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# As Kat Knits

Life with a left-leaning Fiberista and my journey to find sanity and more time to knit, spin and weave.

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- [Sometimes Monday...is Juneteenth | 6.19.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/06/19/sometimes-monday-is-juneteenth-6-19-23/) - The best thing for any day is poetry... and today is no exception! I stumbled across this beautiful poem by the brilliant Tracy K. Smith (you can listen to her read it here) And if you want to hear the Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters... well, enter the rabbit hole here! Wade in the Water by Tracy
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.21.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/06/21/unraveled-wednesday-6-21-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! I have a finished Gnome... and I have very mixed feelings about him. Gnifty is not feeling very nifty to me and those feelings grew as I assembled him last week. But... he has since been speaking to me... he let me know he is a bit of an introvert... and he is
- [A Gathering of Poetry | June 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/06/15/a-gathering-of-poetry-june-2023/) - I am gathering with Bonny and all the poetry lovers to share some poetry with you all today. (Make sure you stop by and see what we all have shared...and we'd love it even more if you joined us and shared a poem!) Is it just me... or is June racing along? In my mind,
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.14.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/06/14/unraveled-wednesday-6-14-23/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! It's that time in the week when we all gather together and share what we are making and (perhaps more importantly!) what we are reading! I have an almost finished Mystery Gnome... that I won't share this week because there are several "bits" that are not yet finished and my
- [Sometimes Monday | 6.12.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/06/12/sometimes-monday-6-12-23/) - Brings some much needed rain! I am hoping that it washes away much of the pollen that is making me miserable! (as well as bring a bit of life back to our very dead lawn!) We did have a good weekend... there was a happy hour that might have celebrated a certain indictment! I made
- [Museum of Me | June 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/06/09/museum-of-me-june-2023/) - Greetings! This month's exhibit is a study in contrasts... the then and now of my Happy Place! And... has my Happy Place changed over the years. When I was much younger my Happy Place was tied to a physical place... my grandparent's home was at the top of that list... and if going to a
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.8.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/07/08/unraveled-wednesday-7-8-26/) - Greetings dearest Unravelers! I have finished the Airy, Anne of Green Gables, Ranunculus and I am entirely smitten! I was reminded how brilliant the designer, Midori Hirose, wrote this pattern. The directions are clear and there are multiple videos of techniques! Want a narrower neck... no problem, clear directions! Want short sleeves, again... clear directions!
- [Sometimes Monday | 7.6.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/07/06/sometimes-monday-7-6-26/) - The weather people are telling us that it is supposed to be the tiniest bit cooler this week... a good thing because last week I was certain we had truly arrived at the "hell on earth" stage of existence. These scorching hot days are my least favorite thing of all... truly. We are supposed to
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.1.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/07/01/unraveled-wednesday-7-1-26/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's and Welcome July! It seems most of us (at least in the eastern half of the US) are under an oppressive heat dome. It is hot, muggy, and generally miserable to be outdoors. My walks with Frankie are quick... even in the early morning. We are both miserable rather quickly. I hope
- [Seasons: Late Spring - Early Summer | June 2026](https://askatknits.com/2026/06/29/seasons-late-spring-early-summer-june-2026/) - Good day, Gentle readers and Happy Monday to you all. I apologize profusely for this extremely wordy post. But the month of June was an incredible one... at least as season's go! (The rest of the world is a Total Shite Show... so thank goodness that Nature pulled out all the stops and distracted me
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.24.25](https://askatknits.com/2026/06/24/unraveled-wednesday-6-24-25/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's! I am stunned to type this, but it is the last Wednesday in June... it feels like June was just beginning and quite impossible that the month is almost over. Making this month has been so delightful! I am making my way down the second half of my Alabama Chanin scarf. I
- [Sometimes Monday | 6.22.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/06/22/sometimes-monday-6-22-26/) - Between the dusk of a summer night And the dawn of a summer day, We caught at a mood as it passed in flight, And we bade it stoop and stay. (From Praeludium, XXII by W. E. Henley) Yesterday brought the arrival of summer... days you'd really hope to pause, inhale deeply, and linger. However,
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.17.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/06/17/unraveled-wednesday-6-17-26/) - Greetings gentle Unraveler's and happy Wednesday to you all! I am quite enamored of the current weather pattern enveloping Pittsburgh... the heat has abated, the humidity has waned, and the skies have been cloud free and stunningly blue! Yes, that means I have the windows flung wide, the AC is off, and the time of
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.10.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/06/10/unraveled-wednesday-6-10-26/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! I have a case of cast-on-itis and it seems that everywhere I look I see something that whispers... come on, knit me... you know you want to! I am doing my best to ignore it and have a bit of "knitting rotation" going to stay focused. So several projects
- [Sometimes Monday | 6.8.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/06/08/sometimes-monday-6-8-26/) - Hello dear friends and Happy Monday! Today I am sharing three things that have lifted my spirits recently and lord knows... we all could use a LOT more of that! Lift Number One: Entirely by chance, I discovered a new podcast recently... which has led me down the rabbit hole of Toni Morrison! I have
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.3.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/06/03/unraveled-wednesday-6-3-26/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! The recent weather here in the South Hills of Pittsburgh has been truly extraordinary! Clear blue skies with occasional wisps of clouds, light breezes, absolutely zero humidity, and temps in the 70's... really extraordinary days! All this incredible weather means I have been out of doors a lot! The
- [Sometimes Monday | 6.1.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/06/01/sometimes-monday-6-1-26/) - Brings a new month... June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life. — Joan D. Chittister As I tuck May away, I am mourning a bit because it was such an amazing month. But Joan Chittister's idea on June is so
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.27.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/05/27/unraveled-wednesday-5-27-26/) - Greetings gentle Unraveler's and Happy Last Wednesday in May! It was a good long weekend... especially if one had a focus of finishing something! Yep, there was lots of rain in my area... which was exactly what I needed to get one step closer to the finish line of my ITO Kinu Shakerag Top! I
- [Seasons: Late Spring | May 2026](https://askatknits.com/2026/05/26/seasons-late-spring-may-2026/) - We depend on nature for not only our physical survival, we need nature to show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds. —Eckhart Tolle Late spring has unfurled slowly in my little corner of the world, but once it did it revealed an amazingly lush, vibrantly green world.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.20.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/05/20/unraveled-wednesday-5-20-26/) - Hello gentle Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday! I am closing in on a completed Shakerag Top... funny how if you work on something, it gets finished! Anyways, I am ready to divide the front and back and though there is still a good bit of knitting to go, I am closer to the finish than I
- [Sometimes Monday | 5.18.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/05/18/sometimes-monday-5-18-26/) - Brings the NO's! Yes, I realize I live under a rock and am unaware of so many things going on around me... so many things. And I honestly wish it was so many more things... sigh. (News... I am looking at you here!) Anyways, two things crossed my radar recently and to say I was
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.13.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/05/13/unraveled-wednesday-5-13-26/) - Greetings and Happy Wednesday dear Unravelers, I want to thank you all for your thoughts for my son and daughter-in-law. It was a "tough day" but all your thoughts and prayers were so appreciated. It has been a slow making week. We had some hiccups in the routine... a toilet that needed to be replaced
- [Sometimes Monday | 5.11.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/05/11/sometimes-monday-5-11-26/) - Is for letting go and moving on... You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles. — C. JoyBell C. For a good bit of last month, I spent time
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.6.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/05/06/unraveled-wednesday-5-6-26/) - Greetings Gentle Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday to you all! In my hiatus, I did a LOT of thinking, and some of that time was even spent thinking and making! To begin with, I have a couple of finished objects to share with you all. First, I finished the Floating Squares Wrap, from the MDK Mosaic
- [Sometimes Monday | 5.4.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/05/04/sometimes-monday-5-4-26/) - Hello gentle readers. I think I am back... at least for the time being. The time away was not empty time but Thinking About All the Things time. All the things... including blogging. And though many things have moved off my life list... somehow blogging made the cut (although, it is very near the bottom
- [A Poetry Inspired Lightning Round | April 2026](https://askatknits.com/2026/04/30/a-poetry-inspired-lightning-round-april-2026/) - It's been a very quiet National Poetry Month in blog-land... (you can read the full update as to why it was so quite on Kym's post today) although, I have been reading lots of poetry. Lots of poetry. And though I am still very much in Blog Hiatus, when Kym mentioned some Lightning Round Questions,
- [Seasons: Growth | April 2026](https://askatknits.com/2026/04/16/seasons-growth-april-2026/) - Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet This month I decided to pair my
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.15.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/04/15/unraveled-wednesday-4-15-26/) - Greetings dear Unravelers! Another Wednesday and the familiar rhythm of sharing making a reading is a good thing! Since last week, I made the decision to put away the Waffle Pullover until the fall. I made some very good notes and pinned them to the Waffle Pullover (along with the annotated pattern) and put it
- [Houston!! | 4.13.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/04/13/houston-4-13-26/) - It was an amazing weekend for landings! There was a successful splashdown for the Artemis II... and yes, I watched the entire thing until I saw all four astronauts exit the capsule. The images of the final parachute deployment was stunning... those three billowy parachutes slowly the capsule and gently placing them into the ocean.
- [Zip Ode... attempted | 4.9.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/04/09/zip-ode-attempted-4-9-26/) - On Monday, Bonny shared a new-to-me form of poetry... the Zip Ode and with the sharing she also invited those reading to give it a try. Well, almost instantly an idea began germinating in my brain. Now, I live in the South Hills of Pittsburgh and though my is easy to remember (15243... I mean
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.8.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/04/08/unraveled-wednesday-4-8-26/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's! Who else was glued to the YouTube feed of the Artemis II as they headed around the dark side of the moon on Monday? I unleashed my inner eight year old as I could not turn it off and was glued to every moment of it! It was just as spectacular as
- [Unraveled Wednesday, No Fooling | 4.1.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/04/01/unraveled-wednesday-no-fooling-4-1-26/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's and Happy April! Sweater knitting continues... at least for the moment. But yes... I am running out of momentum, sigh. My thoughts are turning to the approaching warm weather and last fall I put away an in-progress summery top that has been singing a siren song. I will continue to plug away
- [Enter Spring | 3.30.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/03/30/enter-spring-3-30-26/) - Spring! And Earth is like a child who has learned many poems by heart. For the trouble of that long learning she wins the prize. — Rainer Maria Rilke, excerpt from Sonnets to Orpheus I, 21 When I turned the calendar to March I greeted the meteorological arrival of spring. And then on March 20th,
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.25.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/03/25/unraveled-wednesday-3-25-26/) - Greetings gentle Unraveler's! Is it just me or did March blow through with a huge gust of wind? Unbelievable as it may seem, we have arrived at the last Wednesday of the month... and the last Wednesday of the first quarter, both of which seem impossible to me! But back in my "slow making" bubble...
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.18.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/03/18/unraveled-wednesday-3-18-26/) - Greetings gentle Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday! I have been knitting a round or four each day on the Waffle Pullover, but it does not look much different from last week, so no picture. Honestly, this is The Slog of knitting... the rounds are long... I am still a long way from dividing the sleeves and
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.11.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/03/11/unraveled-wednesday-3-11-26/) - Greetings gentle Unraveler's and welcome! I have made another week with no unraveling... and I am making good progress on try two of the Waffle Pullover yoke... and my maths are good!! (which might be the best part of all my progress!) My adjustments for my row gauge are working as I'd hoped! In my
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.4.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/03/04/unraveled-wednesday-3-4-26/) - Greetings dearest Unraveler's! March... yes, yes, yes! It rained yesterday... such soft, tender rain. It was delightful! This week we are leaping into temps in the 70's... which is insane to me... just insane. My poor snowdrops will soon be over at these temps... sigh. But... My DAFFS are going to have A YEAR! Yes,
- [Welcome, March | 3.2.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/03/02/welcome-march-3-2-26/) - 'March' is a sharp word, brusque and bracing, like its month. 'January', 'February'; they meander like rivers; 'April' is like the sound of raindrops on the windowpane; but 'March' is a gust of wind flinging grit. — Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook I read these words yesterday morning as the sun was just rising,
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.25.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/02/25/unraveled-wednesday-2-25-26/) - Greetings gentle Unraveler's and welcome to the last Wednesday of February! I am happy to say there has been no unraveling this week, whew! (right?) However, I have not picked up the yoke since we last checked in... so it is safe to say that in my neighborhood, at least, the "bang out" phase of
- [Deep Winter | 2.23.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/02/23/deep-winter-2-23-26/) - It has been a curious month, my friends and here in the south hills of Pittsburgh, it has been a snowy one. In fact, we had more consecutive days with snow on the ground since I moved here almost 14 years ago now. And while most of my neighbors have found this phenomenon upsetting, I
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 2.19.25](https://askatknits.com/2026/02/19/a-gathering-of-poetry-2-19-25/) - I treated myself to an anthology of poems, Poetry is not a Luxury: Poems for all Seasons (which was edited by the curator of @poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram) and have been working through the winter section with great delight. One poem by Fanny Howe has been calling me back to it since I read it in
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.18.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/02/18/unraveled-wednesday-2-18-26/) - Greetings dear Unravelers! I come to you today, fresh out of the Frog Pond... sigh. Yes... that Frog Pond. Last week's progress on the yoke has all been ripped back... every last row. My mistake, I think, is the result of a a combination of things... being off on row gauge (significantly) and trusting that
- [A Few Good Things | 2.13.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/02/13/a-few-good-things-2-13-26/) - And we: spectators always, everywhere, turned toward it all and never looking out! Everything overfills us. We put it in order. It falls apart. We order it again and fall apart ourselves. — Rainer Maria Rilke, A portion of the Eighth Elegy from the Duino Elegies, translation by Mark S. Burrows This has absolutely been
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.11.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/02/11/unraveled-wednesday-2-11-26/) - I send out greetings today from Yoke Mountain. I am still a long way from Summit of the Great Sleeve Divide and so I just keep knitting. Friends... I knit a lot over the weekend... foregoing any spinning to just keep knitting on this never-ending yoke. And I still have 24 rounds to go before
- [In the frigid midwinter... | 2.9.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/02/09/in-the-frigid-midwinter-2-9-26/) - Whew, after a very mild start...we plunged into the deep end of winter. Yes, it has been cold and wintry here in the south hills of Pittsburgh! But as we inch past the half way point, I am finding some uplifting things to bolster my days! Daylight being the best and brightest of all the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.4.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/02/04/unraveled-wednesday-2-4-26/) - Greetings gentle Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! In a week of what looks like ADD making... I have stitching, I have page making, I have knitting (both sock knitting and BAD ASS Short Row Knitting) and yes, I even have SPINNING!! While January stitching might have had a slow start, I have finished the month strong.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.28.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/01/28/unraveled-wednesday-1-28-26/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's! I am thankful for all the woolens this week because it is bitterly cold in Pittsburgh right now! Our furnace has been working overtime as well... that bill should be a fun one! (not!!) I am back to sock knitting and should have Sock One done later today! One thing I did
- [Wintering | 1.27.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/01/27/wintering-1-27-26/) - "I recognized winter. I saw it coming (a mile off, since you ask), and I looked it in the eye. I greeted it and let it in. I had some tricks up my sleeve, you see. I've learned them the hard way. When I started feeling the drag of winter, I began to treat myself
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.21.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/01/21/unraveled-wednesday-1-21-26/) - Greetings gentle Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday to you all. I have settled in with January nicely but is anyone beside me wondering how we just have one more Wednesday in the month? Sock knitting is moving right along since I ripped back and restarted a plain vanilla sock. I have reached the "home stretch" of
- [Friday Distractions? | 1.16.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/01/16/friday-distractions-1-16-26/) - It has certainly been A Week has it not? I am not a person who worries about things beyond my control... but 15 days into a New Year and I am worrying about all the things. People... so many people. Places... so many places. And things... as in what new things will pop up over
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 1.15.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/01/15/a-gathering-of-poetry-1-15-26/) - Greetings friends and I am so happy it is the first Poetry Gathering of 2026! (although, I am here to tell you that grief brain and aware of time brain are two very different brains...sigh) So this morning as I scrambled to get my ducks in order and find a poem to share... an eerily
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.14.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/01/14/unraveled-wednesday-1-14-26/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's! Another Wednesday has arrived... and so we gather to share our weekly updates! I am going to begin with the questions many of you had last week about my newly finished Year of Stitching project. It seems your inquiring minds all want to know the size of my stitching and I woefully
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.7.26](https://askatknits.com/2026/01/07/unraveled-wednesday-1-7-26/) - Greetings Gentle Unraveler's and Happy New Year to all of you! Welcome to the first Wednesday of the New Year... let's begin as we mean to go on, shall we? I can't believe that I have a pair of socks completed, but you can see the proof above! This pair, in Hermoine's Everyday Sock pattern,
- [Hello, January | 1.5.2026](https://askatknits.com/2026/01/05/hello-january-1-5-2026/) - And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. — Rainer Maria Rilke I really am feeling like I need to set a few intentions for this month and year because I fear if I don't the Great Wallowing in Aimless Days will consume me. I am really struggling to
- [A Year of Yutori | 12.29.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/12/29/a-year-of-yutori-12-29-25/) - Greetings dear friends, and welcome to the last update of our words for 2025. You will find the link up at the bottom of this post. Thank you so much for joining me this year as, together, we examined how a specific focus could impact our days. I am eager to read your updates! Yutori:
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.24.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/12/24/unraveled-wednesday-12-24-25/) - Greetings gentle Unraveler's and Happy Christmas Eve to you all! A brief gathering today... I have a feeling not many will be sharing an update today. If you are, welcome... get a cup of something warm and settle in! This week my making was entirely focused on Gnome finishing and my efforts paid off because
- [A Reminder and OLW changes for 2026 | 12.22.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/12/22/a-reminder-and-olw-changes-for-2026-12-22-25/) - Greetings fellow Word Focus-er's, Next Monday, December 29th, will be our final word update for 2025. The link up will be up early and will remain open for the week. I am eager to read your final update for the year and I am excited to share with you how my word closed out for
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 12.18.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/12/18/a-gathering-of-poetry-12-18-25/) - I had originally planned to post this poem in the November poetry gathering... but then life very much changed and I thought I could banish this poem to the dustbin. But Liz Berry's words continue to linger (I think you will see exactly why as you read it) and so I am sharing it today.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.17.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/12/17/unraveled-wednesday-12-17-25/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's! Hopefully you have arrived at the "I can knit whatever the heck I want" portion of December knitting... especially if you are doing any holiday knitting! Personally, I have been in that mode all month... and it feels very good. I have begun Hermoine's Everyday Sock, which I really love to knit.
- [Sometimes Monday | 12.15.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/12/15/sometimes-monday-12-15-25/) - It's a bitterly cold winter wonderland out there this morning. (And I mean 3°F bitterly cold) However, the snow is lovely... it is the sparkly snow that shines in the darkness. (and that my friends, is the only positive thing about having to trek out in this bitter cold!) All the big tasks for the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.10.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/12/10/unraveled-wednesday-12-10-25/) - Greetings gentle Unraveler's... welcome to Wednesday and our weekly gathering to share what we are making and reading. I had some actual unraveling this week... yep, Monday's clue was not read clearly and I had to rip out my knitting and restart. The second try was much better. I do so enjoy Sarah's method of
- [Sometimes Monday | 12.8.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/12/08/sometimes-monday-12-8-25/) - Is for wrapping... Yes, today begins the Big Wrap-a-thon so the Shipping of the Boxes of Fun can happen later this week. Once I have all the wrapping completed, I will try and finish the bits of in-process Christmas decorating and then I can resume some Gnome-knitting. I have to tell you... Gnome Knitting is
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.3.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/12/03/unraveled-wednesday-12-3-25/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy first Wednesday in December and welcome to Gnome Central! First, I would like to thank all of you who have messaged me, sent me a card, and left such beautiful comments. Your thoughts lift me... and they are a light in the darkness. Thank you for also holding my son
- [Hello, December | 12.1.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/12/01/hello-december-12-1-25/) - Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again. ― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times I am so glad to slam the door shut on November...
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.26.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/11/26/unraveled-wednesday-11-26-25/) - Welcome Gentle Unraveler's, At long last, we have arrived at the last Wednesday in November (I know, most of the month moved at an astonishing speed but for me time stopped feeling normal last week and now a day can feel like a century.) I explained Monday about knitting and grief... the socks are finished
- [Yutori:  Slowing Down, Grief, and a Pair of Socks | 11.24.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/11/24/yutori-slowing-down-grief-and-a-pair-of-socks-11-24-25/) - I know that I said last week that there would not be a post today, a conversation with a dear friend helped me see that this post might be helpful to me and I am certain that all of you sharing things that you discovered during the month with your words might be helpful to
- [An indefinite break... | 11.18.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/11/18/an-indefinite-break-11-18-25/) - There are no words to temper this news... my son and daughter in law lost both babies yesterday. The unthinkable has become reality. I am taking a break from blogging. I realize I said there would be a link up for sharing our word updates... but that won't be happening. Nor will there be any
- [Sometimes Monday (and a reminder!) | 11.17.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/11/17/sometimes-monday-and-a-reminder-11-17-25/) - Last week's crazy wild winds loosed what remained of any leaves on trees; save those sturdy oaks... most of their rusty brown leaves remain and it will take a few more wind/rain storms to get their leaves to budge! I love the "new views" that the bare trees reveal and those bare branches seem the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.12.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/11/12/unraveled-wednesday-11-12-25/) - Greetings dear Unravelers! I am struggling with how fast the days are racing past... and they are racing by at warp speed! I am certainly not ready for this year to race to a close! One thing I am happy about is the buttons I found in my beloved Nana's button box... they are perfect
- [Sometimes Monday | 11.10.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/11/10/sometimes-monday-11-10-25/) - Good morning, gentle friends. I had a plethora of phone calls with my kids over the weekend. The frantic pace of their lives on full display. However, it was Sam who hit the nostalgia buttons... he and his wife were frantically working on decorating for Christmas over the weekend because they now have a deadline.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.5.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/11/05/unraveled-wednesday-11-5-25/) - Greetings dearest Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! Some days, the gratitudes come easy and others... well, I am here to tell you that the struggle is very real those days! Thankfully, today is not one of those days! One thing I am always grateful for is my daily stitching. Now, I don't always stitch daily (because
- [Hello, November | 11.3.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/11/03/hello-november-11-3-25/) - Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life. — Rumi November... whew. This year is flying, isn't it? Too darned fast, if you ask me... though if I focus on headlines, the news, and all that chaos, it makes it feel like one long-ass year. I am beyond privileged
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.29.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/10/29/unraveled-wednesday-10-29-25/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's! We have arrived at the final Wednesday of October... sigh. Is it just me or does it feel like this month was set to warp speed? And before I know it, it will be the end of December... yikes! Another really good way that I have to note the passing of time
- [Yutori Days | 10.27.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/10/27/yutori-days-10-27-25/) - Greetings and Happy October Word Update Day to all my fellow "Worder's"! How was October? By now I hope you have settled into a "zone" with your word, but despite being very comfortable with the direction of your year... I hope you still are finding something new and exciting to learn! If you are sharing
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.22.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/10/22/unraveled-wednesday-10-22-25/) - Greetings gentle Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday! October is just racing past and I am honestly shocked that it is the 22nd already! But... I am happy to report that I almost have another completed blanket and I really like this one! Simple garter stitch is just brilliant! It will need a wash and some ends
- [Sometimes Monday (+ A Reminder) | 10.20.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/10/20/sometimes-monday-a-reminder-10-20-25/) - Hello, hello! Yes, I am back from our trek to Erie and one thing a bit of time way does is make one appreciate home. I am happy to be back home... and although the time away was good, there is no place like home! We had practically perfect weather and Gudrun's Hairst Hap Hood
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 10.16.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/10/16/a-gathering-of-poetry-10-16-25/) - My absolute favorite thing is finding a poem that is so brilliant that it etches itself on my heart and this poem by Hannah Stephenson did exactly that. I first discovered it in the beginning of September but I have reread it dozens of times since. I picked it for today because it is the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.8.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/10/08/unraveled-wednesday-10-8-25/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! I am starting this post early Tuesday morning after Frankie and I have just watched the most spectacular sunrise! The clouds made for a stunning show! (too bad the power lines mar the scene!) Anyways... those clouds are supposed to be the harbinger of some good rains today... which
- [Currently | 10.3.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/10/03/currently-10-3-25/) - Some Most days, the struggle is real in my effort to spark content here. And, confession time, there are many days that I more than consider that this blog has reached its conclusion. However, near as that may feel most days, I am not quite ready to pull the plug here... at least this week.
- [Sometimes Monday | 10.6.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/10/06/sometimes-monday-10-6-25/) - ...brings answers to questions! Last week, I had a very, very chatty "Currently" post and despite how chatty I was, I left some questions unanswered. They were good questions, so thank you Sprite! She asked two questions: "Inquiring minds want to know what Snippets Show Notes are? Thoughts on podcasts you’re listening to?" Question one...
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.1.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/10/01/unraveled-wednesday-10-1-25/) - Greetings gentle Unravelers and Happy October to you!! Also... turning the calendar to October is a reminder to me that I need to get my knit in gear! It is crunch time baby knitting around here! I have started Heidi's baby blanket on the 24th and got to the first color change on the 28th.
- [The Yutori of Poetry | September 2025](https://askatknits.com/2025/09/29/the-yutori-of-poetry-september-2025/) - Greetings everyone and welcome to the September update! We are nine months done... and I have questions for you all! How is your year going? Are you finding that your word is helping? And, most importantly, what have you implemented to your days thanks to your word? You will find the link up at the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.24.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/09/24/unraveled-wednesday-9-24-25/) - Greetings Gentle Unravelers (and congratulations to surviving the umpteenth rapture of my lifetime!!) I am happy to report that the Knitting Enui has lifted and I have finished Welcome To the Flock #2! Now I need to pull out my nana's button box and find some special buttons for these sweater! I love this connection...
- [Sometimes Monday | 9.22.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/09/22/sometimes-monday-9-22-25/) - I had a very big epiphany recently... and it was for me a very radical one. For years... decades? I mean how long have there been online pattern companies who sell a PDF pattern. A long time. I am that person who would print out the pattern at home and then spend the better part
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 9.18.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/09/18/a-gathering-of-poetry-9-18-25/) - It's the third Thursday of the month which means it is time to join Bonny and friends for a bit of poetry! I read poetry every day... I listen to a poetry podcast weekdays... and in general, poetry has become a vital part of my daily life. Last year, I settled in with Poetry of
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.17.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/09/17/unraveled-wednesday-9-17-25/) - Greetings Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday! It has been a very, very slow week of making for me this week. I have barely knit a stitch in anything. I know... what the heck? My making mojo seems to be all sorts of no-jo. I am sharing photo proof of my lack of knitting. The baby sleeves
- [Sometimes Monday | 9.15.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/09/15/sometimes-monday-9-15-25/) - ... is time for action! I have basically given up on using the 5Calls app... I don't know about you, but while my representative is very eager to hear from his constituents, neither of my senators are. And my local representatives are both doing very good work in my area for me and my neighbors.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.10.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/09/10/unraveled-wednesday-9-10-25/) - Greetings gentle Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! Also, Happy birthday to my Heidi... yes, 35 years ago she joined our lives! These days, she has her plate full to overflowing... but she likes it that way. I sent her a box of fun her way... and the postal service says it is supposed to arrive today,
- [Sometimes Monday | 9.8.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/09/08/sometimes-monday-9-8-25/) - It seems as if September turned off the summer switch... it absolutely feels like fall outside and the AC has been off for over a week now and I am not complaining! Today I am pulling out the "fall decoration" bin from the garage and doing a bit of decorating for the season but first...
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.3.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/09/03/unraveled-wednesday-9-3-25/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's and Happy First Wednesday in September! It has been a delightful spate of days and I have needed to pull on a sweater first thing in the morning before I amble outside with Frankie for his morning constitutional. Yummm... is there a better feeling than those first "sweater days" of late summer?
- [Welcome September | 2025](https://askatknits.com/2025/09/02/welcome-september-2025/) - September showed up right on schedule, and lasted a whole month. — Jenny Wingfield Hello September... right on time again! I am old enough to remember when September was my least favorite month. Sad endings and beginnings... The end of summer reading and the beginning of school... sigh. It is almost comical how having children changes
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.27.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/08/27/unraveled-wednesday-8-27-25/) - Greetings dearest Unraveler's and Happy Last Wednesday in August! I must confess, there has been a good deal of unraveling in my knitting life this week... sigh. I am working on the first "Flock" sweater and have been struggling... mightily!! My struggles are all around the first and last sheep in the sweater yoke. I
- [Yutori: Life in the Grey Areas | August 2025](https://askatknits.com/2025/08/25/yutori-life-in-the-grey-areas-august-2025/) - Greetings fellow word journeyer's and welcome to the August update! Have you reached the "downhill" point with your word yet? Are you merrily coasting along? Or was August a struggle for you... like it was for me? Whatever this month was for you, I am so glad you are here! The link up is at
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 8.21.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/08/21/a-gathering-of-poetry-8-21-25/) - There are some too many days when the overwhelms of the world are so heavy I can't even manage to open a book of poetry for a moment of respite. In these moments, the best thing I can do is to step outside for a moment or ten... even in the heat, even in the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.20.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/08/20/unraveled-wednesday-8-20-25/) - Greetings dearest Unraveler's! I have a second baby blanket finished!! I am quite happy with both of them and will be weaving in the ends later today so they can have a bit of a bath and then a tumble dry. I will be casting on this morning for my first Welcome to the Flock
- [Tiny Needle... Counting Edition | 8.19.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/08/19/tiny-needle-counting-edition-8-19-25/) - It's been very slow stitching week at my house... very, very slow! One would think that a basic shape like the double doors of the spring "house" would be one of the easiest bits of the entire project. Ha... it might be if the stitcher could count correctly! (and gentle readers... that is a big
- [Sometimes Monday | 8.18.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/08/18/sometimes-monday-8-18-25/) - August rain: the best of summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. — Sylvia Plath There has been some August rain recently here in the South Hills of Pittsburgh...which has been extremely welcome because things are dry, dry, dry. August also dramatically takes away daylight... we lose 70 minutes
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.13.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/08/13/unraveled-wednesday-8-13-25/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday! I confess it makes me the tiniest bit happy that we are almost halfway through August! The yard has gone from green and growing to something quite the opposite of that... it is brown and quite crunchy to walk on! And I am now rising long before the sun
- [Tiny Needle Tuesday | 8.12.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/08/12/tiny-needle-tuesday-8-12-25/) - First, I would like to thank you all for your good wishes with my procedures yesterday. I am so fortunate to have such a fantastic gastroenterologist, Dr. Cho. She is incredibly amazing and I appreciate her so much. I don't have any news to share, but she took two biopsies - one from my throat
- [Sometimes Monday | 8.11.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/08/11/sometimes-monday-8-11-25/) - August is sure Augusting! The warm hot weather and the humidity are back with a vengeance. I am doing my best to avoid it... early morning walks and then mostly hibernating in the AC. Bonus, I can return to eating real food this week! Woot! Hello all the veggies and salads! I am planning to
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.6.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/08/06/unraveled-wednesday-8-6-25/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy First Wednesday of August! First, thank you all so much for the tips you shared last week about weaving in cotton ends. I begin that process soon but for now my focus is on Blanket No. Two, which is underway... barely, but I have started it. I ordered some Knitpicks
- [Tiny Needle Tuesday | 8.5.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/08/05/tiny-needle-tuesday-8-5-25/) - Hello and Happy Tuesday! The moderate temperatures sans humidity continue here in the South Hills of Pittsburgh... I am hoping these days stick around but the forecast tells me that is not likely, sigh. I did make process on the windows with their delightful little window boxes this week. I have one top window to
- [Hello, August | 8.3.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/08/04/hello-august-8-3-25/) - If one could "order up" a weekend, it would have been like the weekend we just had! Not a lick of humidity in the air so I opened the windows and let August in! Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August. — Denise Levertov August is the month of slow start mornings... right now the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.30.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/07/30/unraveled-wednesday-7-30-25/) - Greetings dearest Unravelers and Happy Last Wednesday of July! Was it just me or did this month have two distinct qualities... the fast month ever and... at the same time... the slowest month ever! I am daily trying to stay in the moment each day... not always easy to do when the the fire hose
- [Tiny Needle Tuesday | 7.29.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/07/29/tiny-needle-tuesday-7-29-25/) - Hello everyone! I am joining Vera's Tiny Needle Tuesday's because... I did a thing. Yes, I bought a set of not one, but FOUR cross stitch kits... and you might be wondering why... Well, my daughter, Heidi, has the perfect spot in her kitchen for them and has been talking about what "might" fit there...so
- [Yutori... live the questions | July 2025](https://askatknits.com/2025/07/28/yutori-live-the-questions-july-2025/) - Welcome dear friends! We have arrived at the last Monday of July... the day we all share our updates with how our word showed up for us, how we focused on our word (or not... it is very okay if you did not think about your word!) I had some unexpected surprises this month and
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.23.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/07/23/unraveled-wednesday-7-23-25/) - Greetings Gentle Unraveler's! After a brief reprieve of the heat and humidity on Tuesday, the temps will be soaring again starting today. Sigh. But, it is still July and I have finished my Ocean Waves Cowl and it has had a nice little soak and will now be tucked away for autumn! Of course, there
- [Sometimes Monday... and a reminder! | 7.21.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/07/21/sometimes-monday-and-a-reminder-7-21-25/) - As summer continues to be warm and muggy I am trying to stay in the present rather than dreaming of autumn. But the struggle is real! I really am over the constant hum of the AC... and, more honestly, I am so over the AC is running all the time electric bills! I do have
- [A Gathering of Poetry | July 2025](https://askatknits.com/2025/07/17/a-gathering-of-poetry-july-2025/) - I have been focused on finding gratitudes this week and as Thursday arrives it seems that when I look for things to be grateful for...they are everywhere. The act of seeking out gratitude has also had the most delightful impact on my attitude. I stumbled across the poem I am sharing today earlier this month,
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.16.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/07/16/unraveled-wednesday-7-16-25/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday! My gratitude-seeking has continued this week and, thankfully, there is always so much to be grateful for with making and reading! I discovered last week that (almost) mindless stockinette is not the best project when you need to keep your mind occupied. Yes, I have knit exactly nothing on
- [Sometimes Monday | 7.14.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/07/14/sometimes-monday-7-14-25/) - Is for finding gratitude... Thank you so much for all your thoughts and well wishes for me last week. Gratitude Number One... I am so thankful for all of you! Not only was it a "test-a-thon" of a week... I was also tested with the road construction! Yes, if you are in Pittsburgh and you
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.2.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/07/02/unraveled-wednesday-7-2-25/) - Greetings dearest Unravelers and welcome to July! Whew, summer is just moving right along isn't it? I blinked and June was done! So perhaps less blinking in July... lol. Once we exited spring, summer came roaring in with heat and humidity... I don't even want to think about how much the electricity bill will be
- [Yutori: Circling Back | June 2025](https://askatknits.com/2025/06/30/yutori-circling-back-june-2025/) - Greetings fellow OLW friends and welcome to the June update! I hope that all of you had a most amazing month as you contemplated your word and you will find the link up at the bottom of this post! Little did I know when I began June and my "plan" for Yutori this month how
- [A bit of summer RIFFing | 6.27.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/06/27/a-bit-of-summer-riffing-6-27-25/) - Hello gentle readers, Summer arrived with a vengeance... the week... and the heat dome have done their best... and while I am still here, I am disappointed, frustrated, and more than a little depressed. So I apologize in advance for this post... sometimes bright and cheery is not possible. Resigned — I shared the news
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.25.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/06/25/unraveled-wednesday-6-25-25/) - Greetings Gentle Unravelers! This is the final Wednesday in June and one that here in the Pittsburgh area that continues under a heat advisory. Yes, summer arrived and she brought all the heat and humidity she could carry. Thanks... really, thanks so much... not! I know that insane temperatures and knitting with wool seems an
- [In My Backyard (and a OLW reminder) | Spring 2025](https://askatknits.com/2025/06/23/in-my-backyard-spring-and-a-olw-reminder-2025/) - When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 6.19.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/06/19/a-gathering-of-poetry-6-19-25/) - This month, I actually was ready for us to all gather and share some poetry! Proof that if you actually put something on your calendar you might actually remember it! Ha! I first heard this poem on the Slowdown Podcast several years ago and it has been on my mind for painfully obvious reasons. So
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.18.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/06/18/unraveled-wednesday-6-18-25/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's! If you are participating in The Great Mulch Watch... the garden beds still don't have any new mulch. Sigh. I am not holding my breath for any mulch deliveries before Friday... so yes, I will likely have to weed a bit in the sauna that outside has become! If you were anxiously
- [Sometimes Monday | 6.16.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/06/16/sometimes-monday-6-16-25/) - ...arrives with lots of weekend "loose ends." Sigh. The weather impeded the mulch delivery and the clothes line installation. It looks like rain could be happening at any moment this morning so I doubt these things will be coming today. But the weather did facilitate lots of "making" time! I finished my Alabama Chanin sampler
- [It's Friday...the thirteenth! | 6.13.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/06/13/its-friday-the-thirteenth-6-13-25/) - So... I am the least superstitious person ever... but I did a bit of a double take when I typed out the date but not for the reason you'd think. We are almost halfway through June... sigh. Since I spent my year with a timely focus I have come to appreciate so much all the beauty
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.11.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/06/11/unraveled-wednesday-6-11-25/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy almost mid-month Wednesday! I think that Saturday we will have mulch and (fingers crossed) a clothesline! I am most excited about both things, especially the mulch because maybe it will deter the damned weeds which are like they are on steroids with all this rain. If this weather continues, I
- [Sometimes Monday | 6.9.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/06/09/sometimes-monday-6-9-25/) - After a very rainy, steamy, warm weekend... it seems that summer weather is upon us. The second wave of allium are about to burst open, the bee balm is nearly five feet tall, the lavender has exploded, and the weeds are taking advantage of the rain and each morning I feel a bit more like
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.4.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/06/04/unraveled-wednesday-6-4-25/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's and happy Wednesday! We have jumped headlong into warmer weather... so a winter coat for my walk on Sunday and the AC on by Tuesday! I am sad winding down spring... I have savored every day of it this year! And even though warmer weather has arrived, I am still slowly adding a
- [Hello, June | 6.2.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/06/02/hello-june-6-2-25/) - What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. — Gertrude Jekyll This is such a perfect explanation of June... fresh, green, and yes... young.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.28.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/05/28/unraveled-wednesday-5-28-25/) - Hello dear Unravelers and Happy Last Wednesday of May! The month seemed to race by until these last two weeks... and I am thankful for that. I think it only feels that way because the weather has been quite wet and cold recently, although we did have bright sunny days over the weekend! I am
- [Yutori: Waiting | May 2025](https://askatknits.com/2025/05/26/yutori-waiting-may-2025/) - Welcome everyone who has an update to share for May! We are five months into our words and I am hoping that this month you are finding unexpected things with your word! An "ah-ha" moment or two perhaps! The link up is at the end of this post and I am eager to see how
- [TGIF | 5.23.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/05/23/tgif-5-23-25/) - It has been A Week here in the south hills of Pittsburgh... rain... so much rain. All day rains, overnight rains, misting rains, hard-rapping-on-the-window rains, and... of course... rain that makes the weeds grow like mad! Sigh. It has been eons since I checked in with a TGIF post... so let's get started! Treasuring —
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.21.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/05/21/unraveled-wednesday-5-21-25/) - Greetings Gentle Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday! It is a Fantastic Finish Post for me today! First up... The Incredible Swirly Vest! I love it so, so much! I think this will get LOTS of wear and maybe even this week as temps are hovering in the 60's here! Now, how about some pattern details... first
- [Sometimes Monday | 5.19.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/05/19/sometimes-monday-5-19-25/) - is for finding one's way back! Several years ago... and I mean several several's... I was a paying member of Robin Long's online Pilates workouts. And then I stopped being a paying member and I remember thinking, I know all the "moves" and I can just keep going on my own. I think you all know
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 5.15.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/05/15/a-gathering-of-poetry-5-15-25/) - Recently, I find myself leaning into poetry more and more. I have been using it as the "precursor" to my meditation times. It helps settle me, still my mind, and is working as the perfect bridge to 15-ish minutes of focusing on nothing but my breathing. I love to find connections in poems... and recently
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.14.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/05/14/unraveled-wednesday-5-14-25/) - Greetings dearest Unravelers! As I type this I am wondering how on earth we are almost halfway through May?! It makes me sad, I am enjoying these gentle spring days. I had hopes of starting on sewing my pages together, but with an abundance of rain forecast for this week my garden beds took precedence!
