Let’s all sing along – those of you of a certain age will remember the tune: It’s my birthday I can buy what I want to, buy what I want to, buy what I want to, you could buy too…. Those were our lyrics on Saturday, Blogless Marsha and I. I didn’t really buy too…

I can’t believe it’s over, the seven day slumber party. As a group, the four of us have 40 years of history. The weather didn’t cooperate, but who cares? We spent a day at a flea market and one at St. Armand’s Circle in Sarasota. Donna forbade me to go home with the purse I’ve…

Hello from sunny Florida! Need I say more 🙂

I bought the yarn for my first Clapotis thinking how beautiful and original the colours appeared. Time to break out of my rut, never used those colours before. Or have I. Clapotis yarn, meet Lady Eleanor. And then there’s the Silk Garden Poncho from way back when. Even the bugs in my garden are fitting…

"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…