Do you remember that line? How about the Ministry of Silly Walks? I used to have to have TV to watch Monty Python, but now, TV-less me, can catch glimpses of those classic scenes on Youtube without commercials. But this post is different because I have been heavily into the knitting and yarn content, and…

Couldn't sleep last night. So I got up at 4:00a.m. and did some math. It's about Noro Silk Garden. Problem: If one knitter, myself, knit eleven projects out of said yarn, 42 skeins of conventional Silk Garden and eight of Silk Garden Sock yarn, how many silken gardeny miles were knit?  Answer: 4.1 miles or…

That last post seemed to leave you relatively speechless. Is it the crocheting? Or did I offend you with my boy comment from the previous post? Is it those time suckers, AKA Ravelry or Facebook? Maybe I haven't been a good commenter myself.  Really though, it looks pretty slow in blogland, even the Harlot only…

True to form, when I find a pattern I like, I repeat it.  This was the first one, no so long ago. The current one is done in the same yarn, just a different colour. Pattern: Cresent Moon Shawl from Easy Crochet, Complete in Three Days (In your dreams Three Days). Yarn: Noro Silk Garden Sock Yarn,…

I heard something on a news report that cracked me up. Even the males in my family understood. It's in the spirit of "boys will be boys." I know it's stereotyping, and it's politically incorrect to do so, but please indulge me this once. I am the mother of a boy. I am sure there…

The finished products – one skein of Katia Ondas produced two scarves from different patterns, each about 64" in length: Scarf #1 with four stitches cast on: Scarf #2, done lengthwise: Worked lengthwise for a slightly less flouncy look. Cast on 86 stitches, worked three rows, bound off on the fourth row using the larger…

Believe it or not, there is still time to knit a gift. You could be reading this on Christmas Eve and if you had the yarn, there would still be time. Let me introduce you to a little knitting miracle: Technically one stitch per inch, four stitches per row, but knits up into a wider…

Here in the Pacific Northwest we say, we don't tan, we rust. My retort: At least we don't have to shovel it. And that's why we moved here. I've probably mentioned before, that when we moved to Canada from Omaha some 26 years ago, we were asked why we were moving to such a cold…

That's my excuse for lack of blogging. Limited internet and no camera cable for the last five days at a Washington weekend with wonderful women. Those would be my good friend, Lynn, her daughter whom I've known since she was three, but all grown up now, and of course, Blogless Marsha. Can't say enough about…

Completing the Cresent (sic) Moon Shawl, from the Japanese pattern book, Easy Crochet, Complete in Three Days, I realized a cultural difference. The workday in Japan is longer than the US workday, which is longer than the Canadian workday. Three days? Hmmmm. It reminded me of the time I sewed, for my then five-year-old, a…