- [Sometimes Monday | 5.12.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/05/12/sometimes-monday-5-12-25/) - Greetings everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. The weather was perfect here in my neighborhood... cool mornings that invited one to pull on a sweater easing into warm afternoons... a celebration of perfect spring days! I let Steve know that we are "opening the porch" next weekend. He was not thrilled! Now
- [Friday Find | 5.9.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/05/09/friday-find-5-9-25/) - Mother's Day weekend is one that for many is bittersweet... but this poem struck me as motherhood perfection. I first heard it on the Poetry For All podcast yesterday and after hearing it I immediately purchased the Kindle copy of Dorianne Laux's Life On Earth: Poems. Dorianne Laux is a new-to-me poet, but this poem
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.7.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/05/07/unraveled-wednesday-5-7-25/) - Greetings and Happy Wednesday Gentle Unraveler's! It feels like it's been forever since we all gathered together to share what we are making and reading! I want to thank you all for your kind thoughts about our power being out. The fact is, this is a frustration but not a hardship. We can easily go
- [Sometimes Monday | 5.5.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/05/05/sometimes-monday-5-5-25/) - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it
- [A Gathering of Poetry: Adrienne Rich | 4.24.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/04/24/a-gathering-of-poetry-adrienne-rich-4-24-25/) - Greetings everyone and Happy Thursday! Today is the last Thursday of National Poetry Month, sigh. It is truly my favorite month of the year and I so enjoy the influx of poetry that appears all over during the month! Today we are all sharing a poem from a very prolific poet, Adrienne Rich, and I
- [Yutori: Holding Space | April 2025](https://askatknits.com/2025/04/28/yutori-holding-space-april-2025/) - Greetings Fellow Word Guru's! I have written this post "earlier" (last week) as I am in Erie on vacation right now. April... our fourth month with our word and hopefully we are finding our feet firmly on the path with our word. Or, are you like me, struggling a bit this month? Either place is
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.23.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/04/23/unraveled-wednesday-4-23-25/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday to you all! I don't know about you, but this has been the most delightful spring I can remember in some time! Yes, we have had up and down temperatures, but (fingers crossed) no freezing rain or snow have mucked things up here in the Pittsburgh area! Temperatures, most
- [Sometimes Monday | 4.21.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/04/21/sometimes-monday-4-21-25/) - I am happy to report that I almost have two pairs of pants complete... they are each just a bit of elastic and a hem away from completion! In fact, I am nearing completion on several things... tomorrow I begin the last page of my 100 Day Stitch Book. I am nearing the end of
- [A Gathering of Poetry: Aging | 4.17.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/04/17/a-gathering-of-poetry-aging-4-17-25/) - Welcome to the Third Thursday of National Poetry Month and I am again joining Bonny, Kym, Sarah, and Vera! Today is all about aging! Which for me has some days with lots of reminders and others with hardly any at all... but I think my most worrisome part of aging is memory! And yes, it
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.16.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/04/16/unraveled-wednesday-4-16-25/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday! I am settled well into April and appreciating the battle between seasons as the temperatures fluctuate between warm spring days and ones where I need my winter coat and a hat as I journey outside! But... those daffodil bulbs I planted last fall all have buds on them! A
- [Sometimes Monday | 4.14.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/04/14/sometimes-monday-4-14-25/) - ...is for giving myself a bit of a "kick in the pants" to get some things done! For the past two weeks I have put "sew pants" on my list for the week... and for two weeks that item has remained undone. Sewing those pants is on my list again this week... but I am
- [A Poem For Your Pocket | 4.10.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/04/10/a-poem-for-your-pocket-4-10-25/) - Hello and Happy Poem In Your Pocket Day! I am joining Bonny again today to share a poem with you all! I love little poems that can fit in your pocket... there for when you need them! I have a "pocket" in my planner that holds little poems... and a zippered pocket in my purse
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.9.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/04/09/unraveled-wednesday-4-9-25/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday to you all! I have reached the part of my vest knitting where the realization that I don't have enough yarn has set in...big time. I have begun the last "swirl" repeat to go before dividing for the arms and my ball of yarn is very small...and I'd really
- [Sometimes Monday | 4.7.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/04/07/sometimes-monday-4-7-25/) - is for sharing some gratitudes. Gratitude number one... two weeks ago a my ex's wife died very, very unexpectedly. She and I had a complicated relationship, but she was an amazing step-mother/grandmother and Vivi, especially, has been struggling with this loss and I really did not know what to do to help... so I reached
- [A Gathering of Poetry: Hope | 4.3.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/04/03/a-gathering-of-poetry-hope-4-3-25/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month! And once again, I am joining with Kym, Bonny, Sarah, and sending a huge welcome to Vera who is joining us this year! We will all be sharing some poetry on Thursday's this month! This week our focus is on poems that bring hope (because we all could use an
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.2.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/04/02/unraveled-wednesday-4-2-25/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy April to you all! I hope that you are not sick of hearing from me because I will be back tomorrow with another post this week! I know... we live in crazy times if I am blogging for four days in a row! But April brings National Poetry Month and
- [Hello, April! | 4.1.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/04/01/hello-april-4-1-25/) - Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. – Bishop Reginald Heber Hello dear April and welcome! What a glorious month April is... one that ushers in the return of many things and new beginnings of others! Yes, it is a month where the outdoors beckons with days of milder weather as we transition
- [Yutori: Making Space | March 2025](https://askatknits.com/2025/03/31/yutori-making-space-march-2025/) - I would like to welcome you all to the monthly check in with our words! And I am hoping that you all had the best month with your word! At the end of this post you will find the link up to share your post! Some changes look negative on the surface but you will
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.26.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/03/26/unraveled-wednesday-3-26-25/) - Greetings dear Unravelers, This post finds us at the last Wednesday of March... and I am wondering where did the month go? It does not seem possible that the month is almost over but the calendar tells me that next week is April! I do indeed have a finished vest that I have worn A
- [Sometimes Monday (and a reminder!) | 3.24.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/03/24/sometimes-monday-and-a-reminder-3-24-25/) - When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future. ― Aberjhani, Collected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black I went to The
- [In My Backyard | Winter '24-'25](https://askatknits.com/2025/03/21/in-my-backyard-winter-24-25/) - You can't get too much winter in the winter. — Robert Frost Amen, Mr. Frost. Amen! It was the most glorious winter season that I can remember in a long time. We had snow that actually stayed on the ground for more than a day or two. It was perfectly cold! Sweater weather! Hat and
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 3.20.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/03/20/a-gathering-of-poetry-3-20-25/) - I don't know about you all, but these days poetry is the lifeline that is keeping me sane. As the tsunami grows larger, I read more poetry. I don't want to imagine what my life would be like if there was no poetry... thankfully, that will never be a reality because poets have me more
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.18.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/03/19/unraveled-wednesday-3-18-25/) - Greetings gentle Unravelers! It is my favorite day of the week!! I have more progress on my vest! I almost have the body almost completed...I just have half a dozen rounds of ribbing to go and then I will begin the arm hole ribbing! I am not thinking about the neck yet but all too
- [Sometimes Monday | 3.17.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/03/17/sometimes-monday-3-17-25/) - Is all about distractions. I don't know about you, but I am very much in need of distractions right now! Distraction One... I found some scraps of watercolor paper, so I broke them down into eight very small pieces. My plan... a little series of "three color" paintings. My three colors: Daniel Smith Quinacridone Burnt
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.12.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/03/12/unraveled-wednesday-3-12-25/) - Greetings gentle Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday! March weather certainly has been very March-like this year and I am most pleased! We have had sunshine, some rain, some snow, lots of wind, and even temps that neared 70 in the first 12 days of this month! I am not the only one pleased with this weather...
- [Sometimes Monday | 3.10.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/03/10/sometimes-monday-3-10-25/) - ... anyone else finding the struggle to be all too real as we "sprung ahead" an hour Saturday night? Yesterday I missed the light on my once again dark o'clock walk with Frankie. And said walk was back to silence... no birdsong to cheer us on our way because it was too dark! This mornings
- [Some Friday Thoughts (with a find or two included) | 3.7.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/03/07/some-friday-thoughts-with-a-find-or-two-included/) - Like many of you, I am more than a bit overwhelmed by the Tsunami of Chaos and Doom that daily causes alarms to go off in my brain. Overwhelmed seems a bit of an understatement... but I am so overwhelmed (and this is with me avoiding all the news, any "breaking" news updates, and selectively
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.5.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/03/05/unraveled-wednesday-3-5-25/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday! Imagine my surprise when a simple spa soak (with a splash of Eucalan) removed every kink from my reclaimed yarn! That has never happened to me before... I always have to "weight" the yarn (I use a hanger... its weight is enough "weight" without stretching the yarn out) but
- [Hello, March! | 3.3.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/03/03/hello-march-3-3-25/) - How terrible a time is the beginning of March. In a month there will be daffodils and the sudden blossoming of orchards, but you wouldn't know it now. You have to take spring on blind faith. — Beatriz Williams March certainly roared in like a lion here in the south hills of Pittsburgh... for a
- [The (dis)Comfort of Aging | 2.28.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/02/28/the-discomfort-of-aging-2-28-25/) - It has been A Week, friends. A Week. Let's start with the highs, shall we? On Monday afternoon, I had my first visit with the delightful Dr. Napoe. She is a urogynocologist and I can't believe my good fortune in meeting with her. Dr. Napoe is a most excellent listener and the first thing she
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.26.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/02/26/unraveled-wednesday-2-26-25/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and happy last Wednesday of February! It has been a month, hasn't it? February in Pittsburgh contained almost all the seasons... we had rain and warmer temps and we had a good bit of snow and the month is ending on a rather warm week (we are heading to the 50's today
- [Seeking Silence | February 2025](https://askatknits.com/2025/02/24/seeking-silence-february-2025/) - Dear February... for such a short month you sure are feeling incredibly long! Yes, this month I began to work on what I have now confirmed will be the most challenging aspect of Yutori...at least for me... the embrace of silence. Never miss a good chance to shut up! — Will Rogers Truer words were
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 2.20.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/02/20/a-gathering-of-poetry-2-20-25/) - Confession time... I completely forgot today is the Third Thursday, so I have hastily gathered a poem to share with you all today. Really, it's a poem for me especially because I sure as hell could use a bit more kindness in my days. And of course, a poet must have had the same struggles...
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.19.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/02/19/unraveled-wednesday-2-19-25/) - Greetings Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday! February is moving along... but not fast enough... sigh. I am so over the never-ending overload of BS... days that feel like weeks... and trying to stay focused on something positive seems a Herculean effort most days. Thank goodness for making! Stitching continues to bring me joy... I have another
- [Sometimes Monday | 2.17.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/02/17/sometimes-monday-2-17-25/) - Brings a reminder that winter is not over... sigh. My flooded backyard is now a snow-covered ice rink... and it is very slippery in spots! But everything is covered with a blanket of fresh snow and it looks beautiful right up until you have to bundle up to head out in it that is! Wind
- [Currently | 2.14.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/02/14/currently-2-14-25/) - It has been more than a minute since I sat down and pulled together a snapshot of my life currently and this week seems like the perfect time to do that! For a short month, February is full (and feeling achingly long!) Knitting — the button band on my Bolin Cardigan... after several fits and
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.12.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/02/12/unraveled-wednesday-2-12-25/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! Drumroll please...I have departed Sleeve Island! Button Band Alley up next! Actually, I started my trek down Button Band Alley Sunday night after my departure from Sleeve Island but then a couple of things happened... Philly scored (again) and I wondered if knitting on this button band would be infinitely
- [Sometimes Monday | 2.10.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/02/10/sometimes-monday-2-10-25/) - Is for finding community! Like all of you, I have been struggling with all the stuff that is overwhelming us daily. I have spent more time "doomscrolling" than is healthy but on one of my recent avoidance sessions Professor Crunk, aka Professor Brittney Cooper, arrived and she turned on a lightbulb for me... a big,
- [Friday Life Savers | 2.7.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/02/07/friday-life-savers-2-7-25/) - Oh, Friday... I am ever so glad you are here! It has been a full week... a bit too full perhaps and next week does not look much better! But even in "not busy" weeks it is so easy to get bogged down by the Tsunami of Chaos that is barreling down on us each
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.5.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/02/05/unraveled-wednesday-2-5-25/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! My doctors appointment on Monday did indeed result in more appointments (one surprised me with the urgency... I see specialist #1, the ENT, next Tuesday. I assumed my stomach issues would mean I would see a gastroenterologist...but nope, I am seeing an ENT because I am having some major
- [Hello, February! | 2.3.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/02/03/hello-february-2-3-25/) - February is the border between winter and spring. — Terri Guillemets And that border became very visible in my backyard over the weekend! Why you ask? Well, those daffodil bulbs I planted 2 years ago... colossally huge daffs... are poking leaves through the dirt and well-decayed mulch! Likewise, the allium's that the rabbits love have
- [Avoiding the Tsunami of Chaos | 1.31.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/01/31/avoiding-the-tsunami-of-chaos-1-31-25/) - In the year that has crept past since 1/20/25, I have found solace in poetry... poetry I have been reading aloud to myself (and the company of unknowns who are listening to me.) This morning, serendipitously, a Maggie Smith poem was "up"... and it was full of the exact reminders I needed to continue on
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.29.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/01/29/unraveled-wednesday-1-29-25/) - Greetings Gentle Unravelers and Happy Lunar New Year! Being a person with an overly large case of ophidiophobia... I am not certain I will be celebrating "the year of the snake" but I did not know that this year is considered "transitional" and prepares the way to the year of the dragon, which is next
- [Yutori... a beginning | January 2025](https://askatknits.com/2025/01/27/yutori-a-beginning-january-2025/) - Welcome to all of you who are focusing on a word for the year... I hope that your January start helped your settle your feet on the path of your year and even it the path is bumpy now, I know it will smooth out soon! The link up is at the bottom of this
- [Finding Hope | 1.24.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/01/24/finding-hope-1-24-25/) - I am taking a page from Kym and will be occasionally sharing the hope I find in my days with you all... perhaps my hope will inspire your hope as Kym's hope has certainly inspired mine! Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. — Martin Luther This morning's 15°F felt downright
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.22.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/01/22/unraveled-wednesday-1-22-25/) - Greetings dear Unravelers... I hope you are all bundled in all the knits today! I am because it is beyond bitterly cold here! First, a bit of a Frankie update... surgery did absolutely not go as planned on Monday morning. One testicle was exactly where it should be...the other, not so much so he has
- [Sometimes Monday | 1.20.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/01/20/sometimes-monday-1-20-25/) - We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. — Martin Luther King Jr. Today I am reminding myself that while disappointment exists... it is absolutely finite, yet hope is an infinite well and I will be in that infinite well of hope today with Michelle Obama... the woman who reminded us 'No' is
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 1.16.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/01/16/a-gathering-of-poetry-1-16-25/) - If ever there was a month for poetry it is January. We have had some very winter-like weather this month and for that I am truly grateful. While I might not appreciate the snow and cold, nature surely does. I look around my snow-covered back yard and all my bulbs tucked safely away under the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.15.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/01/15/unraveled-wednesday-1-15-25/) - Greetings dearest Unravelers! We are halfway through January... the days are just steadily marching along. I have some finishes to share with you all today and a new beginning! Or should I say a finished project and a "technically finished, but still lacking" project. First up... the Marled Sequence Scarf! This scarf is entirely based
- [Sometimes Monday | 1.13.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/01/13/sometimes-monday-1-13-25/) - Is for reveling in winter! Yes, we have snow! Yes, it is cold! (although this morning's 31°F felt downright balmy!!) I cannot tell you the last time we here had snow that stayed on the ground for more than a day or two! It is simply delightful. Winter might be even more delightful because I
- [Remembering | 1.10.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/01/10/remembering-1-10-25/) - It's been A Week, hasn't it? In an attempt to keep my Clean Out List in my focus... I started with my closet yesterday while I watched the funeral service for President Carter. I was percolating along at a pretty good clip until I discovered a box of loose photographs on the back of the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.8.24](https://askatknits.com/2025/01/08/unraveled-wednesday-1-8-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! One week into January has brought winter racing in! Yes, we have snow and cold! And that makes me happy because it is exactly what January is supposed to be! My son and daughter-in-law gave me a "Rolife Book Nook & Wonderland Garden House" for Christmas and I have
- [Hello, January | 1.6.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/01/06/hello-january-1-6-25/) - JANUARY, The first month of the year, A perfect time to start all over again, Changing energies and deserting old moods, New beginnings, new attitudes ― Charmaine J Forde And perhaps even knowing what actual day it is! Yes, hello, January! Yes, I have spent the last two weeks in a "haze of days" where
- [Welcome to Yutori | 1.3.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/01/03/welcome-to-yutori-1-3-25/) - As I said here, it is so sad that English words can be so lacking... However, I aim to remedy that this year with my word choice! (or did this word choose me??) I discovered Yutori last July when I was spending some time thinking about companion words for time. Of all the words I
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.1.25](https://askatknits.com/2025/01/01/unraveled-wednesday-1-1-25/) - Happy New Year Gentle Unravelers! As promised, this week is all about my reading last year. It was a good year... sort of. As I explained earlier as I was doing my year-end review of 2024... I discovered that I did not remember much about a lot of the books I read so I am
- [A Year of Time | December 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/12/30/a-year-of-time-december-2024/) - All this apparently began when matter and light decoupled. What were they arguing about, I wonder? The future? It’s always the future isn’t it? An excerpt from David Hinton's essay/poem on time in Emergence Magazine volume V: Time It has been such a magnificent year. Truly. Magnificent. This word first came tapping on my window
- [Sometimes Monday | 12.23.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/12/23/sometimes-monday-12-23-24/) - To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold. — Aristotle The temperatures outside are absolutely telling me it is winter, but the beauty of snowflakes falling almost all day on Saturday were the greatest delight! They changed from little snow pellets to the most perfect lacy flakes.
- [A Gathering of Poetry | December 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/12/19/a-gathering-of-poetry-december-2024/) - Today, I am joining Bonny and friends today to share a bit of poetry. I *usually* read a couple of poems each morning, but a certain small someone has drastically altered my morning routine and I fell away from sitting with the quiet and reading a poem either with my eyes... or out loud to
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.18.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/12/18/unraveled-wednesday-12-18-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers! We have arrived at the very last Unraveled post of 2024! Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. — Paul Theroux Welcome to my 2024 Knitting Making Review... and yes, that quote is perfect for remembering what I made this year and for doing some preparation for how I want to
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.30.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/10/30/unraveled-wednesday-10-30-24/) - Greetings Gentle Unravelers! It has been a week with not much making at all. I have not knit a stitch at all, despite putting knitting as a goal for this week, why? Because it provides a good mental health break! I have managed to stitch a solitary leaf at the end of the day! Autumn
- [Sometimes Monday | 12.16.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/12/16/sometimes-monday-12-16-24/) - Is for celebrating simplicity. (and it does not get much simpler than my holiday decorating this year! Ha! Frankie-proof FTW!) This is it, gentler readers, holiday crunch time has arrived! In my house, that means to break out the flour and sugar and do a bit of baking! I hope your week is less you
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.11.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/12/11/unraveled-wednesday-12-11-24/) - Greetings Dear Unraveler's!! December is flowing along... whether I want it to or not! BUT! I have all but one package "en route" to their respective destinations. That one lingering package waiting to be packed up but I have to finish my daughter and son-in-law's anniversary card! My goal is for this to all be
- [Sometimes Monday | 12.9.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/12/09/sometimes-monday-12-9-24/) - Brings a reprieve! That's right... temps the next few days are heading into the mild 50's! And that means that I can get all my hyacinth bulbs tucked away for the winter AND I can get the holiday lights up outside! It is even raining, so those bulbs will get a nice drink for their
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.4.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/12/04/unraveled-wednesday-12-4-24/) - I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God Greetings dearest Unravelers and Happy Rilke's Birthday! That's right, 149 years ago my beloved Rilke was born! His wisdom and poetry have stood well to time. I find him so
- [Hello December | 12.2.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/12/02/hello-december-12-2-24/) - It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready. — Sarah Kay Hello December, How are you here already?! I mean, I swear it was just July! I know that I might have silently wished for a cool December breeze on one of the many hot July afternoons... but really, it was just a passing thought!
- [A Planner Extravaganza | 11.29.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/11/29/a-planner-extravaganza-11-29-24/) - Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. — Gloria Steinem Amen, dear Gloria, AMEN! I have used the same planner for over 10 years. It is a system that has served me well, I have added to it as I entertained new
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.27.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/11/27/unraveled-wednesday-11-27-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers! In a week when most of the making is likely happening in the kitchen... I do have a spot of actual knitting content to share! With a blast of wintry weather heading our way, I knew that wee Franklin would need a bigger sweater to stay warm! He is still growing in
- [Thinking about time | November](https://askatknits.com/2024/11/25/thinking-about-time-november/) - We may try to think of you, Time, but you, Time, think of yourself continually, without need of imagination, assistance, or witness. — Jane Hirshfield, an excerpt of her poem Time Thinks of Time* Time was a thief this month... or perhaps it was its typical selfish-self... as the minutes, hours, days, and weeks raced
- [A Gathering of Poetry | November 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/11/21/a-gathering-of-poetry-november-2024/) - I contemplated skipping the poetry today... because, I completely forgot about it. But I pulled out the poetry book I am reading this year (although, I have not read a lick of poetry from it since you know who arrived!) and serendipitously, it fell open to the poem I am sharing today. A few more
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.20.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/11/20/unraveled-wednesday-11-20-24/) - Greetings Gentle Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday! First, I apologize for the low light photo... it was a rainy day with little to no light here. But we desperately need the rain, so I am not complaining. There has been a bit of making this week... thank goodness! As you can see, I have made some
- [Sometimes Monday | 11.18.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/11/18/sometimes-monday-11-18-24/) - Is about how much time isn't left.... I am very much feeling the fleeting time of the days as they race past me. They are moving at Usian Bolt speed... I blink and the day is over. Then I look at the calendar and count that there are only 6 weeks left in the year
- [Finding Humor | 11.15.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/11/15/finding-humor-11-15-24/) - He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. ― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche It has most certainly been A Week. Time has taken on an entirely new concept these days... the idea that a week could feel like a year was born in a week like this one.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.13.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/11/13/unraveled-wednesday-11-13-24/) - Greetings Gentle Unraveler's and Happy (??) Wednesday. This is our time to gather to share our making and reading. This week the thing that is most unraveled is me... and I am in the process of rewinding myself. This week is slightly better than last week when I really felt like a giant pile of
- [Sometimes Monday... | 11.11.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/11/11/sometimes-monday-11-11-24/) - ...is for trying to ease back into "normalcy." Whatever that is... although from my perspective, it is very disconcerting. I have very much unplugged from all media since last Wednesday. I had not read or listened or watched any news, not even NPR's brief Morning Edition podcast. But I tried to ease myself back in
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.6.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/11/06/unraveled-wednesday-11-6-24/) - Greetings Unraveler's and what the actual eff... I had a very different beginning that I changed at roughly 1:30AM. I confess to being more than a bit dumbfounded and truly disgusted at what looks like the outcome yesterday. I will post this but honestly everything I wrote below rings hollow to me. Read on or
- [Hello, November! | 11.4.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/11/04/hello-november-11-4-24/) - The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July. — Henry David Thoreau I love November light especially in the early mornings at sunrise, which have been so lovely recently, I just love
- [Friday Finds | 11.1.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/11/01/friday-finds-11-1-24/) - I know I said I would not likely be back this week... but here I am with what I hope will provide something's calming... something's perfectly distracting... something's maybe to get you over the hump of angst that is flowing through the air. I listened to these podcasts this week and they were all amazing...
- [Time Keeping or Keeping Time | October 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/10/28/time-keeping-or-keeping-time-october-2024/) - October has always been my favorite month. I love the weather... it eases back and forth between summer and autumn. The sun is at the most glorious angle and it lights up everything with the most beautiful glow. And even if there is a grey day, the trees provide the most beautiful light! So this
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.23.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/10/23/unraveled-wednesday-10-23-24/) - Greetings dearest Unravelers and Happy Wednesday!! A break from knitting can do a body good! I came home from vacation with a fire inside me to get that lingering gnome finished! I still had miles... and miles... and miles to go on the body. This is one HUGE gnome. This will be the largest gnome
- [Sometimes Monday | 10.21.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/10/21/sometimes-monday-10-21-24/) - Means "back to the grind"... sigh. But rather than tackle the normality of Monday, I thought I'd share some highlights of our week in Erie! We had such a delightful time away... it was a week of each new day striving to be better than the day before! We had "layer" weather, which I love.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.9.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/10/09/unraveled-wednesday-10-9-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and happy Wednesday! This week, I reminded myself that perseverance... one stitch after another, one row after another... means completed objects. And this week, that was the balm I needed... the perseverance balm. I finished my September Socks... yes, well into October, but done is done! They need a bit of a
- [Sometimes Monday | 10.7.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/10/07/sometimes-monday-10-7-24/) - Is for rounding out my "packing list" with some "insurance"... A skein of sock yarn and sock needles Stitching bits and pieces and yes, a warm coat, another hat, and mittens! I added those last bits yesterday when I saw the much chillier than expected forecast for this week. I don't think the vest I
- [Hello, October | 10.4.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/10/04/hello-october-10-4-24/) - In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom. — John Burroughs It is the month I eagerly anticipate all year... my most favorite of all! Although, it feels very off to be delighting in these days
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.2.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/10/02/unraveled-wednesday-10-2-24/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's and happy Wednesday! Every year, when I turn the calendar to October, these words from L.M. Montgomery echo in my head: I am so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. Yes, October is my hearts delight! There is so much to love... the light as the sun comes
- [Burning Time | September](https://askatknits.com/2024/09/30/burning-time-september/) - Time is the fire in which we burn. — Gene Roddenberry I have reached the portion of the year that feels like I am racing against time. The days are growing ever shorter... both in the hours of daylight and what time I might have left to me. How appropriate that the seasonal changes are reminding
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.25.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/09/25/unraveled-wednesday-9-25-24/) - Greetings Dear Unravelers and Happy Last Wednesday of September! The months have reached the point where they just race on... and too darned fast if you ask me! I find it almost impossible that there are less than 100 days left in this year! It's been a slow making week for me... I have knit
- [In My Back Yard | Summer 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/09/23/in-my-back-yard-summer-2024/) - September tries its best to have us forget summer. — Bernard Williams Yesterday, autumn arrived and I am feeling a deep sorrow in my heart at the end of summer... which is the most curious coming from a person who never really liked summer at all. Yes, I am grieving the end of summer. And
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 9.19.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/09/19/a-gathering-of-poetry-9-19-24/) - It seems that my need for poetry this month has been directly tied to the state of the world around us... and so as the world gets uglier, I dive deeper into poetry. Poetry is most frequently a balm for me... a soothing salve that eases the bruises of the day. But sometimes poetry is
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.18.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/09/18/unraveled-wednesday-9-18-24/) - Greetings Gentle Unravelers! September is just flying by and I need to get my fingers in gear if I expect to get the pair of September Socks finished! While I don't have a picture to share, I do have a few thoughts about the Jaywalker pattern... I am remembering now why I have never knit
- [Sometimes Monday | 9.16.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/09/16/sometimes-monday-9-16-24/) - We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost. — Henry Rollins Summer's ghost was alive a well last week... again it was (very) dry with temps climbing into the 80's. But I see signs of change ... signs that things are leaning into
- [September RIFFing | 9.13.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/09/13/september-riffing-9-13-24/) - September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn. — Rowland E. Robinson Happy almost mid-September! This quote... so very true. I love the warmth of the September sun that gives way to a hint of the coming autumn at night! Yes to
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.11.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/09/11/unraveled-wednesday-9-11-24/) - Greetings Gentle Unravelers on this most somber of Wednesday's I am sure, like me, you all remember exactly where you were at 8:14AM EDT in 2001. Today, especially, I think of the 2,977 souls that were lost. A good day to sit in quiet meditation and catch up my stitching... I am a couple days
- [Sometimes Monday | 9.9.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/09/09/sometimes-monday-9-9-24/) - Over the weekend I planned for the future... planning as in ordering bulbs to plant. This is the kind of future planning I think I like best, a colorful promise of delight after a long, brown winter! And that got me thinking about what else is a promise of delight. A big one on my list
- [Friday Finds | 9.6.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/09/06/friday-finds-9-6-24/) - Greetings Everyone and Happy First Friday! It has been a good week... I got my "fall jabs" at Rite Aid on Wednesday and yesterday I was feeling it. I reminded myself that my feeling "icky" meant that my body was working hard on building new fighter t-cells and this morning I was feeling back to
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.4.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/09/04/unraveled-wednesday-9-4-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and welcome to September! https://askatknits.com/wp-admin/edit.phpKnitting season is upon us... and I want to knit all the things! Or at least all the things I should not be knitting! (Like Gnome sweaters and September socks!) Gnatty has had some improvements. A sweater to cover his delightful bulk was knit over the weekend and
- [Hello, September | 9.2.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/09/02/hello-september-9-2-24/) - September is the other January. — Gretchen Rubin Hello Sweet September! You are one of my favorite months and have been for as long as I can remember! I love every thing you bring from the return "normal" schedules to the changes that happen with the weather! So what do I mean by normal? Well,
- [Summer Bucket List... an update | 8.30.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/08/30/summer-bucket-list-an-update-8-30-24/) - Happy last Friday of August, everyone! I know that there are still a few weeks left of summer...but for me, autumn begins when I turn the calendar to September! Way back in May, I created what I thought was a very "doable" bunch of things to try and accomplish over the summer. So how did
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.28.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/08/28/unraveled-wednesday-8-28-24/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's! It is the last Wednesday of August... I know. I blinked and the month was over... even with two uncomfortable days (One month without my sweet Sherman and what would have been his 12th birthday.) I think those days were worse for me because Steve is of the "no more dogs ever
- [Time Flies | August 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/08/26/time-flies-august-2024/) - I thought we were having an earthquake when the Enterprise August hit Warp speed. — Robert Bryndza I hope you will allow me a bit of a tweak in the line from Mr. Bryndza's The Not So Secret Emails of Coco Pinchard! Like the Enterprise looked when Captain Kirk asked Scotty for Warp speed is how
- [A bonus Friday poem | 8.23.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/08/23/a-bonus-friday-poem-8-23-24/) - This week I have not slept a lot! But! The reason is not insomnia... no instead I have watched every minute of the DNC each night. There were so many amazing speakers and last night Madam Vice President was the capstone of the event. (If you missed it, you can watch it here!) However, one
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.21.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/08/21/unraveled-wednesday-8-21-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers! I am short on sleep this week as I am staying up late to soak in every moment happening in Chicago! But all that watching means I have made some excellent headway on knitting projects! I finished my August socks with lots of time to spare and I have a nice fat bottomed
- [Sometimes Monday | 8.19.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/08/19/sometimes-monday-8-19-24/) - Good morning gentle readers and Happy Monday! Today I am sharing a thing... a maker thing Yes... a Makers for Kamala sort of thing! Spread the word! #ImIn Also... Threads is just delightful, if you were wondering! See you all back here on Wednesday!
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 8.15.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/08/15/a-gathering-of-poetry-8-15-24/) - Poetry has been a balm these days... and I have been reading more poetry than I usually do. Yet on Monday when I realized that this week was poetry round up week...well it was a bit of a surprise! And despite the volumes of poetry I have been immersed in I spent a few moments
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.14.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/08/14/unraveled-wednesday-8-14-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy (almost) Mid-August! I have two words for today.... Flying By! As in what this month is doing... at warp speed! And I am feeling a definite loss with no Olympics this week... Paris was spectacular and the athletes were all amazing! So what's a knitter to do when the month
- [Sometimes Monday | 8.12.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/08/12/sometimes-monday-8-12-24/) - Is still full of the energy from Friday's class with Cecelia Campochiaro! Yes, three hours on Friday afternoon have re-invigorated my life! If you ever... EVER... have the chance to take a class that Cecelia teaches, TAKE IT! She is brilliant, her style of teaching is so engaging... she is a deep font of knowledge
- [Bringing the JOY | 8.8.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/08/09/bringing-the-joy-8-8-24/) - I don't know about all of you, but I did not at all realize how heavy the weight of uncertainty was until JOY showed up on July 21, 2024. Now, don't get me wrong... I was 100% voting for President Biden in November and I believed that he would continue on, working tirelessly for all
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.7.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/08/07/unraveled-wednesday-8-7-24/) - Greetings Dear Unravelers! I have one burning question today... how on earth are we already a week into August?! I have been working on a new rhythm to my days and I am struggling quite a bit because Sherman was deeply woven into the fabric of my days. But right now, the most difficult part
- [Hello August | 8.5.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/08/05/hello-august-8-5-24/) - August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. — Sylvia Plath Hello August and Hello Gentle Readers! It is my hope that August holds some (more) rain this month...we've had some but we need quite a bit more in my neighborhood! Welcome to the
- [Vital Friday Finds | 8.2.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/08/02/vital-friday-finds-8-2-24/) - Browser not supported. Visit www.270towin.com In case you missed it, the race is on! In 95 short days, November 5th will be upon us! Yes, we have reached the All Hands On Deck portion of the election cycle! (which I think should NEVER be more than 90 days, but that is just me...) Every election
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.31.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/07/31/unraveled-wednesday-7-31-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Last Day of July! Yes, July... I am very glad to see the end of you... so very glad. For those of you counting... just 8 weeks until autumn arrives. But if you, like me, start thinking fall thoughts right after Labor Day, well... it will be here soon! (Five
- [When time stands still | July 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/07/29/when-time-stands-still-july-2024/) - In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. – Rilke I started this month in one place, ended entirely in another and time is the enemy in each space. July has always been a rough month for me... and this year was no exception. When I
- [Another break](https://askatknits.com/2024/07/24/another-break/) - Sherman crossed the rainbow bridge last night. I will be back... but I am not sure when.
- [Sometimes Monday | 7.22.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/07/22/sometimes-monday-7-22-24/) - Is one where we can hold sadness and celebration in the same breath. Today, I am saddened about President Biden (who might be the greatest president of my lifetime...) and his decision to step aside. Today, I am celebrating the elevation of Vice President Harris to Presidential nominee. I am with her. Joy-FULLY with her!
- [A Gathering of Poetry | July 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/07/18/a-gathering-of-poetry-july-2024/) - With all the chaos of the world right now, it feels like poetry is the only calm of my day. I have been circling back to familiar, comforting words from much loved poets. Today, I thought you might like the same comfort from familiar words so today I am sharing Wendell Berry's The Peace of
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.17.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/07/17/unraveled-wednesday-7-17-24/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday! I rediscovered knitting and have something to show for it! Yes, I have a finished back and a healthy start on the right front... The end is in sight! I have such little bits to go on this sweater! I will absolutely have a new sweater for fall! Yay!
- [Sometimes Monday | 7.15.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/07/15/sometimes-monday-7-15-24/) - Is in need of a great big diversion! We can just let July be July, let the sun hang in the sky, clear your mind of all the things you're waiting on." — Lily Williams I stumbled upon this quote yesterday and that led me to this... feels like the perfect July mantra.... later on!
