(I have decided to do the VK review in two parts, because this stage is more a massive rant than a review. Patterns tonight or tomorrow. Plu...

Where all the wool is black, and all the knitting is knaughty. [Insert evil laugh here.] Finished plying the first half of the Reactor Coola...

That's what I'm gonna call this color. (Never mind that not all reactor coolant is radioactive, and very few radioactive isotopes gl...

After she crawled up, uninvited, she decided she didn't like the motion caused by my treadling, and BIT MY LEG.

I started thinking the other night - I know, I know, that's always dangerous - and decided if I was going to use the malachite green rov...

While poking through my knitting archives this week for photos for the seamless sweaters info, I ran into a bunch of other stuff... mostly c...

She's figured out the laptop gets warm. I especially love when her nose hits the 'delete' key.

Which is a pet phrase of the Goob's. I'm borrowing it. When I was a kid, in NE Ohio (Stark County, for those of you who know the are...

Apparently I have given birth to the reincarnation of Carmen Miranda . That was totally unprompted. Came up with the dance all on her own; a...

I had some questions and requests for photos, so I dug around in my archives (good grief) and found some decent shots of the styles under di...

And the husbeasts who buy them. When I got pregnant, I swore I would NOT NOT NOT turn into the type of mother who tells everyone in hearing ...

When I was a kid, oh, seven or eight as I recall, I wanted to know how the spigot in the bathroom worked. If the water came out with such pr...

It was one of those days, you know, where things aren't bad enough to work up a real mad, but a series of dumb stuff happens and you spe...

Several of you out there have indicated a desire to join in on the zen knitting goodness and do some kind of simple stockinette sweater. Hat...

In the round, no less. Somehow I'd forgotten the joy of rounds and rounds and rounds of simple stitches, with no counting, no weirdness,...

On the same damn foot I twisted the ankle of, falling out of the house on Friday. Isn't that pretty? The broken toe is the middle one. T...

It kind of reminds me of peacock feathers, where the overwhelming color is blue, but there are little flecks of everything else. I've go...

Last night, going out the back door to the porch, intending to sit on the porch swing and watch the Goober play in her sandbox, I crashed an...

And how is it I didn't notice? (Okay, I'd sort of noticed I was insane, about the time I started thinking about building my own loom...

How do I know? Two ways. The first, more traditional way, is that everyone in the house has a nose full of snot. Including the cat. The seco...