» it’s Twilight Zone time again


I’m in Chicago, where it’s cold and blustery — just my kind of weather.  Gives me an excuse to wear sweaters just a little bit longer.  And just when I can’t stand the cold any longer, poof!  I get to fly back to Alabama.  My trip here was unexciting, except for the courtesy upgrade to [...]

Posted on: March 24, 2008 | Tags: , , | 1 comment

» from alpaca to yak, and everything in between


First things first — for those few of you who aren’t in daily contact with Liz or me, she’s on the mend, and finally has a cast on her wrist. Linda, if you’re reading this, your son is a peach! No one could ask for a better boss than Liz has, she’s one lucky girl [...]

Posted on: March 16, 2008 | Tags: , | 1 comment

» what the heck have I been doing?


I was gently reminded the other day that it’s been a looooooong time since I’ve had anything to say here. One might be inclined to think I’d just dropped off the face of the earth. Nothing that exciting has happened, I’m afraid. I’ve mostly just been keeping my nose to the grindstone since I came [...]

Posted on: February 29, 2008 | Tags: , | no comments

» cat in action


No, not that cat. That’s our Loki, sitting on my finished Cluaranach scarf. Silly cat. No, this Cat… Cat Bordhi, the clever, creative, think-outside-the-box creator of knitted shapes amazing and unusual. And functional. Yesterday’s class was focused on her new methods of sock design, found in her new book. Here she’s demonstrating a new type [...]

Posted on: January 10, 2008 | Tags: , | 2 comments

» hello Long Beach!


Every year in January, the trade association for yarn shop owners, TNNA, holds its Spring yarn market in California. Usually it’s in San Diego, sometimes it’s elsewhere. This is an elsewhere year. I was originally scheduled to fly in today, Wednesday, arriving just in time for a class with Cat Bordhi this afternoon at 3:00. [...]

Posted on: January 09, 2008 | Tags: , , , | no comments

» A is for …


The first ABC along was in 2006, wherein participants posted, in alphabetical order, photos in their blogs of things that had meaning for them. Every two weeks the letter changed. I enjoyed reading them, but didn’t have a knitting blog then, so didn’t participate. This year I’ve joined. I’ve decided that the theme, for me, [...]

Posted on: January 05, 2008 | Tags: | 1 comment