- [(almost) Mid-July RIFFing | 7.12.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/07/12/almost-mid-july-riffing-7-12-24/) - After a week of unbelievably steamy, hot weather which drove me back to my "indoor" desk... the past two mornings have been a welcome change. Cooler temps and the lack of humidity found me back on my porch... ahhh! (Never fear, that hot, oppressive weather is due back any second now!) All week I have
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.10.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/07/10/unraveled-wednesday-7-10-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! The making has been very varied recently... I think the heat is influencing my making this week as there has been little knitting but I have been focused on doing other crafty things. First up, a wee little poppy painting... I have spent lots of time thinking about what
- [Sometimes Monday... | 7.8.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/07/08/sometimes-monday-7-8-24/) - Last week, I unplugged myself from everything... even knitting. Yes, even knitting... I was in a loop of knit/unknit and there was little comfort in that so I put it aside and brushed off my Sparrow and tuned in to the fiber in my hands. I focused solely on drafting the next little bit of
- [A Much Needed Break | 7.2.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/07/02/a-much-needed-break-7-2-24/) - Deep inside, I expected what happened yesterday... but it still it is shocking. I have no words right now... so I am going to take a bit of a break. I will be back... but probably not this week. Photo by Viktoria Goda
- [Hello, July | 7.1.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/07/01/hello-july-7-1-24/) - It was an early, very warm morning in July, and it had rained during the night. The bare granite steamed, the moss and crevices were drenched with moisture, and all the colors everywhere had deepened. Below the veranda, the vegetation in the morning shade was like a rain forest of lush, evil leaves and flowers
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.26.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/06/26/unraveled-wednesday-6-26-24/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! This is the last Wednesday of June... so let's have a moment of silence... sigh. Last week also ushered in the Great AC Temperature Wars at my house. I now am wearing a wool sweater and socks IN THE FREAKING HOUSE. And yet, Steve thinks it is TOO WARM. I
- [Companions of Time | June 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/06/24/companions-of-time-june-2024/) - Time moved in two directions because every step into the future carried a memory of the past... — Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1 I have mostly ignored Ali Edwards this year and in past years, I don't think I have paid much attention to the "companion word" lesson. But time just seemed the perfect
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 6.20.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/06/20/a-gathering-of-poetry-6-20-24/) - It's the third Thursday of the month and that means it's time to join Bonny in gathering up some poetry to share with you all! Thanks to the RWU selection this month, I discovered a new-to-me poet, Safiya Sinclair. I know several of you struggled with the poem she shared in How to Say Babylon
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.19.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/06/19/unraveled-wednesday-6-19-24/) - Greetings dearest Unravelers, Happy Juneteenth, and Happy Hot as Hell Wednesday (at least in most of America... I saw that it snowed in Scotland recently and I am having some heavy contemplation about relocating there...) I am managing some minutes outside in the morning, but even early yesterday it was warm and so muggy! Sherman
- [Sometimes Monday | 6.17.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/06/17/sometimes-monday-6-17-24/) - ... ushers in a week of praise for air conditioning. Seriously... most days I could leave the AC, preferring the windows open. But this week... one that includes a seemingly endless heat advisory.... I am thankful for it. I have been out early for a walk and I have watered all.the.things! A Monday in which
- [In My Backyard | Spring 2024 my](https://askatknits.com/2024/06/14/in-my-backyard-spring-2024-my/) - That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs. — L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea Today is the final Friday in spring and even though it feels more like summer outside today, it has been a most glorious spring! One thing a Year of Time has done for me
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.12.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/06/12/unraveled-wednesday-6-12-24/) - Greetings dearest Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! I confess that not much knitting has happened this week. I did make the tiniest bit of headway on my test knit sweater...but these are some long rows! I have not knit a stitch on those socks either... but I did cast on a new Hitchhiker! (I mean when
- [Sometimes Monday | 6.10.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/06/10/sometimes-monday-6-10-24/) - June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life. – Joan D. Chittister This week, this quote is going to be my guiding light... I am throwing off all the dark spots of life (news media and politics, I am looking at
- [Friday Finds | 6.7.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/06/07/friday-finds-6-7-24/) - Happy Friday, dear friends! How are you doing on savoring your June days? I want to tell you that the portable "desk" is perfection for porch sitting... sunshine and rain. Yes, we had some rain yesterday morning and the sound of the gentle rain as I sipped my coffee was the best way to start
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.5.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/06/05/unraveled-wednesday-6-5-24/) - Greetings dear Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday! The header image is my morning starting place. While I might want to stay here for the entire day, sadly that is not feasible! I mean... we have to eat, lol! But mornings working out great because my presence is a bit of a deterrent to the starlings and
- [Hello, June | 6.3.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/06/03/hello-june-6-3-24/) - Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. — Hal Borland Hello, June! Hello, burgeoning summer days! Hello, hello, hello! For those of us who are, like me, wondering how it is June already... this post will be
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.29.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/05/29/unraveled-wednesday-5-29-24/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Last Wednesday in May! It is bittersweet to think of bidding May adieu but June is there... so close I can almost touch her! I have been busy since we last talked. Stitching and knitting... knitting and stitching. First up, my finished 100 Day Project! I spent a good chunk of
- [Moving Beyond Time | May 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/05/28/moving-beyond-time-may-2024/) - Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment. — Eckhart Tolle I first became intensely aware of this phenomena after listening to this conversation with Jenny Odell on the Emergence Magazine podcast. I was
- [Summer Bucket List | 5.24.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/05/24/summer-bucket-list-5-24-24/) - I had an entirely different post planned for today and then I woke up thinking about Mary Oliver's poem, The Summer Day. I am not sure why I thought of this poem today... perhaps because we have been having a stretch of summer-like days, or perhaps because it is a long weekend and the "unofficial
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.22.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/05/22/unraveled-wednesday-5-22-24/) - Greetings Dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! There has been some significant "unraveling" this week as I picked out the seams on several pages from my book. Sigh. Building a Slot and Tab book is taking all my brain bandwidth. Foolishly, I thought I'd be able to just figure out a trick to add in my
- [Sometimes Monday | 5.20.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/05/20/sometimes-monday-5-20-24/) - Is it just me or is May just flying by? It sure feels that way to me... and I have really focused on slowly savoring the days! So perhaps a bit of a celebration of what May has brought to my life this year.... Starting with my poppy... it is unbelievable this year! My single
- [The Miracle of Hearing...Again | 5.17.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/05/17/the-miracle-of-hearing-again-5-17-24/) - It has been a long journey to not hearing... one that really happened with little realization from me. I recognized that I was having hearing issues but I mostly ignored them thanks to the COVID lockdowns and the changes it brought to daily life for many people. I mean... if you are not going out
- [A Gathering of Poetry | May 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/05/16/a-gathering-of-poetry-may-2024/) - I had thought of using a different poem today but after spending yesterday morning in my garden, doing a bit of weeding... with my new hearing aids in and on... the sounds of the bees was crazy. Crazy!! And all I could think of was this poem by Lucy Adkins that I read in April.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.15.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/05/15/unraveled-wednesday-5-15-24/) - Greetings dearest Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! I have eased back into making... a stitch here and there began to add up to suddenly finding myself at the heel flap on Sock One! Before vacation, I began the new Mystery Gnome... it started slowly with a few bits (feet and a "mysterious" cast on!) And then
- [Sometimes Monday | 5.13.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/05/13/sometimes-monday-5-13-24/) - Like much of the world on Friday, time stood still for a few minutes while I saw the effects from the coronal mass ejections (or CME's) with my eyes in the south hills of Pittsburgh! Yes, it was amazing. Yes, I took pictures (because our eyes are limited but a camera lens is not!) And
- [Erie in Springtime | 5.10.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/05/10/erie-in-springtime-5-10-24/) - What is there to say about a place where the Warbler Chorus is punctuated by Oriole Arias? Birder's Heaven? Because that perfectly describes the week in Erie... specifically at Presque Isle. And those Oriole's? Well, I saw dozens of them... dozens. I have never seen so many Baltimore Oriole's in my life! We were in
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.8.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/05/08/unraveled-wednesday-5-8-24/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! I am having a bit of a struggle settling back in to my normal routine... I feel like I am behind on everything (because I am!) and that is not a fun feeling at all. One thing I did not bring on vacation was my Daily Stitching project... so I
- [A Study With Time | April 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/05/07/a-study-with-time-april-2024/) - Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. — Earl Nightingale One part of my Year of Time was to contemplate blocks of
- [Hello May | 5.6.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/05/06/hello-may-5-6-24/) - May is the month of expectation, the month of wishes, the month of hope. — Emily Brontë Simply put... I love May. It is the month of "best of" so many things! I have, at least, one bunch of allium bulbs that are blooming... and they are stunning. My expectation was low... but the bulbs
- [Thursday's are for Poetry | 4.25.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/04/25/thursdays-are-for-poetry-4-25-24/) - Welcome to my favorite day of National Poetry Month — Poem In Your Pocket Day! Every April I like to add a new book to my Poetry Library... and this year, dear Ada Limón had the perfect collection with perfect timing! You Are Here Poetry in the Natural World was published April 2! I have
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.24.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/04/24/unraveled-wednesday-4-24-24/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Wednesday to you all! First, a bit of housekeeping for next week. There will not be any Unraveled Wednesday post next week, May 1st. I will be back from Erie the following week and there will be an Unraveled post on May 8th! Now that that bit of housekeeping is out
- [Sometimes Monday | 4.22.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/04/22/sometimes-monday-4-22-24/) - The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share. — Lady Bird Johnson Earth Day 2024... it seems somehow more important after a winter that wasn't really winter. And spring, well... she has been springing. Lots. But last night's hard frost will
- [Thursday's are for poetry | 4.18.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/04/18/thursdays-are-for-poetry-4-18-24/) - Welcome to Week Three of National Poetry Month! This week our theme is Color... and I was so excited about that! When I think of color and poetry, one beloved poet comes to my mind, Derek Walcott. I know of no other poet who has the thread of color weaving through so many of his
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.17.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/04/17/unraveled-wednesday-4-17-24/) - Greetings Dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! I have finishes this week! A completed pair of socks and one finished Gnome! First, the socks! Pattern is Hermoine's Everyday Socks with an afterthought heel and toes done in a contrasting yarn. They fit well and I think these will go into the sock drawer for me! Now,
- [Sometimes Monday | 4.15.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/04/15/sometimes-monday-4-15-24/) - Hello everyone... I hope your Monday is starting easy! Mine started with a bit of an explanation point! Yes, just after midnight, I was awoken by the sound of an explosion of hail stones being hurled at the house. It was so loud and the winds were so wild! That exclamation point was soon followed
- [Thursday's Are For Poetry | 4.11.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/04/11/thursdays-are-for-poetry-4-11-24/) - Welcome to week two of Our Great Poetry Exploration! This week our focus is on the incredibly delightful work of Ross Gay. Yes Kym, Bonny, Sarah, (and me!) are all sharing a Ross Gay poem with you today! I distinctly remember the first time I read any Ross Gay and before I even finished the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.10.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/04/10/unraveled-wednesday-4-10-24/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! I am happy to say that the clouds thinned themselves down enough for there to be quite an amazing show here in the south hills of Pittsburgh on Monday! We were not a total eclipse, but at 97%, it was close enough! I paced my timing to pop out to
- [Sometimes Monday | 4.8.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/04/07/sometimes-monday-4-8-24/) - An eclipse is one phenomenon that is actually more impressive from the ground. — Leroy Chiao There has been so much Eclipse Hype on everything... the local news especially, here in the South Hills of Pittsburgh but I am not sure they counted for grey, cloudy skies... very cloudy skies and rain! But today, as
- [Thursday's are for Poetry | 4.4.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/04/04/thursdays-are-for-poetry-4-4-24/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month and Happy Thursday to you all! This month, I will be joining Kym, Bonny, and Sarah as we share a poem with you each Thursday. This week our focus is on poems about peace/humanity... and there was just such an abundance of choices, I struggled a bit with this one.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.3.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/04/03/unraveled-wednesday-4-3-24/) - Greetings Gentle Unravelers and Happy Wednesday to you all! April showers are indeed showering here... it has been a rainy week. The grass is green and lush and if it would stop raining Steve would get the mower out... But it rains on so there is complaining... lots and lots of complaining! However, I have
- [Hello, April! | 4.1.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/04/01/hello-april-4-1-24/) - April is a reminder that life is a beautiful, ever-renewing cycle.— E.E. Cummings I woke this morning to the sound of raindrops on the windows... but it was not the windy, cold rain of March, it was a gentle, warm rain that smelled like spring! I welcomed this gentle rain with open arms... my garden
- [TGIF | 3.29.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/03/29/tgif-3-29-24/) - It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ― Charles Dickens Dickens surely got the days of March right in my neighborhood this year! We have had a month of all.the.weathers. in abundance! So
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.27.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/03/27/unraveled-wednesday-3-27-24/) - Greetings dearest Unravelers! We have reached the final Wednesday of March... and I am trying to figure out the March Lion/Lamb conundrum. March has had some very curious weather in the 'Burgh and it seems that the Lamb/Lamb version is how my March will end... but perhaps that is not so bad. The making this
- [Circles of Time | March 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/03/25/circles-of-time-march-2024/) - This month I have been spending much of my time contemplating the idea of "deep time" or perhaps the concept is better explained as circles of time. The idea, at least to me, seems a bit like the ripples created when you drop pebbles in a pool of water. The water ripples out further and further...and
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 3.21.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/03/21/a-gathering-of-poetry-3-21-24/) - Welcome to the March Gathering of Poetry... the day when Bonny holds a space for us to share our love of poetry. I have nurtured the habit of reading some poetry every day. I have been doing this now for a couple of years and the impact that opening a book of poetry, noting the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.20.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/03/20/unraveled-wednesday-3-20-24/) - Greetings Gentle Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! I have finished my *third* pair of socks this year! What??? I don't know who these socks will be for, but they are going in the Gift Bag for someone! I am going to cast on another pair pronto... I have some Vintage Lorna's Laces in the most delightful
- [In my backyard | 3.18.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/03/18/in-my-backyard-3-18-24/) - Today is a day for celebration! It is the last full day of winter!! And yet...I have savored these 13 weeks slowly and thoughtfully as I read one essay a week with Margaret Renkl. It was the most aware winter of my life and I am celebrating every moment of winter as it draws to
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.13.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/03/13/unraveled-wednesday-3-13-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy almost mid-March! I am absolutely not loving how quickly these days are moving along! I do have that first sock done and I immediately started the second sock so I have something to "mindlessly" knit at night. It was a good choice to pair the yarn with Hermoine's Everyday Sock
- [Sometimes Monday | 3.11.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/03/11/sometimes-monday-3-11-24/) - Welcome to the Mondayist Monday... the Monday after the Spring Forward time change. Are you all back on track yet? I am better than yesterday but still not feeling "right". Yesterday, Old Man Winter reminded us all that Winter Is Not Over. We had wild winds and white-out snow squalls that popped up through out
- [Friday Finds | 3.8.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/03/08/friday-finds-3-8-24/) - Happy Friday everyone! I am still on fire from Joe's speech last night... it was so so good! Yes, I stayed up past my bedtime to watch the entire thing! (My favorite moment... Joe putting SCOTUS on notice! LOL The Best!!) But there were some "finds" this week that have been tumbling around my head!
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.6.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/03/06/unraveled-wednesday-3-6-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! The making had a slight interruption this week with a blast of balmy weather it made sense to get out into the garden while the sun was shining! And despite it feeling unbelievably wrong to be out in shirtsleeves in March... I did get almost all the "pruning" done
- [Currently | March 4, 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/03/04/currently-march-4-2024/) - It feels like we might be through the bulk of our "false spring starts" and might be leaning into actual spring! And although we do have some chillier overnight temps in the forecast for next week, most days are in the 50's (and warmer!) I am really ready for this change of season. Here is
- [Hello, March | 3.1.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/03/01/hello-march-3-1-24/) - March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine. ― L.M. Montgomery L.M. Montgomery's quote above seems quite perfect for this morning... everything is covered in a
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.28.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/02/28/unraveled-wednesday-2-28-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers! We have arrived at the last Wednesday of February. The month started (at least for me) to creep along slowly and then it picked up speed and just kept barreling along. It does not seem possible that we turn the page to a new month this week! My pace has been more
- [Self Time | February 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/02/26/self-time-february-2024/) - Self-care is not a waste of time. Self-care makes your use of time more sustainable. — Jackie Viramontez I approached the concept of time a bit differently this month. I am not very good at the idea of "self-care" (as I think many women are...sigh.) Every day this month, I have tried to spend at
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.21.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/02/21/unraveled-wednesday-2-21-24/) - Greetings Dear Unravelers and Welcome! There was some unraveling this week... remember that hat I shared last week? Well, it was just too big, which for a hat is not a good thing. I got gauge, but it was just huge. This yarn has "tried" to be a number of things so perhaps it is
- [Sometimes Monday | 2.19.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/02/19/sometimes-monday-2-19-24/) - Is for processing the weekends thoughts and ideas! You all provided an abundance of food for thought with your comments last week...thank you so much for your input! Yes, I have been thinking LOTS of thoughts about that Great Cabled Disaster of a Sweater... starting with the painful thoughts of ripping the entire thing out.
- [A Gathering of Poetry | February 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/02/15/a-gathering-of-poetry-february-2024/) - As a person who finds a great deal of silliness with Valentine's Day and the whole idea that surrounds it... love poems are not my favorite. That is until I read José A. Alcántara's poem in Poetry of Presence II. (I mean a former construction worker, baker, commercial fisherman, math teacher, and studio photographer turned poet...
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.14.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/02/14/unraveled-wednesday-2-14-24/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Valentine's Day Ash Wednesday! (Or the opening of Fried Fish Season... IYKYK) It is a day for all.the.things... especially the things we make! I have some good... and some not so good to share with you today. I will start with the good.. Yesterday I began my sixth page for the
- [Sometimes Monday | 2.12.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/02/12/sometimes-monday-2-12-24/) - needs a bit of humor... Yes, we have departed the Fool's Spring and have arrived at the Second Winter portion of February. Sigh. The snow onslaught begins overnight... Staying in the Land of Humor... I finished the seaming of the sweater. It might be a trifle big... okay, more than a trifle... more like the
- [Things I learned this week | 2.9.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/02/09/things-i-learned-this-week-2-9-24/) - Happy Friday! Yes, February is moving on... rather rapidly! (too rapidly?) I am thinking that our little run of gloriously sunny days might be the reason why... because the normal sunless winter we usually get... well, those days just seem to drag, don't they? But this week was for learning... and learn I did! So
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.7.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/02/07/unraveled-wednesday-2-7-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy First Wednesday in February! Is it just me or are you all surprised to find yourself on the seventh day of this month? I hit a HUGE milestone on Sunday afternoon... (I feel like I should insert a drumroll here... lol) I finished the knitting portion of The Great Cabled
- [Welcome February | 2.5.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/02/05/welcome-february-2-5-24/) - The Polar Intuit of northwest Greenland, the northernmost people, call February ‘seqinniaq’, “the month when the sun appears. ― Fred Bruemmer Yes, February brings lengthening days and in Pittsburgh, we will gain an additional 66 minutes of daylight this month! Woot! If that does not lighten one's spirit, I don't know what will! So what
- [Proof of Life | 2.2.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/02/02/proof-of-life-2-2-24/) - Today is Groundhog's Day and Punxsutawney Phil will soon be making is prediction... but regardless of him seeing his shadow or not, we have 6 more weeks of winter before spring arrives on March 19th. (Although with our forecast of a week of much warmer temps, maybe spring will be arriving this week!) I read
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.31.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/01/31/unraveled-wednesday-1-31-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers! At long last, we have arrived at the last day of January... it has been A. Month. (that felt like a month and a half... at least!) We had "winter" for roughly ten days... ten glorious flannel sheet days. There was snow for less time, but for those brief days everything felt
- [A Timely Beginning | January 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/01/29/a-timely-beginning-january-2024/) - A new year, a new month, a new word... (and at least one of these things is a very good thing!) This month I spent my some of my time "unpacking time" a bit. I found that I had quite a few "boxes" to look through as this word began showing up for me last
- [January... or April... a RIFF | 1.26.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/01/26/january-or-april-a-riff-1-26-24/) - It has been a topsy-turvy week here... we went from having temps in the teens on Sunday... to this morning an unbelievable 63°F. It smells like spring outside... and the birds must be thinking so as well because there was so much singing as Sherman and I trekked out this morning. The best thing might
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.24.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/01/24/unraveled-wednesday-1-24-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday to you all! It has been a study in slow making in my house since last week... very slow. I have not knit a single stitch on my cabled sweater... I know, I know! I have been stitching... which is so delightful but it is certainly not taking up
- [Sometimes Monday | 9.11.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/09/11/sometimes-monday-9-11-23/) - I pondered posting today because I don't really have anything significant to contribute. In my pondering I wondered if a pandemic that has killed so many has somehow diluted the impact of what happened 22 years ago. Perhaps today's significance is more personal - not that I lost someone 22 years ago - but rather
- [Sometimes Monday | 11.20.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/11/20/sometimes-monday-11-20-23/) - Brings a few small celebrations! Celebration One... Sherman's ear is ON THE MEND! (it is not 100% yet... but we still have a few more days of drops and pills and we see the vet again on Friday so I am hopeful that he has turned a corner!) Celebration TWO... The Starter... she has risen!!
- [Sometimes Monday | 12.4.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/12/04/sometimes-monday-12-4-23/) - Is for celebrating weekend successes! Success Number One: The schedule was much better. And Sunday's bake... well, it was spectacular! This was a much lighter, airier loaf with tender crumb and a crisp crust! Success Number Two: Getting back on the Watercolor Horse might have been a bit scary, but it felt so good and
- [Sometimes Monday | 12.11.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/12/11/sometimes-monday-12-11-23/) - Involves a "sometimes" quote... Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ― Thich Nhat Hanh As December races by, I have been trying to focus on finding some joy in the days... And despite joy being most-times fleeting and hard to find
- [Sometimes Monday | 12.18.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/12/18/sometimes-monday-12-18-23/) - can have some residual weekend frustration.... Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either. ― Elizabeth Zimmerman Thrice now, in the course of My Great Cabled Sweater Knit I have stumbled across some less than clear directions in the pattern as well as some significant errors with parts
- [Sometimes Monday | 1.15.2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/01/15/sometimes-monday-1-15-2024/) - Brings answers! Last week, a few of you asked me questions and I have answers! Carolyn asked these burning questions: "That photo, what a treat!!! With your phone? Or serious camera?" I took that photo with my phone, which I think is a very serious camera! (Why? Because it is the camera I always have
- [Sometimes Monday | 1.22.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/01/22/sometimes-monday-1-22-24/) - Is so random! Here in the 'Burgh we have had winter for a hot minute but all that changes this week as we are looking at temps soaring into the 50's... sigh. That means all the snow we got will melt... we had some melting yesterday which turned the steps to get outside an icy
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 1.18.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/01/18/a-gathering-of-poetry-1-18-24/) - One of the best things in my week are the moments that I allow a poem to set the tone for my day. This year, I am reading through Phyllis Cole-Dai and Ruby R. Wilson's Poetry of Presence II as my morning devotion. And last week, a poem really jumped out to me... bits of
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.17.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/01/17/unraveled-wednesday-1-17-24/) - Greetings gentle Unravelers! When I look at a weather map, almost the entire US looks plunged in cold... and knitters everywhere knit on with a bit of delight! Right? I know I did... Sock One is DONE! and Sock Two is moving right along. I shall have pink socks soon! Really, I don't know who
- [Some January RIFFing | 1.12.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/01/12/some-january-riffing-1-12-24/) - It has been a relatively quiet week here... Steve was back to "regular" work hours (whew!) and I found the time to knit myself to "fresh" yarn (as Carole so brilliantly put it!) on the Great Cabled Cardigan! And I have been having great fun "unpacking" my word for the year... with some surprises that
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.10.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/01/10/unraveled-wednesday-1-10-24/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! It has been a week with a good bit of actual unraveling here... sigh. Yes, on the Great Cabled Sweater... because of course. This time it is 100% knitter error... I somehow** skipped an entire section of the "straight" portion and went right on to the decreases. (Somehow** =
- [Hello, January | 2024](https://askatknits.com/2024/01/08/hello-january-2024/) - Begin as you mean to go on... Charles Spurgeon Here we are one week into the new year. I spent some of last week tucking away Christmas... a bit of a melancholic activity. But I also like the feeling of reclaimed space to start the new year... which helps to balance the sadness of packing
- [A Year of Time | 1.5.24](https://askatknits.com/2024/01/05/a-year-of-time-1-5-24/) - Life can be very curious and last April I stumbled into this conversation with Jenny Odell. It was the beginning of time showing up for me... nudging me... as I moved through my year with Authenticity. I could not get the conversation with Jenny Odell out of my mind and I have listened to it
- [A Year of Unraveling | 2023](https://askatknits.com/2024/01/03/a-year-of-unraveling-2023/) - ...To not be making things is to be dead. — Donna Druchunas, comment from Melanie Falick's blog. Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy New Year! Welcome to a new year of unraveling... one which I plan to continue exactly as we have been... sharing peeks into our making and what we are reading (or have read!)
- [Reading...the best of the best | 2023](https://askatknits.com/2024/01/02/reading-the-best-of-the-best-2023/) - A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons It has been an excellent year of reading (again!) I truly do not understand how the non-reader gets through the day... happily that is something I will never
- [Forward... with Authenticity | December 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/12/26/forward-with-authenticity-december-2023/) - If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. — Dan Rather It has been quite the journey... one that began way back in 2019 with Focus. I never imagined that it would have taken this long path... and when I began this
- [A Gathering of Poetry | December 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/12/21/a-gathering-of-poetry-december-2023/) - I have really been focused on "finding the joy" this month... some things have been bogging me down recently that have seemed determined to squeeze any bit of joy I might have out of me... so when I saw this poem on IG and then Kym posted something so perfect from the same poet last
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.20.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/12/20/unraveled-wednesday-12-20-23/) - Greetings Dearest Unravelers! Christmas is now Looming Large... I hope that means that you have all the things you wanted to complete... completed. We got a bit of snow here in the 'Burgh and I love it! YAY! I am feeling all the Christmas Feels with a spot of snow on the ground, a chill
- [Some TGIF for mid-December | 12.15.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/12/15/some-tgif-for-mid-december-12-15-23/) - It's been a long week in my neighborhood... but at long last FRIDAY has arrived! I am going to slow down and savor this weekend... but first, how about some good old TGIFing to get the weekend started! Thankful — I am thankful for so many things! Things like long conversations with my son, funny
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.13.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/12/13/unraveled-wednesday-12-13-23/) - Greetings Dear Unravelers! Despite us being at the midpoint of December... there is lots of joy to be found. Yesterday was all day sunshine and it was glorious!! And yes... I have, of course, added to my list... but I should have those few things finished soon and my list finally complete! I have done
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.6.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/12/06/unraveled-wednesday-12-6-23/) - Greetings Dear Unravelers! December is almost a week old and I have the decorating done. I have one mystery gnome in process and one ornament gnome almost done (no image because I think the recipient checks in here occasionally!) But I do have some Back Seas that are flowing along beautifully, as you can see
- [Hello, December | 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/12/01/hello-december-2023/) - December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory. ― John Geddes Hello dear December... I feel both that it took you no time and a long time to arrive. And I find that is much of what you are about... holding two opposing thoughts together at the same time.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.29.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/11/29/unraveled-wednesday-11-29-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! It felt so odd to type the November date because my brain is firmly in December already! But it is still November and I still have a bit of holiday making to do... so I should be glad for these November days! It has been a banner week of making... really!! Carole kindly
- [Authenticity, for real | November 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/11/27/authenticity-for-real-november-2023/) - To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson This has truly been a good year... but... during the month I did not "think" much about my word. However, I journaled quite a bit and as I sat down to pull
- [In My Backyard | November 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/11/24/in-my-backyard-november-2023/) - As November’s crisp, rustling leaves surrender to cool autumn breezes and whirl away in all directions, we are reminded that ‘for everything there is a season. ― Peggy Toney Horton, Unseen Angels November has been utterly delightful... were words I never thought I'd think or say, but it is so very true! I have delighted
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.22.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/11/22/unraveled-wednesday-11-22-23/) - Greetings Fellow Unravelers! If your house is like mine this week... well, our making might be of the food-to-eat variety. I have a pie to make today and I have a tiny bit of prep work for the "feast" tomorrow. I hope your "making list" is manageable and that you will have time to knit
- [A Gathering of Poetry | November 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/11/16/a-gathering-of-poetry-november-2023/) - I read poetry every day... often by random authors as I page through a poetry anthology. But lately, I have been focused on one spectacular poet, Naomi Shihab Nye. I am fortunate that my library has LOTS of her books! Today, with no explanation... one amazing poem by Ms. Nye. I Feel Sorry for Jesus
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.15.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/11/15/unraveled-wednesday-11-15-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! It is mid-November and I don't know about you, but I can't believe that next week is Thanksgiving! This month is just flying by. I did not plan on disappearing on Monday, but Sherman was not feeling his normal perky self. He has another ear infection and was very out of
- [The Trees have IT | 11.10.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/11/10/the-trees-have-it-11-10-23/) - I am not sure if there is a knitting designer I have come to love more than Sarah Schira... I have found hours of delight in knitting small things. And last year she released the pattern for a Gnome house... which of course needed trees. My first two trees sort of clung to the idea
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.8.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/11/08/unraveled-wednesday-11-8-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! On Monday, I promised a tale of some swatches... and a tale it is! I have four different swatches and all tell an entirely different story. (because, of course they do... right? LOL) Swatch One... my plain old stockinette swatch.... I am off on stitch gauge by 1/2 a stitch and row gauge
- [Hello, November | 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/11/06/hello-november-2023/) - But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them. ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars I stumbled upon
- [Friday Finds | 11.3.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/11/03/friday-finds-11-3-23/) - It has been a very chilly week here in my corner of the Burgh... the frosts have come (as did one morning with a dusting of snow!) This weekend we are supposed to be a bit milder so I am hoping to get the remainder of my bulbs in. This is my first time planting
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.1.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/11/01/unraveled-wednesday-11-1-23/) - Greetings Gentle Unravelers and Happy November! If you are planning on any holiday gift knitting... the clock is ticking! I have a tiny bit of gift knitting that I will kick off on Friday with a class with the Queen of Gnomery... the one and only Sarah Schira! I am excited to do a bit
- [The Habit of Authenticity | October 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/10/30/the-habit-of-authenticity-october-2023/) - The start of this month again found me feeling like I am done with this word. And yesterday these thoughts were firmly in my head as I sat down to try and scrabble together a blog post... and surprise, surprise! Ten months in and I found I still have things to learn in my quest for
- [Friday Finds | 10.27.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/10/27/friday-finds-10-27-23/) - Gentle Readers, October was A. Month... wasn't it? My heart is heavy with All.The.Bad.News. And then Lewiston, Maine and Allderice High School happened. So today I am sharing some things that have helped me move forward this month. Things that have helped the hope within me increase. Hope that I have made a point of
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.25.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/10/25/unraveled-wednesday-10-25-23/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Last Wednesday! It feels good to be back in my routine... laundry is caught up (as you all know it is really never "done" lol) and we (in the 'Burgh) are back in a week of summery weather. I am loving this "Second Summer" especially after the frosty Monday we had!
- [Sometimes Monday | 10.23.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/10/23/sometimes-monday-10-23-23/) - Is for finding my routine again! It was a delightful break! Erie was, as usual, wonderful! We walked so much! In rain and shine... and I loved it! We watched the colors get more brilliant as the week went by! We had so many wildly windy days! We saw wildlife galore and I think I
- [A Gathering of Poetry | October 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/10/19/a-gathering-of-poetry-october-2023/) - The poem I selected this month seems apropos since I am not home right now. I heard this poem read by Pádraig Ó Tuama some time ago and I think of it often (and I highly recommend listening to Pádraig read it... you won't regret it!) I did not need to worry about anyone answering
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.18.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/10/18/unraveled-wednesday-10-18-23/) - Greetings Unravelers from the midway point of our Erie trek! I would like to think that I am making and reading up a storm but realistically that is not likely happening... or if it is, it is in very small doses. I have brought my Pressed Flower socks for company... as well as some wound
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.11.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/10/11/unraveled-wednesday-10-11-23/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! For me, this is the Day Before Vacation and so I have a bit of housekeeping to share with you all. First, next week there will be an Unraveled post... it will be a bit different... i.e. I have it already written, so there won't be much from me on
- [Sometimes Monday | 10.9.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/10/09/sometimes-monday-10-9-23/) - Has an extra-big list! Yes, that is what my Monday is looking like. My list is long... as it looks like it will be much cooler this week than we anticipated. So just to be safe, I am prepping some warmer coats, hats and yes... mittens! Ha! My mantra is there is no bad weather
- [Currently | October 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/10/06/currently-october-2023/) - It seems surreal to me that we are in the final quarter of the year. It seems just moments ago that it was waning spring and summer lay long before me. Now, I am seeing trees start to turn... my neighbors dogwood has more peach-colored leaves every day. And yet, here we are... so what
- [Currently | January 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/01/06/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 scratching my head a bit. This doctor
- [Currently | April 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/04/07/currently-april-2023/) - April ushers in the second quarter and so it is time for me to share a "currently" post and share some random things that I don't talk about on the regular... Thinking — I have not stopped thinking about this post since I read it. In that one post, Anne has provided so much for
- [Currently | July 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/07/07/currently-july-2023/) - A new quarter... a new currently list. I love these post to look back on and see what I was doing 3 months ago but I hope you find something interesting or something inspiring in them too! Soaking In — Rainer Maria Rilke... I am so in love with him. I have been reading (again)
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.4.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/10/04/unraveled-wednesday-10-4-23/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy First Wednesday in October! While my body is firmly planted in October, my mind is drifting away to December and some holiday gift knitting ideas are swirling around. However, if I want to actually get any holiday knitting done, I better move quickly from the idea part... to the making
- [Hello, October | 10.2.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/10/02/hello-october-10-2-23/) - October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace! ― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments Hello dear October... long have I loved you! The show you put on
- [In My Backyard | 9.29.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/09/29/in-my-backyard-9-29-23/) - It must be September, July sun has disappeared ― Charmaine J. Forde This was certainly true this month... one of the most significant things I noted this month... darker morning and evening walks with Sherman. In the morning we are waiting for the sunrise and though it seems lighter at night, it is just because
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.27.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/09/26/unraveled-wednesday-9-27-23/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Last Wednesday of September! I got my COVID/flu jab yesterday and this morning I am definitely feeling it this morning. I am happy to say that I have overcome last week's pattern hurdle with sock one and finished it! Sock two was started yesterday afternoon! I am also happy that
- [Practicing Authenticity | September 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/09/25/practicing-authenticity-september-2023/) - Nine months in with my word and some days I feel really ready to move on... others... well, the many more other days I feel like the struggle is real. Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation. ― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 9.21.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/09/21/a-gathering-of-poetry-9-21-23/) - I recently finished reading Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez and I have not stopped thinking about it since. So why am I thinking about this today you might wonder. Well, with all this thinking about being "an invisible woman," a poem by my beloved Ada Limón has been on my mind as well... I
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.20.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/09/19/unraveled-wednesday-9-20-23/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! I have a trio of wee gnomes in my gnome choir! I will get the alto started soon, rounding out my quartet! Ha! But my bass is finished.. meet Gnolan! He is Gnola's twin and they have been singing in harmony for eons! Or at least since their cast on!
- [Museum of Me | September 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/09/18/museum-of-me-september-2023/) - The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. ― Albert Einstein This month's prompt was challenging: What did your day look like when you got home from school? I am most certain that it would bring no benefit to anyone and most especially me to go back and
- [Friday Finds | 9.15.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/09/15/friday-finds-9-15-23/) - Friends, we have reached the halfway point of September. I know, it makes me sad too! I have some finds to share with you this week...so let's get started! First up, I really love Kym's monthly activity share that she focuses on. I actually try and add them into my daily routine...sometimes successfully even! That's
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.13.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/09/13/unraveled-wednesday-9-13-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! **Sorry for this late posting, I thought I scheduled it to post, but apparently that did not work out... sigh. Entirely operator error... not at all a Wordpress issue.** It pains me to say this but September is just racing along, isn't it? This week the temperature switch was flipped... sigh. I was hoping
- [Last RIFF of Summer | 9.8.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/09/08/last-riff-of-summer-9-8-23/) - I had other plans for today post but life got in the way yesterday... bigly. A small-ish issue with Sherman required some extra attention yesterday morning and a rather lengthy vet visit yesterday afternoon. But we have some new meds to try and I am hoping he is feeling better soon! My plans for reacquainting
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.6.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/09/06/unraveled-wednesday-9-6-23/) - Greetings dear Unravelers! My knitting mojo is on the thin side this week. Soaring temperatures have put the kibosh on a lapful of wooly knitting... so there has been little progress on my Pressed Flowers wrap. Instead I cast on a sock... which is barely begun so you can see it has not had much
- [Hello, September | 9.5.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/09/05/hello-september-9-5-23/) - September is the other January. — Gretchen Rubin This quote resonated with me as I turned the calendar to a new month. I am very much loving the idea of beginning again... with so many things. I spent the summer pared back, minimal, letting go of so many things... and now I stand on the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.30.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/08/30/unraveled-wednesday-8-30-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! We have arrived at the last Wednesday in August! No lies here... I am more than a little excited for September and my week of knitting reflects that. I finished my Pressed Flower Socks and I love them! Kym asked last week about sock thickness... and yes, these are a bit thicker than
- [The Habit of Authenticity | August 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/08/28/the-habit-of-authenticity-august-2023/) - Progress requires unlearning. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity. — Jame Clear August has always been my least favorite month of the year. The heat. The humidity. The end of summer break (at least when my kids were little!) The wishing
- [In my backyard | 8.25.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/08/25/in-my-backyard-8-25-23/) - Learning to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance. — Morgan Freeman In August I savored the stillness... the bird song has slowed. Gone is the territorial songs marking nesting territories so it seems that the birds, as well, welcome some quietude to their day. Late
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.23.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/08/23/unraveled-wednesday-8-23-23/) - Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! Here we are closing in on the end of August and I am very much ready for the humidity and mosquitos to depart! Those two things...my most disliked parts of summer. Those pesky mosquitos have been making morning porch time... challenging. And the humidity has been nixing my afternoon
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 8.17.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/08/17/a-gathering-of-poetry-8-17-23/) - I have been thinking about what poem I would share with you all this month for a couple of weeks... going back and forth between several poems that seemed just so perfect for August. This morning I decided that Late Summer by Jennifer Grotz was the winner (but really there were no losers!) Late Summer
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.15.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/08/15/unraveled-wednesday-8-15-23/) - Hello dear Unravelers! It is Wednesday and that means a bit of a check in with my making and reading...and while last week had little progress this week the making and reading are strong! I have been doing some more stitching... and I have broken the 60 minute mark on a square! Ha! I have
- [Museum of Me | August 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/08/11/museum-of-me-august-2023/) - Before we get to our exhibit, I need to pause and reflect on the Lahaina that was and mourn the loss of it... as it was and shall never be again. Decades ago in 1985 my then very significant other took me on the most incredible vacation to Hawaii. He worked hard (and played harder)
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.9.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/08/09/unraveled-wednesday-8-9-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! Last week... I finished no books... this week, I have little to nothing to show for my making! First up... I had high hopes to be done with my Hitch on the Move... but I am at the portion of knitting where the rows are LONG... so long. I have roughly 20 more
- [Welcome August | 8.7.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/08/07/welcome-august-8-7-23/) - August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. ― Sylvia Plath I am hopeful for some August rain...we need it in Western PA. August... my least favorite month of the summer. My garden is... less than lovely at this point. It is a sad
- [Hello February | 2.3.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/02/03/hello-february-2-3-23/) - And Hello Friday! It's been a week, hasn't it? How about an update on all.things.medical first... On Monday, the Nurse Practitioner called with my blood test results...sigh. My cholesterol was not at good levels and had jumped extraordinarily since my last blood work. So I am now taking Lipitor™ (or the generic – Atorvastatin) and am
- [Hello March | 3.6.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/03/06/hello-march-3-6-23/) - March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine. ― L.M. Montgomery L.M. Montgomery's quote seems to fit perfectly how March arrived here in Pittsburgh. February departed
- [Welcome April | 4.3.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/04/03/welcome-april-4-3-23/) - April is the kindest month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden. – Marty Rubin Hello April! I am so very happy that you are here and it would be nice if you just amble slowly along... key word being slowly! This month I have some things on my
- [Welcome June | 6.5.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/06/05/welcome-june-6-5-23/) - Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets Welcome June! Although it is so hard to leave May... I am here to embrace every single moment of June... slowly. I want to delight in the tiny coleus, impatiens, and tomatoes I
- [Welcome July | 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/07/03/welcome-july-2023/) - I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicada lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder. ― Terri Guillemets Oh July... you begin the challenges of my year... you and August are my least favorite months. Your heat and humidity are not my jam. So I am going to
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.2.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/08/01/unraveled-wednesday-8-2-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! It has been a week of new starts here... yes, I have a raging case of Cast-on-itis. So I have given in and cast on.... I started a new pair of socks, yes those socks! This is a knit is not conducive to mindless knitting... so I have not gotten far but I
- [(E)merging Authenticity | 7.31.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/07/31/emerging-authenticity-7-31-23/) - Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free Last month I coasted with my word, this month
- [In My Backyard | 7.28.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/07/28/in-my-backyard-7-28-23/) - I have very much been enjoying my blog break... perhaps a bit too much. I have done some serious contemplating on my continued blogging. Most of it has revolved around the "creativity" issue... i.e. Do I have any fresh ideas, thoughts, or anything of value to release into the void... My answer to myself was...
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.26.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/07/25/unraveled-wednesday-7-26-23/) - Greetings and Happy Wednesday, dear Unraveler's! The heat is absolutely on in my neighborhood... Sherman's afternoon outings are not something he or I enjoy... they are short and quick so we can return to the comfort of the AC. I confess I have some unraveling this week... as in that skirt start. Sigh. The yarn
- [A Gathering of Poetry | July 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/07/20/a-gathering-of-poetry-july-2023/) - One of the things I love best about poetry is how it can take me out of myself... and this week's poem does just that! Recently, Ada Limón shared this on Instagram and I knew nothing about NASA's Europa Clipper but I did know that getting a signed copy of the poem was an impulse
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.19.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/07/18/unraveled-wednesday-7-19-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! Last week, I shared that I was waiting for the arrival of more Tides to finish Shakerag Skirt #2... The Holst Garn shipping department is magnificent... It should have been here yesterday - 6 days from order to my doorstep, but thanks to the epically lame USPS it won't be there until today.
