Every time I find a pair of Bill’s hand knit socks in the laundry, it makes me smile because there is nothing more gratifying than to see someone use an item I have knitted for him. Socks are important to Bill. He likes wool and he likes squishy. Several years ago I bought this black […]
My friend Chrissy and her two daughters have birthday in January, February and March. I got a wild idea this year to make them all slipper socks in their favorite colors. Chrissy likes pastels. Lily likes purple. Tallie likes blues. I was a little bit late shipping them off, but the Birthday Fairy brings joy […]
I’m predictable. I have to hope it’s not boring for those teachers and friends on our Christmas gift list because once again I made them granola using my standard recipe. I’ll forget by next year how much we gave and how many bags I packaged so for the record, I’ll post it here. Signature School […]
Last night I heard the boys mention picking up their shoes. It gave me pause and then I realized. They were not picking up their shoes for the sake of a clean house. They were picking up their shoes to place them in front of the fireplace. This year St. Nicholas left them each a […]
Dobbie is an adorable little pup who I knit for my friend, Margaret, for her birthday. You see, Margaret has a real miniature Dachshund who goes by the same name. When the pattern was released earlier this year, I knew that I was going to bring Dobbie to life. Susan Claudino cleverly engineered his construction […]
If there is one person who is really knitworthy, it’s one of my favorite baristas as Starbucks. For a long time, Jessica has been admiring our projects. Not only is she incredibly complimentary, she gushes over them. I had been wanting to ask if she’d like me to knit her something and a few months […]
It’s a brand new year and I am greeting it with joy, grand hopes and dreams. As I’ve done in the past, I’ve chosen a word to help me keep focus. Actually, the word chose me. I had been thinking a lot of my desire to finish a bunch of projects this year, especially ones […]
I secretly have been knitting for the boys on and off over the last few months but I finally able to let the cat (ok, frog and bunny) out of the bag yesterday. The frog was an easy choice for Walker, the frog kid. I knit his first and worked on it a lot during […]
About a week ago I started baking granola to give as our Christmas treat. Usually the baking begins about the third week of December closer to when the kids are getting out of school but this year my motivation was a gift swap with my knitting group scheduled for today. I wish I had a […]
Tonight was Bill’s office Christmas party. Every year they have a gift exchange. Some people call it Dirty Santa or Yankee Swap. It’s taken a few years for me to fully grasp how competitively they play and how seriously they take it, but now I’m in the know. There are some key characteristics of a […]