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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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
100 Days of Hope | Week 10
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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......
100 Days of Hope | Week 9
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...
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