What Guilt?

That was a lovely weekend!  (I notice I use ‘lovely’ an awful lot.  Noted, and I doubt I’ll change it any time soon.  Lazy brain!)  Skein Lane Knitting Retreat.
Knitting, knitters, Tomales Bay, not even cold!  (I think I wore a sweater once, and took it off.  Shawl, yes.  Happy Grey Alpaca Shawl!)  Nancy Bush, Sally [...]

Tuesday after Lambtown

We’re up!  We’re out!  We’re well-provisioned!  Pretty good for a Monday morning.  (And now it’s Tuesday!  We’re provisioning.)
The kiddo and I went to Lambtown on Saturday.  Lovely little show!  It was mostly a kid-directed day.  (Except when I dragged him protesting and crying and whining through the vendor building.)  Sheep dog trials!  Shearing contest!  An alpaca [...]

Quick! Go do a Survey!

About you and knitting!
Our friend the Knitting Linguist is thinking about knitting and personal identity, and fun stuff like that.  Do her a favor, and go do it here.  I had a good time thinking about knitting and why I do it and how I started.   Give her lots of words to analyze. 
Peter Pan was [...]

Lost Habit

(If I ever had the habit…)
I’ve got a memory card full of photos to sort through.
I’ve got a backlog of this and that in my head. Rapidly dissipating into the realm of lost ideas.
I’m playing with the spindle. Addictive little thing. I’ve got one or two or three somewhat active knitting projects.  Very slowly active.
I’ve [...]

Really done?

Done enough to wear on Mt Tamalpais! Buttons and collar facing yarn chosen by the kiddo, of course. I wouldn’t do something like that on my own! I’m not nearly adventurous enough. Luckily, he is. Look at that beautiful bottom edge! Not a hint of flare or ruffle or wave. A redo well worth doing. [...]

This and That

The importance of little words:  “…abused a child”  or “…abused as a child”
I wonder what they are doing around Lake Merritt?  I don’t like the view of water/sky as well through the chain link fence.  At least machines are out there now, so it’s clear something is happening construction like.  Better paths?
When I drive past the [...]

It Rained!

Aaaahhh…. The drizzle came! It may even still be drizzling now.
Does a new president reset our weather to normal? Wouldn’t it be nice if that were so!  Somehow, though, I don’t think it is so.
I’ve been busy, even knitting a bit.  Knit up an Urchin in lovely light blue Malabrigo.  Completely addictive and fast pattern.  [...]

Where is that camera?

Busy, busy, busy.
Saturday was a soccer day – the last day of games this year!  Hooray! says Mom.  Kiddo has grown into enjoying the games, so he’s sad to stop.  Unexpectedly, we had two games because it was a tournament weekend.  Who knew?  We are not the most organized team in the league, nor is [...]

Wonderful Wool

Saturday was a rainy day.  Soccer was cancelled after about 10 minutes of playing with half teams.  After 30 minutes of warming up.  In the rain.  The kids were soaked.  The parents were slightly less soaked.  My husband came unprepared, so borrowed my rain jacket.  I had on a wool sweater, a wool scarf, wool [...]

Halloween Zoomed By

Halloween morning, I managed to whip together stuff for the front porch, and got it put up, all before leaving for school and work. On time even!

We like fancy decorations. White kitchen string and twist ties add a certain elegant touch. (pictures from this morning, the day after)
It rained off and on [...]