How much yarn will your vacuum eat from the time it take its first bite until you flick the off switch? Oh about four and a half grams, enough for a third of a wedge of the Free and Easy Pie Shaped Shawl. Luckily it sucked down yarn from the skein end, just like an…

We have gotten two kids through college with the agreement that we pay for three years, they pay for the fourth. The third child, AKA the shock (not because he was a surprise, he was very well planned, but that he was a boy after two girls), is finishing year one. It's a good thing…

   Pattern: Free and Easy Pie Wedge Shawl – from the 2005 Knitting Pattern a Day calendar and on the ball band of Helen's Lace yarn. Yarn: Fleece Artist Baby Curls (discontinued). Needles: Size 9 US Impressions: Three weeks of stress free knitting from start to finish. That is until I stretched the too tight…

You know when the household garbage starts piling up in the waste basket? When one person puts one more thing on top instead of taking the garbage out? I heard the perfect term for this condition which afflicts my kitchen and one particular bathroom on a regular basis. It's called Garbage Jenga, after the tower…

As I fessed up in the previous post, my yarn fast has been broken. No way will I stand in line for hours to get 15% off at a not so local yarn shop, when I can wait a few weeks and average 30% off at my very local, walking distance yarn store. I stuck…

Thank you for your words of parental encouragement. Mari arrived safely in Sydney, the dresser made it home, and the adventures continue. While I'm transferring yarn to the stress purchase of my last post, Chuck shakes his head. "It's not going to do it, is it?" Telling the truth, I admit it. One drawer each…

I guess that would be compulsive Li obsessing, something I do when I want to push a worry out of my brain. I find something else to obsess about, thereby masking the true level of concern ruminating in my mind. What do you want first, the worry or the obsession? OK, I'll flip a coin…

Time for a change. After four years the look is changing. It's about time, did you notice? I think it's subtle, but too subtle? So far a new banner and a cleaned up look. I know it adds to the busy-ness, but I cannot bring myself to ditch the Gracee picture, so there she'll stay,…

I've made myself a promise – no more new projects until major ones are finished – except for a purse project – something portable, light and chartless. This one takes 1200 yards of yarn, but weighs only 90 grams when finished. It's the Free and Easy Pie Wedge Shawl and I'm using Fleece Artist Baby…

    Pretty, but I can't seem to get it right. This is the tam from Twilley's of Stamford Book 455, made from the real deal, Twilley's Freedom Spirit yarn. The first one I made was too small. The second, from a heavier yarn was too big. I figured this one, with the number of…