- [Museum of Me, The Music Edition | July 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/07/14/museum-of-me-the-music-edition-july-2023/) - Welcome to this month's exhibit which has been a bit hastily put together... I forgot that a new exhibit was due! This month suggested exhibit: Put together a soundtrack for a day in your life. What songs do you choose and why? What songs and why... well, I think the songs sort of explain themselves.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.12.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/07/11/unraveled-wednesday-7-12-23/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! My road of making this week has been a bit rocky. I am in a bit of a "holding pattern" on my second summer skirt (darn and blast it... I am not going to have enough yarn so I ordered more yesterday) Sigh. So I had no choice but to
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.5.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/07/05/unraveled-wednesday-7-5-23/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! **Sorry about this, but I have no clue what happened to my published post, but it is MIA... if you are getting a second notification, that is why.** July brings the beginning of the third quarter... and, more importantly, it means that I have done half a year of Temperature
- [Authentic...coasting | June 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/06/26/authentic-coasting-june-2023/) - A month of coasting... that was June with my word. But I don't think that is a bad thing. This month, I read a book that I have not stopped thinking about since I finished it. I am thinking about it when I wake, I am thinking about it as I go through my day,
- [A First Friday of Summer RIFF | 6.23.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/06/23/a-first-friday-of-summer-riff-6-23-23/) - First Summer Friday is a rainy one in my neighborhood... but that is okay, we need the rain and it smells so good outside! My tomatoes are growing by leaps and bounds and they are all loaded with tomato blossoms! I hope this means an abundant year of tomatoes... my fingers are crossed! But how
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.7.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/06/07/unraveled-wednesday-6-7-23/) - Fat bottomed girlsYou make the rocking world go 'round — Brian May, Queen Greetings Unravelers! First... this post needs a sound track... so here you go: I have one, grand, glorious "sweatskirt" finished... and yes, this fat bottom girl will be living in it for the foreseeable future! It checks all the boxes: Comfortable Well-fitting
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.31.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/05/31/unraveled-wednesday-5-31-23/) - Greetings Unravelers and Farewell May... sigh. I don't want May to end, it is the loveliest month and I have tried to savor every moment. However, June waits for no one and June does bring a bit of a treat. I have my yarn ready and I am setting aside some time tomorrow afternoon to
- [Yes! To Authenticity | May 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/05/30/yes-to-authenticity-may-2023/) - Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen. ― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection This month, Ali Edward's team suggested a "Day of Yes" but
- [Late May RIFFing | 5.26.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/05/26/late-may-riffing-5-26-23/) - It has been a week my friends. Hard things... so many hard things. So this LONG weekend my plan is to just be gentle with myself. Rejoicing — This year my poppy feels like it looks like this and while it is not quite that amazing, this morning there are 17 blooms open with at least
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.24.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/05/24/unraveled-wednesday-5-24-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! I hinted on Monday about organizing my in-process knitting and starting a bit of a Summer KAL... you are welcome to join if you wish! I had an overflowing knitting bag, full of in process knits. Some, sadly, have been lingering around for too long. As you can see above, I have one
- [Sometimes Monday | 5.22.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/05/22/sometimes-monday-5-22-23/) - is a good day to check in with myself... Why? Well it really feels like May is racing by much too quickly! And thanks to our brief, but spectacular, vacation there was no "Welcome May" post and so I am feeling a bit adrift this month. I have accomplished much... but... Yes, that but has been
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 5.18.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/05/18/a-gathering-of-poetry-5-18-23/) - I do not recall when I first stumbled across this Rilke poem... but it has become a frequent guest of my morning meditations as I read it, prayer like, to help me begin my day... I hope this poem finds a spot in your day to lift you as you remind yourself "I am!" Let
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.17.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/05/17/unraveled-wednesday-5-17-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! Happy Wednesday! I should be sock knitting, but my days have been a bit hectic. I am behind on my painting class, I am behind on garden chores, my closet is at the implode stage with winter/spring/summer all in a huge muddle...but what I have been doing instead of all that? Why knitting
- [Museum of Me | May 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/05/15/museum-of-me-may-2023/) - There is always one moment in childhood when a door opens and lets the future in. — Graham Greene I have spent a good bit of time contemplating this post. Then versus now... 10 year old me versus 62 year old me. I looked for photo's, but... sadly, there are few photos from my
- [Friday Finds | 5.12.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/05/12/friday-finds-5-12-23/) - Last week's break was such a good thing for me... mentally. I did not blog and I did not spend much time on social media... the total time I spent was picking photos for two IG posts from Erie. Posting and not scrolling seems selfish as I am writing this today. But being away from
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.10.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/05/10/unraveled-wednesday-5-10-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! It felt good to have a bit of a break from all things electronic, although I did miss you all. I am trying to catch up on blog reading... a little bit each day. I should be all caught up soon! My list for the week is looking good... all the laundry is
- [That Steep Re-entry Curve | 5.8.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/05/08/that-steep-re-entry-curve-5-8-23/) - The vacation was... interesting. There was a significant amount of rain and the beginning was very cold. However, I am very happy to report that my Handspun sweater and newly stitched sweatshirts were PERFECT in every way! One of us had plenty of things to occupy their time on a rainy day (or days)... reading,
- [Erie in 3...2... | 4.28.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/04/28/erie-in-3-2-4-28-23/) - I have plans for lots of hikes, birding, and a plethora of good food.... (that is if the weather cooperates... right now, it looks like there will be lots of rain... sigh, lol) See you all back here May 8! Have a great weekend all!
- [Thursday's are for Poetry | 4.27.28](https://askatknits.com/2023/04/27/thursdays-are-for-poetry-4-27-28/) - It is my favorite day... in my favorite month. The idea that you can carry poems with you... what a delightful thing! Today we are all sharing some poems for your pockets... Today, I am sharing one for all of us for whom sleep is, at times, elusive. Apparently, dear Billy Collins is also similarly
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.26.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/04/26/unraveled-wednesday-4-26-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! Is it just me, or did April just bolt past at record speed? Anyways, we find ourselves at our last Wednesday in April... boo! But, it has been a good month! Recently, I have had some great questions and some even better discussions that all were not privy to all... so I thought
- [Looking for Authenticity | April 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/04/24/looking-for-authenticity-april-2023/) - It's been a very quiet month in the OLW department. Ali Edward's prompt for the month was to look for our word to show up in our days... and so I practiced patience and tried to pay attention.... sigh. At times the silence was jarring and after a week of waiting with no Word Sightings,
- [Friday Finds | 4.21.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/04/21/friday-finds-4-21-23/) - Whew! It's been a week... and I have arrived on Friday with a completed list! Yes, yes! All the sewing is done! I am closing in the the toe of the second red sock! And I have started on the Vacation List! And I managed to stumble across a few things this week that are
- [Thursday's are for Poetry | 4.20.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/04/20/thursdays-are-for-poetry-4-20-23/) - This week is all about love... a difficult subject for me. I am not a flowery, all sorts of love words kind of person. But I began the great Love Poem search both online and scouring my poetry books for something... loving. And after all that searching I still came back to two love poems
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.19.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/04/19/unraveled-wednesday-4-19-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! On Sunday, I had 3 sweatshirts and a skirt that were all ready for the sewing... and this morning, I just have one last sweatshirt to go! I have sewed both versions of Sew House Seven's Toaster Sweater and I love both of them! The directions are clear, concise, and with their usual
- [Museum of Me | April 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/04/14/museum-of-me-april-2023/) - Welcome, welcome! This month's prompt asked about what old, worn out thing can we not part with... I have thought long and hard about this post... and I am twisting it about a bit. Rather than worn out, I have found the well-worn... as in well-worn memories. (and it is especially relevant this month!) Most
- [Thursday's Are For Poetry | 4.13.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/04/13/thursdays-are-for-poetry-4-13-23/) - Welcome to the second week of National Poetry Month! This week, we are all sharing a poem by our Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. I have a plethora of Ada Favorites in my poetry collection, but I think the thing I like best about Ada's poetry is the way she lifts women... it always inspires me.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.12.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/04/12/unraveled-wednesday-4-12-23/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! It is the week for finished objects in my house... the reason for that is rage-knitting. Although, I hear some of you are rage-weeding and I have done some weeding, but in spurts... perhaps not enough spurts because there are still weeds in my yard. But my rage-knitting has been
- [Sometimes Monday | 4.10.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/04/10/sometimes-monday-4-10-23/) - is focused on the search for calm. I confess, I did some rage knitting over the weekend... which resulted in the finishing of my Handspun Sweater. It is getting a good soak and needs a few ends woven in, but I think it will be ready for the big reveal on Wednesday. This morning, I
- [Thursday's Are For Poetry | 4.6.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/04/06/thursdays-are-for-poetry-4-6-23/) - Welcome to my favorite month of the entire year... National Poetry Month! As usual... Kym, Bonny, Sarah, and myself will be sharing some poetry with you this month on Thursday's. Before I share my poem for today, I thought I'd give you some ideas of how you can add more poetry to your April days!
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.5.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/04/05/unraveled-wednesday-4-5-23/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! I have completed the first quarter of my Temperature Embroidery! This project is simply delightful and March had some days with very close high and low temperatures...which made for some interesting wheels! And I am looking forward to changing April temperatures to see what new colors will be introduced this
- [To Whom It May Concern | 3.31.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/03/31/to-whom-it-may-concern-3-31-23/) - I have not done a 'mail bag' post in too long. My witty-ness seems to have been on hiatus. But then this week provided me with a few letters to send out on the inter-webs. Dear Highly Recommended Physical Therapist, I left my ortho appointment with the delightful Dr. McLane with a referral for some
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.29.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/03/29/unraveled-wednesday-3-29-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! March is almost over, April is right around the corner! (And I hope that April will be bringing the nice weather! I am so over cold, grey, rainy, windy, snowy weather!) I have been working a bit on the Easter Gnome – meet Gnormanda! She still needs a nose, an arm, some braids,
- [Inside Authenticity | March 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/03/27/inside-authenticity-march-2023/) - March was a month of heavy lifting... interior heavy lifting... which is not always the best blog fodder. Ali Edward's team did not make this month's work any easier... they suggested having a conversation with our word, and so I spent a great deal of time in quiet contemplation conversing with my well-hidden authentic inner
- [March RIFFing | 3.24.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/03/24/march-riffing-3-24-23/) - By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again. Not that year. Winter hung in there, like an invalid refusing to die. Day after grey day the ice stayed hard; the world remained unfriendly and cold.” ―
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.22.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/03/22/unraveled-wednesday-3-22-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! A small delight filled my brain as I typed the palindrome date... such a simple thing but delightful none the less. Which is perfect because it has been a week of delights! Delight Number One: A finished collar on my handspun sweater. It is perfect... really. It does need a good soak because
- [Sometimes Monday | 3.20.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/03/20/sometimes-monday-3-20-23/) - It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. ― Rainer Maria Rilke It has been a March of All The Weather... we have had very warm days (72° F on the first!!), some very cold days (a low of 18° F over the weekend, sigh), winds, rain, snow,
- [A Gathering Of Poetry | March 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/03/16/a-gathering-of-poetry-march-2023/) - Happy Third Thursday....aka Gathering of Poetry Day! In my search for a poem to share with you all, I read a lot of poetry. But one poem has stuck with me and I have thought about it every single day since I read it. It is a poem by Mary Oliver, who seems to have
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.15.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/03/15/unraveled-wednesday-3-15-23/) - By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again. Not that year. Winter hung in there, like an invalid refusing to die. Day after grey day the ice stayed hard; the world remained unfriendly and cold. ― Neil
- [Museum of Me - Science For Real Life | 3.10.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/03/10/museum-of-me-science-for-real-life-3-10-23/) - If I look back on my school days... which I do with some regularity in my 60's... and I note two key things: If I was good at something, I wanted to do it all the time. If I was not good at something, I found ways to avoid doing it at all costs. Those
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.8.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/03/08/unraveled-wednesday-3-8-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! It's been a week of incremental making... bits of knitting on several projects. First up, I finished Gnedward! Gnedward has had a wandering life... and along the way if he saw a button, he picked it up! He has an impressive collection of solitary buttons. In fact, if you are missing a single
- [Friday Finds | 3.3.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/03/03/friday-finds-3-3-23/) - The First March Friday... is very March-like. We have winds heading our way... and rain. And windy March days always, always brings Maurice Sendak's Chicken Soup With Rice book to the forefront of my mind. I especially love the poem for March: So bring on those winds... I am ready! Ha! I did find some
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.1.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/03/01/unraveled-wednesday-3-1-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! It's Wednesday. It's March. And I have some making *thoughts* to share! I have been contemplating that gorgeous corduroy I got some months ago... that I have done nothing with. I had the idea that it would work for this pattern and I even made a muslin. But, I don't like how the
- [An Authenticity Manifesto | February 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/02/27/an-authenticity-manifesto-february-2023/) - Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet. I hinted Friday that this month turned into a delightful adventure. But it certainly did not start out that way! Initially, I got very excited about having a manifesto and my
- [RIFFing to bid February Adieu | 2.24.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/02/24/riffing-to-bid-february-adieu-2-24-23/) - This week has been a Weather Roller Coaster... we have had temps in the 70's and the 30's. Let me just say that this mornings 30° felt bitterly cold after yesterday's 72° and I was so glad that I had mitts tucked in the pockets of my coat for Sherman's morning constitutional! With just four
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.22.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/02/22/unraveled-wednesday-2-22-23/) - Greetings Unravelers. It is a day of many things; it's the last Wednesday the month and it is Ash Wednesday which brings return of "Fish Fry Season" (at least in my corner of the world!) And it is, of course, a day to share what we are making and what the books have we read
- [Sometimes Monday | 2.20.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/02/20/sometimes-monday-2-20-23/) - Is a continuation of the weekend. I thought I'd share some of the things that have made my weekend extra wonderful! First, I saw this on IG and I had a batch of focaccia in the fridge... so on Saturday I did a bit of a riff on it. One russet potato, a couple of
- [Mid-Winter Friday Finds | 2.17.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/02/17/mid-winter-friday-finds-2-17-23/) - I don't know about you, but I have found since I turned the "50's" corner, I have struggled mightily each year with an ever worsening case of the dreaded Dry Winter Skin! Usually, by mid-February, there is not enough moisturizer in North America to make a difference. But this year, I have found some things
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 2.16.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/02/16/a-gathering-of-poetry-2-16-23/) - I read the poem I am sharing today earlier in the month and I did not know then how much these words would help me as the month progressed. I have memorized these words – it was simple to do so – and they have become my litany of hope as February has had some
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.15.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/02/15/unraveled-wednesday-2-15-23/) - Greetings Gentle Unravelers! I am still feeling behind on sleep from a weekend of insomnia, but I got one good nights sleep and (at this writing) have my fingers crossed for a second. But I wanted to catch you all up from the past two weeks of making!! I am roughly halfway to the "knit
- [Sometimes Monday | 2.13.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/02/13/sometimes-monday-2-13-23/) - Brings a slow start thanks to a bad bout of insomnia this weekend. Ugh. So I am easing myself into the week gently, with an extra cup of coffee before I begin the "Monday Chores." But there is sunshine again today! And I have some weekend embroidery wheels to catch up with and I have
- [A Few Good Things | 2.10.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/02/10/a-few-good-things-2-10-23/) - Hello Friday... it's been a week where my motto has been this: "The hurrieder I go, the behinder I get" I have felt like I have been playing catch up all week but there were a few good things. Thing One: I have had tremulous buds on my snow drops for weeks and I feared that
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.8.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/02/08/unraveled-wednesday-2-8-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! It is Wednesday and I don't have my painting homework done (which is due by noon today... so guess what I am doing this morning! LOL) It has been a week that I feel "behind" ... terribly behind! I begin each day with a plan of action but then a hiccup happens and
- [Sometimes Monday | 2.6.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/02/06/sometimes-monday-2-6-23/) - is overflowing with good things from the weekend. Krista Tippett's On Being podcast returned last week, but I did not listen to the episode until Saturday. I am hitting replay this morning... it was just that good! I have also gotten on the waitlist for Dacher Keltner's new book as well. Sherman had a rocky
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.1.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/02/01/unraveled-wednesday-2-1-23/) - Greetings Unravelers and Welcome February! January was such a good month for me! I knit one gnome... and have a healthy start on another. I have his arms to finish... and you will note that Vera is my Gnome Whisperer! Dear Gnorton has a beard and braids! Now I need to collect some materials from
- [Getting to know you... Authenticity | January 2023](https://askatknits.com/2023/01/30/getting-to-know-you-authenticity-january-2023/) - Here I am almost at the end of January and my word demands that I share with you that it has been a bit of a rocky start... Confession time; more than once this month I have asked myself why I picked this word! However, one thing I am not is a quitter...and so I
- [The Doldrums of "Winter" Riffing | 1.27.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/01/27/the-doldrums-of-winter-riffing-1-27-23/) - The "January Thaw" has been more like the "January Revolving Door" in my neighborhood... wintery-mix-rain-repeat. Proof of this weird weather is evident with this: I have Snowdrops that with 5 minutes of sunshine will likely bloom today (I will be watching to get a photo!) and the chives are coming up in my garden. Apparently
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.25.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/01/25/unraveled-wednesday-1-25-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! This week is truly a week for unraveling... issues. So let's get started! First, I thought I'd give you all a very brief update on my experiences at the new doctor yesterday. No... there were no C3PO-style staff. Whew, right? But I am still "digesting" my visit and whether the doctor is a
- [Sometimes Monday | 1.23.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/01/23/sometimes-monday-1-23-23/) - Brings the dreaded long awaited doctors appointment. Yes, I am a bit nervous. A new doctor. A new office. A new system...although if the pre-check in text that I got on Friday is a hint, it might be easier! AND... 20 minutes before my appointment I will get another text with a link to click
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 1.19.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/01/19/a-gathering-of-poetry-1-19-23/) - I first heard this poem a couple of years ago and late last year, I got myself a new book for my Poetry Library (Happy Birthday to ME!) and I was happily surprised to find it there as well. This poem is for teachers everywhere, who teach all the amazing things every single day. What
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.18.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/01/18/unraveled-wednesday-11-18-23/) - Greetings dear Unravelers! We are racing through January... yikes! As I am typing this I cannot believe that the month is more than half over. Big hint... Thus far, I don't have much to show for the month! I have reached the halfway point in my Pressed Flowers Wrap...I think five more "repeats" of flowers
- [Sometimes Monday | 1.16.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/01/16/sometimes-monday-1-16-23/) - ...is for remembering. Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. — MLK Jr. I have long been a fan of Martin Luther King Jr. and I loved his "I have a dream" speech... and have watched it dozens and dozens of times. It provides the most "cherry picked" quotes by the GOP
- [Museum of Me | Stardate 2801.13](https://askatknits.com/2023/01/13/museum-of-me-stardate-2801-13/) - Greetings Gentle Visitors! As a younger person, I truly loved Star Trek and this month our exhibit is one that has us traveling into the future... the near future, but the future nonetheless. Never fear though, the journey will be delightful! Dear Old Scotty is the best transporter operator this world has ever know and
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.11.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/01/11/unraveled-wednesday-1-11-23/) - Greetings Unravelers! Welcome to the day that holds me accountable for what I am making... one of my favorite days! And this one has a fun play with numbering 1.11.23... But, even better is that tonight is the Read With Us discussion on The Marriage Portrait... which I am eagerly looking forward to! I began
- [Sometimes Monday | 1.9.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/01/09/sometimes-monday-1-9-23/) - Is for a bit of celebration... Yes, on a Monday! This morning started a "normal" week with Steve back at the office! Which means my normal routine is being resumed, which makes me very happy. Granted, it will be a short-lived celebration because he has next Monday off. Sigh. Anyways, I have a good-sized list of
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.4.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/01/04/unraveled-wednesday-1-4-23/) - Greetings dearest Unravelers! New Year, New Project? Or New Year, New Technique? For me, the answer right now... on the first Wednesday of 2023 is neither! (Although, I'd really like to overcome my Brioche Fear in 2023, but I don't think January is the month for that!) My last project of 2022 was Gniclaus, the
- [Welcome to My Word | 1.2.23](https://askatknits.com/2023/01/02/welcome-to-my-word-1-2-23/) - Hello 2023 and Hello Authenticity! It has been a bit of a journey to get here, but the time for dancing around the elephant in the room is done. I am going to bring some baggage with me though, which I am hoping will make this journey a bit easier...yay for all I learned from
- [An Unraveled Review | 12.28.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/12/28/an-unraveled-review-12-28-22/) - What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- [Full, Filling, Empty | December 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/12/26/full-filling-empty-december-2022/) - Filling what’s empty and emptying what’s full. ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky I have spent a year contemplating full and it has been a wise use of my time! I used Mary Oliver's Summer Day as my starting point, and particularly these lines: Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything
- [A Final pre-Holiday RIFF | 12.23.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/12/23/a-final-pre-holiday-riff-12-23-22/) - Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime. ― Laura Ingalls Wilder Today, I hope to do a bit of what Halfpint so nobly encourages us to do... but perhaps a bit less reverently, ha! So
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.21.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/12/21/unraveled-wednesday-12-21-22/) - After the longest night, tomorrow we sing up the dawn. There is a rejoicing that, even in the darkest time, the sun is not vanquished. As of tomorrow, the days begin to get longer as the light of day grows. While the gentle winter sun slowly opens its eyes, let us all bring more light
- [Sometimes Monday | 12.19.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/12/19/sometimes-monday-12-19-22/) - Usher's in crunch time... I don't know about any of you, but the Holiday Blues are definitely a thing... at least for me they are. My expectations have often been the trigger for those blues... as in my expectations are HIGH and reality never quite hits that level. Today, I am giving myself permission to be
- [A Gathering of Poetry | December 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/12/15/a-gathering-of-poetry-december-2022/) - It's the third Thursday of December and that can mean just one thing...it's the day to share a poem! December is a month that overflows with poetry for me. Maybe it is the darker mornings, maybe it is the twinkle lights, maybe it is the season... but December finds me steeped in poetry. I treated
- [Full Realized | November 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/28/full-realized-november-2022/) - I spent much of this month in quiet *internal* contemplation. To start, there was lots of debating with myself but eventually the debates gave way to an exercise in finding joy... and really, what held the most joy of all! What am I talking about? Well, the Great Christmas Decorating of 2022 (and beyond!) And
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.14.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/12/14/unraveled-wednesday-12-14-22/) - Greetings Unravelers! This week, I might have entirely jumped the Knitting Shark... I am knitting the actual packages not just the gifts! LOL Yes, our "surprise" this week was a Stack of Presents to knit and stitch! And what do presents need? A tree of course. So I have one completed and have cast on
- [Sometimes Monday | 12.12.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/12/12/sometimes-monday-12-12-22/) - Is all about books! Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish While we were very much a Harry Potter House... there was a good bit of Lemony Snicket to fill the 'regularly scheduled reading time'... and I very much concur with the above quote! My only addition
- [Museum of Me | December 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/12/09/museum-of-me-december-2022/) - The prompt this month is to talk about the best Christmas gift we ever got. First, how about a bit of Christmas Gifting Music? And nobody recites a Christmas List better than Eartha Kitt! Now, I could spend some time talking about the puppy my sister and I got one year. Mitzi, the Miniature Schnauzer.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.7.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/12/07/unraveled-wednesday-12-7-22/) - Greetings Unravelers! This week brought the return of embroidery to my days and I am loving every stitch! My project is loosely based on these Snowflake ornaments. I picked three snowflakes, enlarged them and traced them onto Sulky Solvy and began stitching. I will use just 3 colors and once the "outline" part is done,
- [Sometimes Monday | 12.5.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/12/05/sometimes-monday-12-5-22/) - December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory... ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain This mornings constitutional with Sherman was all about December's wintery breath... and frost on the ground! It was a morning that we needed our woolies!! The frosty cold weather showed me clearly that I need a
- [Early December RIFFing | 12.2.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/12/02/early-december-riffing-12-2-22/) - December. A desperate celebration of an end. — Chandrama Deshmukh, A Teaspoon of Stars This quote sort of sums of December for me...the end of a year, the end of a word (which has been a very good word for me!), the end of my being 62, the end of my Year of Gnomes (yes...
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.30.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/30/unraveled-wednesday-11-30-22/) - Gentle Unravelers! Welcome to the last day of November... and tomorrow begins December! And I am so ready for it! Why? Well, tomorrow the first Holiday Christmas Gnome clue comes out! I have my yarn all set to go... and I am eager to begin! And my Welcome December list? Well, it has so few
- [Gratitude Week | 11.25.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/25/gratitude-week-11-25-22/) - Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude. ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh The day after Thanksgiving should be an easy day to be grateful, right? We have full bellies, leftovers, and...if we are lucky...a slice of pie for breakfast! So where does one go
- [Happy Thanksgiving, Gratitude Week | 11.24.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/24/happy-thanksgiving-gratitude-week-11-24-22/) - Abundance: noun the situation in which there is more than enough of something an amount that is more than enough Abundance is something I have been thinking about frequently this year, it popped up many times as I worked through my word - full. And the one thing I discovered this year was that the
- [Unraveled Wednesday, Gratitude Week | 11.23.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/23/unraveled-wednesday-gratitude-week-11-23-22/) - In life, as in knitting, don't leave loose ends. Take the time to thank the people who matter in your life. — Reba Linker, Follow The Yarn Welcome to the craziest Wednesday of the entire year... Thanksgiving Eve Day. If you have not begun T-day Prep, I am sorry because that means today is really
- [Sometimes Monday | 11.21.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/21/sometimes-monday-11-21-22/) - is for contemplating Gratitude! Kym has invited and I will happily join in! My plan? To post three things I am grateful for every day this week. And before you ask....Yes, Unraveled Wednesday will be here... but a gratitude edition! (I mean how can one not be thankful that they are a maker and a
- [A Week of Gratitude | 11.22.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/22/a-week-of-gratitude-11-22-22/) - Today's things I am grateful for are things I have absolutely no control over, but that does not mean I feel less gratitude about them! Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart. ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart This weeks weather...there has been an abundance of sunshine and more
- [A Gathering of Poetry | November 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/17/a-gathering-of-poetry-november-2022/) - It seems impossible that it is already the third Thursday of the month... and yet it is. And I have a poem to share with you all today (plus one to listen to, if you so desire!) I had originally imagined that I would find something to share from the stack of poetry books on
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.16.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/16/unraveled-wednesday-11-16-22/) - Sweet dreams are made of this... — The Eurythmics **If you want to listen, click the text above** Sometimes, no matter how hard you try a yarn just fights you every stitch of the way. This is the story of such a yarn...I spun this really gorgeous, buttery soft fiber. I worked hard at consistency...
- [Sometimes Monday | 11.14.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/14/sometimes-monday-11-14-22/) - Brings big changes and the urge to bake all the things! Starting with the weather... last Monday ushered in a glorious week. We had temps in the 70's several times! I had to break out the summer attire to stave off a need for Steve to turn on the AC during the week (I lost...
- [Museum of Me | November 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/11/museum-of-me-november-2022/) - I have been thinking about this exhibit for some time now (since last month, actually!!) and it has been one of the most enjoyable exhibits to put together! Come in and consider the Unsung Hero... or Sheroes as is the case for me. As you all know, I frequently sing the praises of my sweet Nana,
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.9.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/09/unraveled-wednesday-11-9-22/) - Greetings Unravelers! Happy Post Election Day and I hope to provide you with some things to distract you while all the ballots are tallied. So... turn off the news alerts and settle in! First up... The Eleventh Gnome, she is DONE! An extra hour over the weekend (plus a good series on Netflix) provided more
- [Sometimes Monday | 11.7.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/07/sometimes-monday-11-7-22/) - ...is all about persistence. I got a Christmas Cactus last November from Trader Joe's... it was full of buds then, but not a single one bloomed. Instead over the course of a couple of weeks, they all fell off. I was quite heartsick over it. But!! I did not give up! Instead I rallied around
- [Currently | November 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/04/currently-november-2022/) - Welcome to the final Currently post of this year. I know. Where did the year go? Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator. — Robert Orban Good advice, and some advice I have been following closely this year – I am the navigator of my days – the "filler of my minutes"... Let's see
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.2.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/02/unraveled-wednesday-11-2-22/) - Greetings Unravelers! I have returned from my glorious vacation... one in which I barely knit a stitch and since returning home on Sunday I have still barely knit a stitch! But!! I have a great excuse... I have been madly working on getting my last painting done for my watercolor class. It is done, turned in,
- [Hello, November | 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/11/01/hello-november-2022/) - Last month, I copied Carole's idea to welcome the new month... I liked it. It kept me focused. And it was semi-successful! Ha! So, Welcome November! In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in
- [Full of Life | October 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/10/31/full-of-life-october-2022/) - I did not have any idea of where I would go with my word this month. I was absolutely feeling like I understand the concept of how to fill your days with things that matter. But leave it to Krista Tippett to show me how to take what I have learned this year and fine
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.26.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/10/26/unraveled-wednesday-10-26-22/) - Greetings Unravelers! Not much making this week! I might have knit less than 8 rows on Close To You and that is alright with me! Instead I have been spending as many hours as possible outside in Presque Isle! It has been simply amazing... sunny, clear skies, and warm! We have a bit of rain
- [A Gathering of Poetry | 10.20.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/10/20/a-gathering-of-poetry-10-20-22/) - Welcome to the second installment of A Gathering of Poetry. Today, I am going to introduce you all to a poet I discovered late last month on the Poetry For All podcast. I had never heard of Rafael Campo but I was so enamored of the poem, Primary Care, that I checked out two of
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.19.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/10/19/unraveled-wednesday-10-19-22/) - Greetings Gentle Unravelers! This week I am profoundly grateful for the diversions that making brings... I needed diversions this week! And so I am sharing the plethora of them that have been entertaining me! Buckle in! The sewing. Oh my. Well, there is a very good reason I keep sewing the same things over and
- [Museum of Me | October 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/10/17/museum-of-me-october-2022/) - I am convinced that most people do not grow up... We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias. — Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter This, my friends, was a very challenging post to write. I struggled. Mightily.
- [Pre-vacation RIFFing | 10.14.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/10/14/pre-vacation-riffing-10-14-22/) - First up... before any fun begins... I want to give a bit of a reminder to check your voting registration... in PA you have until October 24th to register to vote in the November election AND there is still time to get your mail-in ballot! You will find your state information here! There is so
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.12.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/10/12/unraveled-wednesday-10-12-22/) - Greetings Unravelers! Welcome to the weekly making/reading check-in! October has a Gnome... and what a Gnome she is! Meet Gnutkin! She is all in for fall! She is based on this pattern from Imagined Landscapes... sans beard, but I made some Pippi Longstocking-esque Leicester Longwool braids... and these sweet acorns were the perfect adornment for
- [Sometimes Monday | 10.10.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/10/10/sometimes-monday-10-10-22/) - Brings an adjusted To-do List... I stumbled across this quote over the weekend and have not stopped thinking about it. Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list. ― Patti Digh, Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom for Complex Lives Yes, it absolutely does! This weekend I really needed to focus on sewing
- [October RIFFing | 10.7.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/10/07/october-riffing-10-7-22/) - This week moved at warp speed... or at least it felt that way to me! I kind of had a mini-freak out this morning when I realized it was the 7th. Why this surprised me, I am not sure... as long as I can remember 7 follows 6... but yeah. Why this sudden panic? I
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.5.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/10/05/unraveled-wednesday-10-5-22/) - Greetings Unravelers! It has been a good week for making in my house! I have a finished, blocked, and all ends-woven-in sweater! In January of 2020, I started Amy Christoffers' Pheasant Sweater (Ravelry Link). I started out like wildfire knitting all that fun color work fairly quickly and I got past the sleeve divide... and then
- [Welcome October | 10.3.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/10/03/welcome-october-10-3-22/) - October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace! — Rainbow Rowell, Attachments Welcome October! I have a list of things that I'd like to accomplish
- [To Whom It May Concern | 9.30.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/09/30/to-whom-it-may-concern-9-30-22/) - We have arrived at the last day of September and I have a letter or three to share with you all. Dear Citizens Bank, You botched our loan pay off and dinged our credit score but you said you'd fix it all. Honestly, I did not believe you... I thought that you were just saying what
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.28.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/09/28/unraveled-wednesday-9-28-22/) - Greetings dear Unravelers! I have a confession for you all... September has been a month of me living my very best life (sadly, my house is complaining of neglect...loudly! lol) But for me, it was a great month! I am on still on Sleeve Island...BUT! One sleeve is done! I still have one to go
- [A month full of... | September 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/09/26/a-month-full-of-september-2022/) - Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. — Ashley Smith This month, Allie Edwards team had a brilliant suggestion for my word this month... take photos!
- [A September RIFF | 9.23.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/09/23/a-september-riff-9-23-22/) - The Autumnal Equinox occurred last night at 9PM and it is as if Mother Nature flipped a switch... the arrival of autumn did in deed bring autumn-like temperatures! This morning it was a very chilly and hushed silence talking Sherman for his morning walk. No birdsong, no crickets chirping... just one sniffing pug to break
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.21.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/09/21/unraveled-wednesday-9-21-22/) - Greetings Unravelers! Happy Wednesday... or Happy Autumnal Equinox Eve Day! Haha! Yes, it's the time of year when a knitters heart begins to think Winter Is Coming... and the urge to cast on all the woolly things takes over! Or, in my case... the urge to get a woolly thing off my needles so I
- [Sometimes Monday | 9.19.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/09/19/sometimes-monday-9-19-22/) - Is full of random things... This week I welcome autumn and over the last week or so I have been closely watching the subtle (or not so subtle) changes outside... Sherman and I head out before the sun rises now and this morning was especially dark with only a chorus of crickets to greet us.
- [A Gathering of Poetry | September 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/09/15/a-gathering-of-poetry-september-2022/) - Poetry is a constant in my day... it is the thing I start my day with - reading a poem or two. And my favorite month of all is Poetry Month which happens every year in April. But one month with a focus on poetry is just not enough and even though occasionally a poem
- [Things I Learned This Week | 9.16.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/09/16/things-i-learned-this-week-9-16-22/) - This week was a good week for learning... at least for me...and I thought I'd share what I learned with you all! Thing One: Pita success happened. Or at least I found a very tasty and easy recipe. And while some of my pita's puffed up, not all of them did - or at least
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.14.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/09/14/unraveled-wednesday-9-14-22/) - Greetings Gentle Unravelers! Yesterday, a momentous occasion occurred here in the 'Burgh... Sweater Weather arrived and it is a thing of beauty! I basked all day in wearing a sweater because of the weather! Please note... this is entirely different than wearing a sweater because the AC is set at 40° below zero, just saying.
- [Weekending | 9.12.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/09/12/weekending-9-12-22/) - Greetings everyone and Happy Monday! It was a full weekend... a full indoor weekend thanks to the grey skies that brought some rain to Pittsburgh! Much needed rain, mind you...so I am not complaining. (Okay, I am not complaining about the rain but the mosquitoes on the other hand...) I tried my hand at making
- [Museum of Me | September 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/09/09/museum-of-me-september-2022/) - This month the curators were encouraged to update the thoughts about school exhibit... not necessarily a back to school exhibit, for which my curator heaved a sigh of relief. No need to stress over my lack of "back to school wardrobe, notebooks, binders, pencils, etc." Whew! It is not my desire to have you all
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.7.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/09/07/unraveled-wednesday-9-7-22/) - Greetings, dear Unravelers! Welcome to the first Unraveled Wednesday of September! It has been a slim making week... too much Holiday Weekending which left me with lots of catch up things to do on Tuesday! But!! There is a new Mystery Gnome... and I have Clue One done! Woot! Clue Two comes out tomorrow and
- [September RIFFing | 9.2.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/09/02/september-riffing-9-2-22/) - At long last we have arrived at the cusp of my favorite season... autumn. I live all year for autumn... and though I have learned to live happily in the moment of *now*... my heart is always longing for autumn! This week we have had some lovely "teasers" with cooler days and nights and I
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.31.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/08/31/unraveled-wednesday-8-31-22/) - The making this week... so very good! I have a finished sweater! Woo hoo! And I love it. The fit, the details, the yarn, the marl-y-ness! It is just the Perfect Sweater! This is the pattern. This is the yarn (my colors are Escoria and Nightshade) I apologize for Porch Pictures... but it rained all
- [Full: Beginning Again | August 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/08/29/full-beginning-again-august-2022/) - I mentioned earlier this month that I was feeling "done" with my word. And then I really settled in and spent time with Ali Edward's team as they invited me to look at my word as if I was beginning again but from the perspective of how beginning in August looks so differently than it
- [A Friday Catchall | 8.26.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/08/26/a-friday-catchall-8-26-22/) - This week has felt very disordered to me... a not very weekend weekend, a missing day on Monday, and then trying to catch up with what day it is... I am really glad that the week is over! But before I close the curtain on this week, I have a few things to share! First
- [Unraveled Wednesday...plus | 8.24.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/08/24/unraveled-wednesday-plus-8-24-22/) - Greetings Dearest Unravelers! Welcome to the last Wednesday in August... I know. How on earth is that possible?! I am sure you are all asking about the PLUS portion of the title... yes, you will get a bit more than making and reading today as I will give you all a small update on my
- [Hey, Mr. Postman | 8.19.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/08/19/hey-mr-postman-8-19-22/) - Today I have a stack of letters that I need to get in the post... buckle up! Dear Citizens Bank Mortgage Department, I realize that your goal is that people who have a mortgage would never pay it off and make all payments on time...and refinance frequently. However, when we called for a payoff letter...
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.17.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/08/17/unraveled-wednesday-8-17-22/) - Greetings, Gentle Unravelers! I have so much to share with you today... good things, NEW techniques. And a reinforcement that sometimes you just need to try more than once to achieve success! First... I am happy to report that the 3-needle bind off I wanted to achieve (with purls showing on the front and the
- [Sometimes Monday | 8.15.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/08/15/sometimes-monday-8-15-22/) - is for emptying out my brain... Occasionally I have so much clutter just rattling around my head, I just need to dump it all out. Clean the slate, as it were. This is one of those Mondays! I am wondering how there can be so many mosquitoes outside right now. It has been 90-gagillion degrees
- [August Riffing | 8.12.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/08/12/august-riffing-8-12-22/) - August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath We finally got some rain this week and that rain ushered in some cooler weather as well. Ahhh! A break in the heat and humidity was very
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.10.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/08/10/unraveled-wednesday-8-10-22/) - Greetings, dear Unravelers! Happy Wednesday to you all! Here we are moving quickly through August...how on earth is the the 10th already? Anyway, I have some knitting to share with you this week. I managed to get the back of my sweater completed and I am working on the front now. The rows go quickly
- [Sometimes Monday | 8.8.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/08/08/sometimes-monday-8-8-22/) - Is for catching up and contemplation... and I am hoping that my catching up will be easy. I need to wash kitchen floors and clean bathrooms and, if the rain holds off, give Sherman a bath. (Hint... wet dog on wet day is not a good combination... ever, lol) Some of my contemplation surrounds my
- [Another Friday RIFF | 8.5.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/08/05/another-friday-riff-8-5-22/) - Welcome to the first Friday in August! I have had an incredible week. So read on and see what I did this week! Refocus and Recenter — I have changed up my morning meditation time a bit. My time now includes reading a couple of Derek Walcott poems, ignoring the darker mornings, and setting my
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.3.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/08/03/unraveled-wednesday-8-3-22/) - Greetings, Gentle Unravelers! Happy Wednesday! I have a very brief update today, but one full of good things! One sock is *almost* done! I have two "stripes" to go and then I just need to work out the heel depth, which should be easier than it was on Sam's sock... since the recipient is conveniently
- [Sometimes Monday | 8.1.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/08/01/sometimes-monday-8-1-22/) - Welcomes August. So, August... how should I fill your days? Of course, painting. I am just having so much fun. I have no expectation for the results... outside of learning new things! This is delightfully freeing! My inner perfection demon has been curiously silent! Some sewing... not just talking about it. I have almost finished
- [Currently | 7.29.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/07/29/currently-7-29-22/) - The start of July came and went... and despite me placing a notification in my electronic calendar, I entirely missed the notification reminding me that July brings another "Currently" post. Thankfully, Carole gently reminded me this week with her timely post on her current world! So while this post is a bit late... July is
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.27.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/07/27/unraveled-wednesday-7-27-22/) - Greetings, Gentle Unravelers! I have much been thinking about all of you this week and how, for me, these posts... your posts... really feel like a weekly knitting group. We share what we are making and what we are reading and more... and I love that feeling! This week my making was sort of all
- [Simply Full | July 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/07/25/simply-full-july-2022/) - Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. ― Steve Jobs This month was spent on the Great Simple Challenge ... something that takes a lot of work
- [a RIFF on TGIF | 7.22.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/07/22/a-riff-on-tgif-7-22-22/) - Hello from an extremely muggy, warm Pittsburgh. I confess that I am really just sooo over all this heat and humidity! Steve has not mowed in a month... yes, you read that right. We did get some rain which curiously made the weeds grow, but the grass is still... dead. Lush and green are not
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.20.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/07/20/unraveled-wednesday-7-20-22/) - Greetings, Gentle Unravelers! And a happy Wednesday to you all! Apparently hot hot weather means lots and lots of knitting time! (Truth, I spent little time outside after 9am each day... early morning weeding only!) I have some momentous knitting achievements this week. I have divided for the sweater sleeves! This is good and bad...
