Sometimes Monday… | 7.18.22
...brings rain! And that, my friends, is a very, very good thing! My focus is still on keeping things simple this week, despite an incredibly unsimple event that might occur this week... Jury Duty. I got the summons a couple of months ago and this is the week when I...
Finish What You Start
Starting strong is good. Finishing strong is epic. - Robin Sharma Way back on June 1st 2015, I cast on eagerly with the many participants of Kirsten Kapur’s MKAL. I started off like a knitter on fire and kept pace with all the clues until clue #4 arrived. I knit about...
Unknitting and Reading
There are days when the yarn and the pattern play well together, and then there is today. I love the yarn, I love the pattern, but together they don’t work well together. I liked the lace, but the short row sections just are too much bulk for the shawl. So today is...
Comfort and Joy
If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it’s hard to beat bread and butter. Jacques Pepin Carole has given us perhaps the greatest topic of all time for this week’s 10 on Tuesday: 10 Favorite Comfort Foods Now, the hard part is to limit this to only...
The Madness of Monday
The weekend was over far too quickly, which seems to be a theme in the blog world. Of course, losing an hour did not help. But, it was packed full of good things here at Casa del Katknits… Things like Friday Happy Hour, which was extra good since Steve made wings....
Houston, We Have Bind-Off!
I can thank the Political Circus for their assistance in this successful bind-off by hosting not one, but two debates this week. Because, really – tedious knitting should be accompanied by tedious television. Fun fact – you knit faster when you are mad! Up next, the...
A Springtime Throwback to Van Raalte Farm
Outside the birds are a cacophony of song, grass is greening and growing, and in my garden the rhubarb, raspberries, and chives are poking their little green heads through the rich black soil. And today, it is gloriously grey outside, with promises of rain which will...
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