A Mercy Check
This post feels like something right out of 2013 as I formulate it in my head. No point, no overuse of headings, and no concern for proper sentence length needed…
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Making Guthrie while listening to Guthrie
Caitlyn Hunter’s Guthrie color work sweater has brought back all sorts of musical family memories that you can reflect on with me as I describe my knitting process.
Enchanted Rock, from a Distance- Blogmas Day 10-12
I’m combining some days because this little family trip took three days. The point was to hike Enchanted Rock all day one Saturday. This is the Texas Hill country, which…
family | homemaking | knitting
Episode 20: Coping Mechanisms
In Episode 20 I share my Sunset Highway sweater by Caitlin Hunter and the scraps i used to knit it. I also show Oak Crest hat by Vanessa Townley and, in keeping with the series, I share more modified knits and a reverse-engineered cardigan. I also share our coping mechanisms for dealing with hard times along with
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Simple Watchman’s Cap
I am rarely asked to knit for other people. It is even rarer that I know the recipient will actually use what I knit for them. And rarer than that…
Kids Done Grown
I didn’t want to title this post, using the dreaded nest reference. You know the one. I don’t dread for it’s meaning, just the overused cliched nature. Also, I’m still…
This Guy
I’m just going to get right to the point. I am about to be an empty nester. Remember that awful sit-com in the eighties- Empty Nest? Well, my son is…
Redeemed
This all started about a year ago. Things were calming down in my life after a long spell of crisis. My daily schedule was starting to look like a…
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We Don’t Say Dis
So I’m maybe a third of the way through Lilith Ubbelohde’s cowl-neck shell, Sexxxy Librarian. Yes, that’s sexxxy with a triple x; though, as I knit this in my ginormous yoga…