About 25 years ago we saw an amazing comedy act, but I can’t remember her name, only that she was a young black woman who was tremendously funny. She did a routine about the odd things that pop into our minds and she closed each thought with the phrase "someone’s got to think about these…

Finally, a finished Manos del Uruguay scarf with my own made up pattern; a variation of a Herringbone Rib stitch. My thoughts: 1. Manos is generally a pleasure to work with although this skein had a fair amount of thin bits compared to its usual thick and thin style. 2. There are huge variations within…

The party’s over, at least until New Year’s and it’s back to reality time. Knitting-wise, blocking is my dreaded reality, but I’ve found a solution. Drop everything and head to your local welding supply to buy 1/16 inch stainless steel welding rods. If you are blocking lace, do it yesterday! What a gift these babies…

The gift knitting is done, Chuck has bought the food for our Boxing Day Danish frokust for 20, and given the circumstances, no one is giving me a hard time for not decorating, baking or shopping. It’s all very much under control. Here are some of the finished products: May your nights have stars of…

I’ve always threatened to do the Christmas hype biannually. Do shopping, lights, tree thing every other year and celebrate what Christmas really is in between. That’s happening this year, albeit not exactly intentionally. With further complications related to my knee reconstruction resulting in hopefully temporary, crummy chronic mostly night time pain (read little to no…

Oh my, I just realized how my scotties might appear to be, ahem, otherwise engaged. I assure you it was purely a photographic accident. There are seven other scotties hiding behind the chair and they were all crowded together and over lapping, hence the strange picture. Now if they only could have cast iron scottie…

Unable to drive for six weeks, I had to find an alternate method of satisfying my yarn urges. I’m a modern woman, it’s OK to do this in the privacy of my bedroom, right? I’ve spent hours today at E-Bay shopping on my wireless laptop. Arriving home from school, Mr. 15 yr old with attitude…

Yup, that was me yeaterday. Went to my first physical therapy appointment, took one look at Michelle, my trusted talented physical therapist (she’s a knitter), and burst into tears. I think the sleep deprivation hit. And the fact that I don’t control pain very well, grinning and bearing it, until I hit the wall. I…

That’s the rule for using crutches on steps – up with the good leg, down with the bad leg. Consulting other knee reconstruction blogs I realize my recovery is typical. Sort of like getting comfort when frogging, from other knit bloggers. The main obstacle today was not being able to remove the garbage bag from…

Not what you might think. It was our anniversary the other night and we celebrated with dessert in bed, all five of us. In my quest for comfort food I made a batch of Rote Grutze, a German recipe that’s a fruit flavoured pudding with berries, topped with a layer of vanilla custard like my…