I saw a meme where people are listing five of their strange habits. This has provided a fair amount of discussion in my house. The ones I’m ready to admit to: 1. I love boxes and have a hard time throwing them out, especially shoe boxes. I was in box heaven when I worked at…

I’m hooked, or more appropriately in weaving speak, I’m warped. The weaving class was a success, from the shop owner’s point of view. I ordered a tabletop rigid heddle loom, two books and an extra reed. One hit was all it took to create a serious addiction, thanks to author/designer/teacher Rowena Hart. In a three…

You know how when things are just not right with your life, they’re just not right with your knitting? And you know how what you are thinking gets tangled up with what you’re knitting? How each piece of knitting is affected by what you were feeling at the time? Or how the knitting decisions you…

Listening to the radio Saturday morning cost me $50 plus taxes. I have a feeling that’s just the beginning. CBC, our public radio station, hosted a special knitting edition of their North by Northwest program, something I listen to most Saturday early mornings. They interviewed knitters ranging from 13 yr old ski racing boy to…

I am so excited. There are four of you readers who are test knitting my Herringbone Rib pattern. Michelle, from New York, has sent me these photos. Isn’t it beautiful? It’s hard to believe it is the same colourway of Manos del Uruguay #113 as mine. Their colours are so unpredictable. So, what do you…

I have a personal popularity contest happening with my knitting patterns. In every pattern with a pattern repeat I find I develop a favourite line. In Charlotte’s web it was the identical 3rd and 4th lines of the pattern repeat. I also develop a dreaded line. In the C’est La Vie wrap it’s the one…

I once had a garage sale and advertised that I was selling every piece of exercise equipment known to woman. There was a thigh master (my second since I wore the first one out), a recumbent exercise bike (the second exercise bike I’ve gotten rid of at a garage sale), a rowing machine, and a…

Give me a Fiddlesticks pattern and some Classic Elite Miracle yarn and I’ll show you a perfect match. Some of it will have to be left to your imagination, though, since black doesn’t photograph well. The pattern: Fiddlesticks C’est La Vie wrap. I’ve said it before, but I can’t emphasize how well written Fiddlesticks patterns…

So much of life is out of our control, but I think I’m a believer that in some cases, suffering is optional. To some extent misery can be a choice. As I look back over my almost year and a half of blogging I’ve found a recurring theme of the quest for comfort (comfort food,…

What’s this? Right before we left Bellingham I was at a yarn shop, not intending to buy a thing. The nice lady asked me if I had seen their ad. What ad? The one that says from 8:00-10:00 a.m. the next morning everything in the store would be 40% off. She said that a number…