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All Keyed Up
Posted on | April 30, 2010 | 1 Comment
Have you ever done something so completely hare-brained that after the fact you can’t quite believe you actually did it? I’m still shaking my head over what happened at my house last night. My husband and I were all dressed up and ready to head into the city for an event that we were really excited about. As [...]
Iris’t My Case
Posted on | April 30, 2010 | 2 Comments
Two titles in a row that feature bad puns… oy. Just couldn’t resist. Today’s garden extravaganza is the iris population that has overtaken the garden. While the roses are mustering their strength for the long haul of late spring/summer blooms, the irises stand proudly in full regalia right now. Some of them smell like grape [...]
The Wall Of The Roses
Posted on | April 28, 2010 | No Comments
Never one to resist the lure of a good pun (or are puns, by their very nature, bad?) I was stopped dead in my tracks on the way out to fetch the paper this morning by this: A wall of roses just waiting for the morning sun to hit them so they could release their [...]
Emily Dickinson
Posted on | April 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
Have I mentioned that I started the Emily Dickinson shawl by Kieran Foley after I saw what an absolutely bang-up job Ann had done with it? Here is my start – and the fabulous color of this Woolen Rabbit yarn in Chocolate Chambord laceweight is dead accurate in the photo, for once. I completed the border [...]
Zucchini and String Beans and ‘Maters, Oh My!
Posted on | April 25, 2010 | No Comments
Last weekend, we planted the vegetable garden. I had just about given up on it (was truly on the verge of suggesting that my husband might want to convert it into a sport court) because our neighbors’ trees have grown so tall in the last couple of years that much of the garden has been shaded out – obliterated, [...]
Passiflora Errata
Posted on | April 24, 2010 | No Comments
It has come to my attention that there is a problem with the lace charts in my Passiflora pattern, and I wanted to let knitters know how much I appreciate the feedback. Something got lost in translation between submission of the pattern and its publication, and instead of stacking the yarn-overs and the ssk/k2tog repeats one above [...]
I’m Ba-a-ack…!
Posted on | April 22, 2010 | No Comments
So you’ve probably noticed that I have finally resurfaced after a couple of weeks of radio silence (just what IS radio silence, anyway? I’ve always wondered…). Was off traveling to see my aged and not-terribly-healthy parents, and to take them to visit my daughter at college. She (my darling daughter, that is) was performing in a [...]
February in April
Posted on | April 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
Finally, my February Lady Sweater is finito!!! Several months past my original self-imposed deadline, it’s true, but with the sudden spring cold snap we’re having here in the Bay area, I am wearing it right now and feeling very comfortable. Pamela Flint’s pattern (or should I say Elizabeth Zimmermann’s?) was a pleasure to knit up [...]
Twist superlatives
Posted on | April 4, 2010 | No Comments
Now that I’ve finished admiring my own handiwork in the latest issue of Twist, I’ve gone back through the rest of the patterns and decided that this issue is the best one ever! When I can’t make up my mind about which project to download first, and when there are fewer designs I probably won’t want [...]
Twist Collective Spring issue: Passiflora!
Posted on | April 1, 2010 | 3 Comments
I’ve been looking forward to the launch of Twist Collective’s Spring issue for quite some time, and here’s the reason: The Passiflora tunic is my debut design for this wonderful magazine. I couldn’t be happier with the photography, the styling, or with the way the editors highlighted the various lace elements of the design. In creating Passiflora, [...]