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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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......
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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