The Comfort Zone

It is incomprehensible–some of the things that the people who walk among us will do.  Our dear little Thai daughter-in-law, DS#3 the firefighter’s sweet wife, called me from work on Christmas Eve crying and saying, “Oh M-o-o-m-m!”  It’s bad enough that she had to work on Christmas Eve (and not even retail, she is in [...]

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What a wonderful two day celebration it was, beginning with the family dinner for twelve on Christmas Eve:

Where a miracle happened…
 

What every woman wants—men in the kitchen cooking.
We sat around an unnecessary but beautiful fire, enjoying each other’s company and admiring the tree.  I even did some knitting and finished the eggplant alpaca scarf and [...]

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I hate purling!  It’s either that or I love garter stitch—I don’t know which.  I have spent a lot of time over the last eight months doing Fair Isle and in the process fell in love with Continental knitting.  (Before that I was an English Thrower).  Now I’m a switch-knitter, back and forth from Continental [...]

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The current projects have now returned to normal.  The patients survived with only semi-major surgery and the knitting resumes.  For a while though I thought all was lost.  I started a new “quick and easy” sweater yesterday and made good progress.  Then all the stitches came off the needle.  (I should have waited for the [...]

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I have been working hard and fast on this because I have something to go into this cute little Fair Isle pouch (seen here with its I-cord strap in progress).  Here’s a question:  is it the fact that I have a use for the pouch or the fact that it is Fair Isle that makes [...]

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