Knit Your Socks on Straight: A New and Inventive Technique with Just Two Needles by Alice Curtis, Storey Publishing, LLC (June 5, 2013). ISBN: 978-1612120089, Spiral Bound, 144 pages. List Price: $16.95 (Amazon: $11.32 / Kindle: $9.99) In the past, I’ve knitted a couple of different patterns for two-needle socks. Each one was different and […]
I can’t believe how long it has been since I last posted here. Time continues to get away from me. I’ve got the drafts of at least three book reviews and hope to get them up the first of the year. Also, have been working on a sock pattern — my own design so I’m […]
I really don’t know what’s got into me lately. It seems like I’m just dragging through the days in a fog. I’m sleeping a lot but never feel rested. I’d have thought by this time now that my Capclave was over, I’d begin feeling rested and revving up on all the things I had to […]
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 […]
My busy day I’ll admit is not the same as most people’s busy days. But for me I did a lot. (Remember I’ve got that whole lack of spoon things still going on.) Well, I did the wash, dried, folded, and put it away. I made bread. Okay so we’ve got a bread machine but […]
Today we made cinnamon-ginger donuts. Came out pretty good and we remembered to get them in containers before they could dry out. Then it was some housework and picking up, followed by going out to do the shopping. We checked three stores looking for the 20 watt halogen lights that fit in our kitchen fixtures […]
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 […]
We woke up to a thin blanket of snow covering everything. Yesterday the ground was bare of snow — today a couple of inches so far. It’s also cold. Bone chilling cold. I’ve stayed in all day. But one thing snow means is that all the little birds in the area flock to your deck […]