- [Sometimes Monday... | 7.18.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/07/18/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 *might* be called up to
- [a RIFF on TGIF | 7.15.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/07/15/a-riff-on-tgif-7-15-22/) - Greetings and Happy Friday! This week I am doing a TGIF-like post... sort of. I think you will get it once we get started! Some weeks Friday feels like, well... just another day in the week. This week, it feels very much like a Friday... and that, my friends, is a very good thing! Replacement
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.13.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/07/13/unraveled-wednesday-7-13-22/) - Greetings, Unravelers! The making this week feels slow... just lots of round and round and round knitting. But all that round and round knitting means that there have been inches added! Yet I happily remind myself that I am not a "finished project every week kind of knitter" and that is exactly how it should
- [Sometimes Monday | 7.11.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/07/11/sometimes-monday-7-11-22/) - One of the things that I am focusing on this month is to fill my days with simple things... which is not as easy as it sounds. Life is complicated... hard... painful... and these days, it seems that there is a daily new calamity to keep me anchored in that space. Yet this month, I
- [Museum of Me | July 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/07/08/museum-of-me-july-2022/) - Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.6.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/07/06/unraveled-wednesday-7-6-22/) - Greetings Unravelers! (I am not mentioning any of the shootings that happened over the holiday weekend but that does not mean they are not on my mind. They are. I just don't have any words to express my thoughts how is it possible that we are on the 187th day of 2022 and there have
- [Sometimes Monday | 7.4.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/07/04/sometimes-monday-7-4-22/) - Is still the weekend! And what could be better than that?! If the blooms on my tomato plants are an indicator of fruit volume... it looks to be a banner year! I am practicing patience waiting for said fruit to develop. But the plants are lush, green and growing like crazy... so I have hope!
- [A bit of whimsy | 7.1.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/07/01/a-bit-of-whimsy-7-1-22/) - Hello, July. I am so glad I am filling my days with some whimsy so I can avoid thinking about the looming July holiday that this year won't feel like something to celebrate at all. Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves. ― Betty Friedan I am glad that
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.29.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/06/29/unraveled-wednesday-6-29-22/) - Ooo, the making this week! I have one finished pair of Anakin Skywalk!)er socks for Sam! I finished the second sock up yesterday. The heel... oh my! I like it! I did some short rows before knitting the heel decreases. It worked so well! (and I hope it will fit Sam perfectly!) They are drying
- [Filling my days... | June 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/06/27/filling-my-days-june-2022/) - This month kind of felt like a cheater month... I carried May along into June and did no new work on my word. (although the end of the month saw me full of FRAGE thank you, Nadia Bolz-Weber for defining my feelings so eloquently.) Knowing that was coming made the month feel like something was hanging
- [A Bit of Whimsy | 6.24.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/06/24/a-bit-of-whimsy-6-24-22/) - The wee break I took last week inspired a new way of thinking about blogging...much needed inspiration. Welcome to A Bit of Whimsy! I am a person who is incredibly serious. Joking around is not easy for me and I don't spend enough (any?) time creatively playing. However, I am working on including more lightness
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.22.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/06/22/unraveled-wednesday-6-22-22/) - Someone needs your actions to inspire [their] actions. Never forget, your little broken cake is someone’s daily meal! Care to share you[r] little cake! ― Israelmore Ayivor One thing that I truly love about this blogging community is how we inspire each other... sometimes in totally unexpected ways. Recently Kym has provided such inspiration for me
- [Sometimes Monday | 6.20.21](https://askatknits.com/2022/06/20/sometimes-monday-6-20-21/) - I pondered doing a "what I did on my blog-cation" last week... and I will share, soon. One thing I did not do until late last week was open my laptop. Nope, I did not look at it once and it felt so good. I realized that in not looking at my laptop also increased
- [Sometimes Monday | 6.13.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/06/13/sometimes-monday-6-13-22/) - Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds. — Regina Brett Summer solstice officially arrives tomorrow and though it felt like we did not have any kind
- [Museum of Me - The Outdoor Games Edition | June 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/06/10/museum-of-me-the-outdoor-games-edition-june-2022/) - Greetings dear museum visitors! For those of you expecting a visit to The Great Locker Room of Outside Games Memories... I am sorry, but there just is not that much sports participation in wee Kat's life. In fact, there almost is not enough even share. But... if you follow along closely, you will find some
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.8.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/06/08/unraveled-wednesday-6-8-22/) - Not much making progress this week... a messenger bag strap, a beard, and an arm completed. I also spent some brain bandwidth on a sock. I could find no clear directions on how to determine how long to continue knitting the foot of a sock with a "planned" afterthought heel. So I picked out those
- [Sometimes Monday | 6.6.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/06/06/sometimes-monday-6-6-22/) - Allergies to dust and grain, maladies, remedies and still these allergies remain. — Paul Simon Spring is ... wonderful ... well, except for that little allergy thing that happens every year. I have some generally mild allergies to tree pollen and usually I can count on 5-7 days of itchy eyes, a scratchy throat, and -
- [When words fail me | 6.3.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/06/03/when-words-fail-me-6-3-22/) - Oof..these numbers are so troubling. I hope we have reached the tipping point and that change will happen. In these troubled times I am so thankful for poetry. I read poetry every single day but recently I have spent even more of my day immersed in poetry and one poem keeps calling to me over
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.1.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/06/01/unraveled-wednesday-6-1-22/) - The making over the past two weeks has been varied! Some Gnome Knitting means that I have finished my May Mystery Gnome and I love him! I also added some inches to the Sock for Sam. First Finish is Gnocchi! And I have some Gnome deets to share with you all: 1. The Third Beard
- [Filling Up | May 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/05/30/filling-up-may-2022/) - This month was a month full of "ah-ha" moments. So many. In fact, this month was so full, I even found a theme song... listen if you like and see what I discovered this month! The song starts at 1:40... (but if you listen to the bit of the talk before the song I found
- [Friday thoughts | 5.27.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/05/27/friday-thoughts-5-27-22/) - Bring poppies for a weary mind That saddens in a senseless din. — William Winter One of the most fleeting of things... my poppies... and yet, perhaps I love them so much because they are so fleeting. One thing I hope is not fleeting... our outrage at the gun violence of the last two weeks.
- [When Knitting Updates Are Never The Answer](https://askatknits.com/2022/05/25/when-knitting-updates-are-never-the-answer/) - Hello, Gentle Readers. I had a completely different post planned for today and then the world fell apart. I am sorry, but I feel publishing that post is rather tone deaf in light of what happened at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas yesterday. Hug your loved ones... but more importantly... write a letter to
- [Sometimes Monday | 5.23.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/05/23/sometimes-monday-5-23-22/) - The best laid plans of bloggers... sigh. I had planned on giving you all a May Word update today. But Carolyn posted this weekend that word update would be next Monday. Okay... that works, because it gives me a few more days to contemplate Four Thousand Weeks, which I will finish up this morning. I
- [Friday Finds | 5.20.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/05/20/friday-finds-5-20-22/) - It's been a week, hasn't it? I have tried and tried to make sense of the senseless and I can find no simple answers... no complicated answers either. My heart is heavy for the citizens of Buffalo and for the Black/Brown/Indigenous American/LGBTQIA+/Non-Christian communities that are integral parts of the tapestry that is America. And so
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.18.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/05/18/unraveled-wednesday-5-18-22/) - The making this week has been of the "small" variety but I wanted to take a moment to identify the photos for you all from Monday's post: 1. A chive blossom 2. an African violet 3. Bee balm and 4. the Tri-colored birch beech (thank you, Kym) in my back yard. Monday the most strenuous thing
- [Randomly on Monday | 5.16.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/05/16/randomly-on-monday-5-16-22/) - A bit of a random brain dump this morning... sorry about that. This morning I am a bit "foggy" because I got another COVID booster shot yesterday. I had thought to wait till the fall but COVID numbers have been on a sharp incline here in Allegheny County so I went and got boosted. This
- [Museum of Me | May 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/05/13/museum-of-me-may-2022/) - Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ― Charles W. Eliot Greetings, Gentle Readers! This month is all about reading...specifically Your favorite book as a child/kid/teenager... Let me get my docent hat on and begin to tell you all
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.11.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/05/11/unraveled-wednesday-5-11-22/) - Tegna!! She is finished. She just needs a bit of a spa treatment and a quick tumble in the dryer and she will be camera ready! I spent some time earlier this year contemplating my wardrobe needs... and I have one sweater I really like to wear but the neckline bothers me. It is Carrie
- [Sometimes Monday | 5.9.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/05/09/sometimes-monday-5-9-22/) - ...is for sharing! Gentle Readers, do you have a spouse who is an IG Junkie? Steve must send me at least 4 "reels" a day... and most of them are about food... specifically IG Recipes. Some weeks ago he sent me a recipe for baked feta, and I was so curious as to why he
- [Friday Finds | 5.6.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/05/06/friday-finds-5-6-22/) - When April steps aside for May, like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; fresh violets open every day; to some new bird each hour we listen. ― Lucy Larcom I thought this quote was fitting, especially for the weekend weather forecast Pittsburgh has... lots and lots and lots of rain-drops. I am not complaining because with the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.4.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/05/04/unraveled-wednesday-5-4-22/) - I wish I could be perky and cheerful today... but I am not. The leaked news this week was a gut punch... although I was expecting that very outcome, reading the leaked brief made it a reality that I don't want to accept. In my life, I never imagined that I would lose rights... and
- [If you buy a sofa... | 5.2.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/05/02/if-you-buy-a-sofa-5-2-22/) - Greetings! In the Weekend From Hell Category, I (we?) scored a ten. Although perhaps that should be a negative ten...because hell. Ha! We have "been on the lookout" for a sofa for some time now....but most sofa's are too big for our living room. So when we discovered the perfect sized sofa while in Erie
- [Presque Isle | 4.29.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/04/29/presque-isle-4-29-22/) - As I shared on Monday, I did not take my usual number of photos on this visit to Presque Isle in Erie. But the lack of images does not diminish the memories...at all. Rather, I think, the lack of photos has sharpened my memories because I spent my time looking all around me, not through
- [Thursday's are for Poetry | 4.28.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/04/28/thursdays-are-for-poetry-4-28-22/) - Today is one of my favorite days...it's Poem In Your Pocket Day! It's a day to carry a poem with you... and perhaps you will even then invite poetry into the remaining days of the year. I debated about what poem should I share this month. I contemplated Joyce Kilmer's Tree's or Carl Sandburg's Fog... poems
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.27.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/04/27/unraveled-wednesday-4-27-22/) - I did practically no knitting on vacation, although I took two projects...sigh. But!! I came home to find three blooms on the new lilac shoots that have sprung up from the dying bush Steve trimmed back last fall. (I began the discussion of digging the lilac bush out, but have made no headway... yet, lol)
- [Expanding Full | April 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/04/25/expanding-full-april-2022/) - Four months into my word and I really am surprised at the Full Discoveries that April brought! When I began this journey with full I considered "being full" to have distinct boundaries. Either you are full... or you are not...and with that idea in mind, I began to look at what was full in my
- [Thursday's are for Poetry | 4.21.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/04/21/thursdays-are-for-poetry-4-21-22/) - The theme for this week is Forgiveness. Hmmm. Okay. I vaguely remembered reading a poem about forgiveness... but could I find it? It turns out that was quite a challenge... but, thankfully, not one that was at all painful! I spent an afternoon perusing my poetry books, as well as looking online on the Poetry
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.20.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/04/20/unraveled-wednesday-4-20-22/) - Very little knitting has happened since last week but that is not necessarily a bad thing! Instead we have been braving the windy cold weather and trekking all over Presque Isle in Erie PA! Yesterday we even "enjoyed" the lake effect flurries that joined us on a very brisk walk, lol. However, even though I
- [Thursday's are for Poetry | 4.14.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/04/14/thursdays-are-for-poetry-4-14-22/) - In this week's poetry installment we are all sharing a poem by Sharon Olds. She is a prolific poet and you could get lost for days and days in her poetry books. The poem I have selected is from Stag's Leap...poetry that shares her journey from from grief to healing after her divorce. A book
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.13.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/04/13/unraveled-wednesday-4-13-22/) - This week a knitting milestone... I have reached Cruising Altitude on my Tegna. Yep. I am cruising along with miles of stockinette... which makes it the perfect pick up and put down knit! So I have gotten lots of minutes of knitting in! Washing machine going...pick up and knit. Dishwasher loaded... pick up and knit.
- [Sometimes Monday | 4.11.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/04/11/sometimes-monday-4-11-22/) - Is for lists of things... good and not so great. I would ask you if you want the good or the not so great first, but since you are not here... I will get the not so great out of the way. If your Monday is Monday enough without any more not so great, please
- [Museum of Me | April 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/04/08/museum-of-me-april-2022/) - In a perfect world, I would read all instructions clearly. Sigh. That's right. Last month I shared a job I used to have... which is this month's prompt. So... This month, I am sharing something I collect...which was last month's prompt! Anyways, I have a deep love for antiques and I am so fortunate to have
- [Thursday's are for Poetry | 4.7.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/04/07/thursdays-are-for-poetry-4-7-22/) - This week's theme is hope. Whew. What a week for hope, huh? He that lives upon hope will die fasting. — Benjamin Franklin I have always thought that hope was a singular thing... something you had inside you... or had to find inside you. Or if you could not find it inside you... then "Look
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.6.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/04/06/unraveled-wednesday-4-6-22/) - I did not plan on being 'absent' on Monday... but the news out of Ukraine put a damper on my planned post for the day. For me, it seemed that sharing something in light of the news out of Bucha just seemed... wrong. And while it does not seem any better to share such trivial
- [Currently | 4.1.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/04/01/currently-4-1-22/) - Welcome to the Second Quarter, Gentle Readers! I am wondering how on earth I am welcoming April... no fooling! This year seems to be moving at a pace slightly faster than warp speed... sigh. However, my Blog Calendar tells me that today is the day for my Currently Check In! I am excited to be
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.30.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/03/30/unraveled-wednesday-3-30-22/) - Greetings Unraveler's and Happy Wednesday! I have been very productive since we last talked! I spent some time going through my stash... and I culled quite a few things. So now when I look in my "Yarn Cupboard" I can clearly see what is there, and it has been separated (once again) into categories... sock,
- [Full and Contentment | March 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/03/28/full-and-contentment-march-2022/) - We need much less than we think we need. ― Maya Angelou This month I have contemplated full from a different perspective... rather than comparing it to emptiness, I considered contentment. And Maya is so very correct... I need much less than I think I need. The Less is More concept is a foreign one to
- [To Whom It May Concern | 3.25.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/03/25/to-whom-it-may-concern-3-25-22/) - I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard. — Madeleine Albright Dearest Madam Secretary, The news of your passing took me by surprise this week because, somehow, I was of the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.23.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/03/23/unraveled-wednesday-3-23-22/) - We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. — George Bernard Shaw I have a completed pair of socks! Yay! Thanks to Vera for clueing me in to this sock pattern. It is free, well written, and a joy to knit! (Bonus... the fit is fab!) I am
- [Weekend Realities | 3.21.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/03/21/weekend-realities-3-21-22/) - I had such a lovely "list of things" I wanted to do this weekend. Things that included tackling button holes with a fresh mind on Saturday morning, finish my handspun Hitchhiker, watch some of March Madness, and start reading The Books of Jacob. But Real Life had a different plan because on Saturday morning we
- [Friday Finds | 3.18.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/03/18/friday-finds-3-18-22/) - Whew, Friday... it seems like eons since you were here! It's been a week... of all the weather (at least here in Pittsburgh) and all the heartbreaking news. We were happy to join in this week in making a donation for Ukraine to Brother's Brother. Even though it feels like what we donate won't make
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.16.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/03/16/unraveled-wednesday-3-16-22/) - Greetings Unravelers! Happy Wednesday! Perhaps you remember that test knit I did last month. Well, I can finally share it with you all! I present MaryJane Mucklestone's Lakeway Beret! As always, it is a joy to knit one of MaryJane's patterns and this one is a color work masterpiece! I felt like I was painting
- [Thoughts for a Monday | 3.14.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/03/14/thoughts-for-a-monday-3-14-22/) - Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Truer words were never spoken, no? The weather certainly brought that point home in my neighborhood this weekend,,,with an exclamation point! We have had rain, snow (the official total is 8" but I think we got a bit more than that
- [Museum of Me... the travel edition | March 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/03/11/museum-of-me-the-travel-edition-march-2022/) - A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Yes, today we are heading to a destination that feels light years away. Back to my pre-children life...and specifically, What I Used to Do At Work! Once upon a time... after I was a struggling waitress, and before there were kids... I used to be
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.9.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/03/09/unraveled-wednesday-3-9-22/) - Happy Wednesday, Unravelers! I do not have a whole lot of making to share with you all this week. I do have an almost finished gnome (the hat needs a wee bit of steam.) But my March Never Not Gnoming installment is finished. Oh, Gnome You Didn't. Meet Gnellie...and my back story for her is
- [Sometimes Monday | 3.7.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/03/07/sometimes-monday-3-7-22/) - It was not my intention to skip my post on Friday, but with the news in the world... it just seemed frivolous to post about trivial things. And I am sitting here this morning with much the same feelings... how does one talk about the triviality of "normal life" when for far too many normal life
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.2.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/03/02/unraveled-wednesday-3-2-22/) - Greetings Unraveler's! I wish I could tell you that there has been *loads* of making this week...but that is not the case. It seems very wrong to indulge in the luxury of knitting, stitching, sewing, or baking when the world is collapsing around us. I did a bit of stitching, but I need something that
- [Full and Empty | February 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/02/28/full-and-empty-february-2022/) - At the atomic level, the glass is 99.99% empty space. Hope this helps. ― John Alejandro King This month I have spent time thinking about the opposite of my word and while there are many antonyms for full, but I have focused on empty this month... and what is lacking, missing, needing a bit more of.
- [Friday Finds | 2.25.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/02/25/friday-finds-2-25-22/) - The final Friday of February is upon us before I am ready to let it go. I have really loved immersing myself in Black History Month so I plan on staying there for a bit longer. There is just so much to read, to learn, and to lift up. Have a vision. Be demanding. —
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.23.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/02/23/unraveled-wednesday-2-23-22/) - Greetings Unravelers! We have arrived at the final Wednesday in February with the most un-February-like weather... mild temps, rains that have done an excellent job of washing away the frozen and brought a hint of green...at least to the grass in my back yard! I have done a "mini-shuffle" in my closet - pulling out
- [Thoughts for a Monday | 2.21.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/02/21/thoughts-for-a-monday-2-21-22/) - Happy President's Day. Sort of. Anyway, if you have the day off today... good for you! If you don't, I am so sorry. It is supposed to be simply glorious today in Pittsburgh with temps approaching the 60's! It was just amazing to head out with Sherman this morning to hints that the day would
- [Friday Finds | 2.18.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/02/18/friday-finds-2-18-22/) - these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips — Lucille Clifton (homage to my hips) This week I want to share some poetry that, I think, is one of the best ways to
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.16.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/02/16/unraveled-wednesday-2-16-22/) - The Test Knit... she is finished! Wooo! I have even weighed my yarn and sent in all the pertinent details. Photos coming soon... I promise! But today I have an almost finished Gnome... he needs a wee bit of blocking, some stuffing, a beard and some arms! AND!! I started Vera's Socks! (Petty Harbor - Ravelry
- [Thoughts for a Monday | 2.14.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/02/14/thoughts-for-a-monday-2-14-22/) - It seems that last week we reached a bit of a seasonal tipping point, at least in Pittsburgh... the incremental increase of daylight is now pleasantly noticeable, there were also days last week that smelled like spring so despite this morning's dusting of snow and bitter cold... I know that winter is in its waning
- [Museum of Me | February 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/02/11/museum-of-me-february-2022/) - “Without Valentine’s Day, February would be … well, January.” — Jim Gaffigan Welcome, Gentle Readers to the second exhibit of the Museum of Kat. We are going to be using the Way Back Machine today and I also have the BIG flash light just in case because we are going to the furthest depths of the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.9.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/02/09/unraveled-wednesday-2-9-22/) - The making this week has been entirely focused on the Super Secret Test Knitting I am doing... In a different world, I would be done already. But instead I am on my third try...yes, you read that right. The third try! First time... I cast on 4 too many stitches. And while I might just
- [Thoughts for a Monday | 2.7.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/02/07/thoughts-for-a-monday-2-7-22/) - We are just one week into February... how then does it feel like that week had way more than 7 days. Is it just me or does it feel like it should be the 17th of February? I don't think this bodes well for the remainder of my month! Haha! What have I been doing
- [Friday Finds | 2.4.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/02/04/friday-finds-2-4-22/) - Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. — Nelson Mandela It is Black History Month and in these days of an outrageous number of people wanting far too many books removed from libraries, I thought a good place to start this month is with books! So I did
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.2.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/02/02/unraveled-wednesday-2-2-22/) - This is what a ball of yarn looks like after you have cast on, knit a bit and ripped out every stitch... not once but twice. Confession time: I put the ball of yarn in a bag with the pattern and needles and have not looked at it since last weekend – save to take
- [Monday Poetry | 1.31.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/01/31/monday-poetry-1-31-22/) - It seems fitting that for this final Monday in January that I close out the month with some poetry and this poem by Linda Pastan seems perfect for today! I think many on the east coast will be nodding their heads at Linda's imagery! I hope this Monday finds you all dug out and back
- [To Whom It May Concern | 1.28.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/01/28/to-whom-it-may-concern-1-28-22/) - It's been a wintry week here in Pittsburgh... bitterly cold temperatures - which meant we had some sunshine! A knitter does not cry over cold... we have sweaters, hats, mittens, cowls, scarves... cold weather is every knitters dream! You know... the days you can wear.all.the.knits! And those slices of sunshine? Who all doesn't need a
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.26.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/01/26/unraveled-wednesday-1-26-22/) - Whoosh...... That, my. friends, is the sound of January racing out the door! Who besides me is shocked at how rapidly the "longest month of winter" raced by? And we are on the cusp of the shortest month of winter, so my expectation is that in... oh, 5 minutes or so we will be welcoming
- [And so it begins | January 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/01/24/and-so-it-begins-january-2022/) - Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. — Lao Tzu My process of unpacking full.... has been full of defining - thinking - and writing. I really love full as an adjective: not lacking or omitting anything; complete. And in order to achieve that, I need
- [TGIF | 1.21.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/01/21/tgif-1-21-22/) - Today I have a bunch of random things to share and I am making them fit TGIF. I think it works. And so let's get started! Teaching (myself?): Last year, I mentioned that I had some socks in need of some mending... well, the number has grown since then. How is it possible that all.the.socks.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.19.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/01/19/unraveled-wednesday-1-19-22/) - Greetings from the Great White (not so) North! Yes, we got a good bit of snow over the long weekend and there is more in the forecast. I am my most happiest wintery self! I just love the snow (must be that December birthday!) and I am thrilled that more is on the way. As
- [Thoughts to get through Monday | 1.17.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/01/17/thoughts-to-get-through-monday-1-17-22/) - We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. — Martin Luther King Jr. This is the quote I wrote in my calendar to greet me this morning. An excellent reminder when the finite disappointment seems more like endless disappointment and I have lost sight of infinite hope. This week, I am going to
- [Museum of Me | January 2022](https://askatknits.com/2022/01/14/museum-of-me-january-2022/) - I thought it might be fun to join Kym once a month and invite you all to an exhibit of My Museum... and then I saw January's prompt: Something you were really good at as a child (either something you still do — or something you “grew out of” doing) Hello fun... come back here...where
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.12.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/01/12/unraveled-wednesday-1-12-22/) - January is somehow just racing on and honestly, I am shocked today is the 12th! How is that possible? I have been doing lots of spinning and loving every single second of it! I have just two bits of fiber to spin from my Base12 Advent Spin. Seriously, this is absolutely the best purchase I
- [Thoughts to get through Monday | 1.10.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/01/10/thoughts-to-get-through-monday-1-10-22/) - (And the necessary beverage to help! Ha!!) In my household, we have finally gotten past the "Holiday Weeks" that encompass the end of the year and generally spill into the New Year. Today is the first "normal Monday" I have had in a while and it feels so good! We had some snow on Friday
- [Currently | 1.7.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/01/07/currently-1-7-22/) - In December, as I began thinking about my word for this year... one of the things that I also spent some time contemplating was this blog. I thought long and hard about its future and I determined that I still had things to share, contributions to make, and, especially, the connections I have made here
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.5.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/01/05/unraveled-wednesday-1-5-22/) - Happy New Year, Dear Unravelers! In the "Dead Zone" that is the week between Christmas and New Years I did some "retail therapy" with Miss Babs. Why, you ask, could I need more yarn?!? Well, suffice it that it felt right and so I did it! My year of making is going to include a
- [On my way to full | 1.3.22](https://askatknits.com/2022/01/03/on-my-way-to-full-1-3-22/) - Early in 2021... when I really wanted to bail on release...I began to ponder a new word and have had a bit of a running list for most of 2021. Despite adding words to my list, I persevered with release but once the 4th quarter arrived I began thinking in earnest about what my new
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.29.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/12/29/unraveled-wednesday-12-29-21/) - First... my final finish for 2021... Leave Gnome Stone Unturned... aka Gnombleberry and baby Gnewt! Now onto my Year in Review Post! Ha! It has been a much calmer year for making. I did not feel any compelling urge to knit.all.the.things. And although I do still have some UFO's that I had hoped to complete...
- [Release | December 2021](https://askatknits.com/2021/12/28/release-december-2021/) - I spent December as I began the year...in a struggle with this word. But rather than the struggle of unpacking what needed to be released, the struggle this month is in the packing away of release. Because I think release is not a word I can just pack away and move on from... instead (and
- [Monday Poetry | 12.27.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/12/27/monday-poetry-12-27-21/) - Happy Birthday to me! Today begins my 61st year! 61 years brings lots of retrospection and thinking about birthdays of long ago. When I was a child, it almost always seemed to snow on my birthday and I loved it so much! I have also been thinking about Christmas Vacation birthdays. That's right...one of the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.22.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/12/22/unraveled-wednesday-12-22-21/) - (Sorry this post is so late but I entirely forgot to get a photo yesterday while it was light out!) I have a finished hat and am working towards a finished second sock! However, this week I thought I'd answer the question that Jane had about knitting with a strand of mohair... and does the
- [Monday Poetry | 12.20.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/12/20/monday-poetry-12-20-21/) - There are times when hindsight gives a clarity that is astounding... I should have voted with the doctor for stitches rather than voting for no stitches. Her wisdom has been so correct...she gave me two scenarios: One: get stitches, likely lose my nail, but my finger would heal faster...but likely probably with more pain. Two:
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.15.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/12/15/unraveled-wednesday-12-15-21/) - I wish I could tell you that my making was on fire... but instead I have to tell you that I have mucked up my making but good. Monday afternoon I had a wee accident (okay, maybe not so tiny) with a bread knife... which meant I spent some time in urgent care. The good
- [Monday Poetry | 12.13.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/12/13/monday-poetry-12-13-21/) - When it seems like the world is collapsing in on itself and bad news is all around, poetry provides a respite that nothing else can. The bird that came to my mind as I read Mary Oliver's poem was a Cedar Waxwing with their distinctive white outline around their eyes. (and thanks to Pexel I
- [To Whom It May Concern | 12.10.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/12/10/to-whom-it-may-concern-12-10-21/) - It's been a week, hasn't it? Is it just me and does it feel like we are racing on to mid-December, except that December just began?! Fortunately, the mailbag has a letter or two to share! Dear December Weather: Mild is nice... in January, but I really like wintry Decembers...kthxbai Dear PowerPoint Insurrectionists, I am not sure
- [To Whom It May Concern | 11.19.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/11/19/to-whom-it-may-concern-11-19-21/) - A couple of weeks ago, Bonny wrote some letters... they were so good! (And so inspiring!) I thought it might be fun to write a letter or two this week! Thank you Bonny for inspiring me! (I see that she wrote some more letters this week as well!) Dear Neighbor's With the Holiday Lights: I
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.8.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/12/08/unraveled-wednesday-12-8-21/) - This week has all been about "bite sized bits of knitting" in my house... you know, the things that are easy to pick up and put down. I have the attention span of a gnat these days and so I am shuffling between the heel flap of a sock, the ribbing of a hat brim
- [Monday Poetry | 12.6.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/12/06/monday-poetry-12-6-21/) - I thought that for the month of December, it might be nice to spend Monday's with a bit of poetry. I hope you find this a lovely way to start your week! Winter Trees BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently
- [TGIF | 12.3.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/12/03/tgif-12-3-21/) - Oh Friday... I am so glad you are here and bringing this week to a close. I tried to write letters this week, but gave up and decided a bit of TGIF was more in order. Thinking about — Roe vs Wade and Sonia Sotomayor... specifically these words: “Will this institution survive the stench that
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.1.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/12/01/unraveled-wednesday-12-1-21/) - I love palindrome days... and this is one of those days! (See how I find joy in the little things? lol) Anyways... THE Advent Calendar arrived! And they LOVE it! I am not sure who loves it most though... Heidi or the kids! (And Olivia will have a Nana-made Advent calendar next year, promise!!) But,
- [Release | November 2021](https://askatknits.com/2021/11/29/release-november-2021/) - I want to drown in my tears, And my tears are my prayers. ― Luffina Lourduraj Silly, silly me in thinking that I was done with release... because it is certainly not done with me! This month I got to put into practice all that I have learned over the past year – active, painful, excruciating
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.24.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/11/24/unraveled-wednesday-11-24-21/) - Greetings Unraveler's! First up, I really LOVED all your answers to Monday Questions! My mouth was absolutely watering... I had to look up Watergate Salad (which I had never, ever even heard of before - much less eat!) and I am now very eager for the EATING to begin! lol I had hoped to share
- [Monday Questions | 11.22.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/11/22/monday-questions-11-22-21/) - It's the Monday before Thanksgiving... do you have your lists ready? Or do you just have a singular list? Or do you have no list (and just a super brain) and have no issue remembering all the things to do this week!? Yes, I noted that I asked three rapid fire questions... this week has
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.17.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/11/17/unraveled-wednesday-11-17-21/) - Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy. — Mary Berry It seems that those points in time in my life when I have been the most stressed, the making relief that I turn to is cooking. So we have an enormous pot of chili that will be something easy to pull out for
- [Poetry On Monday | 11.15.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/11/15/poetry-on-monday-11-15-21/) - In a week that did not at all turn out as I hoped or even in my wildest dreams imagined this poem from last Friday has been my lifeline. At some point, Elizabeth Bishop renamed the poem... but I found her original name, Early Sorrow, to be so profound for me. But, the new name... Sestina... has
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.10.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/11/10/unraveled-wednesday-11-10-21/) - This week the making is beginning to feel like it needs to be at a "fevered pitch" but its is not. I wanted to have the "calendar" portion of the Advent Calendar in process... but it is not! I want to thank you all for your tips and encouragement... I am experiencing a great deal
- [Monday Questions | 11.8.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/11/08/monday-questions-11-8-21/) - (a weekend update, and an answer!) Debate over the Vintage Mixer continued on Friday evening and we made a plan for Saturday morning. Our plan... if and when it became too full to move around and still maintain safe distancing that would be our key to leaving. We arrived a little after the doors opened,
- [Falling Into Friday | 11.5.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/11/05/falling-into-friday-11-5-21/) - In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year. — Cynthia Rylant It felt
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.3.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/11/03/unraveled-wednesday-11-3-21/) - Greetings Unravelers!! First, I'd like to thank you all for weighing in on cardboard recycling! It is a challenge to be an avid recycler living with a rather lackadaisical recycler... and while I am all for compromise on many things - this is not one of them. Now to get that certain someone on the
- [Monday Questions | 11.1.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/11/01/monday-questions-11-1-21/) - “October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix My October ended exactly as J.K. Rowling describes...windy and so
- [Friday Thoughts | 10.29.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/10/29/friday-thoughts-10-29-21/) - “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables If you ignore all the news in the world, October was simply a glorious month. Perfect autumnal weather... darker morning and evenings, some rain, some sun to warm the days, crisp nights, and my favorite
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.27.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/10/27/unraveled-wednesday-10-27-21/) - Greetings Unravelers! Though it pains me to say it, welcome to the final Wednesday in October. I am in a bit of shock that the month raced by as rapidly as it did. This week, I have practically nothing on the knitting front to share... nary a stitch was knit on that sweater but I
- [Release | October 2021](https://askatknits.com/2021/10/25/release-october-2021/) - I am unbelievably ready to release release and because that is all I could think about this month... I have begun thinking about my word for next year and some amazing possibilities are floating around over here! There is nothing like the excitement of a new word...not that I want the year to be over or
- [Falling into Friday | 10.22.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/10/22/falling-into-friday-10-22-21/) - It was a random week, punctuated by a few maddening moments. With the latest update from my daughter... the tooth is still wiggly. Or at least it was on Monday! My daughter is back at work, which means Winston is in daycare and has had one illness after another. While we were there she shared
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.20.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/10/20/unraveled-wednesday-10-20-21/) - Autumn has been teasing us this week with cooler mornings that give way to mild afternoons. I am soaking up each and every moment of these most welcome days! Has my Knitting Mojo returned? Well... there is a finished Gnorwen (who has been delivered to Steve's mom already!) But knit a sweater mojo? I am
- [Monday Odds and Ends | 10.18.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/10/18/monday-odds-and-ends-10-18-21/) - I usually write Monday's post on Sunday afternoon... usually. Yesterday no inspiration struck at all so Monday morning arriving sans blog post is leaving me feeling a bit like the kid who did not do *any* of their homework over the weekend. Hoo boy... Welcome to the Monday-est Monday! LOL Sadly, I don't have any
- [Falling into Friday | 10.15.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/10/15/falling-into-friday-10-15-21/) - Whew! Re-entry week almost over and it feels like "normal" life is more normal! My day started out incredibly when Steve sent me this link for my listening pleasure! (Adele's new album drops Nov. 19 and I.can't.wait!!) The Loose Tooth is still hanging in there! (Heidi is a much more patient mom than I ever
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.13.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/10/13/unraveled-wednesday-10-13-21/) - There was barely a stitch knit during my time away. It is the longest I have gone without knitting that I can remember... well, since before I became a knitter! I attempted to remedy that knitting void upon my return but things like laundry and groceries jumped to the top of the list... however, I
- [Eye Candy Friday | Get Away Edition](https://askatknits.com/2021/09/28/eye-candy-friday-get-away-edition/) - By the time you all read this, we will be well on our way to the Great State of Michigan! I hope you all find joy in this gorgeous sunset from Frankfort, Michigan - a pre-pandemic sunset! I will be back with you all on October 13th!
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.29.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/09/28/unraveled-wednesday-9-29-21/) - Hello, Unravelers! Last week there was little to no making because we were gone for 10-ish days. (There was some sewing and the elastic waist band insertion and hemming of said sewing is on my list for today!) This week there has been little to no making because we leave Friday for Michigan for 10-ish
- [Release | September 2021](https://askatknits.com/2021/09/27/release-september-2021/) - Everything in life goes back to the basics. — Kron Gracie This month's prompt encouraged us to go back to basics with our word. Okay. So this month I tried to search out "back to basics" with my word and I had some wins! This year I have really focused on staying in the moment,
- [Falling into Friday | 9.24.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/09/24/falling-into-friday-9-24-21/) - It feels like Autumn turned off the summer switch and plunged us directly into fall here in Western PA. Late Wednesday afternoon some storms pushed through bringing rain, winds, and much cooler temperatures. Thursday morning was all about the layers for Sherman's morning constitutional. I was so happy to have a cozy sweater to put
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.22.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/09/21/unraveled-wednesday-9-22-21/) - Delicious Autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. — George Eliot Greetings AUTUMN!! (And, Greetings, Unravelers!) My most favorite season officially arrives this afternoon... despite the plethora of pumpkin spice things that have been in coffee shops near
- [Sometimes Monday | 9.20.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/09/20/sometimes-monday-9-20-21/) - ...brings a return to 'normalcy' with the end of a brief, but spectacular, vacation. Normalcy... what a word, huh? Perhaps not the best since I have been feeling anything but normal these days! I confess that I have been struggling a bit recently... Feeling off-kilter. Unsettled. Unfocused. Just going through the motions. (and yes, likely a
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.15.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/09/15/unraveled-wednesday-9-15-21/) - Dear Unravelers...I have barely knit an inch of the Vanilla Sweater since we last talked, but I have spent endless hours walking in, listening to, and soaking up the beauty that is Presque Isle. I have been trying to share a few "postcards" of my day on IG, if you are interested! One thing I
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.8.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/09/08/unraveled-wednesday-9-8-21/) - The making this week had a bit of "unraveling" of the sewing version... perhaps "ripping out" is a better term. I removed the waistband and removed a bit of fabric, but I could not remove as much as I needed to... so a good wash helped tremendously! Hot water and a tumble dry have made
- [Friday FO(s) | 9.3.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/09/03/friday-fos-9-3-21/) - I am scraping the bottom of the barrel on finding anything good to post about today. Each week ends and I think how can it possibly get worse... and then it does. I am worried about where we go from here. NPR summed it up rather succinctly with these handy memes: I think there is
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.1.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/09/01/unraveled-wednesday-9-1-21/) - Greetings Unravelers and Welcome September where I am waiting for the weather to flip the switch from heat and humidity to something a few degrees cooler and less moist! **I apologize for the poor photo quality, but I tried multiple times on Tuesday to get "natural light" photos but all the spillover rain from Ida
- [Release | August 2021](https://askatknits.com/2021/08/30/release-august-2021/) - “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free August...eight months "in" on release and still...the struggle remains real. I started off the month in a good direction
- [TGIF | 8.27.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/08/27/tgif-8-27-21/) - In a week of disturbing incidents... so many... too many... I thought a bit of a calm might be just the thing. Just a bit to allow us to take a breath... so we can remind ourselves to breathe. Thinking about not thinking — Because this week thinking is a bit overwhelming. What I have
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.25.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/08/25/unraveled-wednesday-8-25-21/) - Greetings Unravelers! This week I have the big reveal of my summer mystery knit. Let's face it, sometimes mystery knits sound exciting but the end results...not so much. I have knit many a mystery shawl that are never, ever worn. It is a sad thing to invest time to making something that does not spark
- [Renewed and refreshed? | 8.23.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/08/23/renewed-and-refreshed-8-23-21/) - Just to show you all how completely out of sync my brain is... I thought that today was the day to update you all on my word. Good thing that I have one more week for that so that I can try and do something with my word this month because I have basically avoided
- [Good Things Friday | 8.13.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/08/13/good-things-friday-8-13-21/) - My plan was to post something this morning to let you all know that I will be taking a little blogging break next week. I am not going anywhere, but I am in need of a recharge of my brain...creativity...etc. But last night some huge storms rolled in and with one very large BOOM... we
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.11.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/08/11/unraveled-wednesday-8-11-21/) - It has been a slow week for making this week. But!! I am on my second sleeve and happy to have this easy to pick up and put down project right now. But it is just all so much of a grey blob, isn't it? I thought I'd share the ribbon I found to cover
- [Sometimes Monday | 8.9.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/08/09/sometimes-monday-8-9-21/) - Is for seeking input! Last week we had a wee break in the heat and humidity, but that all ended over the weekend. This week is supposed to be warm and so humid. But that break...it makes me think about moving out of this season and easing into autumn. It's been such a strange summer...
