My kids have a somewhat warped sense of humor.  Can't think where they got it from. So we present to you what I got for Mother's Day yesterday when I had asked for a flowered coffee cup.Flowers from the rose bush in the yard: Free G

Yes, I have one.  So here, on my knitting blog, I want to confess…I crochet, too.  Not too much any more, because I like the look of knitted items better, but there are some things that you can only crochet.  Like the string bag

New technology!  I am at home today, supervising Katie's room renovation.  She rounded up two of her friends and they are painting her room, previously a lovely pink.  Now it is white with one black "accent wall." &n

Well, I was supposed to get these pictures up on Sunday or Monday, but it seems to be Thursday today, so this is when you get them.  Although it’s very nice and springlike here in SC, it is still snowy in the Frozen Northland!Easter in Sou

Well OK, maybe it’s more like a sleeping bag.  I got out another purse this weekend, and it doesn’t have a pocket big enough to hold my cell phone/PDA, Hermione.  And that touch screen on the front is really easy to scratch.&nbs

Hellooooo, happy blogging people!  (I am so stealing that from Sandra, because I love it…) Happy Valentine’s Day!! I’m still alive, just working hard both at work and at home.  Don’t you hate it when your real life

By the grace of God, the genius of Alexander Graham Bell, and the mad soldering skillz of my buddy at work, my cell phone/PDA does not have to go to the hospital and I don’t have to spend $270 to have her fixed.  Yes, her.  Hermione i

 I finally got the camera AND the cord AND me AND a computer in the same place at the same time.  I’ve been having computer issues at home, and now that I have also murdered Hermione, my wonderful web-enabled cell phone/PDA/life organ

So now that Klaralund is done, I need another big project.  I’m going to make a blanket for my bed, instead of the fuzzy acrylic one that is getting pretty nasty looking…Kathy started a strip afghan years ago, and offered to send me

   I can hardly believe that I actually finished two sweaters in 2007.  Up till then, I had never made an entire sweater, for myself or anyone else.  Being an immediate-gratification kind of girl, I have always been more into sock

I have been out of touch for the past couple of weeks, just hanging out and rechargingl  Kathy came down to SC for Christmas/New Year/James's birthday, and we went to some yarn shops and did a lot of knitting, in addition to the holiday stuf

In a fit of holiday spirit, I promised my boss a while back that I would knit a pair of fingerless gloves for a friend of hers.  She would get the yarn, I would knit it up.  Since she’s German, and therefore a knitter (as far as I can

Today is the first anniversary of my gastric bypass surgery.  Doesn’t seem like it’s been a year, but it has…one year, and I have lost the equivalent of one average-weight American woman.  It feels great not to be carryin

I am still slogging away on Klaralund; I've got the front and back done, and one sleeve almost finished.  Here are some pictures of the front (or back -- who knows?) and the one sleeve.  Not scintillating photography, since they are jus

Kathy has been working on a stole in some lavender cashmere-blend yarn for, I don’t know, several weeks.  She has knit, frogged, knit, frogged, knit some more and frogged some more.  Once she had the pattern the way she liked it, she

I have now made 3 of these things, and they are really easy, really popular with my daughter's friends, and pretty cheap...once you get 3 colors of yarn, you can make several hats.Here is the latest one, modeled by my footstool and then by Katie:

I finished my cashmere gloves at the end of last week:They feel SO nice in the mornings!  Even though it never gets that cold here, the cold steering wheel of the car makes my hands hurt, and there really isn’t enough time between my house

I finished James’s hobo gloves this weekend, and he likes them.  He suffers from the same photography disorder that I do…he closes his eyes right before the flash.  I must have taken 12 pictures to get one with his eyes op

Well, I made the first of James’s half-fingered “hobo gloves” as he calls them, and finished it up last weekend while he was at state band competition.  I know he’s a guy, and I have teensy little baby hands (no kidding,

I don’t think I have mentioned yet that Sandra, my “bestie” in Croatia, has knit a pair of socks named for me!  How sweet is that?  Now I just need to get my little hands on that pattern…  Thanks again, Sandra!

I finished Katie's friend Jayme's punk rock beanie this weekend, but didn't get a picture of it before it went to its new owner.  Picture the same hat but with a red band instead of pink, and a different sullen teenage girl's fac

Thanks to Sandra, I have caught the hat virus.  She’s been making nothing but hats for weeks, although she just made a scarf for herself. Katie wore her “punk rock beanie” to school yesterday, and now four of her friends w

Wow, I like knitting with worsted weight!  Goes way faster than sock weight....I am finished with Katie's hat, and she has pronounced it "sexy."  That's good, right?

We are going to SAFF next week, woohoo!  And furthermore, James will be driving, so I can knit in the car.  Life doesn't get much better.  ;-)I started on a Klaralund about a week ago, and I have some of the back finished:

Hi!  Remember me?  I can't believe I didn't blog at all in September...my blogging-fu just left me, kaboom.  But I think it may be coming back now. There are rumors that the temperatures will start to fall soon, which they damn