At my watercolour class the teacher told a story about his Dad, who asked him "If you had two wishes what would they be?" My instructor remembered his Dad’s wishes, " to always have a $20 bill in my pocket (it was probably the 1960’s) and to remember everything I’ve learned." How well off we…

I heard a discussion happening behind me at a knitting group. I felt like I was in fifth grade.They were referring, in just loud enough voices, to my prolific knitting and that I mustn’t have a life. What I don’t have is TV. I knit for 15 minutes at breakfast, 15 at lunch and I…

If you’re a blogger, don’t you wish sometimes that you could contact some of those people who arrived at your site through strange Google searches? Like the person tonight who googled from Japan "solution to dining philoshoper problem."  The internet has loads of info, but Life’s a Stitch is the only site that came up…

Something smelled pretty rotten in our van the other day. First is started out smelling reminiscently of nail polish remover. Then it was a nose stinging tang and I knew I had to figure it out. Ah ha! A runaway can (I use the term loosely since they are now made of cardboard, no longer…

Raise your hands, how many of you like to go shopping for bras? I bet you that number decreases with age. I read that the average bra size is 36C and that this is increasing. Ten years ago it was 36B. What’s going on? Is it because of the aging population? Too many kids on…

Thanks to Emma, who sent me her list of yarn substitutes for the Alice Starmore Marina sweater. I used her list to do yet another conversion while consulting with a Jamieson and Smith colour card. After three translations I was able to adjust the colours to more closely match the ones in the photo in…

I was at Chicks With Sticks the other week showing off my Charlotte’s Web shawl and someone asked where I bought the pattern. I realized that I’ve never blogged about that strange event. I had made up my mind to knit the shawl and stopped by five yarn shops in Washington looking for the pattern.…

Bryant’s birthday was on Earth Day. Prior to his birth, erroneously predicted for May, I had the name Forrest on my list of possibilities. When the blessed event happened on April 22nd I changed my mind thinking he’d be teased unmercifully for the coincidence or people would assume his parents were hippies, thirty years late,…

Update: We’re waiting for another set of tests before they can release Chuck from the hospital. So far, no bacteria has been identified. Last night, however, he looked like his old self again after they unhooked him from all tubes and drains except the PICC line for antibiotics and allowed him to put some weight…

Thanks everybody for your concern during this crisis. Chuck will stay in the hospital until they can identify what bacteria is causing the problem, then will send him home for IV antibiotics through a PICC line (a catheter to a major vein just above the heart) for at least two weeks. I have to get…