month will get an entry. The prize? Enough…

How do you justify occasionally spending $18 for yarn for a pair of socks or $48 for a scarf? You’d never spend $18 on a pair of socks in the store. As long as I don’t need the money for the necessities of life like food and mortgage I can justify it: 1. The time…

This is a a post about Touch Me, an exorbitantly priced,  ultra soft seductive yarn. It woos you with its sensuous hand. I am ashamed to admit I have given in to this temptation twice. But eventually, as in all steamy relationships, the hormones subside and reality sets in. It’s a proven scientific fact. Touch…