SQUEEEEEE! Right before I left on vacation I had a FABULOUS phone call/CraftLit interview* with Sally Holt (she of the genius KnitCompanion ® app) and Lucy Neatby (she of knitting genius)—and then I had to shut up about it. It almost killed me. But now the secret is out and I can share this joyous news with you! I’m giddy with excitement and I’m here to tell you that after you take a look at the Lucy Neatby—Collection One app, you...

I have a long and proud track record of failure at the various knitting O[ymp1c5 and this year may be no different. I’m made a remarkable amount of progress (for me) while being at the beach and other places that aren’t particularly conducive to knitterly pursuits. At the same time, I know others who have taken on less insane tasks than I and are already winnahs, but gosh darn it, I really wanted to make this shrug. And the shawl....

Really, after the kerffuflle with the International Olymp1c Committee (don’t want to denigrate the word, here) I’d considered not watching the bloody things at all. But the boys wanted to and we were bound for the beach which means lazy evenings so… yeah. I cast on. I’m knitting a marvelous little shrug (Layering Shrug by Juju Vail) with Team Sasquatch. Mine seems to be all fococked with gauge, but the pattern is pretty...

…Chaucer! I mean—ah—let me start over. ahem ::Orson Welles-like voice::  Who isn’t afraid of Chaucer? Okay, Chaucer scholars probably aren’t and… ummmm… no one else. Right? Because it seems so old. And hard. And dry. And boring. And yet…NOT! I’ve been doing a little experiment over at CraftLit and I’m pretty excited about how it’s panning out. Other people seem to be pretty happy about it...

I’ve had a bit of a scare. A big bit of a scare. You may have heard of our little kerfuffle out here in Northern Virginia (or actually, the entire Eastern Seaboard). We had a wee bit of a storm, it only lasted maybe forty minutes. However, the initial hit was like unto a large Mac truck cruising through our complex. It is a testimony to something or someone or Providence or [insert preferred source for thanks here] that we didn’t...

First installment of TNNA Goodness: 1200 TEAny Hats Yarn generously donated by Universal Yarn HOW do I love Teeny Tiny things? Sooooo much! I love this stuff. I love little mousies, and bigger little mousies, and little socks, and little teeny tiny TEAny hats. Paige Sato manages the Christmas at Sea program out of Port Newark. I’ll be talking to her on CraftLit soon, but in the meantime, take a look at her website and just tell...