- [Good things, with a side of food for thought | 8.6.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/08/06/good-things-with-a-side-of-food-for-thought-8-6-21/) - An overly full week is winding down. Stress seems to be intent on becoming the center of our lives... and I pondered in my morning meditations if my fighting against the stress was causing more stress than acknowledging the stress and moving on around it. (I am pretty sure I just answered my question... but
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.4.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/08/04/unraveled-wednesday-8-4-21/) - Greetings dear Unravelers! How on earth is it possibly August??? I have a finish this week, yes Shakerag is done! And I love it very much and am contemplating making another one! Shoulder seaming woes and all! Yes... it was a bitch and a half to seam... somehow the fronts and backs were not.the.same.width. I
- [Sometimes Monday's | 8.2.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/08/02/sometimes-mondays-8-2-21/) - Are beautifully overcast and almost chilly enough to need a sweater! This morning it feels like a switch has been turned off as August ushered in some much cooler nights. This paired with the now noticeably darker mornings and earlier darker evenings brings the knowledge that summer is not here to stay. (Outside of my
- [The Good, Bad, and Downright Disappointing](https://askatknits.com/2021/07/30/the-good-bad-and-downright-disappointing/) - Or, a "Currently" update... I have not done a "currently" update for a very long time. Too long, maybe. Anyways, one has kind of been rattling around in my brain so I thought I'd share a bit. Sadly, it is not all of it is good... but that is often life, right? Remembering — I read
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.28.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/07/28/unraveled-wednesday-7-28-21/) - This week you have a nicely folded dark square of knitting paired with a lovely start of a new project... not what I expected but it is what it is.... I know I said last week that I would have my Shakerag Top finished and while the *knitting* is done... it still needs seaming and
- [Release | July 2021](https://askatknits.com/2021/07/26/release-july-2021/) - FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time. — Andrew Yang This month, Carolyn encouraged us to have fun...and I spent a good bit of time thinking about how to work fun into my word...release. So I started by filling in my clouds with what filled my day... things I
- [A Q and A Post | 7.23.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/07/23/a-q-and-a-post-7-23-21/) - Happy Friday as we welcome the last week of July. The week has had the rug pulled out from under it a bit which is, sadly, going to push back our trip to Michigan... until October. I am trying to stay focused on the positive but there is not much positive in any of this...
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.21.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/07/21/unraveled-wednesday-7-21-21/) - Summer making is just so good! I have two "Moon Rise" coasters completed... and they are perfect! A combination of hand stitching and machine stitching... I appliqued the moons on, then I sat at the machine for less than 15 minutes to sew them together. Then I spent an afternoon reacquainting myself with hand quilting.
- [Sometimes Monday | 7.19.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/07/19/sometimes-monday-7-19-21/) - Brings new things! A rainy weekend meant that I spent more time indoors (and got a jump on the week's tasks!) But that is okay because have a bit of a pattern puzzle to put together and some tools to find! (Hello, grommet setter!) So thanks to that weekend rain, my Monday is abnormally free!
- [Good Things | 7.16.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/07/16/good-things-7-16-21/) - Hullo, Friday! Like clockwork, you arrive bringing with you the weekend, which might be the best constant ever. Last night my "new" book club finished Good Talk. It seemed most fitting that we met in the Lincoln Gallery for our final discussion. The conversations around this book have been enlightening and so very helpful. I
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.14.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/07/13/unraveled-wednesday-7-14-21/) - Greetings Unravelers! Happy (almost) mid-July! (a statement that does not even seem remotely possible!) Despite that fact...my world of the Great Summer Slow Down is full of so many good things! I have a finish that I, sadly, cannot yet share. But I wanted to talk a bit about what I learned knitting this sweater...
- [Sometimes Monday... | 7.12.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/07/12/sometimes-monday-7-12-21/) - Arrives and I have nothing for a blog post. So when all else fails, poetry saves the day! I hope that this poetry will bolster your day and start your week off in the best way! See you all back here on Wednesday! In Summer Twilight Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. Just a dash of lambent
- [TGIF | 7.9.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/07/09/tgif-7-9-21/) - Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. — Langston Hughes The hot, muggy weather returned which meant I was spending extra time watering the vegetable gardens so when some summer storms rolled in, it was so welcome...for the vegetables and me! Ha! And that rain
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.7.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/07/06/unraveled-wednesday-7-7-21/) - It has been a slow making week here at Casa del KatKnits... but the three tubes have been joined which seems like a good thing...and it is! It means I am closer to a finished sweater, but it also means I have monstrously long rounds to knit... monstrously long! But I am close to the
- [Very Good Things | 7.2.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/07/02/very-good-things-7-2-21/) - Summer Slow Down continues despite the cooler temps and some really good "soaking" rains we've had over the last day. Truthfully, it was a welcome change from 90+ degree days. I understand that our heatwave was nothing compared to what many are experiencing, but still... too hot is too hot and for me temps in
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.30.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/06/29/unraveled-wednesday-6-30-21/) - Gentle Readers... we have arrived at the final day of June...sigh. It gives me a tiny pang in my heart to say that and despite a week of 90+ degree days...life is just so good! On the making side of my life... I am progressing on my Test Knit... this week the three tubes shall
- [Release | 6.28.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/06/28/release-6-28-21/) - If you’re always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you’re in? Slow down and enjoy the moment you’re in and live your life to the fullest. ― Nanette Mathews Carolyn's prompts for June included a Blast List, which I struggled with... I was stymied by what to put on this list. Or
- [Very Good Things | 6.25.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/06/25/very-good-things-6-25-21/) - “How did it get so late so soon?” ― Dr. Seuss Today I am one with Dr. Seuss. It is the last Friday in June... and all I can do is wonder where the heck the month went? But it is still June for a few more seconds and so let's slow down and savor
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.23.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/06/23/unraveled-wednesday-6-23-21/) - Greetings Gentle Readers! Apparently sofa's have a great desire for AirPods...and yes, I found them deep inside in a place I did not know my sofa had. I also found one pen and, curiously, just one stitch marker. The Single Stitch Marker surprises me because I am very confident that I have lost more than
- [Sometimes Monday | 6.21.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/06/21/sometimes-monday-6-21-21/) - Bring (the official start of) summer and a very full week. I have a list which includes the mundane that I don't need a list to remember to do, but the joy of crossing things off inspires me to always include the mundane. It includes finding a new physician... never, ever a fun task but
- [Very Good Things | 6.18.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/06/18/very-good-things-6-18-21/) - I want to close this week out with a list of Good Things that I thought you might find some of them enrich your days as well. All these things all fit well with my LSD Mantra (Learning to Slow Down) for the summer. Listening things are probably the best part of my day. Somehow
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.16.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/06/16/unraveled-wednesday-6-16-21/) - “LSD stands out for learning to slow down.” ― Santosh Kalwar Yes, this is my mantra for the remainder of the summer. Life in the slow lane... just feels good. In pre-slow times, I would have slammed this tunic out (with a mistake or ten because speed) and moved on to the next thing. This
- [Looking Back | May 2021](https://askatknits.com/2021/06/14/looking-back-may-2021/) - “Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.” ― Vladimir Nabokov For a long month, May seemed over before it began! Likewise... holy cow it seems like all we did was drink! (Perhaps that is why the month flew by? lol) Anyways... there were some good things this month! Like so many sunny
- [TGIF | 6.11.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/06/11/tgif-6-11-21/) - I don't know about you, but the days are racing by... how is it the 11th already? Yikes! I want summer to slow it right down... take your time! What's the rush? Right? And with the idea of things racing on past, this weeks list of things are things that are all about slowing down!
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.9.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/06/09/unraveled-wednesday-6-9-21/) - Winston provided me with my Hat Review... and I am going to make those brims just a wee bit narrower so he can see, but still be shaded from the sunshine! But... did you ever see anything cuter than Winston in hats? Me either! LOL This second half of the week I will be trimming
- [Sometimes Monday | 6.7.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/06/07/sometimes-monday-6-7-21/) - Is time for a big brain dump! I spent lots of time thinking this weekend... about so many things! And yes, I even managed to get some sleep! Thank goodness!! And!! I found some impatiens! (Go Home Depot! lol) There was lots of outdoor work...perfect for thinking and thinking and more thinking! Some topics percolated
- [Stitching up the week | 6.4.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/06/04/stitching-up-the-week-6-4-21/) - Greetings, Gentle Readers. It's been a short-long week in my house. Short in the days which fairly flew by... long in the nights with a raging bout of insomnia that has lasted far too long. Which brings me to this morning where I find myself with a severe case of Brain Fog...I am not certain
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.2.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/06/02/unraveled-wednesday-6-2-21/) - Greetings Unravelers! Welcome to June! Excuse me while I continue doing the dance of joy over my Marled Very-Short-Sleeved Purl Strings. I am in love and think that the solution for "not enough yarn" was the best accident ever! I predict this will get oodles of use this summer (and if it had not been
- [Sometimes Tuesday's... | 6.1.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/06/01/sometimes-tuesdays-6-1-21/) - Feel like the long weekend was just not quite long enough and I spent zero time even thinking about a blog post. Thank goodness for poetry...this poem arrived in my mailbox on Sunday and it seemed just perfect for the rainy weekend and there is something amazing about a poem that was written more than 1200
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.12.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/05/12/unraveled-wednesday-5-12-21/) - Try new things, step out of your comfort zone, take risks, do things in ways you've never done them before, ask for help, surround yourself with self-actualized people, become obsessed with the fact that you have one go–round on this planet as the you that is you, and realize how precious and important it is
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.26.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/05/26/unraveled-wednesday-5-26-21/) - I am not quite sure how it is the last Wednesday of May, but here we are. Kym hoped that I would share my "list" and I think that is a very good idea for a couple of reasons! One: accountability (which is a very good thing for me! lol) and Two: if I have
- [Release | 5.25.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/05/24/release-5-25-21/) - “They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince It seems that I have found the path forward with my word, and while I can't say it feels good... it is a good thing. My "ah-ha" moment came courtesy of Pádraig Ó Tuama...specifically,
- [TGIF | 5.21.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/05/21/tgif-5-21-21/) - Happy Friday, Gentle Readers...but honestly, I can't quite believe it's Friday! This week just raced by at a speed that is a bit frightening. Summer arrived rather abruptly... it went from frosty mornings and the need for the furnace last week to some very warm weather, which looks like it is here for the duration
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.19.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/05/19/unraveled-wednesday-5-19-21/) - “Always listen to the warnings from your heart.” ― Teresa Collins Greetings Unravelers! I hoped to have a finished sock, but I finally listened to that nagging voice in my head and ripped out the sock I had started a couple of weeks ago. Even though this is a pattern I have knit multiple times
- [Sometimes Monday... | 5.17.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/05/17/sometimes-monday-5-17-21/) - ...is a respite from The Very, Very, Incredibly Busy Weekend. It was full. So full. My weekend started with some al Fresco-soak in the sunshine-sip a couple of beers dining. Yes, sunshine!! Temperatures that were well above freezing! Gosh, it felt so good and was the perfect way to welcome the weekend! Saturday we headed
- [TGIF (etc) | 5.14.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/05/14/tgif-etc-5-14-21/) - It feels like I have not done one of these posts in ages and so I thought that it would be a wonderful way to end the week: (bookish) Thinking — I managed to print out not one, but two Summer Book Bingo cards. I know... what is wrong with me! But there is a
- [Sometimes Monday... | 5.10.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/05/10/sometimes-monday-5-10-21/) - arrives right on schedule despite a weekend of little sleep...courtesy of a returning bout of insomnia. comes with a longer than usual to do list...courtesy of me ignoring things to sit and spin instead for most of last week. shows up despite having done no blog post prep over the weekend (if only that single
- [My New Spinning Obsession](https://askatknits.com/2021/05/07/my-new-spinning-obsession/) - I had the unbelievable fortune to take not one, but two of the online class offerings from MDSW last week. My first class, Twist with Maggie Casey, was mind-blowing. For a long time... too long...I have spun the same default yarn. Now, that is not necessarily a bad thing if you always make the same
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.5.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/05/05/unraveled-wednesday-5-5-21/) - If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough. — Evan Davis Greetings, Gentle Unravelers! May is unfurling like the leaves on the trees in my yard and it feels so good! Me Made May is underway and it is off to a good start! My usual is to mix
- [Looking Back | April 2021](https://askatknits.com/2021/05/03/looking-back-april-2021/) - Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss. ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside The start of April seemed to go unbelievably slowly – inching by at a snails pace. And there were so many days with snow! Gah, crazy I tell you! I am
- [April is for Poetry | 4.29.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/04/29/april-is-for-poetry-4-29-21/) - Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. — Carl Sandburg April is just such an amazing month and I hope that during the month we have opened some doors and allowed you to ponder the moments that poets captured
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.28.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/04/28/unraveled-wednesday-4-28-21/) - 100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction. ― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee I thought this quote was exactly the reminder I needed as I am about to embark on Me-Made May – minus
- [Release | 4.26.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/04/26/release-4-26-21/) - Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep
- [April is for Poetry | 4.22.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/04/22/april-is-for-poetry-4-22-21/) - Sometimes poetry is witty and clever...I think my grandfather's favorite poet, Carl Sandburg, hits this brilliantly with his poem Fog. When my grandfather would recite this poem to me I could see exactly what Sandburg meant in the clever way he uses a cat to describe fog. (Don't ask me about Sandburg's other poetry though because
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.21.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/04/21/unraveled-wednesday-4-21-21/) - My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean [lake]. — Nina Arianda I am pretty sure that if Nina Arianda had see any of the Great Lakes she would absolutely wanted to vacation there. This week I have a "change of scenery" as we are visiting Erie and more specifically, Presque Isle - which just might
- [April is for Poetry | 4.15.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/04/15/april-is-for-poetry-4-15-21/) - This week we are all sharing thoughts on 'new beginnings' and poetry. One would think this would be an easy topic because there are so.many.poems about beginning. At first I thought that I'd share the poem that took my hand and began my love of poetry. It is a lovely poem by Derek Walcott called
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.14.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/04/14/unraveled-wednesday-4-14-21/) - Cut and secure the front steek. — Mary Jane Mucklestone, Modern Daily Knitting Field Guide No. 17, Lopi I don't think it matters how many times you have knit a sweater that requires steeking, it always is a nerve-racking experience. I mean, take a scissors and cut your knitting? Seriously? And despite the nerves... it
- [April is for Poetry | 4.1.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/04/01/april-is-for-poetry-4-1-21/) - Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. — Carl Sandburg Welcome to National Poetry Month! April has become my absolute favorite month and it is the perfect time to immerse yourself in poetry. That is just what I am going to do this month thanks to the genius of Kym who asked Bonny and I
- [April is for Poetry | 4.8.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/04/08/april-is-for-poetry-4-8-21/) - Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. — Salvatore Quasimodo One of the best things about National Poetry Month is the discovery of new-to-me poets and this year is no exception to that! When Kym asked if Bonny and
- [Spring-Clean-Ending](https://askatknits.com/2021/04/12/spring-clean-ending/) - I have no idea who "Maxine" is, but boy this quote was my weekend! LOL (and who am I??) I have been diligently working through the #cleaningarmy Spring Cleaning Challenge List (A huge thanks to Kym for sending me their way!) and I worked away on the kitchen over the weekend, ugh. But boy is
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.7.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/04/07/unraveled-wednesday-4-7-21/) - The knitting is slow going this week however, I did get through the yoke color work and have divided for the sleeves on my Daytripper cardigan! I thought things were progressing well and then yesterday happened! Yes, I had some side effects from my second injection...the worst of which was an unbelievable headache so not much
- [Looking Back | March 2021](https://askatknits.com/2021/04/05/looking-back-march-2021/) - March is such a fickle month. It is the seam between winter and spring—though seam suggests an even hem, and March is more like a rough line of stitches sewn by an unsteady hand, swinging wildly between January gusts and June greens. You don’t know what you’ll find, until you step outside. ― V. E.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.31.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/03/31/unraveled-wednesday-3-31-21/) - “Like thousands of others, we survived the storm and the many dark days that followed because of the kindness of strangers who brought food, water, and comfort'.” ― Vivek Murthy To say I am profoundly grateful for all your kind words for my post on Monday would be an understatement. I was overwhelmed with the outpouring
- [Release | March 2021](https://askatknits.com/2021/03/29/release-march-2021/) - Hello Monday. I am joining Carolyn again to share my March update on my word. A word that I have again considered dumping... releasing release. Or maybe just curtailing release to be my clean out the physical closets in this house companion, and keeping release out of the emotional closets of my mind. But I
- [Friday Brain Dump | 3.26.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/03/26/friday-brain-dump-3-26-21/) - After 100 days of Hope I struggled a bit to figure out what to post today. So I decided to just empty my brain and write. It was a week of ups and downs. On the upside...as my snowdrops faded, the forsythia started to bloom! On the down side COVID has struck close to home.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.24.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/03/24/unraveled-wednesday-3-24-21/) - Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. — Samuel Beckett This quote is my mantra for knitting this week. Yes, I have tried. Yes, I have failed. Yes, I tried again. Yes, I failed again. My attempts are not always better, but I still keep trying...as you can see from
- [Good Things for Monday | 3.22.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/03/22/good-things-for-monday-3-22-21/) - Each morning I begin my day the same way...before I can just sit with my thoughts I take Sherman out. He is a fine and quiet companion in the early morning... and he does not mind my silence while I listen to The Writer's Almanac podcast and this morning's edition was just spectacular. It's Billy
- [100 Days of Hope | Week 11](https://askatknits.com/2021/03/19/100-days-of-hope-week-11/) - “Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.” ― Emily Dickinson I am ending this 100 day journey from winter to spring where I started, but with a new understanding of hope. Hope exists in us, it is always around
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.17.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/03/17/unraveled-wednesday-3-17-21/) - Happy St. Patrick's Day! This is the holiday when you should try and knit with some green yarn (and absolutely not try to drink any green beer!) Sadly, I am doing neither but I am knitting! Ha! I thought if a knitter had written the Irish blessing it might look something like this: May the
- [Mid-March Weekending | 3.15.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/03/15/mid-march-weekending-3-15-21/) - I haven't done a "weekending" post in eons. Thank you, Pandemic Living for making weekends utterly unsharable! How many different ways can you say... ummm, we did the same thing as every other weekend. Well, this weekend was the not like the previous weekends, so I thought it was "share-worthy"! We started out on Friday
- [100 Days of Hope | Week 10](https://askatknits.com/2021/03/12/100-days-of-hope-week-10-2/) - Let the rain sing you a lullaby. — Langston Hughes We had a delicious taste of spring in Pittsburgh this week...warm temperatures, sunshine, and yes... some rain. It pattered on the roof all night and reminded me how lovely it is to be tucked into bed when it rains. It is the perfect invitation for
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.10.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/03/10/unraveled-wednesday-3-10-21/) - When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too. — Stephanie Pearl McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much I finally began those socks again... and this time I decided to use a toe up sock pattern... sort of.
- [Looking Back | January 2021](https://askatknits.com/2021/02/08/looking-back-january-2021/) - “JANUARY, The first month of the year, A perfect time to start all over again, Changing energies and deserting old moods, New beginnings, new attitudes” ― Charmaine J Forde Charmaine Forde seemed to know exactly what I was trying to achieve in January. Starting over, changing, deserting old moods, new beginnings, and yes, new attitudes! I
- [Looking Back | February 2021](https://askatknits.com/2021/03/08/looking-back-february-2021/) - But February made me shiver... — Don Mclean, American Pie As I put this look back together Don Mclean's song kept echoing in my head. A melancholy song for a melancholy month... a month of some hard emotional lifting. A month that the weather, miraculously, matched my mood. But as I look back, I see
- [100 Days of Hope | Week 10](https://askatknits.com/2021/03/05/100-days-of-hope-week-10/) - “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ― Pablo Neruda This week hope began to leap forward in a most glorious manner! My little snowdrops have come up and while their little flowers are not open, these hardy little flowers are the most pleasant bits of green in a very
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.3.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/03/03/unraveled-wednesday-3-3-21/) - “SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.” ― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much This week I present my new favorite sweater! It was a long time in the making, but wow do I like it! I like it so much that I have plans
- [Welcome, March! | 3.1.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/03/01/welcome-march-3-1-21/) - It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens Welcome March! I have been eagerly awaiting your arrival! It seems Dickens and I have the same vision of March... it can be
- [100 Days of Hope | Week 9](https://askatknits.com/2021/02/26/100-days-of-hope-week-9-2/) - Hope itself is like a star — not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon This quote has been so true for me this week. Sometimes, when life is just grand... why do you need hope? It is in the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.24.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/02/24/unraveled-wednesday-2-24-21/) - Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Greetings Unravelers! It's the very last Unraveled Wednesday in February! And while we certainly had a wintry February here in Pittsburgh – the snowiest one since I moved here 7 years ago! My thoughts are
- [Release | February 2021](https://askatknits.com/2021/02/22/release-february-2021/) - I am joining Carolyn again this month to share my word update. This may be the most exhausting blog post I have ever written. I started it on Friday, rewrote it on Saturday, deleted it on Sunday and started again...exhausting to the nth power! And even then... hitting that damned publish button! February has just
- [100 Days of Hope | Week 9](https://askatknits.com/2021/02/19/100-days-of-hope-week-9/) - “The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.” ― E.E. Cummings Winter reminded us over that it was far from over this week. We got snow, on snow, on snow, with a bit of freezing rain thrown in for fun... Oh, and bitter cold temperatures for the exclamation point, just in case
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.17.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/02/17/unraveled-wednesday-2-17-21/) - As I get ready to embark on my Lenten Poetry Journey, I thought some words of wisdom from Ferlinghetti's Poetry As Insurgent Art would be the perfect thing to start me on my journey! Be a songbird, not a parrot. Be a canary in the coal mine. (A dead canary is not just an ornithological
- [Presidents' Day | 2.15.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/02/15/presidents-day-2-15-21/) - This weekend being a long weekend was advantageous...it was icy over the weekend and overnight came some more snow, not as much as was predicted (thank goodness) but still, it is good that Steve has today off. I stumbled across this poem by Louise Glück and I thought it was most appropriate for today...especially the
- [100 Days of Hope | Week 8](https://askatknits.com/2021/02/12/100-days-of-hope-week-8/) - This week I was reminded over and over and over how poetry brings hope. "Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness.” ― Mary Oliver Mary Oliver must have been seeing what I see when I look out my
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.10.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/02/10/unraveled-wednesday-2-10-21/) - If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee That quote defines my life this week...Laundry? Dusting? Meh...I have been consumed with knitting this week! This week I have finished two infinitely wearable knits and I will take at least 6
- [100 Days of Hope | Week 7](https://askatknits.com/2021/02/05/100-days-of-hope-week-7/) - “Art is the highest form of hope.” ― Gerhard Richter This week I really noticed mornings that were lighter. It is just so nice to walk Sherman and greet the morning at.the.same.time! (rather that stumbling around in the darkness!) This morning it was mild but windy. And those winds were moving the clouds right along...almost painting
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.3.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/02/03/unraveled-wednesday-2-3-21/) - “A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.” ― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee There was a similar discussion in my house recently, this quote works for spinning as well... because that wheel in the living room? Why yes, it is an object of art! lol But the making
- [Monday Magic | 2.1.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/02/01/monday-magic-2-1-21/) - “We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.” ― Pema Chödrön I stumbled upon this quote this weekend and have been pondering it ever since. It rings true for me as this
- [100 Days of Hope | Week 6](https://askatknits.com/2021/01/29/100-days-of-hope-week-6/) - “If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.” ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head Welcome to Week 6 of Hope. This week, I found that humor is a necessary element of hope... especially after listening to Billy Collin's "The Present" last week.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.27.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/01/27/unraveled-wednesday-1-27-21/) - ...I never just knit; I knit and think, knit and listen, knit and watch. — Stephanie Pearl-McFee Greetings Unravelers! Welcome to the final Wednesday in January. Was it me, or did this month just fly by? I managed to have a finish this month though! Autumn Forest is off the needles, but in need of a
- [Release | January 2021](https://askatknits.com/2021/01/25/release-january-2021/) - A New Year, a new word, a new day, and a new home for our monthly link up! I am excited to join Carolyn as she hosts us this year! January word studies might be one of my favorite things. Digging into a word, looking at all the possibilities, releasing any preconceived ideas I might
- [100 Days of Hope | Week 5](https://askatknits.com/2021/01/22/100-days-of-hope-week-5/) - When I'm at work I sing. It gives me strength during difficult times, and I believe it helps heal. — Lori Marie Key I don't know if you all watched the very moving and long overdue Memorial for the more than 400,000 American's who have died. I did and it seems that this service broke the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.20.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/01/20/unraveled-wednesday-1-20-21/) - What we love to do we find time to do. — John L. Spalding Welcome to Inauguration Day Unravelers! This past week has been all about vacillating between wanting to watch the news and trying to avoid the news. I think I found a good balance and in the process did some yarn sorting and
- [MLK Jr Day | 1.18.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/01/18/mlk-jr-day-1-18-21/) - True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. — Martin Luther King Jr It's MLK Jr Day so why does it still feel like for every step we take forward, there are dozens of steps back. And if I in my white privilege feel this, how much worse
- [100 Days of Hope | Week 4](https://askatknits.com/2021/01/15/100-days-of-hope-week-4/) - “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” ― John Bunyan This week, hope seemed to be jumping up all around me shouting... Over here! and Look at me! Yes, hope was overflowing and it filled me! Lots of people doing things that can never be repaid.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.13.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/01/13/unraveled-wednesday-1-13-21/) - “ I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.” ―Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much Thinking back, I do not think my kids ever freaked out over my knitting in public, but Steve on the other hand absolutely does! Ha! Fortunately, I
- [Looking Back | December 2020](https://askatknits.com/2021/01/11/looking-back-december-2020/) - “How did it get so late so soon?” ― Dr. Seuss I have been debating with myself since the waning days of December about doing this last "Look Back" of the year. It was just such a month of "nothing." Yes, I decorated for the holidays. Yes, I listened to music and sang along loudly! But
- [Looking Back | January 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/02/04/looking-back-january-2020/) - Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson The Best Part of the Month: Realizing that there was more sunshine than it felt like. January is long, and it felt so sunless and seeing that there were more pockets of sunshine than I remembered
- [100 Days of Hope | Week 3](https://askatknits.com/2021/01/08/100-days-of-hope-week-3/) - Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. — Anne Lamott I think we all need a bit of stubborn hope today, even though it feels like all hope has vanished. I expected *something* to happening on Wednesday...what
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.6.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/01/06/unraveled-wednesday-1-6-21/) - “I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances” ― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much Today, of all days, is a day to keep your knitting at hand to help your mood for what certainly will be some trying circumstances. But, as Kamala said on Monday night, "We
- [Monday Magic | 1.4.21](https://askatknits.com/2021/01/04/monday-magic-1-4-21/) - Happy First Monday in January! There might be a wee bit of excitement in my house this morning as Steve returns to his "usual schedule" this week...whew! LOL My day is full of so many things from laundry to Undecorating to OLW contemplation... a truly varied list. I am hoping that laundry becomes less "mundane"
- [100 Days of Hope | Week 2](https://askatknits.com/2021/01/01/100-days-of-hope-week-2/) - Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.' — Alfred Lord Tennyson Happy New Year! I have written this quote in my journal to greet me next week, although... doesn't it feel like today is the start of a new week rather than Friday? Is it just me
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.30.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/12/30/unraveled-wednesday-12-30-20/) - Greetings, Unravelers! We have finally arrived at the last Wednesday of the longest year ever. No updates with this post, but rather reviews... The best of 2020 in making and reading. This was the Year of Making (although not all of it has been captured on Ravelry, thanks to them being tone deaf about people
- [A Year of Intentional Living | December 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/12/29/a-year-of-intentional-living-december-2020/) - I am joining Honoré to close out my word of 2020. Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. — Mary Anne Radmacher This quote has
- [100 Days of Hope | Week One](https://askatknits.com/2020/12/24/100-days-of-hope-week-one/) - When I got the first email about the Winter Solstice Project I thought that I did not need one more thing. But then the second email came, and I began to think more about the idea of a weekly project. The idea grew and felt like this is something I need to do in my
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.23.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/12/23/unraveled-wednesday-12-23-20/) - The week of selfish knitting has begun and my heart is singing with the joy of it! I have cast on a new sock in a new way of knitting for me...toe up. And so far so good. I am not yet to the heel, but I am in no rush. I am savoring each
- [Monday Magic | 12.21.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/12/21/monday-magic-12-21-20/) - I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I'm not happy. I don't feel the way I'm supposed to feel. — Charlie Brown I don't know about you, but this is truly the Charlie Browniest Christmas ever because this is definitely the feel in my house this year. Steve has
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.16.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/12/16/unraveled-wednesday-12-16-20/) - Greetings Unravelers! Is the rapidly approaching Christmas adding stress to your season? I am progressing nicely on my few Christmas makes, so my stress level is low! On Monday, I had the most curious dream and so in-between laundry, I started going through my scrap fabric bin to see what I might find. Tuesday I
- [Monday Magic | 12.14.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/12/14/monday-magic-12-14-20/) - I am wondering this morning just where the weekend went... it was here, but boy, it was over way too fast! So here we are on Monday, but it is the most auspicious of Monday's! You see, it's the first Monday after the second Wednesday... which means the Electoral Collage is meeting today! It seems
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.9.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/12/09/unraveled-wednesday-12-9-20/) - No big making this week...BUT!!! That project bag? Well, it has 1/2 of my Gift Knitting done, and the second half has begun. If I persevere, I think I can have this done in 4 or 5 days (especially since I know exactly what to do now!) AND!! This yarn!! Oh.my.gosh! Chain ply just never
- [Virtual Advent | My First Christmas](https://askatknits.com/2020/12/07/virtual-advent-mya-first-christmas/) - I enjoyed Bridget's Virtual Advent Christmas story and I thought, well... I have a sort of similar story to share. And although I do not remember any of this story, I have heard it told and re-told and re-told! Plus..I have the proof that it is true! I have a cousin, Bill, who is 6
- [Looking Back | November 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/12/04/looking-back-november-2020/) - November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls. — Jean Hersey This quote is almost my November... while there are no gray stone walls here, the squirrels run races on the power lines
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.2.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/12/02/unraveled-wednesday-12-2-20/) - Greetings Unravelers! I am writing this on Tuesday afternoon from a wintery white South Hills of Pittsburgh! Yes, December 1st brought winter and I truly love the first snowfall of the season! The few inches we were supposed to get were exceeded before noon and still it continued to snow. Good thing I have plenty
- [Intentional Living | November 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/12/01/intentional-living-november-2020/) - I am joining Honoré again this month to share an update on my word. Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. — Mary Anne Radmacher
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.25.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/11/25/unraveled-wednesday-11-25-20/) - Greetings Unravelers! Today my feet are tucked inside the below socks... cozy and warm and just in time for the return of the chilly weather! These socks are from Kate Atherley's Twitter KAL and they were so fun to knit. There were different techniques for the heels and toes, and I truly love the fit.
- [Monday Magic | 11.23.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/11/23/monday-magic-11-23-20/) - There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you'd been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you're suspended knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself. — Ann Pachett, The Dutch
- [Friday Finds | 11.20.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/11/20/friday-finds-11-20-20/) - It feels like I survived the wars this week, and came out standing!! Nothing takes your mind off the insanity of politics like a plumbing problem... however, I hope we are good on plumbing for the rest of the year! LOL There were some lovely little bright spots this week, though... First up, did you
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.18.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/11/18/unraveled-wednesday-11-18-20/) - The best laid plans of knitters and stitchers often go awry...said makers everywhere at one time or another Greetings Unravelers, I hope you'll excuse my play on Robert Burns writing, but it truly sums up my week thus far! (BUT, the water is flowing OUT again! No more clogged drain! Some days it's the small
- [Monday Magic | 11.16.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/11/16/monday-magic-11-16-20/) - Today is going to need all sorts of magic... I have a clogged drain and no amount of *anything* worked to unclog it on Sunday and we tried practically all.day.long! It made for a contentious, irritating day... and yes, there were LOTS of raised voice conversations. So when I found this in my in-box yesterday,
- [Monday Magic | 10.26.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/10/26/monday-magic-10-26-20/) - We are the ones we have been waiting for. — The Elders, Oraibi, Arizona Hopi Nation I have been in dire need of a shake up here at my blog and late last week some inspiration struck. It started with a quote by a some unknown genius: It's just another Magic Monday and those simple
- [Monday Magic | 11.2.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/11/02/monday-magic-11-2-20/) - If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. — Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation Greetings Gentle Readers! How are you all doing today? For me, it feels like I have reached the Apex of Stress, sans the downhill portion...amirite? My focus as I start this
- [Friday Finds | 11.13.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/11/13/friday-finds-11-13-20/) - Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor. — Nanea Hoffman Hello, Gentle Readers and Happy Friday! I hope that none of you suffer from triskaidekaphobia and that today is simply the gateway to the weekend! Here in the 'Burgh, its been
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.11.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/11/11/unraveled-wednesday-11-11-20/) - Armistice Day..."on this day, at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends." Somehow this is not something that is celebrated here in the United States. We call it Veterans Day...but there is something meaningful about those words. 11... 11... 11... The Great War Ends. My
- [Looking Back | October 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/11/10/looking-back-october-2020/) - I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers. — Leif Enger, Peace Like a River I love October, but this year it was a bit melancholy for me this year. Every year, pre-COVID, we head off to Michigan to spend a glorious chunk of
- [Monday Magic | 11.9.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/11/09/monday-magic-11-9-20/) - Every election is determined by the people who show up. — Larry J. Sabato, Pendulum Swing There was no magic at all in last week's election, it was simply counting the votes of the people who showed up! (and show up they did!) But I fear we will need some magic to heal the rift
- [TGIF | 11.6.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/11/06/tgif-11-6-20/) - Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on. — Thurgood Marshall Thinking About — This from the NYTimes. The hardest thing for me is this...58% of white men and 55% of white women voted for Trump. How the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.4.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/11/04/unraveled-wednesday-11-4-20/) - My heart is heavy this morning...yesterday at my local poll in my neighborhood was an eye-opening experience. I have a different view of my neighbors this morning and it makes me so sad. You know that phrase "kill them with kindness"? I am here today to tell you that is highly over-rated. Kindness did not
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.28.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/10/28/unraveled-wednesday-10-28-20/) - Greetings Unravelers! First, a bit of housekeeping for next week! There will be an Unraveled post, but it won't be up super early. I will be working the polls next Tuesday and I am planning that it will be a LONG day. However, I do hope to have the post up by 9 AM EST.
- [Intentional Avoidance | 10.27.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/10/27/intentional-avoidance-10-27-20/) - I am joining Honoré again this month to share an update on my word. Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. — Mary Anne Radmacher
- [Intentionally Hard | 9.29.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/09/29/intentionally-hard-9-29-20/) - I am joining Honoré again this month to share an update on my word. Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. — Mary Anne Radmacher
- [TGIF | 10.23.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/10/23/tgif-10-23-20/) - It is me, or do the weeks somehow seem longer. I don't know why that is, but boy… this week felt so.darned.long! I am chalking this up to the fact that COVID-emic-ELECTION days are some of the longest days ever, amirite? Anyways, this week felt like the perfect time to do a little TGIFing. Takedown
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.21.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/10/21/unraveled-wednesday-10-21-20/) - Dear Unravelers, Do you ever feel like you are in a "making" rut? I am in a huge making rut and it really sucks! I have things to knit that I want to finish, but boy... there is just no joy in the making right now. (FYI, the following links are to projects on Ravelry)
- [Sometimes Monday | 10.19.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/10/19/sometimes-monday-10-19-20/) - Weeks that feel unending makes for a fly-by weekend...or at least that is how it seemed here. The weekend was over before it began. But maybe not... because I got so much done! My planner set up is working wonderfully and it feels good to have everything together. (sorry, I had planned on getting a photo
- [Friday Things | 10.16.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/10/16/friday-things-10-16-20/) - Overnight, the weather has changed...dramatically. Yesterday it was windy and mild... today grey, rainy, and much cooler. It seems that this prediction is spot on, lol... I am shocked because that rarely happens! Oh, and it seems that there is some *snow* in the forecast as well. Sigh. Here is the temperature outlook as we
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.14.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/10/14/unraveled-wednesday-10-14-20/) - This week, knitting for Olivia has consumed me! I working on the sweetest little layette set that I hope to have winging its way to her in CA soon! The evolution of my knitting has astounded me though... especially in this iteration of the timeless BSJ. I must have been channeling EZ because I thought
- [Oh, Monday | 10.12.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/10/12/oh-monday-10-12-20/) - Last week ended on a stressful note... and then some. Oy. Friday I had a doctors appointment...a stressful thing in itself...and after making it through the "COVID Screening" to get to my doctors office, I thought it would be smooth sailing from there, HA! Sadly, all my fears intensified when I walked into a very
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.7.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/10/07/unraveled-wednesday-10-7-20/) - Greetings Unravelers! First up, some incredibly sad news. I had already planned my post for Monday or I would have shared that Annie Modesitt lost her battle with cancer last week Thursday. This tribute posted on FB is exactly how I want to remember Annie. Bon voyage, indeed, Annie. May your next journey be as
- [Looking Back | September 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/10/05/looking-back-september-2020/) - September showed up right on schedule, and lasted a whole month. — Jenny Wingfield This was a month that I wish felt like February... short and over almost before it began. The days just dragged on and I had the worst case of the blues in September. It was hard to find one thing good
- [Friday Thoughts | 10.2.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/10/02/friday-thoughts-10-2-20/) - Another week draws to a close with its own set of hiccups. I had hoped to have found more nuggets of time to feed my Acorn Obsession, but I think the diversion is one I would not trade for anything. And while I cannot share photos, I can tell you that I have a new
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.30.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/09/30/unraveled-wednesday-9-30-20/) - Greetings, Unravelers! This week's making is back to Sleeve Island. Slowly, round by round, I am moving towards the cuff...of the first sleeve! lol In voting news, we got an email that our ballots were mailed 8 days ago but we have yet to receive them. Mail at our house has become something of a
- [Weekending | 9.28.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/09/28/weekending-9-28-20/) - Hi! I know, I said I was not going to be back until tomorrow, but what can I say. Ha! Do you ever feel in a rut? Well, I can tell you we sure do! Steve and I have been talking about how we are always doing/eating/listening to the same.things.every.week. So this week, we changed
- [Friday Finds | 9.25.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/09/25/friday-finds-9-25-20/) - I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. — Theodore
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.23.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/09/23/unraveled-wednesday-9-23-20/) - It has been hard to "get back into reality" even with just a few days away. But going anywhere in these Pandemic Times is a challenge, right? Our trip to Erie was no exception, we both worried about staying *any* place...even with the "enhanced cleaning" Airbnb suggests... So we brought pillows from home, and I
- [Sometimes Monday | 9.21.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/09/21/sometimes-monday-9-21-20/) - is all about the memories of sunsets and long walks, of the thrill of seeing a kettle of Turkey Vultures floating on the high winds, unexpected artwork, some history, a houseboat community (What?? I might have new summer goals!!), so.much.good.food! and icons (RBG and Cat Bordhi) too soon gone. And the 1 minute 20 second
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.16.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/09/16/unraveled-wednesday-9-16-20/) - This week's knitting was a brief interlude from sleeve knitting, because I finally got some Winston Measurements from my daughter! So before he grows any more, I picked up his Avery 2.0 Vest! The front is done, and the back is almost done! Which means I will just have to join the shoulders, seam the
- [Sometimes Monday | 9.14.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/09/14/sometimes-monday-9-14-20/) - Means a cooler start to the week! And the mornings are so dark now. The tables have turned and instead of the sun waiting for me to rise... I am waiting for the sun, which just might be the perfect way to ease into the week. These words by Jericho Brown have lingered with me
- [Sleeve Island | 9.11.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/09/11/sleeve-island-9-11-20/) - It's been a week, again. A world on fire... literally. So to maintain some semblance of sanity, I have avoided the internet...which means, I "found" nothing this week to share with you. But... I reached Dreamy Sleeve Island! Which means nine million stitches were successfully picked up and bound off! The finish line is calling
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.9.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/09/09/unraveled-wednesday-9-9-20/) - In retrospect, Gentle Readers, I should have done 1 more repeat of the patterning. In the end, rather than rip back 10 rows of ribbing, I just forged ahead and did an extra inch of 1x1 ribbing... Sigh. At no point in time did I ever try the body on to see how the length
- [Looking Back | August 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/09/07/looking-back-august-2020/) - “The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.” ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees Yes, this quote perfectly sums up what August was for me...a month of sizzling, never ending heat. By months end, my gardens were all looking rather fried. We did have some
- [T on T | 9.3.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/09/03/t-on-t-9-3-20/) - Joining Carole and friends this week! Thing One: Did you see that John Meacham has a new podcast? I have listened to the first two episodes and it is well worth a listen! Thing Two: I know a few of you are obsessed with play Animal Crossings: New Horizons. Did you all see this??? Yes, Knitlandia
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.2.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/09/02/unraveled-wednesday-9-2-20/) - A brief dip into autumnal temperatures were enough to spur me on to pick up my Evening Dew Cardigan and a bit of knitting over the weekend while watching The Peanut Butter Falcon and an episode or two of Silent Witness and I find myself less than one repeat away from the bottom ribbing! I
- [Sometimes Monday | 8.31.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/08/31/sometimes-monday-8-31-20/) - August, die she must... — Paul Simon, April Come She Will Sometimes Monday is for weekend reminiscing...with memories of proscuitto wrapped figs happy hour, torrential downpours, the return of autumn beer, and the departure of the endless heat and humidity. Sometimes Monday means the return of a woolly sweater, which is a most welcome layer
- [Friday Finds | 8.28.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/08/28/friday-finds-8-28-20/) - Oh boy. It has been a very hard week. A week that took an already dismal month and ramped it up by about 1000% and while I am thankful that Jacob Blake survived, I am so angry that there was an incident which put that in question. And, I can't even be sane about 17
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.26.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/08/26/unraveled-wednesday-8-26-20/) - Thanks to LONG audiobooks, I have gotten in some good knitting time this week! And voilà, I have a completed Ranunculus! It needs a wash, but I am wearing it today and it is perfect. Shorter sleeves FTW! I also started a new vest for Winston (No page yet, but the pattern is Avery 2.0
- [More Intention, Less Noise | August 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/08/25/more-intention-less-noise-august-2020/) - I am joining Honoré and friends again this month to share an update on my word. Let's start with my guiding quote, one that has served me well each and every day! Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue
- [TGIF | 8.21.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/08/21/tgif-8-21-20/) - History says, Don't hope On the side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme. — Seamus Heaney, The Cure of Troy (an excerpt from Joe Biden's acceptance speech, 20 August, 2020) There has been a most welcome reprieve
- [Leland for Winston](https://askatknits.com/2020/08/05/leland-for-winston/) - Started: August 3, 2020 Finished: August 20, 2020 Yarn: Blue Ridge Yarns Footnotes - parts of two sets Pattern: ML Egan's Leland Needle: US 3 and US 1 Gauge: Pattern gauge: 28 sts and 40 rows = 4 inches. I did not get row gauge, so I am following the row instructions for the smallest size. Size
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.19.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/08/19/unraveled-wednesday-8-19-20/) - Swatching for something new for Winston has begun. ML Egan kindly asked me to test knit Avery, a vest that she published 10 years ago! I will be knitting two of them... one at a fingering weight, and one with DK yarn. A vest should go quickly, as long as I can get gauge! (FYI...
- [Sometimes Monday | 8.17.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/08/17/sometimes-monday-8-17-20/) - The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected. — Julian Casablancas There are days when I win at the Yarn Chicken game and it is always such a good feeling. But then there are days you don't win at Yarn Chicken...and the results are practically perfect. Better than you can imagine, an unexpected surprise! That
- [Currently | 8.14.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/08/14/currently-8-14-20/) - I cannot remember the last time I shared what is my "current world" (small as that world is these days) So here you have a little slice of my world! Celebrating — K-A-M-A-L-A.... oh my gosh! Yes, there were tears and cheers! I am so thrilled! But honestly... watching Kamala debate Pence in October will
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.12.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/08/12/unraveled-wednesday-8-12-20/) - Greetings, Unravelers! I am on Tiny Sleeve Island! Round and round and round I go! I love the little stripes on the sleeves, and the rhythm of decreasing is perfect! By this time next week... a sweater should be finished! Yes, it will be a bit big, but I don't think it will be for
- [A Positively Radiant, Luminous Weekend?](https://askatknits.com/2020/08/10/a-positively-radiant-luminous-weekend/) - I don't know about you, but this weekend just raced past. No trips out of the house, but there was an "Amazon Run" and I love how I can get face wash and food for thought in.the.same.package! The food complaining is at a peak in this house. So last Wednesday I whipped up a batch
- [Friday Finds | 8.7.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/08/07/friday-finds-8-7-20/) - I stumbled across some poems by Jane Kenyon (from a series entitled "Having it out with Melancholy"). I am having a running battle with melancholy these days and her words fit my mood. But this week I found this bit especially true: 4 OFTEN Often I go to bed as soon after dinner as seems
- [Looking Back | July 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/08/06/looking-back-july-2020/) - In summertime, when the weather is hot, you can reach right up and touch the sky. — Mungo Jerry Oh, July. I will not miss your incredibly hot, dry days. July was one very long run on day... an endless repeat of heat and humidity. I almost bailed on this look back post because, well, on
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.5.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/08/05/unraveled-wednesday-8-5-20/) - I don't know about you, but I have some serious Knitting-ADD going on right now. I can't seem to focus on any one thing and keep at it until it is finished! I spent some time last week going through my stash and odds and ends to see what I could find to make a
- [Sometimes Monday | 8.3.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/08/03/sometimes-monday-8-3-20/) - Yesterday, Garrison Keillor read Hands by Jack Ridl. The words were brilliant and when I realized it was this Jack Ridl, I just had to share with you. I am pretty sure I have run into Mr. Ridl a few times when I lived in Holland, and I had the pleasure of knitting with his wife
- [Friday Finds | 7.31.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/07/31/friday-finds-7-31-20/) - What a week, eh? There is only so much avoidance one can do in any given week. I tried mightily to ignore, but sometimes that just does not work and that happened a lot this week. But despite the onslaught of bs, there were some pockets of goodness. And that goodness was enough to inspire
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.29.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/07/29/unraveled-wednesday-7-29-20/) - Let the blue sky meet the blue sea and all is blue for a time. — Moncy Barbour I am in sea of blue knitting and it is so good! I am working away on my second Ranunculus... I have put the body on hold and have started on the sleeves. One thing I did
- [An Intentional Being | 7.28.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/07/28/an-intentional-being-7-28-20/) - I am joining Honoré and friends again this month to share an update on my word. Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. — Mary
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.22.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/07/22/unraveled-wednesday-7-22-20/) - The Mystery... she is finished! (and, as you can see above, I did have enough of EACH yarn!!) It needs to have all the ends woven in and some blocking, but this humidity means that won't happen this week. But I am sharing it sans blocking. I am not so sure I like the bind
- [Sometimes Monday | 7.20.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/07/20/sometimes-monday-7-20-20/) - Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. – Neil Armstrong The past couple of weeks I have been reminiscing in my mind about the summer of 1969. Eight-year-old me was fascinated with the Apollo 11 journey to the moon. I
- [This Week | 7.17.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/07/17/this-week-7-17-20/) - One salvation in these endlessly mind numbing days has been The Slowdown. This week has been especially fun as each post has been about food. However, the Ode to Butter might just be the best thing I listened to all week! This week saw the end of the 100 Day Project. Oh boy, the best
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.15.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/07/15/unraveled-wednesday-7-15-20/) - Greetings Unravelers! The weather has been simply divine! I have been doing a bit of outdoor knitting and I am *this*close* to finishing my mystery shawl! I really can't wait to see what blocking does to the sections of lace! It might be one of the favorite pieces I have knit in a while! I
- [Sometimes Monday | 7.13.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/07/13/sometimes-monday-7-13-20/) - 'Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about. – John Mayer Joy of joys, this morning I found the temperature had departed from the 90+ degrees where it had been lingering far too long. A little bit of 90+ days go a long way, right? The weather person says
- [Friday Finds | 7.10.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/07/13/friday-finds-7-10-20/) - It has been a very warm week here in Pittsburgh… I enjoy summer, but 90+ degree weather dripping with humidity…not so much. Hibernating in my house with the AC is not my favorite way to spend summer. But all that warm weather has made my gardens just explode! I am picking an over-flowing handful of
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.8.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/07/08/unraveled-wednesday-7-8-20/) - Greetings, Unravelers! Summer has arrived in Pittsburgh in full force. We are on, what feels like, day eleventy billion of 90+ degree weather. My yard is entirely burned out, as is every yard in my neighborhood. Yard burnout brings a bonus though...it is not growing so Steve does not have to mow! But boy does
- [Looking Back | June 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/07/04/looking-back-june-2020/) - Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. — Al Bernstein Something New My new "thing" this month is thanks to Bonny... yep, I quickly became an Animal Crossings addict! So.much.fun! (do you play? we should be friends! lol) Best “Oh, Wow” Moment/s Every year, I micro-control what we plant in pots. I
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.1.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/07/01/unraveled-wednesday-7-1-20/) - My plan for today was to share a completed (and well-fitting) Zadie Jumpsuit. Well, it is completed but not so well fitting. I shortened the rise, so the pants fit well but I neglected to contemplate the length of the bodice (which I generally never have issues with) and it is way.too.short! But, I am
- [Intentional Living...finally | June 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/06/30/intentional-living-finally-june-2020/) - I am joining Honoré again this month to share an update on my word! Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. — Mary Anne Radmacher
- [Hello again, Monday | 6.29.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/06/29/hello-again-monday-6-29-20/) - “If your voice held no power, they wouldn’t try to silence you.” - unknown Use your VOICE. Use your VOTE. – The Chicks https://youtu.be/xwBjF_VVFvE I heard this last week and have not stopped listening to it. The words are powerful, but the images are even more so. I also read this article and these words
- [Garden | June 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/06/26/garden-june-2020/) - We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry This week Bonny inspired me to share my garden with you all. We have problems with deer so the "main garden" is a little like Fort Knox. There is fencing, and netting, and
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.24.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/06/24/unraveled-wednesday-6-24-20/) - Oh the making! It sings for me this week! I am almost done with Clue Three (Clue Four is out, but I have not peeked...yet) and this shawl is singing to me! AND!! It is spurring me to get some sewing done - this will be perfect with a denim Uniform Tunic this fall! I
- [Hello, Monday! | 6.22.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/06/22/hello-monday-6-22-20/) - I discovered this weekend that there is a poem for Lamb's Ear. As you can see, my garden has a sea of Lamb's Ear! And it has an army of happy bees that spend their days marching the stalks to harvest every drop of nectar held within those "pink tongues". I swore off vegetable gardening
- [Friday Finds | 6.19.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/06/19/friday-finds-6-19-20/) - I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do. — James Baldwin Happy Juneteenth, everyone. Today I will spend the day thinking about how meaningful this day is for Black Americans...and how far White America thinks we have come...but has not. And how I can do better. Now let's get on with
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.17.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/06/17/unraveled-wednesday-6-17-20/) - Greetings Unravelers! Be the change you wish to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi First up, I wanted to talk briefly about change. It is never easy but two well-loved sites recently changed things up... and I love both of the changes!! MDK is now Modern Daily Knitting. Well done ladies! I am standing
- [Work-ending](https://askatknits.com/2020/06/15/work-ending/) - I would love to tell you I got all this knitting done over the weekend, but strawberries are ripe in the 'Burgh. And so, there was lots of hulling. Lots of macerating. Lots of rolling boiling. And lots of slow-roasting. And, as always, I want to thank Judy for this incredible recipe which made my
- [TGIF | 6.12.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/06/12/tgif-6-12-20/) - Another week in the bag and this one brought our first 90+ degree days. If this is a taste of what is to come...sigh. Honoré commented yesterday on my "summer sweater" and it not being very wearable in 90+ degree weather. And that would be true if it were wool, but it is linen and
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.10.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/06/10/unraveled-wednesday-6-10-20/) - It seems that in all things, I have this idea that whatever it is I am making will go quicker than it does in actuality. However, at long last, I have a finished Ranunculus! It needs a nice wash, but I should be wearing it before the week is out! AND!! Just in time because
- [Moving Monday | 6.8.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/06/08/moving-monday-6-8-20/) - Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do? — Maxine Kumin I heard a poem by Maxine Kumin last week and I have not been able to get it out of my head. It is the epitome of summer, and I just want to immerse myself in it...and never leave. It
- [TGIF | 6.5.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/06/05/tgif-6-5-20/) - Greetings from Phase Green Allegheny County! Curiously, this phase change will not change much in my life. We are still being cautious in our outings, not planning any travel. I am not racing out to get my hair and nails done, nor are we stampeding a restaurant for in-person dining. Steve returning almost full-time to
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 6.3.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/06/03/unraveled-wednesday-6-3-20/) - Greetings Unravelers!! First, thank you for all the very kind comments for my Me Made May post! It might be the first time I have been successful in wearing things I made for an entire month and I did not make anything new, outside of the Romi Mystery Shawl that I finished during the month!
- [Goodbye May, Hello June!](https://askatknits.com/2020/06/01/goodbye-may-hello-june/) - Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. — Pablo Neruda Well, that was an odd May, wasn't it? But it's over and this morning June greeted me with a chill in the air, a brilliant sunrise, and a riot of Weigela blooms! I reveled in #MeMadeMay
- [Friday Thoughts | 5.29.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/05/29/friday-thoughts-5-29-20/) - Another Black Body Shot. — from Running For Your Life, a community poem I heard this poem Wednesday on NPR. It made me cry and it made me unbelievably angry that I am cloaked in my White Privilege, in my nice home, not living in fear of law enforcement (aka those who believe it is
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.27.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/05/27/unraveled-wednesday-5-27-20/) - Greetings Unravelers! No Finished Objects this week, despite my planning that there would be! Enter a weekend of yard work and I was left with not much knitting time (and said yard work left me ready for bed! LOL) So this week you get another progress shot of my Ranunculus. Thank goodness audiobooks pair well
- [when INTENTION is all I have | May 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/05/26/when-intention-is-all-i-have-may-2020/) - I am joining Honoré today and sharing my Little Word update for the month! Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. — Mary Anne Radmacher
- [Friday Update, Photo Edition](https://askatknits.com/2020/05/22/friday-update-photo-edition/) - It's been a quiet couple of weeks around here, at least until we went "Yellow" last Friday. Yellow for my house looks a lot like Red. Unlike my neighbors, we are not racing out to dine in a restaurant, shop at the mall, or get our hair done. It will be interesting to see in
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.20.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/05/20/unraveled-wednesday-5-20-20/) - I am still working through the last clue of the Larissa Brown's mystery shawl. I have some blocking of the pieces to get done (and a pattern update on dimensions just dropped yesterday) so in the mean time I am being entirely distracted with a Linen Ranunculus. The photo above is an hour or so
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.13.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/05/13/unraveled-wednesday-5-13-20/) - I finished Romi's Mystery Shawl and I love it!! It is exactly what I wanted - it is lightweight and perfect for "indoor AC deep freezes" Haha. It is one color, and knit from some centuries old Knit Picks Shadow Lace yarn from my stash. I could not be happier and I loved every step
- [Macro Monday | 5.11.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/05/11/macro-monday-5-11-20/) - I would love to share a post with all the exciting "Motherly" things I did this weekend, but well... on weekend nine (ten?) of Stay At Home... not much was different. We had snow/rain on Saturday and it was not warm enough to be outdoors on Sunday. I did have calls with my kids... that
- [TGIF | 5.8.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/05/08/tgif-5-8-20/) - This week, oh boy. It was so hard. So damned hard. And so full of just horrific news… each day seemed to be trying to outdo the day before. I struggled this week to find a single thing for my gratitude list, much less a list of them. But here we are at another Friday
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 5.6.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/05/06/unraveled-wednesday-5-6-20/) - Some of my making this week included making some modifications to my Traveler's Journal. Normally, I have 3 inserts, and my set up works very well! I like having multiple journals in one convenient package. However, with the addition of a couple of new journals and I need a modification to my existing system. So,
- [Looking Back | April 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/05/05/looking-back-april-2020/) - A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew, A cloud, and a rainbow's warning, Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue –– An April day in the morning. — Harriet Prescott Spofford These words from Harriet Prescott Spofford sum up my April perfectly. We had lots of rain, some incredible blue skies, and a cacophony of bird-song
- [Macro Monday Haiku | 5.4.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/05/04/macro-monday-haiku-5-4-20/) - Spring rain wreaks havoc and lilac confetti falls among empty walnut shells And finally, with a nod to my favorite son, May the Fourth be with you! *wink* Happy Monday everyone!
- [Hello, May | 5.1.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/05/01/hello-may-5-1-20/) - Sweet May hath come to love us, flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us, the very clouds move on. — Heinrich Heine While March was eons long, April has just sprinted on by - hasn't it? I guess when each day is the same as the last, at first they
- [A poem for your pocket | 4.30.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/30/a-poem-for-your-pocket-4-30-20/) - It's Poem in your Pocket Day and this poem is going in my pocket. I will carry it with me during the day. I will be thinking of the "heavy threads" of the day and hope that I will be stitched "into a useful garment". And yet, there is comfort in knowing the day "will
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.29.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/29/unraveled-wednesday-4-29-20/) - Greetings Unravelers! There was NO unraveling for me this week - and I am almost done with Clue Three of Romi's Mystery shawl - although it still looks like the green blob in the photo! Trust me that I am very happy with it and I am even happier to be back on track! I
- [Intentional Living in the Age of Social Distancing | 4.28.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/28/intentional-living-in-the-age-of-social-distancing-4-28-20/) - Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. — Mary Anne Radmacher When I started this journey to be more intentional, I had no idea that
- [Macro Monday | 4.27.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/27/macro-monday-4-27-20/) - Last week, I get up close and personal with my 100-Day Project. My goal is that this stitching will become a piece of art on my living room wall. I have taken my time on this project and I even spent some time learning about listening to that inner creative voice. Kym shared a link
- [TGIF | 4.24.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/24/tgif-4-24-20/) - I feel like I need to get a blackboard and write the day, date, month, etc. on it to help me remember what day it is! Yesterday felt like Wednesday – although, I am not sure Wednesday's "feel" like anything, my brain was convinced it was. Today does not have a Friday vibe, but I
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.22.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/22/unraveled-wednesday-4-22-20/) - I am plugging along on making. The knitting is going well (as expected) however, the crochet... I do like the "end result" but boy. Who knew my very agile knitting hands could suddenly be all thumbs with crochet. Things I am struggling with: Holding the yarn in the "other" hand (I did not think this
- [Macro Monday | 4.20.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/20/macro-monday-4-20-20/) - Over the weekend, I got out the big camera and took a few photos. Okay, I took dozens of photos but only a few "turned out." And, yes, turned out - as in to (accidentally) happen in a particular way…the effort was there but having not used the big camera for a long time my
- [TGIF | 4.17.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/17/tgif-4-17-20/) - Breathe the incense of sun on prairie Offer peace to the sky — Heid E. Erdrich, Peace Path It has been a week and then some. I think what I am missing most is the "normalcy" of the week - that is, normal work schedules, normal routines, and looking forward to Friday. I don't know
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.15.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/15/unraveled-wednesday-4-15-20/) - This week there was a good bit of unraveling. Sigh. Yep, I almost gave up on Romi's Mystery Shawl (the top green "blob" above). Clue two is a real challenge! (Or perhaps the challenge was that Pear Martini + intricate lace knitting = a colossally bad idea) However, I stayed the course, ripped back, picked
- [Sometimes Monday | 4.13.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/13/sometimes-monday-4-13-20/) - Means a complete "brain dump" - yep, that's right… today I am dumping out all the things rattling around my brain that I have been trying to remember for "future posts"... Also, cocktails on Monday need to be a thing when we are back to "normal," whatever that might be! First up, the weekend highlights:
- [April Promise | 4.10.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/10/april-promise-4-10-20/) - Another week… another Friday…and joy of joys, it is snowing in Pittsburgh this morning. Yes, that's right… snow! On all the tender new leaves. On the lilac blooms. On the magnolia blooms. Sigh. Today is day four of my 100 Day Project and these moments of creatively stitching have been rays of sunshine in my
- [Three on Thursday | 4.9.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/09/three-on-thursday-4-9-20/) - I find myself remembering the days of the week by my "blog calendar" and have felt the need to spend more time here, which is not a bad thing. Today I am joining Carole and friends to share three things with you today. Some years ago, Kym introduced me to National Poetry Month, which, I
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.8.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/08/unraveled-wednesday-4-8-20/) - Greetings Unravelers! I forgot to share yesterday my temperature chart, but it deserves a mention. One stunning thing I noted... Pittsburgh only had 4 days in the first quarter where the high temperature was in the 20's. Let that sink in a minute. Yes, that is right in 3 months, we had just 4 days
- [Looking Back | March 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/07/looking-back-march-2020/) - Only those with tenacity can march forward in March. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah I needed an abundance of tenacity last month, which felt like the longest year of my life. Truly. It lasted forever, but I made it through to the other side and for that I am grateful! The Best Part of the Month
- [Sometimes Monday | 4.6.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/06/sometimes-monday-4-6-20/) - Starts with a trip down the loveliest rabbit hole! Clara started it, but that led me to this and this and finally this! These kids… PURE JOY (and you can believe me when I tell you that because joy has been a scarce commodity in my life these days!!) Perhaps, a trip down a rabbit
- [April Promise | 4.3.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/03/april-promise-4-3-20/) - Another week, another un-Friday! March was the longest year of my life and how is it only April 3? However, I am managing to keep my mind occupied and away from activities that allow it to stray to worried thinking! First, Steve thanks all of you for your birthday wishes! He wants you all to
- [Three on Thursday | 4.2.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/02/three-on-thursday-4-2-20/) - Joining with Carole and friends today to share three things that made me feel much better this week! Thing One: I was really concerned I was drinking too much, but Ina told me I wasn't at all. God love her… Somebody please check on @inagarten pic.twitter.com/H1eJwkLj7p — Phil (@prettygoodphil) April 1, 2020 Thing Two: Shelter
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 4.1.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/04/01/unraveled-wednesday-4-1-20/) - Greetings Unravelers! I am making small bits of progress in the making department. On Saturday, I jumped on the bandwagon to try making a sourdough starter. Starter Success Achieved! I loved having a tiny reminder to go and take care of it every day. And yesterday I had enough "discard" starter to make a batch
- [Missing Intention | March 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/31/missing-intention-march-2020/) - Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. — Mary Anne Radmacher Oh boy, can you say Intention Derailment? I feel like I am living on
- [Weekending | 3.30.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/30/weekending-3-30-20/) - It was a wild weekend here in the Burgh! Crazy winds brought insane storms over the weekend, but the temps in the 70's were awesome! Steve is not working on Friday's these days as his office is closed, but the power went out so all the pc's turned off so no one could remote in
- [Friday With More Perspective](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/27/friday-with-more-perspective/) - You cannot see the wood for the trees. — John Heywood This week brought increased worry for both the rapidly increasing numbers of the sick as well as all those who are caring for them. The stories don't sound like something from a first-world country, but rather they sound like the horror stories from a
- [Three on Thursday | 3.26.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/26/three-on-thursday-3-26-20/) - I am joining Carole and friends today to share three things I stumbled across this week! Thing One: Really, how long can the coronavirus live on surfaces and how to clean them! Thank you NPR! Thing Two: A talking schnauzer to get you through with a smile! (and yes, I am following Pluto on IG!)
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.25.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/25/unraveled-wednesday-3-25-20/) - Greetings Unravelers!! I have finished my Nightshift and I am so smitten!! My ending was a bit sketchy but, I like how it turned out and I used up so much of my handspun yarn! You can read my pattern notes here where I explain my "recipe" for knitting. My goal was to have this
- [Haiku Monday | 3.23.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/23/haiku-monday-3-23-20/) - Grey skies whose raindrops Gently caress the new leaves Teasing them to wake My daily goal is to seek out something beautiful in the tiny world around me and some days I actually succeed. Today was one of those days! The return of tiny green leaves on the bushes in my yard reminds me that
- [Spring TGIF | 3.20.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/20/spring-tgif-3-20-20/) - Time is the longest distance between two places. — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie This quote perfectly describes how the passage of time feels right now. Monday seems like it was eons ago and today does not feel like Friday at all. And topping off the already chaotic week…life changed dramatically last night here in
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.18.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/18/unraveled-wednesday-3-18-20/) - Greetings Unravelers! A couple of things are filling my mind today: how can it be Wednesday already in a week that feels like it should be Friday and How are you? No, really... How are you? I have a project that is darned near impossible to put down that is filling my day...as well as
- [Sometimes Monday | 3.16.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/16/sometimes-monday-3-16-20/) - Is time to get real. It was a quiet St. Paddy's Day weekend at my house but sadly, the same could not be said about my town! ST. PATRICK'S DAY POLICE: Pittsburgh Police said they arrested 6 people during St. Patrick's Day celebrations in the city and that one Public Works employee was hit by
- [Fiber Friday...the quarantine edition](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/13/fiber-friday-the-quarantine-edition/) - The fact that today is Friday the thirteenth is not lost on me as COVID-19 spreads its way around our neighborhoods. This is the first time I can remember that there will be no March Madness...sigh. But, I get it and I am happy that the students were more important that the revenue. The list
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.11.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/11/unraveled-wednesday-3-11-20/) - Greetings Dear Unravelers! Sockitis has struck with a vengeance in my house! I raced through Miss Lime and will have happy, dancing, green feet on St. Paddy's Day! I especially love the angled lace on each foot! These socks will be perfect with my Birks! I then immediately cast on more socks! A tried and
- [Sometimes Monday | 3.9.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/09/sometimes-monday-3-9-20/) - She wasn't looking for a knight. She was looking for a sword. — Atticus Yesterday was International Women's Day and, imo, it should be International Women's WEEK...but I especially liked the Google Doodle for yesterday! And, speaking of amazing women...Clara Parkes has started a new thing...The Daily Respite and I think you absolutely need it
- [Spring Forward Weekend!](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/06/spring-forward-weekend/) - Yes, this weekend will be one hour shorter when we turn our clocks ahead in the wee hours of Sunday morning. (or are you an entirely digital household and need to change no clocks manually?) My house is a mixture of digital and manual, so I will have a few things to change Saturday night
- [Three on Thursday, Nightshift Edition](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/05/three-on-thursday-nightshift-edition/) - Greetings, gentle readers! I am joining with Carole and Friends with a quick and feverish update on the rage that is taking over Blogdom thanks to our Fearless Leader: Vicki! Thing One: Every time I think of Nightshift this pops into my head... Sorry, not sorry for that earworm gentle readers! Thing Two: There is
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 3.4.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/04/unraveled-wednesday-3-4-20/) - February Making was surprising... I finished 2 pairs of socks (First pair here)! What? I know, I shocked myself as well! February was the month of Sarah Jordan Sock Knitting and I have happy feet as a result! I also spy a few more socks on her page that I think need in my sock
- [Looking Back | February 2020](https://askatknits.com/2020/03/02/looking-back-february-2020/) - In looking back at February, I am grateful it is not a longer month! However, I am appreciative of the lengthening days! In twenty-nine short days, we gained over an hour of daylight! And, there was so much more sunshine this month than in January, but we also had a good bit of precipitation -
- [Loving February | 2.28.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/02/26/loving-february-2-28-20/) - There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer. — Gertrude Jekyll That day came this week in western Pennsylvania, because on Tuesday I surely smelled a hint of summer. And as I came home from Ash Wednesday services, I saw that glorious faint
- [An Intentional Life](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/31/an-intentional-life/) - Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us. — Richie Norton As you all know, my word for 2019 - focus - made a huge impact on my life. I do not want to lose that in 2020, so I spent a good bit of time thinking about
- [An Intentional (?) Beginning | 1.28.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/28/an-intentional-beginning-1-28-20/) - I am joining Honoré and friends today to share my start with my word for 2020: If there is no struggle, there is no progress. — Frederick Douglass I foolishly assumed that my focus of 2019 would just flow seamlessly into my intentional start to January. Key word there… foolishly. Because for as brilliant as
- [An Intentional Life](https://askatknits.com/2020/02/25/an-intentional-life-2/) - Live with Intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. - Mary Anne Radmacher It turns out that January's fumbled start was just what I needed to stop
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.26.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/02/26/unraveled-wednesday-2-26-20/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy End of February!! March brings so many good things, but best of all is Mason Dixon's March Mayhem! I will be seriously contemplating all the "sock" entries! I know that yesterday I talked about planned making and socks are absolutely on that list! I am here this week with just over
- [Sometimes Monday | 2.24.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/02/24/sometimes-monday-2-24-20/) - Comes with a completed sock and a start on its mate! It also brought day three of sunshine and I don't know who is happier me or the hundreds of birds singing in my neighborhood! Sadly, it includes lots of the "regularly scheduled" Monday things as well which will delay knitting and spending time outdoors.
- [Loving February | 2.20.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/02/21/loving-february-2-20-20/) - Any time, any time while I was a slave, if one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it. Just to stand one minute on god's earth a free woman. I would. — Elizabeth Freeman (MumBet) Black
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.19.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/02/19/unraveled-wednesday-2-19-20/) - The making this week included a wee bit of sewing... one more flannel Esme Tunic, although with the weather we've been having a flannel tunic seems rather silly! However, it is my "go to wear" these days and having one more in the rotation is a good thing. I did a bit of a different
- [Sometimes Monday | 2.17.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/02/17/sometimes-monday-2-17-20/) - Is still the weekend, at least for some of us… I find it curious that Steve does not have MLK Day off but he does President's Day... Anyway, it was a good weekend, one with tulips for Valentine's Day and, thanks to Sarah's Saturday release, a new sock was started (and holy cow, look how
- [Loving February | 2.14.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/02/14/loving-february-2-14-20/) - February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again. - Sara Coleridge Rain. Rain mixed with snow. Snow. Snow mixed with rain. And now bitter cold. Yet, lengthening days and increasing birdsong hold the promise that spring is coming, even if it does not feel like it this morning! Add in my shawl to this
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.12.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/02/12/unraveled-wednesday-2-12-20/) - Socks, hat pompoms, and increases every fourth row described my knitting this week! No actual finishes, but lots of progress none the less! I went with a friend to see Knives Out! last Wednesday and I managed to get the leg of my second sock done. And, a few bits of time here and there
- [Sometimes Monday | 2.10.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/02/10/sometimes-monday-2-10-20/) - Brings sunshine on slender green stems! Our wintry blast from last week has been ushered out by warming temps and lots of rain. The robins seem most gleeful as they hop around in the back yard. It was a quiet weekend here, and sometimes that is exactly what was needed. Curiously my week's list is
- [Loving February | 2.7.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/02/07/loving-february-2-7-20/) - February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like. Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie Friday's in February will focus on finding things to love about a month that for me is an "in-between month" - it's not quite spring and not quite winter, although those deliciously mild temps have given way to
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 2.5.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/02/05/unraveled-wednesday-2-5-20/) - Greetings Unravelers! How are we five days into February already?! Is it me or did time suddenly just speed up drastically? Sadly, my knitting has not taken the same turn and in fact it all feels quite January-like as I slough through these rows! Sorry for the miserable photo but we are back to grey
- [Weekending | 2.3.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/02/03/weekending-2-3-20/) - I have not done one of these posts in ages, but we actually did some things worth discussing over the weekend! We started Friday with the usual eats and a really good sip and then we I caught up on last week's Seven Worlds, One Planet on BBC America. Saturday meant a trip to the
- [Gemütlichkeit for Friday | 1. 31.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/31/gemutlichkeit-for-friday-1-31-20/) - Bis zum nächsten Mal, January! But, in actuality - you weren't so bad! I was inspired by Katie to track A Year of Temperatures and I started on January 1 and I am really stunned at how warm it has been! In these past 31 days we had 2 days in the 60's, 6 days
- [Three on Thursday | 1.30.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/30/three-on-thursday-1-30-20/) - I am joining with Carole today to share some brilliance regarding the Impeachment Trial currently underway...Yesterday began the question phase of the trial where the Senators submit questions for Justice Roberts to read out loud at which point either the selected counsel or both the House Managers and the President's counsel answers the question or
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.29.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/29/unraveled-wednesday-1-29-20/) - Greetings Unravelers! It has been a long, sad week. My Tuesday night knitting group lost a member last week and knitting last night was bittersweet - we were there, but a bit diminished. However, we made plans to pick up a special shawl that was in progress for a beloved niece. We will each take
- [Sometimes Monday | 1.27.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/27/sometimes-monday-1-27-20/) - January skies — a haiku A colorless world Grey skies from day to day, yet birdsong hints of spring. I hope your Monday is not colorless, but marked with moments of beauty.
- [TGIF | 1.24.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/24/tgif-1-24-20/) - Turning (point) This week felt like a turning point in a great number of things, but one that was most welcome was the gradual lengthening of the days which really became noticeable to me this week! Since Solstice our daylight has expanded a whopping 34 minutes here in Pittsburgh! That might not seem like much
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.22.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/22/unraveled-wednesday-1-22-20/) - Greetings, Unravelers! The making this week has had some highs and some not so highs. First, remember this sock? Once I got the heel flap done and started down the foot and that little voice in my head kept saying, "holy cow this sock is BIG" after I got through the decreases I finally listened
- [Currently | 1.20.19](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/20/currently-1-20-19/) - Thinking About A big question for me right now is garden or no garden? Last year the only thing that did well were the beans. Tomatoes and peppers were epic failures with very low production and really not worth the effort. Also, another question I am contemplating is do I want to maintain a vegetable
- [Gemütlichkeit for Friday | 1.17.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/17/gemutlichkeit-for-friday-1-17-20/) - Winter has returned with a vengeance here in Pittsburgh! Most of the week our temperatures have been in the 50's and this morning we have a dusting of snow covering that is covering a rather nasty bit of ice and it appears my YakTrax will get their inaugural use today! If you are heading outside
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.15.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/15/unraveled-wednesday-1-15-20/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! One of the things that I want to do more this year is spinning - but I was keeping my wheel in a place where I was unlikely to ever do any spinning. The proof of that is how little spinning I did most of last year but, all that
- [Gemütlichkeit for Friday | 1.10.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/10/gemutlichkeit-for-friday-1-10-20/) - In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan… — Christina Rossetti My return to walking this week truly revealed the wintry bleakness with an added dash of with crazy winds and cold temperatures! I am now a solo walker as my neighborhood walkers have departed for warmer climates - so I am missing Ally the
- [Three on Thursday | 1.9.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/09/three-on-thursday-1-9-20/) - I am joining Carole and friends so share some things that I thought were pretty darned awesome recently! Thing One: Holiday planning, perfected! THANKS, LEAP YEAR! Due to the extra day in February, all the holidays have lined up perfectly this year! pic.twitter.com/jqoakhtfMk — KDKA (@KDKA) January 4, 2020 Thing Two: This is most certainly
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.8.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/08/unraveled-wednesday-1-8-20/) - My January is off to a roaring start! I have finished my Felix Cardigan - well, it is finished with the exception of weaving the ends in and sewing on buttons! I hope to get to JoAnn's this weekend to see what they might have that could work with it! I really love how a
- [Looking Back | December 2019](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/06/looking-back-december-2019/) - I've come to sing you a song called December. Ryan Murphy, Down with the Ship Last year really cemented these "Looking Back" posts and I love how they can change my feelings on the month! I love looking back at the photos and videos I captured to remember the days and rediscovering moments I forgot!
