Currently | January 2023
Happy First Friday, Everyone! I thought I'd share a quick "snapshot" of what's currently holding my attention. Anticipating — A visit to a new PCP this month. I will say it is a nervous anticipation. I have filled out a thick stack of health forms which has me...
Finding Success in Failure
On Friday, I shared an idea I had for this year's stitching and over the weekend I swatched a bit with less than stellar results. So, I spun a bit more to see if I could improve the "thready-ness" of the yarn. I stitched with more tightly plied yarn. I stitched with...
Fiber Friday, December 8
The knitting marches on, albeit slowly. However, today I am going to share a bit of a preview about my 2018 Stitching Project, which will begin on December 21 and I am taking a bit of license from Vivaldi and borrowing his Four Seasons. There will be four much larger...
Three on Thursday, December 7
This week it is all about powerful things: Thing 1: Wind My cousin posted this on FB and I have watched it a number of times. Thing 2: Voices Thing 3: Fire I don't know if you all saw this, but holy cow – scary! To my friends that live in Southern CA, please be safe!...
Unraveled Wednesday, December 6
This week there was a bit of unraveling and a careful bit of unknitting. Sigh. The unraveling bit involved my Peace Train knitting. Right pattern but wrong yarn? Or perhaps, it was the wrong pattern for the right yarn. Thus, my Peace Train Knitting has a definite...
November Stitching
Bare-armed sentinels Rain and winds that blow and swirl Even the first snow
Begin as you mean to go on…
December seems to be starting off quite nicely, especially weather wise… as crazy as this will sound, we have had glorious sunny days all weekend (and most of last week!) with temps well into the 50's! This mild weather seems quite surreal and it is such a treat to...