Okay, these really long breaks between posts are just going to happen.  I need to accept it!  :) Do I have some stuff to say?  Well, sure,...

My kid just got done being the sickest she's ever been, but I haven't forgotten about this space, so you get this FWOOSH! fast run-t...

There's a lot of unfinished going on over here. Some of it is almost wrapped up. Some of it has just begun. The good news is...

Thought the wrist twinge meant rain, stayed inside all day; this morning I can't move my hands.  #WHYgarterstitch Why don't I work w...

...at least that's what my friends tell me. *  HA! Ever since the opening ceremonies in Rio, I have been superglued to basically all O...

My love for the musical "Hamilton" is too much for one shawl alone... Luckily, there are shawl designers who share my leanings: ...

I tried very quickly to look into the history of the term "laceweight" and the precise origins of that designation-- as far as I c...

I'm not going to pretend I'm anything less than OBSESSED with the Broadway musical "Hamilton"; by now it's a cultu...

Prior to my accidental sabbatical, I featured the first two of this year's twelve shawls ( here and here )...  and then I fell down....

I used to fill journals, scribbling page after page, like writing down words was a battle to wage. I didn't mean for that to turn int...

I have been busy and tired and full of allergy brain and blah blah blah, excuses. But I have also been making blanket things! This one i...

So I've been working on this pankity pank pank shawl: The yarn is a laceweight single and it's so very light, knitting it up fee...

SO!  This is what I made with Tart: gentlemen prefer chevrons [ Rav ] by bunnymuff;  knit with madelinetosh prairie in colorway Tart ...

Sometimes a yarn is so fantastic, it can live only in the stash of my imagination.  It could be that the yarn is rare enough that next to ...

When I played Yarn Chicken with that ombre skein, it didn't work out precisely as planned ...  but it still looks really darn good: ...