Cinnamon Sticky Rolls Oven or Crock Pot Method. If you’ve seen my gluten free posts before then you know I love (a) Jules Flour and (b) finding a good cinnamon roll recipe. Now I’ve got both. AND a really great blog-hop to boot! Remember last year when I participated in the Dickens of a Christmas Blog Hop? Well, this is similar, but with nifty prizes and great recipes. At the bottom of the intro text to the Sticky Roll recipe...

I was asked by a fellow blogger, Julie at Happy Catholic, if I’d want to add a 9/11 post to a portal she’s a part of and I said yes (it’s not like this is new terrain for me). Then she said, “maybe something about forgiveness” and that stopped me.

Forgiveness?

For 9/11?

You’re kidding, right?

For reasons that will continue to elude me, videos wont embed at the Madame Defarge site, so… I’ll put them here. Without further ado, Sections one, two, and three of What Would Madame Defarge...

I am not a fast knitter. Seriously, I’m not. Yes I knit Continental, which is supposed to be faster, but as far as I can tell this makes me a more secure knitter (in that I can knit and purl without looking at my hands). I realized I wasn’t a fast knitter when Wendy test knitted the Madame Defarge Stole for me and went faster than I could get instructions to her. She’s FAST. From time to time I try to focus on speed—when...

If you used to visit here regularly, you may be wondering, “What in the sam hill has happened to that woman?!” Well, in a nutshell: I wrote a book I edited a book I taught two upper division classes at the University I packed up a 2200 sq foot house to move into a 1200 sq foot apartment I had the kids with me while I did that (the DH was at the new job) I prepared to drive about 3000 miles to the new apartment I found a new home for...

In honor of Charles Dickens birthday, we wrote a book! Perhaps—as his expression makes clear—he was hoping for a different type of book? Regardless, What Would Madame Defarge Knit? goes into pre-orders today and will soon be in your hands, on your Kindle, your Nook, your iPad, your iPhone… you get the idea. Twenty+ patterns from eleven designers—knit and crochet (because so many of us are multi-crafty)—await your...