Sweet vacation

No time! Am off to sail to Half Moon Bay. Wheeeeeeee!

Just Swatch Me.

Work’s been crazy, which is just one way to say “I’m a lazy blogger.” But I have a few moments now and would like to show ya’ll just why some ‘goody two shoes’ knitters praise the act of swatching. As I’ve mentioned, I’m all over IK’s Hedgerow Coat but can’t for the life of me [...]

Playing Catch Up

This month has been insane. I keep getting farther and farther behind in my blogging duties — every time I have a minute of free time, I realize that I have so much to report that I don’t have time! So this post will be a hodgepodge that will hopefully get me back on my [...]

Laying Cable

I sewed two cabled panels together last night and it looks great but, boy, is this sucker heavy!

Here’s my process for this puppy:
I knit up two skeins Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick ‘n Quick for each panel, then strung a line through the stitches knowing I’d be picking them up later to ‘finish’. The only reason [...]

Guinea Pig

Poor Hubbo! We have a great jazz series that’s played at a waterfront park here in Sausalito. Last Friday we took our dinghy (small boat with a tiny outboard) over to meet up with friends on a big powerboat. Owner of said boat has a thing for fat rats — guinea pigs to be precise. [...]

Liar Liar

The last couple weeks have been tragically frantic. Thankfully they weren’t frantically tragic! Most of it is explained on my Tess blog so check it out for all the excuses valid reasons for my failure to blog recently.
Alas, I have no pix of Rob’s blanket, which is just screaming along. He wanted something extra big [...]