Recently subscribing to Interweave`s Knitting Daily, I have learned the truth about UFO`s. Only 2% of polled knitters have no unfinished objects. 36% have between two and four, 36% have between five and eight, and 6% of us have over 20 UFO`s hanging around. That`s all I needed to hear to cultivate a worse habit.…

What’s this? It’s not half of a bikini top. It’s not a hat. Nope, it’s not a knit artichoke or even a tea cozy. Give up? It’s the beginning of Jared‘s Hemlock Ring Blanket. Jared morphed a 1942 doily pattern into a blanket by using chunky yarn and adding rows of feather and fan stitch,…

WARNING: Rant ahead. I believe it comes with age. Why, when you call your bank, are you asked to punch in your access number only to be asked your access number again when a service rep finally picks up the line? The other one that bugs me is when you can’t reach a person without…

Where to begin? I’ve been on vacation, starting with an unpleasant medical procedure that left me with a two day headache and a bruised neck. There was nowhere to go from there, but up. Lets start with the two, five and nine:Two countries,five cities, and nine yarn shops. That sounds like a good holiday to…

Look at the difference between this year and last: I’ve been out of town this week, no time to post, so I’ll leave you with my scarf at the halfway mark. You can get a good idea of the drapiness in the first and the colour in the second.

When all the world is a hopeless jumble,and the raindrops tumble all around,heaven opens a magic lane… (Over the rainbow, Arlen-Harburg, 1939) Our house this year, with the 17 year old, has been a struggle. Academics have not been his strong suit and his highlight in the school play was over shadowed by an act…

In BC we call it budging, elsewhere it’s cutting in or jumping the queue. It bugs me. I can’t figure it out – is it a laid back West Coast thing or a Canadian trait, but here, people are generally good about taking turns. Lining up to cross the Lion’s Gate Bridge, where three lanes…

Extra, Extra – Did you see that the current Vogue has an Alice Starmore pattern? What a treat. An A-S pattern without the hundreds of dollar expense of a kit! Now for the C word.Yes, I’ve crossed the line into the world of crochet. In my college years someone taught me to repeat one stitch,…

WARNING: may be offfensive to vegetarians and knitters who don’t eat lamb. Yes! A lamb dinner: On a Tuesday night? To what do we owe this great pleasure? That would be what happens when *someone* takes laundry out of the dryer, and instead of folding it into a basket, piles it onto the plug from…

Why does Gracee look so anxious? Because Mari is clipping her nails: Mari has to wrestle the beast into compliance:   But that’s OK, they’re still friends: Saturday sky for Sandy: Knitting yarn content – completed homework for tomorrow’s crochet class: