Oct
31
2008
Happy Halloween, everyone!
It’s been a crazy busy morning over here. My son decided, just before bedtime last night, that he wanted to take one of his Star Wars Lego ships to school for show-and-tell. Naturally, it was in pieces–hundreds of tiny, hard-to-find pieces–when he came up with this idea. So, he got up [...]
Tags: Knitting
Oct
26
2008
Like its namesake, the heroine of Shakespeare’s tragic romance, my Juliet exhibited suicidal tendencies. It tried to end its life on two occasions.
The first attempt occurred one night, when I was heading out to knit with some friends. I packed up my yarn and needles, walked out the front door and across the yard [...]
Tags: Knitting, sweater
Oct
10
2008
Goldilocks had to try three of everything she came across before she decided which one was just right. I’ve had to try a lot more than that to figure out what I really wanted in a sweater.
I was bewitched for a long time by frilly feminine sweaters, many of which looked nice but [...]
Tags: cardigan, Knitting, sweater