Archive for the 'Knitting' Category



Start of Memorial Day weekend

Published on May 26, 2012

It’s Memorial Day weekend. While most people ran off for 3 days of fun last night (and some went even earlier) I had to work today. I would rather have run away. Took my knitting to work and got some rows done on breaks and lunch. I’m doing the Laurel Anne pattern from Blue Ridge Yarns. I got […]


I’m going!!

Published on April 30, 2012

A group of us will be leaving early Saturday morning, oh, about 0615, and heading west of Baltimore, to the Howard County Fairgrounds for the annual Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival.   I’ve never been to it before. By the time I became enough of a lunatic an avid knitter and spinner to want to […]


Starting things–a sweater or a UFO?

Published on February 12, 2012

When I was digging around for something or cleaning or tripping over things, whatever, I found a still-sealed bag of 10 skeins of Cascade 220 Superwash in colorway Amethyst Heather – 10 damn skeins!!! I remember buying it in a yarn store down near Kate’s, and I put it away until just the right pattern […]