Mommy & Me

We have no room on our boat for a washer/dryer so to the laundromat we go. To felt up my slippers, I am at the mercy of whatever machine is available. Luckily, there’s a clean, quiet ‘mat in our marina with newer front-loading machines. Unfortunately, you can’t just pop them open to check the felting [...]

The Fringe of Society

I just learned about the Red Scarf Project about a week and a half ago so, since the deadline is the end of January, I knit up a couple big gauge scarves with stash yarn. The yarn is all recycled wool (from sweaters) that I bought in an eBay frenzy months ago, before I found [...]

Heaven…I’m in heaven…

Yesterday Julie wrote about her new skein of ‘G Rocks’ Socks That Rock by Blue Moon Fiber Arts. Her lovely description and photos made my heart ache for the skein of ‘Fire on the Mountain‘ I ordered a few days ago. I couldn’t wait to see what it looked like because, as Julie put it, [...]

Paging Jill

I’m a chronically honest person. I feel tremendous amounts of guilt when I lie about even the smallest thing — “No, your new haircut is great (inwardly cringe at the lie).” So when the barista would ask for my name after I ordered my tall non-fat latte, I’ve always sighed and said “LaDonna . . [...]

Me Seester Fie Dallah

My sister is precious to me. Even though she’s nine years older, we are absolutely the best of friends. Plus she’s the sweetest thing ever (except in the morning – a word of warning: NEVER say “Good morning, Sunshine!” in a sickly singsong manner upon her arrival at the breakfast table . . . unless [...]

Charity case

I finished a nice little seed stitch scarf for the Red Scarf Project last night. It’s recycled lambswool from a sweater in mixed brown/cream. I have no idea what the WPI is but I used 11s and it knit up with a loose enough gauge so the finished product wasn’t stiff as a board.

Now I [...]

Red Jenny Rackam

That’s my lusty new pirate name and I love it so much, I think I’ll change my official ‘Coffee House Name’ of Jill (easy to say and spell, as opposed to LaDonna) to RED JENNY RACKAM! That’ll send those baristas’ caffeine riddled brains reeling.
Get your own pirate name here.

Dusty Wine Blues

I put Hubbo on a train last night (he hates to fly) for a long trip up north which leaves me with an abundance of free time on my hands. Well, not an abundance – I’m in deadline till next week but after that . . . knit city, baby! Anticipating a need for new [...]

Dreams

I dreamed of knitting last night. No specific details remain but I woke up with a cozy yummy feeling. Much better than the dreams where I realize during finals week that I signed up for a class I never attended.
The dreams are undoubtedly due to the fact I’ve been totally screwing off at work. I’m [...]

Over the hump

Christmas should be fun and relaxing but I don’t know very many people who actually emerge from the holidays well-rested. There’s all that Christmas knitting to finish, for one. And I didn’t escape.

I finally finished the hateful Bro Blanket – in the car on the way home! It’s very cute but so so so teensy [...]