Archive for the 'Crafts' Category



sticks and string

Published on April 11, 2008

Trees and plants are starting to bloom and lots of pretty flowering trees are showing their stuff. But the one in my front yard is still just sticks.  And one weird bird that shows up now and again and keeps eyeing the dog.     Maybe it’ll look better next week. Knitting Stuff I think the […]


Blah

Published on April 10, 2008

Two heels are turned on Pop’s socks.  About an inch of ribbing done on the sweater.  At 208 stitches per round, it takes a while.  And ribbing is pretty boring.  Certainly nothing to take a picture of.  Might get a bit more interesting when it moves up into the body.  Other than that, nothing to […]


Cast on

Published on April 9, 2008

Knitting Stuff For the longest time, the idea of designing a gansey-styled sweater has rolled around in all the empty spots in my head of which there are many and they are large.  I even forget where I first read about ganseys.  On someone’s blog, probably.  Several books that I’ve read in the last year […]