- [Gemütlichkeit for Friday | 1.3.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/03/gemutlichkeit-for-friday-1-3-20/) - Over the past two weeks has had a gang of weekends! Seven of the last 13 days have had a decidedly weekendish feel. One would think that all this weekending would be something to celebrate, but another weekend is upon us and I am feeling a bit "weekended out!" My creature of habit is feeling
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 1.1.20](https://askatknits.com/2020/01/01/unraveled-wednesday-1-1-20/) - Happy New Year, dear Unravelers! I am sorry for the very heavy image laden post today, but there was a lot of reading in 2019!! My year of knitting was so very good, but honestly… my year of reading might have been a bit better! I did not hit my reading goal, but I read
- [Sometimes Monday…  12.30.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/30/sometimes-monday-12-30-19/) - …feels like a Friday! Yes, Steve has Tuesday and Wednesday off again this week. Sometimes Monday can also feel like spring! Yes, it is a wildly windy and rainy 60°F! Sometimes Monday means putting away Christmas! Sometimes Monday is for debating - which camp do you fall into? (FYI, I am in the minority camp)
- [Gemütlichkeit for Friday | 12.27.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/27/gemutlichkeit-for-friday-12-27-19/) - Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you should have always been. — David Bowie First... a little music for this post because yes, today is my birthday... And while this song is a great pick-me-up I must confess that I have been struggling greatly with the idea of this birthday… and
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.25.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/25/unraveled-wednesday-12-25-19/) - Merry Christmas, Unravelers! Today, you get an update on some top-secret Christmas knitting and my Year in Knitting review! First up, I knit Steve a pair of Simply Skyp Socks. The yarn I used was a bit heavier than sport weight, but I love how they turned out! I also made Steve a pair of
- [A Year of Focus | 2019](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/24/a-year-of-focus-2019/) - What you stay focused on will grow. — Roy T. Bennett December is drawing to a close and so is my word for 2019 and I confess, I am sad to see it end! I started with an idea of how focus would change me and over the year my word took me on a
- [Welcome Winter](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/23/welcome-winter/) - I saw this poem on Saturday and have been pondering Wendell Berry's words ever since: To Know the Dark This winter season may you find that the dark blooms and sings for you as well! Photo by Egor Kamelev from Pexels
- [Gemütlichkeit for Friday | 12.20.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/20/gemutlichkeit-for-friday-12-20-19/) - Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection. — Winston Churchill As I write this post, I am watching the gentle fall of snowflakes out my "office" window. Occasionally, the wind swirls them as if my neighborhood is a huge snow globe and as the wind subsides, the flakes swirl lazily until
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.18.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/18/unraveled-wednesday-12-18-19/) - Perhaps a little Christmas music to get things rolling? Because Christmas insanity continues around these parts. I did manage to get mittens finished, and they will be on their way to Michigan later today! And today my making will all be about baking! Bring on the cookies! I have all the ingredients to make some
- [Currently | 12.16.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/16/currently-12-16-19/) - I have so enjoyed reading the flurry of "Current Updates" in the blogisphere, I thought I would join in and share a little slice of my world as 2019 winds down. I was surprised to see that I had not done one of these updates since June! It makes me smile to see where I
- [Gemütlichkeit for Friday | 12.13.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/13/gemutlichkeit-for-friday-12-13-19/) - Winter is not a season, it's a celebration. – Anamika Mishra That is most certainly true…at least at my house in December! I do so love December – even the greyest of days are soothed by the lights on our tree. And that theory was put to the test this week as we had several
- [Unraveled Wednesday 12.11.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/11/unraveled-wednesday-12-11-19/) - We have sadly arrived at the time of the year when getting good photos is challenging at best! We are in the midst of a dreary week sans any sunshine at all, so I apologize in advance for the poor lighting! However, the third time was absolutely the charm for my slipper making scheme. My
- [Sometimes Monday | 12.9.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/09/sometimes-monday-12-9-19/) - Starts with one big, gigantic, LONG to-do list! I have some frantic knitting to finish up….it seems the third time was the charm for those slippers! One down, one to go! And, there is wrapping…and more wrapping! All so I can stand in line at the post office this week! Ahh, December joys…right? Have a
- [Gemütlichkeit for Friday | 12.6.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/06/gemutlichkeit-for-friday-12-6-19/) - Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. — Edith Sitwell Sometimes English is, well, so lacking. Other languages have words that are just so more descriptive of conveying something deeper. Gemütlichkeit
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 12.4.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/04/unraveled-wednesday-12-4-19/) - I hope this week does not find you frantically knitting objects that you cannot share on your blog. Sadly, for me… that is my life in knitting right now so you get a bit the fluffy goodness that is my languishing Evening Dew Cardigan. Those pesky socks are finished and have had their soak and
- [Looking Back | November 2019](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/03/looking-back-november-2019/) - I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip. — Henry Rollins Henry Rollins certainly
- [Welcome December | 2019](https://askatknits.com/2019/12/02/welcome-december-2019/) - How did it get so late so soon? – Dr. Seuss Ahh, December! In a whirl, you are here with your darkening, colder days. But December you also bring Christmas trees, twinkle lights, carols, the best bits of childhood memories! There is gift giving, with the hopes that you got just the perfect gift for
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.27.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/11/27/unraveled-wednesday-11-27-19/) - Greetings Unravelers! I hope that for a few minutes at least, you can step out of the kitchen and spend a moment or two sharing your dreams of what you could be knitting or reading this week! Once this is posted, it is Pumpkin Pie City for me! Of course, my Pie City is amateur
- [A Gratitude Focus | November 2019](https://askatknits.com/2019/11/26/a-gratitude-focus-november-2019/) - I am joining Juliann and friends to share my word - Focus. I started the month off strong with Michelle's Gratitude Week – her reminders were so perfect and in hindsight, it turns out that start was crucial to surviving a very challenged month for me. I am grateful that my normal focus carried me
- [Quiet Weekending | 11.25.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/11/25/quiet-weekending-11-25-19/) - It was a quiet weekend trying to cure my cough/cold and my only trek out was to the post office bright and early on Saturday to mail Genevieve an advent calendar. Friday, the monumental task of cleaning out the refrigerator was gleefully crossed off my list! All shelves and drawers removed, washed out, dried, and
- [TGIF | 11.22.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/11/22/tgif-11-22-19/) - The last Friday before Thanksgiving looms large in my house. While I did pretty good at checking off most of my list, I did not quite get everything crossed off…Refrigerator, I am looking at you! But a rainy Friday and an engaging audio book will help me get it cleaned out this morning! (Proof on
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.20.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/11/20/unraveled-wednesday-11-20-19/) - Late November unraveling feels a bit frantic; do you agree? I have a pair of socks I'd like to finish for a Christmas gift… this from the person who might just be the slowest sock knitter in the Northern Hemisphere. I don't even have a HO (and that damned clock is ticking!) And these socks
- [Sometimes Monday | 11.18.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/11/18/sometimes-monday-11-18-19/) - Includes some "carry-over" items from last week's list. I had hoped to get a Gnome stared and Thanksgiving is now looming large! But, my yarn is all set and I've moved it up on the list, so it gets started AND completed! I had hoped to get Christmas lights out… however, looking at the forecast,
- [TGIF | 11.15.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/11/15/tgif-11-15-19/) - You can't promote principled anti-corruption action without pissing off corrupt people. – George P. Kent, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs In my opinion, this was the best quote of the week. Bravo to Mr. Kent for saying it and it is certainly true! Now, how about a quick TGIF and
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.13.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/11/13/unraveled-wednesday-11-13-19/) - Greetings Unravelers and Happy Wednesday! I finished my Baby Velvet knitting binge with a bang – one final pint-sized cowl so Vivi can match her mom! (I think it might be a little big, but it will absolutely work!) Details for my modifications are here. I got to the next part of the Evening Dew
- [Sometimes Monday | 11.11.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/11/11/sometimes-monday-11-11-19/) - …is for remembering. It is a long weekend in my house and usually long weekends are all about, well… the weekend and extending it one more day. Today, however, I will spend some time contemplating all those have served (and are serving) so that I can enjoy a long weekend in November. I hope you
- [TGIF | 11.8.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/11/08/tgif-11-8-19/) - I am really trying to ignore how rapidly the days are racing past. However, doing that with any success has been an abject failure. I did, however, finish Rachel's Velvet-y Cowl last night. I have more than enough yarn left to make a "Mini-Velvet-y Cowl" for Vivi, so this obsession with velvet yarn is not
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 11.6.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/11/06/unraveled-wednesday-11-6-19/) - My "regularly scheduled knitting" has been preempted by some fast and furious gift knitting. That's right, I have been doing some very "not me" knitting for my girls who love to get knitted gifts, yet often complain about woolen scratchiness. Nothing scratchy about these cowls – no sir! They are soft and cozy (although I
- [Looking Back | October 2019](https://askatknits.com/2019/11/07/looking-back-october-2019/) - October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. — Hal Borland My October images had a clear pattern of almost daily changes - I watched the trees go from green to
- [Sometimes Monday | 11.4.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/11/04/sometimes-monday-11-4-19/) - Who besides me feels a bit off kilter on this post-time change Monday? My list is not off kilter at all though and here is what I have percolating this week: I don't know how this crossed my path on Friday, but it did and Saturday morning I headed to JoAnn's to procure some Baby
- [Hello, November](https://askatknits.com/2019/11/01/hello-november/) - The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully. – Henry Rollins November brings bare trees, windy days, and yes – grey skies (which is exactly what greeted me this morning!) It means woolly sweaters, extra
- [A Very Halloween 3 on Thursday](https://askatknits.com/2019/10/31/a-very-halloween-3-on-thursday/) - I am linking up with Carole to share three very literary things that crossed my desk top this morning – perfect for Halloween! Thing One: Benjamin Percy reading Goodnight Moon might be the best thing ever… Thing Two: I am eagerly anticipating The Dublin Murders  Thing Three: AppleTV has some interesting things that are
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.30.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/10/30/unraveled-wednesday-10-30-19/) - Greetings Unravelers! October is easing out incredibly here in Western Pennsylvania. The days have warmed beautifully with the glorious sunshine we have had. October will end for us with temps rising into the 70's, which is such a blessing. Of course, tomorrow we have rain in the forecast which is less than perfect for the
- [Autumnal Focus | October 2019](https://askatknits.com/2019/10/29/autumnal-focus-october-2019/) - Happily joining Juliann to share how I did with focus in October! Maintaining my focus has become part of me – it is something that I think about each day and life is absolutely improved because of it. I have never had such amazing success with a word, and it is causing me to begin
- [Sometimes Monday | 10.28.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/10/28/sometimes-monday-10-28-19/) - ...is for new beginnings! Late yesterday afternoon, I began the rhythmic process of carefully winding a skein of yarn and last night I began swatching for my Evening Dew Cardigan. I think I earned some good knitting Karma as well, because I appear to be getting gauge the.first.time! Yes, that means that Tegna is finished!
- [TGIF | 10.25.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/10/25/tgif-10-25-19/) - By this time next week, it will be November and I am quite shocked by that. We have had such incredibly wonderful temperatures – warming beautifully during the day with only a couple nights with very light frosts. If I could order up the weather – it might just be exactly this! However, there is
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.23.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/10/23/unraveled-wednesday-10-23-19/) - There has been little knitting here this week, which shocks me! Silly me imagined that seaming my friend's sweater would be something I would complete quickly! Reality was that it took much longer than I anticipated and there was no time left to bake anything on Monday! However, Tuesday morning dawned grey and very rainy –
- [Mid-October Weekending](https://askatknits.com/2019/10/21/mid-october-weekending/) - I am so glad that I live in a world where there are Octobers. – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables It was a perfect October weekend. One that included a trip to our farmer's market, glorious blue skies, and yes – even a pumpkin donut! I also made a big pot of chili on
- [TGIF | 10.18.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/10/18/tgif-10-18-19/) - And, just like that it is suddenly Friday yet again. I don't know about you, but the later it gets in the year – the faster the weeks seem to go! This was absolutely one of those whirlwind weeks and I am very ready for the weekend to commence… it is absolutely a day to
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.16.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/10/16/unraveled-wednesday-10-16-19/) - By the time you read this, I will be in the process of picking up the stitches around the neck of my Tegna. It still looks like a bright pink fluffy blob, so no photos until it has been finished and blocked! However, the turn in the weather brings a great desire to *cast*on*all*the*things* so
- [Sometimes Monday | 10.14.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/10/14/sometimes-monday-10-14-19/) - Comes on the heels of a lovely, quiet, solo weekend! Sadly, Steve had to work all weekend so what was a girl to do but get in some major knitting time and I made some impressive headway on my Tegna! The back is finished and I am moving right along on the front and with
- [Photographic Overload Friday](https://askatknits.com/2019/10/11/photographic-overload-friday/) - Today I am sharing my brief, but spectacular trip to Michigan in photos! It was a whirl-wind weekend, packed full of so many good things! Monday's sunset was truly amazing, but boy was I happy to get into my own bed! And that, my friends, brings us to another weekend. One that will, at least
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.9.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/10/09/unraveled-wednesday-10-9-19/) - Hello Unravelers! I am back from my whirlwind trip to Michigan – the weather was practically perfect. Although there was a bit of rain on Saturday afternoon, but that did not hinder any plans we had! More about my weekend on Friday! It felt like I did not knit at all while I was gone
- [Looking Back | September 2019](https://askatknits.com/2019/10/03/looking-back-september-2019/) - September was an incredible month...there was baking, and the first day of school, and so many amazing skies (most of which were captured on my morning walks!) and there were good sips, Pilates, Sherman, and a new do! One thing struck me in looking back was this: even though the daylight hours were waning, the
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 10.2.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/10/02/unraveled-wednesday-10-2-19/) - The blocking is finished, although I was quite unsure about exactly how to block Reagan. In the end, I just blocked the lace, leaving the sleeves, back, and neck unblocked. I used blocking wires and t-pins and I think that worked. I love how incredibly soft the Einband gets when you soak it – the
- [Make It Monday | 9.30.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/09/30/make-it-monday-9-30-19/) - We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost. — Henry Rollins The weekend days were indeed summer-like, warm and breezy. Even the pop-up storms we had Saturday night had a summer-like quality to them. And, yes – we needed to turn the damned
- [TGIF | 9.27.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/09/27/tgif-9-27-19/) - This last full week of September just raced by, didn't it? It was a week of crisp mornings that gave way to warm days. Yesterday morning there were some brief rain showers and even though I did not "feel" like going for a walk I did, and it felt so good when I was done.
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.25.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/09/25/unraveled-wednesday-9-25-19/) - No update photo of Black Hole Lace this week, but yes… that is the last ball of Lopi!! Yes, I have made some progress – really significant progress because I just have roughly 3 inches more of the lace to knit and then I move on to the finishing bits of the sweater! Progress at
- [Moving Focus | September 2019](https://askatknits.com/2019/09/24/moving-focus-september-2019/) - Joining with Juliann today to share how I did with my word in September. It was a good month, perhaps the best month yet for my focus. At times it felt like I was moving at a snail's pace, but if you watch a snail – even though it moves slowly, it does move, and
- [Make it Monday | 9.23.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/09/23/make-it-monday-9-23-19/) - Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. – Albert Camus The weekend had a deliciously summery feel, that is if you just considered the temperatures and not the light – because the light was most decidedly fall! But the days were warm and sunny! But joy of joys… today begins my
- [Friday Thoughts | 9.20.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/09/20/friday-thoughts-9-20-19/) - Looking at the calendar, I am filled with the deepest sadness that September is almost over. How the heck did that happen??? I have been savoring these days, but I can't ignore the changes am seeing more and more of every day! Things like it is now dark when my alarm goes off – no
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.18.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/09/18/unraveled-wednesday-9-18-19/) - I feel like I have fallen into the black hole of knitting…. It feels like I have been knitting lace forever yet I still have 7-ish inches to go. Grrrr!!! So, yesterday I took a lace knitting sanity break and started Halloween Legging Swatching! After a few trials and errors, I found the stitch combination
- [Make it Monday | 9.16.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/09/16/make-it-monday-9-16-19/) - Happy Monday everyone! I hope your weekend was one that was full of all the things you needed, and you are ready to tackle a new week! “One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” – A. A. Milne This weekend included some major Kon-Mari-ing of all the
- [Friday Thoughts | 9.13.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/09/13/friday-thoughts-9-13-19/) - Nine months into 2019 and we have our first Friday the 13th of the year…(and there is only one more in December). We have rain in the forecast for tomorrow but I am hoping that the skies will allow for some Harvest Moon viewing! The moon was spectacular last night! I took a small break
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.11.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/09/11/unraveled-wednesday-9-11-19/) - September Unraveling is going well… and with no unraveling to date! I have indeed finished Reagan's sleeves and have begun the lace work, although the sweater looks like a great grey blob right now! As I write this, I am completed the first repeat of the pattern and am well into another repeat with approximately
- [Make it Monday | 9.9.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/09/09/make-it-monday-9-9-19/) - The "list-free" weekend was truly restful – although, on Sunday we did get some much needed yard work done! We did a bit of culling of the dying plants from the pots on the patio - the coleus was getting pretty leggy and were dropping leaves thanks to the spate of cool nights we have
- [Friday Thoughts | 9.6.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/09/06/friday-thoughts-9-6-19/) - I have been spending a good bit of time thinking about how to reinvigorate me as I contemplate my blog. I keep circling back to the less is sometimes so much more concept as I have contemplated this space. I know that we all have a finite number of minutes during the week and frankly,
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 9.4.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/09/04/unraveled-wednesday-9-4-19/) - Let me just say that knitting something for 34-ish inches in stockinette can be quite boring…except when you have 5 seasons of DCI Banks to binge. And, that is partially how I got those 34-ish inches knit quickly! I have now moved on to the sleeves, which I am knitting at.the.same.time and it is moving
- [Looking Back | August 2019](https://askatknits.com/2019/09/03/looking-back-august-2019/) - August, die she must The autumn winds blow chilly and cold. April Come She Will, Simon and Garfunkel If you asked me what I accomplished in August my response would be, 'not much'. But as I look at these images, it seems I accomplished more than I realized! There was so much making... pies and
- [TGIF | 8.30.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/30/tgif-8-30-19/) - This year, I have really tried to be in the moment and enjoy the day at hand, rather than wishing for what comes next. I thought it might make the year feel like it is going slower, ha! I am sitting at my PC this morning wondering how on earth August is over, it is
- [Three on Thursday | 8.29.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/29/three-on-thursday-8-29-19/) - Joining Carole today with a Bridget themed post! Per Bridget: "There's a meme going around on Instagram stories, where you name three things that you hate, but everyone else loves." And, I am adding her disclaimer as well: So here are Three Things Everyone Else Loves and I hate* *(which is to say 'dislike strongly'
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.28.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/27/unraveled-wednesday-8-28-19/) - Today, I am going to talk about languishing projects… sometimes they languish for a reason, amirite? This one has been languishing for a L-O-N-G time. For the longest time I tried and tried to get back to knitting it. Why, I even put it in the basket next to my bed thinking that might spur
- [In Focus](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/27/in-focus/) - I am joining with Juliann and friends to share an update on my word! Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. – Alexander Graham Bell The journey to a more focused life took a dramatic turn this month and I believe I
- [Macro Monday | 8.25.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/26/macro-monday-8-25-19/) - The light was the winner as I thought about how to compose my photos. I also played with color removal – I learned things too, which is never a bad thing! My weekend just flew but, it has a wee extension!! Steve took today off and we are heading out to find new walking shoes!
- [TGIF | 8.23.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/23/tgif-8-23-19/) - Overnight rains have ushered in much cooler temperatures! After days in the 90's, today our high will be in the low to mid 70's --- ahhh! I have the windows opened wide and my ears are rejoicing hearing the birds rather than the non-stop drone of the air conditioner. It is amazing how this change
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.21.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/21/unraveled-wednesday-8-21-19/) - I confess, I laughed at the comments about "making jam in this heat" from Monday's post. So, true confession time…. I do not go to a Raspberry Farm and pick buckets of berries. I head to my back yard and pick berries from 6-ish plants. I am lucky if I get a cup of berries
- [Macro Monday | 8.19.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/19/macro-monday-8-19-19/) - Waning summer days mean heavy laden branches with dew covered gems I have been amazed at the volume of raspberries I have picked this year! And, this weekend's harvest will soon be transformed into lovely little jars of jam! And that is not a bad way to spend a Monday at all!
- [TGIF | 8.16.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/16/tgif-8-16-19/) - Mid-August… yes, I said it. Unbelievably, the month is half over. I am having zero success in my efforts to slow August down and my garden is beginning to show "end of season" signs. All of this is putting me in a bit of a melancholy mood – although I am more than ready for
- [Three on Thursday | 8.15.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/15/three-on-thursday-8-15-19/) - Joining with Carole today to share three things! Errr...okay maybe one thing with three parts! Thing One "... thinking back on it now reminds that the pleasures of the table, and of life, are infinite – toujours bon appétit!" Today is Julia Child's birthday! She would have been 107 years old. Thing Two "I'm not a chef…
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.14.15](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/14/unraveled-wednesday-8-14-15/) - I must confess that I found this knit to be a real slog. It was slow going and tedious, unlike Screen Door which was so much fun and so easy! However, I am happy it is finished, and I even think it will get some use in the coming months. I am still working away
- [Sometimes Monday | 8.12.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/12/sometimes-monday-8-12-19/) - Are a harbinger for a coming change…. The past two morning it has been so crisp outside that I needed a sweater to work in the garden! Everything is laden with dew and glistening in the early morning sunlight. The drone of the mosquitos and the buzzing of the cicadas seemed like "white noise" as
- [TGIF | 8.9.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/09/tgif-8-9-19/) - Once again, Friday is upon us in a week that just sped by! I need to figure out how to slow these August weeks down in order to fully savor these summer days! Thinking – Why does it seem that stripey socks knit up faster than plan socks? I cast on my Non-Euclidian socks Wednesday
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 8.7.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/07/unraveled-wednesday-8-7-19/) - I almost have a finished object this week – I bound off this shawl late last night, but it still needs a bit of a spa treatment and a good blocking! Stay tuned for glamour shots next week! But that means – I can cast on something new! And, cast on I did! – although
- [Looking Back | July 2019](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/06/looking-back-july-2019/) - July was a tough month for me but in looking back, I am happy to see some very good things despite it being such a challenge! July 3rd might be my favorite picture of the whole month though! That single pierced ear has brought lots of laughter! (although a freshly washed and fluffy Sherman
- [Macro Monday | 8.5.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/05/macro-monday-8-5-19/) - Today, I have no words so it is a very good thing that I managed to take some photos last week. I am going to find comfort in the tasks of Monday and I hope you can find some solace today also.
- [Around Here | 8.2.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/02/around-here-8-2-19/) - This first Friday in August just seems like the perfect time to do an "around here" post! Around here – I am so happy to welcome August with its warm, sunny days – although there is a perceptible difference in the hours of daylight. It is no longer light out when I get up and
- [Three on Thursday | 8.1.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/08/01/three-on-thursday-8-1-19/) - I woke up this morning thinking how nice that it was finally Friday and about 30 minutes later I realized it was Thursday. Sigh. I hope those were not the best 30 minutes of my day! Ha! I am joining with Carole and Friends to share three things from my week thus far! Thing One:
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.31.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/07/31/unraveled-wednesday-7-31-19/) - Greetings Unravelers! I am back to patiently knitting my shawl and I am *almost* to the point where I get to do the little "flower" motif! Wooo! As for Early Bloomer… I wore it on Monday and thought about the fit all day. Sadly, I have determined that I need to rip it back to
- [An Out of Focus Month](https://askatknits.com/2019/07/30/an-out-of-focus-month/) - Joining with Juliann and sharing my word update again this month. My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused. – Ashton Eaton I should have looked for this quote earlier this month and I might have been more successful in refocusing myself! Why? Because I entirely lost my focus
- [Macro Monday | 7.29.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/07/29/macro-monday-7-29-19/) - I was lucky to have this lovely visitor yesterday morning! The butterflies have been abundant on the butterfly bush this year, but I have not been outside with the "big camera" and the tripod when they have visited! This Red Admiral butterfly was most photogenic, and it is the winner of the week! Now, on
- [TGIF | 7.26.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/07/26/tgif-7-26-19/) - It is almost painful to type these words: The last weekend of July is upon us…and while I have no desire to return to the ungodly temps we had last weekend, I would like to put July on pause and slow down these days that are just racing by! Thinking – I did not make
- [Three on Thursday | 7.25.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/07/25/three-on-thursday-7-25-19/) - It's Thursday and I have three things to share so I am joining with Carole and friends again today! This morning a curious quiet greeted me when I took Sherman out – no bird song, no frenzied hum of cicadas – just silence. It seemed that nature was reminding me that summer is fleeting, and
- [Unraveled Wednesday | 7.24.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/07/24/unraveled-wednesday-7-24-19/) - Last night, the temperatures dipped down into the 50's! Sleeping with open windows is just the best and I am so happy that horrid heat stretch is over…at least for the time being. Meanwhile, I am reveling in the respite and enjoying time outside! I spent time on "Sleeve Island" this week – a very
- [Macro Monday | 7.22.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/07/22/macro-monday-7-22-19/) - The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. – Robert Burns Note to self, 95+ degree heat and humidity at a gajillion percent means that your camera lens will instantly fog up… Add to all of that, this morning it is raining, and the humidity is still off the charts making big
- [Oh, Friday | 7.19.19](https://askatknits.com/2019/07/19/oh-friday-7-19-19/) - There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles. – Van Morrison Mary has challenged us this week to share #goodnewses, and, Gentle Readers… the struggle is real. How do you find good news when there is so much horrific news? Part of me feels that even finding something good is

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- [Midori Traveler's Notebook](https://askatknits.com/tag/midori-travelers-notebook/)
- [Mink River](https://askatknits.com/tag/mink-river/)
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- [Miss Babs Weave Along](https://askatknits.com/tag/miss-babs-weave-along/)
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- [mojo](https://askatknits.com/tag/mojo/)
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- [Mrs. Crosby](https://askatknits.com/tag/mrs-crosby/)
- [Mrs. Crosby Plays](https://askatknits.com/tag/mrs-crosby-plays/)
- [Muhammad Ali](https://askatknits.com/tag/muhammad-ali/)
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- [Mystery](https://askatknits.com/tag/mystery/)
- [Mystery Knitting](https://askatknits.com/tag/mystery-knitting/)
- [Mystery Socks](https://askatknits.com/tag/mystery-socks/)
- [NaBloPoMo](https://askatknits.com/tag/nablopomo/)
- [NaBloPoMoPoMo](https://askatknits.com/tag/nablopomopomo/)
- [Natural Stitches](https://askatknits.com/tag/natural-stitches/)
- [Neighbors](https://askatknits.com/tag/neighbors/)
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- [Noro](https://askatknits.com/tag/noro/)
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- [Not so Humorous](https://askatknits.com/tag/not-so-humorous/)
- [NPR](https://askatknits.com/tag/npr/)
- [Ohiopyle](https://askatknits.com/tag/ohiopyle/)
- [Oil Spill](https://askatknits.com/tag/oil-spill/)
- [Olympics](https://askatknits.com/tag/olympics/)
- [On Being Bodacious](https://askatknits.com/tag/on-being-bodacious/)
- [OneSockKAL](https://askatknits.com/tag/onesockkal/)
- [Opion](https://askatknits.com/tag/opion/)
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- [Organization](https://askatknits.com/tag/organization/)
- [Orlando](https://askatknits.com/tag/orlando/)
- [Periscope](https://askatknits.com/tag/periscope/)
- [Philosopher's Wool](https://askatknits.com/tag/philosophers-wool/)
- [Photography](https://askatknits.com/tag/photography/)
- [Pittsburgh](https://askatknits.com/tag/pittsburgh/)
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- [Politics Overload](https://askatknits.com/tag/politics-overload/)
- [Prairie Home Companion](https://askatknits.com/tag/prairie-home-companion/)
- [President Clinton](https://askatknits.com/tag/president-clinton/)
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- [Protect My Public Media](https://askatknits.com/tag/protect-my-public-media/)
- [Public Option](https://askatknits.com/tag/public-option/)
- [Pugs](https://askatknits.com/tag/pugs/)
- [Quilting](https://askatknits.com/tag/quilting/)
- [Quince&apple](https://askatknits.com/tag/quinceapple/)
- [Ramble Round Etton](https://askatknits.com/tag/ramble-round-etton/)
- [Ravelry](https://askatknits.com/tag/ravelry/)
- [Reading](https://askatknits.com/tag/reading/)
- [Recycling](https://askatknits.com/tag/recycling/)
- [Refugees](https://askatknits.com/tag/refugees/)
- [Rick Sebak](https://askatknits.com/tag/rick-sebak/)
- [Right Now](https://askatknits.com/tag/right-now/)
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- [Saranac](https://askatknits.com/tag/saranac/)
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- [Scheduling](https://askatknits.com/tag/scheduling/)
- [school](https://askatknits.com/tag/school/)
- [SCOTUS](https://askatknits.com/tag/scotus/)
- [Sea Pearl](https://askatknits.com/tag/sea-pearl/)
- [Selfie Saturday](https://askatknits.com/tag/selfie-saturday/)
- [Service](https://askatknits.com/tag/service/)
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- [Sheep](https://askatknits.com/tag/sheep/)
- [Sheepspot](https://askatknits.com/tag/sheepspot/)
- [Sherman](https://askatknits.com/tag/sherman/)
- [Shetland](https://askatknits.com/tag/shetland/)
- [Simple Dinners](https://askatknits.com/tag/simple-dinners/)
- [Skiing](https://askatknits.com/tag/skiing/)
- [Sock Summit '09](https://askatknits.com/tag/sock-summit-09/)
- [Socks](https://askatknits.com/tag/socks/)
- [Socks That Rock](https://askatknits.com/tag/socks-that-rock/)
- [Sonya Philip](https://askatknits.com/tag/sonya-philip/)
- [Spinning](https://askatknits.com/tag/spinning/)
- [Spring](https://askatknits.com/tag/spring/)
- [Springtime](https://askatknits.com/tag/springtime/)
- [squam](https://askatknits.com/tag/squam/)
- [State of the Union](https://askatknits.com/tag/state-of-the-union/)
- [Statue of Liberty](https://askatknits.com/tag/statue-of-liberty/)
- [Staub](https://askatknits.com/tag/staub/)
- [Stitching](https://askatknits.com/tag/stitching/)
- [Stopover](https://askatknits.com/tag/stopover/)
- [Stress](https://askatknits.com/tag/stress/)
- [Sugarloaf Resort](https://askatknits.com/tag/sugarloaf-resort/)
- [Summer](https://askatknits.com/tag/summer/)
- [Summer Knit-Along](https://askatknits.com/tag/summer-knit-along/)
- [Summer of Sweaters](https://askatknits.com/tag/summer-of-sweaters/)
- [Sunrise](https://askatknits.com/tag/sunrise/)
- [Sunset](https://askatknits.com/tag/sunset/)
- [Swaps](https://askatknits.com/tag/swaps/)
- [TBT](https://askatknits.com/tag/tbt/)
- [Ten on Tuesday](https://askatknits.com/tag/ten-on-tuesday/)
- [Terrorism](https://askatknits.com/tag/terrorism/)
- [TGIF](https://askatknits.com/tag/tgif/)
- [Thanksgiving](https://askatknits.com/tag/thanksgiving/)
- [The Goldfinch](https://askatknits.com/tag/the-goldfinch/)
- [The Ragman](https://askatknits.com/tag/the-ragman/)
- [The Ross Farm](https://askatknits.com/tag/the-ross-farm/)
- [The Spinning Loft](https://askatknits.com/tag/the-spinning-loft/)
- [The Strip District](https://askatknits.com/tag/the-strip-district/)
- [The Year of Finding Inspiration](https://askatknits.com/tag/the-year-of-finding-inspiration/)
- [TheKitchn](https://askatknits.com/tag/thekitchn/)
- [Through the Loops](https://askatknits.com/tag/through-the-loops/)
- [Throw Back Thursday](https://askatknits.com/tag/throw-back-thursday/)
- [Time Change](https://askatknits.com/tag/time-change/)
- [Tin Can Knits](https://askatknits.com/tag/tin-can-knits/)
- [Tour de Fleece](https://askatknits.com/tag/tour-de-fleece/)
- [Travel](https://askatknits.com/tag/travel/)
- [Triticum](https://askatknits.com/tag/triticum/)
- [Tulip Festival](https://askatknits.com/tag/tulip-festival/)
- [Unemployment](https://askatknits.com/tag/unemployment/)
- [Valentines Day](https://askatknits.com/tag/valentines-day/)
- [Van Raalte Farm](https://askatknits.com/tag/van-raalte-farm/)
- [Vogue](https://askatknits.com/tag/vogue/)
- [Walter Wangerin Jr.](https://askatknits.com/tag/walter-wangerin-jr/)
- [Waterlogue](https://askatknits.com/tag/waterlogue/)
- [weather](https://askatknits.com/tag/weather/)
- [Weave Along](https://askatknits.com/tag/weave-along/)
- [Weaving](https://askatknits.com/tag/weaving/)
- [weekend](https://askatknits.com/tag/weekend/)
- [Whining](https://askatknits.com/tag/whining/)
- [Whistle Stop](https://askatknits.com/tag/whistle-stop/)
- [Wholey's](https://askatknits.com/tag/wholeys/)
- [Wigle Whiskey](https://askatknits.com/tag/wigle-whiskey/)
- [Winter](https://askatknits.com/tag/winter/)
- [wooden furniture](https://askatknits.com/tag/wooden-furniture/)
- [Work](https://askatknits.com/tag/work/)
- [writer's block](https://askatknits.com/tag/writers-block/)
- [writing](https://askatknits.com/tag/writing/)
- [Yarn Along](https://askatknits.com/tag/yarn-along/)
- [Yarn Harlot](https://askatknits.com/tag/yarn-harlot/)
- [Yarn Hollow](https://askatknits.com/tag/yarn-hollow/)
- [Year End](https://askatknits.com/tag/year-end/)
- [Year of Learing](https://askatknits.com/tag/year-of-learing/)
- [Year of Learning](https://askatknits.com/tag/year-of-learning/)
- [Year of Making](https://askatknits.com/tag/year-of-making/)
- [Year of the Sheep](https://askatknits.com/tag/year-of-the-sheep/)
- [Yoga](https://askatknits.com/tag/yoga/)
- [Ysolda](https://askatknits.com/tag/ysolda/)
- [Yummy 2-ply](https://askatknits.com/tag/yummy-2-ply/)
- [Fiber Club](https://askatknits.com/tag/fiber-club/)
- [Targhee](https://askatknits.com/tag/targhee/)
- [Mount Washington](https://askatknits.com/tag/mount-washington/)
- [4th of July](https://askatknits.com/tag/4th-of-july/)
- [Declaration of Independence](https://askatknits.com/tag/declaration-of-independence/)
- [Fireworks](https://askatknits.com/tag/fireworks/)
- [resolutions](https://askatknits.com/tag/resolutions/)
- [sticking with it](https://askatknits.com/tag/sticking-with-it/)
- [TdF2016](https://askatknits.com/tag/tdf2016/)
- [Camp](https://askatknits.com/tag/camp/)
- [Spinning Daily](https://askatknits.com/tag/spinning-daily/)
- [Kate Larson](https://askatknits.com/tag/kate-larson/)
- [Spunky Eclectic](https://askatknits.com/tag/spunky-eclectic/)
- [Jill Draper Makes Stuff](https://askatknits.com/tag/jill-draper-makes-stuff/)
- [Esopus](https://askatknits.com/tag/esopus/)
- [Hillary Clinton](https://askatknits.com/tag/hillary-clinton/)
- [Tim Kaine](https://askatknits.com/tag/tim-kaine/)
- [My Kitchen Year](https://askatknits.com/tag/my-kitchen-year/)
- [Ruth Reichl](https://askatknits.com/tag/ruth-reichl/)
- [Elsawool](https://askatknits.com/tag/elsawool/)
- [Cormo](https://askatknits.com/tag/cormo/)
- [Tales from the Isle of Purbeck](https://askatknits.com/tag/tales-from-the-isle-of-purbeck/)
- [The Book Thief](https://askatknits.com/tag/the-book-thief/)
- [BOTNS](https://askatknits.com/tag/botns/)
- [My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry](https://askatknits.com/tag/my-grandmother-asked-me-to-tell-you-shes-sorry/)
- [Book Bingo](https://askatknits.com/tag/book-bingo/)
- [To Kill a Mockingbird](https://askatknits.com/tag/to-kill-a-mockingbird/)
- [David Sedaris](https://askatknits.com/tag/david-sedaris/)
- [Instant Pot](https://askatknits.com/tag/instant-pot/)
- [AKK Summer KAL](https://askatknits.com/tag/akk-summer-kal/)
- [Nahant](https://askatknits.com/tag/nahant/)
- [Knitty dot com](https://askatknits.com/tag/knitty-dot-com/)
- [Schacht Matchless](https://askatknits.com/tag/schacht-matchless/)
- [Jenkins](https://askatknits.com/tag/jenkins/)
- [Ann Grout](https://askatknits.com/tag/ann-grout/)
- [Jen Lucas](https://askatknits.com/tag/jen-lucas/)
- [Yarnitecture](https://askatknits.com/tag/yarnitecture/)
- [wash along](https://askatknits.com/tag/wash-along/)
- [Knit Kon-Mari](https://askatknits.com/tag/knit-kon-mari/)
- [Repurpose](https://askatknits.com/tag/repurpose/)
- [Aestlight Shawl](https://askatknits.com/tag/aestlight-shawl/)
- [Picot Socks](https://askatknits.com/tag/picot-socks/)
- [Thistle Rambles](https://askatknits.com/tag/thistle-rambles/)
- [Pincha](https://askatknits.com/tag/pincha/)
- [Knitty.com](https://askatknits.com/tag/knitty-com/)
- [Jen Lucas Mystery Shawl](https://askatknits.com/tag/jen-lucas-mystery-shawl/)
- [Labor Day](https://askatknits.com/tag/labor-day/)
- [saudade](https://askatknits.com/tag/saudade/)
- [Mary Lou Egan](https://askatknits.com/tag/mary-lou-egan/)
- [Drop Dead Easy Knits](https://askatknits.com/tag/drop-dead-easy-knits/)
- [Traverse City](https://askatknits.com/tag/traverse-city/)
- [Michigan](https://askatknits.com/tag/michigan/)
- [Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive](https://askatknits.com/tag/pierce-stocking-scenic-drive/)
- [Vacation](https://askatknits.com/tag/vacation/)
- [think write thursday](https://askatknits.com/tag/think-write-thursday/)
- [i don't like mondays](https://askatknits.com/tag/i-dont-like-mondays/)
- [honey cowl](https://askatknits.com/tag/honey-cowl/)
- [gratitude](https://askatknits.com/tag/gratitude/)
- [sigla](https://askatknits.com/tag/sigla/)
- [rock the lobster](https://askatknits.com/tag/rock-the-lobster/)
- [gilmore girls](https://askatknits.com/tag/gilmore-girls/)
- [karin fossum](https://askatknits.com/tag/karin-fossum/)
- [dave brubeck](https://askatknits.com/tag/dave-brubeck/)
- [blue rondo a la turk](https://askatknits.com/tag/blue-rondo-a-la-turk/)
- [best teachers ever](https://askatknits.com/tag/best-teachers-ever/)
- [sherm-turday](https://askatknits.com/tag/sherm-turday/)
- [silent sunday](https://askatknits.com/tag/silent-sunday/)
- [food for thought](https://askatknits.com/tag/food-for-thought/)
- [weekending](https://askatknits.com/tag/weekending/)
- [vote](https://askatknits.com/tag/vote/)
- [shermturdays](https://askatknits.com/tag/shermturdays/)
- [random thoughts](https://askatknits.com/tag/random-thoughts/)
- [full moon](https://askatknits.com/tag/full-moon/)
- [gwen ifill](https://askatknits.com/tag/gwen-ifill/)
- [holiday memories](https://askatknits.com/tag/holiday-memories/)
- [shermturday](https://askatknits.com/tag/shermturday/)
- [trader joes](https://askatknits.com/tag/trader-joes/)
- [kindness counts](https://askatknits.com/tag/kindness-counts/)
- [squad mitts](https://askatknits.com/tag/squad-mitts/)
- [virtual advent tour](https://askatknits.com/tag/virtual-advent-tour/)
- [birthdays](https://askatknits.com/tag/birthdays/)
- [what are you doing new years eve](https://askatknits.com/tag/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve/)
- [one little word](https://askatknits.com/tag/one-little-word/)
- [indoor gardening](https://askatknits.com/tag/indoor-gardening/)
- [mlk jr](https://askatknits.com/tag/mlk-jr/)
- [boycotting the inauguration](https://askatknits.com/tag/boycotting-the-inauguration/)
- [barack obama](https://askatknits.com/tag/barack-obama/)
- [resistance](https://askatknits.com/tag/resistance/)
- [community](https://askatknits.com/tag/community/)
- [daily stitching](https://askatknits.com/tag/daily-stitching/)
- [stitching journal](https://askatknits.com/tag/stitching-journal/)
- [slow stitch](https://askatknits.com/tag/slow-stitch/)
- [Kim Kaslow](https://askatknits.com/tag/kim-kaslow/)
- [Woolen Rabbit](https://askatknits.com/tag/woolen-rabbit/)
- [womans march on washington](https://askatknits.com/tag/womans-march-on-washington/)
- [sister marches](https://askatknits.com/tag/sister-marches/)
- [stoptrumptuesdays](https://askatknits.com/tag/stoptrumptuesdays/)
- [nobannowall](https://askatknits.com/tag/nobannowall/)
- [knitters pride royale](https://askatknits.com/tag/knitters-pride-royale/)
- [stitch craft marketing](https://askatknits.com/tag/stitch-craft-marketing/)
- [insomnia](https://askatknits.com/tag/insomnia/)
- [resist](https://askatknits.com/tag/resist/)
- [victoria](https://askatknits.com/tag/victoria/)
- [black history month](https://askatknits.com/tag/black-history-month/)
- [clint smith](https://askatknits.com/tag/clint-smith/)
- [brief but spectacular](https://askatknits.com/tag/brief-but-spectacular/)
- [love](https://askatknits.com/tag/love/)
- [pablo neruda](https://askatknits.com/tag/pablo-neruda/)
- [walking](https://askatknits.com/tag/walking/)
- [joy in the journey](https://askatknits.com/tag/joy-in-the-journey/)
- [lists](https://askatknits.com/tag/lists/)
- [meditations](https://askatknits.com/tag/meditations/)
- [casa reyna](https://askatknits.com/tag/casa-reyna/)
- [unraveled wednesday](https://askatknits.com/tag/unraveled-wednesday/)
- [just five things](https://askatknits.com/tag/just-five-things/)
- [michelle_gd](https://askatknits.com/tag/michelle_gd/)
- [javoridesigns](https://askatknits.com/tag/javoridesigns/)
- [andi javori](https://askatknits.com/tag/andi-javori/)
- [chelsea necklace](https://askatknits.com/tag/chelsea-necklace/)
- [jewelry](https://askatknits.com/tag/jewelry/)
- [beaded knitting](https://askatknits.com/tag/beaded-knitting/)
- [taproot](https://askatknits.com/tag/taproot/)
- [412resistance](https://askatknits.com/tag/412resistance/)
- [cleaning](https://askatknits.com/tag/cleaning/)
- [kraemer yarn](https://askatknits.com/tag/kraemer-yarn/)
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