That's a Bendigo color card in the husbeast's hands. (Let's not tell him I put such an unflattering photo of him on the internet...

In other words, duh. I started to post yarn on my Etsy shop today, which means taking photos. (That's usually the holdup when I do this ...

We forgot our camera, so there are no photos from the trip up or back to Ohio. Not that there was much to see on the way back - we were fogg...

Due to a question in the comments yesterday, I'm worried now that I'm sort of misleading you guys on how you're supposed to care...

Fifty thousand hits. You guys are awesome.

I spent the weekend like this: Note the nesting behavior going on. I've moved my Ott lite and computer over to easy reach from the chair...

" Smart bitches, trashy books ", the romance novel review web site I read, is having a discussion about extreme niche romance. To ...

That's the world famous bust of Nefertiti, originally dug up in Amarna (if my memory is reliable, but definitely in Egypt) and now resid...

So you've got two sleeves and a body all knit up for your steeked jacket, and now it's time to join the three pieces together and kn...

Home again, jiggity jig. (Is that from Mother Goose, or something else? Whatever it is, it's hard-wired into my cerebral cortex.) There...

Beginning May 14, 2007, the US Postal service is going to be hiking rates. Again. For people shipping yarn to each other within the continet...

We had a huge storm (rain, thunder, hail, lightning) within hours of arriving. The Baby slept through it and I fell asleep in the middle. I ...

The whining first, just to get it out of the way. Due to family weirdness (illness, actually - no hostility or natural disasters involved), ...

Sorry I took so long to get around to this. Using a completely random method (I swear), I pulled a name, and that name is... LOUIZ!!! YAY!!...

So I've been reading up on ancient China and their art, and I've got a question. A lot of their ancient bronzes have a diagonal swir...

Thinking back, I realize I used charts AND written directions for the first couple lace projects I knit, until I got the hang of the charts....

There've been some good questions and comments the last couple days that deserve some followup. One was a question on blocking socks and...

Today was the knit-together at the Charleston Children's Museum (every Thursday morning at nine, for free) and I was really looking forw...

You know how, with glass bakeware, you can do almost anything to it? Bake it, freeze it, broil it. Scratch the crap out of it with knives an...