"Clapotis, c’est fini! ‘ It’s a scarf: "It’s a wrap!" I have to confess, I was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I had bad thoughts about Clapotis prior to knitting one. I approached it with great trepidation and was equally rewarded. It’s prettier than anticipated and the dropped stitches don’t get caught on jewelry and buttons…

I know I complain at times about our seemingly endless rain, but as our thick clouds begin to break, we do have a beautiful sky. Not bad for February, eh? One of the benefits of an astronomy/physics major daughter are wonderful eclipse photos. She took this one last week. Just another example, that as in…

If someone didn’t know what was going on, and overheard the teacher in the class area of Vancouver’s Birkeland Brothers yesterday, some eyebrows might have been raised.  "Poke the butt, poke the butt, poke the butt" she called out, reminding me of the nurse midwife of my past, fervently shouting out her orders "push, push,…

I find my life chronicled in my Mozilla bookmarks. Sprinkled amongst a thick blanket of blogs and patterns, I find I occasionally have a life outside of knitting: "Bob’s Bum Knees" and "New Edge Polycentric Knee Brace" – gives me the willies.  Only good part of that experience was quality knitting time with my SIL.…

Apparently, I`m not only late to this the party, but the party is over. The Yahoo Clapotis KAL is all done. They wouldn`t even let me in the door. Tough noogies, I`m going to do it all by myself. Probably not ALL by myself as the Clapotis is the most popular pattern in Ravelry today,…

I may be late to the party, but I’m pretty sure it’s not just me. On more than one occasion, I’ve been stopped on the street by fellow Pac NWers, asking how did I tie that scarf. Are you a wrap arounder? Or a loop de looper? AKA the CBC tie, as all Canadian Broadcasting…

You never know where it’ll show up. A friend found this online. Look carefully, there’s knitting content: Is it my imagination, could it be Typepad’s hit counter, or is blogland slow this week?

Are you familiar with the book? It’s all about the knitting of prayer shawls to comfort those who are grieving or going through tough times. It’s a beautiful concept, and I decided to give it a go. I wove a shawl for the mom of our student intern, Carly, who died two years ago from…

No wheat or eggs, no added sugar, no dairy or nuts, and it tastes good. Really good. Someone brought these, made as drop cookies, into the office and they quickly disappeared. If you’re like me, you have a supply of black bananas in the freezer just waiting to be zapped, peeled, and used in a…

This poster: This award, which yesterday, I accepted on behalf of my agency. I know this is a good place to be, having worked at offices where the prevailing attitude toward workplace flexibility was "Give them and inch and they’ll take a mile." Our employees have demonstrated the opposite, by giving them an inch they…