The zines went live last night at midnight but I added at least four from people today and expect another one or two tomorrow. So the official announcements have not yet gone out to our mailing list. If you want to be on the mailing list just go to either SFRevu.com or GumshoeReview.com and join […]
One thing about knitting is that it keeps you humble. I cast on the stitches and knit the first 5 rows and discovered that I should have used the smaller sized needles. So, I pulled it all off the needles and unraveled. By then it was after midnight last night. Today I finally found the […]
It seems that the old saying, “the faster I go, the behinder I get” is getting a workout in my life. The zines go live on June 1st. But then you probably knew that. But, I’m going to be at Balticon from May 28th to 31st — I think you begin to see the problem. […]
Had to rip out nearly an entire sock yesterday. I’ve managed to finish the toe so far but have a bit of a way to go until I get to the leg area where I dropped a stitch and didn’t notice until it was way to late. Is there anything other than knitting that teaches […]
The mystery genre has whole series of books that have a knitting, crocheting, spinning, weaving, and other fiber arts mentioned in them. In many, the amateur detective/sleuth owns a yarn store or art gallery and so the characters use these skills — either to help them solve the crime or in the background as the […]
As readers of this blog may or may not know, we collect bears. We also have a number of Tigers living in our house. If any of you also have stuffed furry friends in their abodes, you may know just how often having a few critters about can be handy when things go wrong or […]
We woke up this morning to this only with more fog… The fog has lessened a bit but the sky is so grey. The snow is light but the wind is blowing so it’s hard to focus on anything out there except what’s close to you. The birds have been crowding the feeder, we had […]
I don’t get to knit much except during those times when there’s not much else to do that requires my hands — so I knit when the PC locks up (which lately is a lot and knitting keeps me from trying to get it to work by pressing keys, thus making it worse) or when […]