Hey! I finished it! Project Details I love it. It’s simple, warm, and snuggly. I have lots of single skeins of heavy worsted weight and Aran weight yarn in the stash that would make good hats. John has been giving me the sad side-eye, but he’s NOT getting this one. And he’s going to have ..read more

I gathered up all the knitting projects that I could find to sort through them. That’s the lot of them. In that pile are SEVEN shawls, two hats, one of a sock pair, a sweater, fingerless mitts, a washcloth, and a sock yarn scrap blanket. Good grief. My “startitis” has gotten out of control. I ..read more

I leave early this afternoon for an 11-day trip to Greece.* It’s a National Geographic Expedition trip, “Wonders of an Ancient Empire”. Since I’ve been studying a lot about ancient Greece for the past two years, I jumped on this trip as soon as I saw it. No, John isn’t going with me. He doesn’t ..read more

That’s how many rows I have left on my current lace shawl in progress. At this point, the public-side rows are taking close to an hour to knit. The yarn is very fine silk yarn, and it wants to jump off the needles any chance it gets. The color is all off in that photo ..read more

In one of my previous posts, I mentioned that I’ve lost 50 pounds since October of last year. Not surprisingly, there were questions. So here are a few answers. I’ve been overweight for years; I really had trouble staying at a healthy weight when I started working as a hospitalist. I was working a deadly ..read more

Here you go! This still needs a little seam steaming to really finish it, but it’s all put together, and ready for cooler weather. Sorry for the bad in-the-mirror photo. My usual photographer was unavailable, and Hank the corgi doesn’t have opposable thumbs, so he can’t manage the phone camera. The sleeves also look a ..read more

This one has been on the back burner since summer, and warmer weather, arrived. I have had the main pieces done for a while, and have one sleeve to finish. Since we had a bit of cooler weather today (and rain!), I decided to get the front and back blocked. Once I get to the ..read more

I’m going to call it a sabbatical, and leave it at that. Having a Corgi that is in many ways still a puppy (he’ll be 2 in September) has made spinning an unrealistic hobby. A wheel that spins around, with pretty fluff on it? That’s more of a temptation than Hank can stand. I moved the spinning stuff well out of his way when he came to live with us. Yesterday, I brought it out, dusted off the cobwebs, and got it going. There was some mostly spun up fiber already on it, so I finished spinning that yesterday, plied it up last night, and got it off the niddy-noddy* this morning. That there is 228 ..read more

And I finished something! Pattern: Boneyard Shawl, by Stephen West Yarn: Ullcentrum 2-ply gradient; sport weight yarn, 3 skeins, 984 yards Started: January 1, 2024 Finished: April 1, 2024 For: Me Needle: 4mm Chiaogoo metal Yarn/Pattern rating: *****/***** What I liked/learned with this project: I’ve made several of the Boneyard shawls. It’s mindless, and good with many different yarn weights and styles. I used 3 skeins of this, and I only wasted less than 10 g of the yarn getting the gradients to work. The yarn is lovely, woolly stuff. I may have more in the stash. As per my typical inatten ..read more

Two and a half months later… The last few months really got away from me. I signed up for 3 separate classes at the Graham School for both fall and winter quarters. These are 3 hour classes per week for each class, with an accompanying amount of reading. While I enjoyed all of them, it hasn’t left me much time for other things besides the real life stuff that doesn’t go away, even if I’d rather be sitting in a chair reading. I had signed up for another three classes for spring quarter, which starts next week, but came to my senses yesterday and dropped one of the classes. It was a class on Uly ..read more