Over on Twitter this morning, we were discussing, well, seed stitch and related stuff. And, I don't know if it's a US to UK to Austr...

The way lunatics do! Yes. I drove the Jeep into the back yard, the hub wrapped a tow strap around the pine tree with mange, and we ripped...

Actually, the name is misleading. Because plying is, by definition, strands of fiber wrapped around each other, single ply yarns should real...

(For those new readers I've picked up, hi. I use this blog as a kind of journal, so there's ONE PLACE I know I can always find infor...

Yup. It's my anniversary today. The husbeast and I have been married for twenty years. I feel like the occasion should be marked by some...

I took classes in landscaping and greenskeeping and horticulture and all that. My first, knee-jerk reaction to my house and yard is to bring...

I staggered into OT this morning and asked my guy to do something involving tranquilizer darts and knocking me out for a week. Unfortunately...

I am slooooowly getting back in the groove of blogging. It's really hard to get back in that head space where you think in blog posts as...

If a movie was made of Josephine Baker's life, everyone would say it was too improbable. But it really happened. (I think it was Tom Cla...

Ada Lovelace was born in 1815 and named Agusta Ada Byron. As in Lord Byron. You know, the poet and crazy dude. She was his only legitimate...

But first. This last week of Women's History Month, or whatever the fuck we're calling it in the US, I was going to do a post a day,...

This morning, I saw a link to a history of knitting article go by on my Twitter feed, so of course I clicked on it. Because, hey, ongoing in...

Sorta-kinda. My local yarn store (Natural Stitches) asked me to write a fiber review when I was there last. Any fiber I wanted (so long as...

I've been veeeeery gradually getting back to spinning, and noticed the other day that I had a fine example of what pre-drafting is, why ...

I think. It has been a really freaky two weeks here at House O Samurai. All of us are well, thanks to everyone who checked in to say hi an...

I'm live-blogging the last two and a half hours of the red carpet festivities before the Oscars. To put it bluntly, it's all about...

This is gonna be a bullet point post, because, well, you'll see why. •Monday, went to PT/OT. They agreed I've got future problems ...

To describe my adoration for Crazy Zauberballs. I hit Natural Stitches today and bought two more. I'm knitting another Half-A-Washcloth...

For Valentine's day, I got these: Wolverine boots. Waterproof ones, with Thinsulate. I went to the grocery store this morning, in the c...

Another shawl. (That's Sekhmet in there for scale.) I've really been wearing them, especially in bed at night. (The blue one looks s...