Why I Knit

Yeah, I thought I was going to manage to avoid discussion of that idiotic article altogether. Then I saw my blog mentioned in someone else’s* post in reference to how exclusive the ahem… "journalist" was of the many male and other not-quite-stereotypical knitters. <sigh> It’s not going to happen. I won’t go into how dumb…

Doh!

Howdy, friends and neighbors. It would appear from recent posts that I haven’t gotten much knitting done. Well, that would be sort of accurate, but the truth is… I had to rip. Ok, I did a stupid thing. I didn’t have the needle that I needed to start the Rambling Rows afghan when I wanted…

High Helen

Ladies und Genklemuns… I give you, High Helen! Ok. I’m not actually giving you High Helen. Maybe I should have said, “Presenting…” Oh, well. There’s always a story, right? Sit back, knittin’ kiddies, this one’s a hoot. About two years ago while Rob and I were still living in Lansing, Michigan, we regularly haunted Yarn…

March 17, 2003

Yes, it’s been almost another whole week since I had last sat down and wrote. Actually there are still about twenty other things (dramatic underestimate) that I need to be doing, but I absolutely can’t let Teresa, C, and Denise’s visit go without comment. We all had a wonderful time, it was really great being…