The Comfort Zone

We ran the gamut!  We went from the amazing to the sublime—that was our week.  We started with the birth of Sweetpea, GS#1’s new daughter.  Yes, yes, that makes me a G-Grandma and I am really, really not that old but there she is anyway and I wouldn’t change a thing!!  She only weighed in [...]

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Lifelines are essential to lace knitting!  I learned that the hard way, as so many of us do.  Now I’ve learned that other trappings help keep lace knitting on track—like stitch markers.  I have a bunch of stitch markers.  I have never counted them mind you, and it’s a pity because I needed around 40 [...]

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This one caught me off guard.  I have not been feeling well for the last few days and didn’t feel like winding the Hot Flash yarn so I started a Hudson River Triangle with some stash yarn that was very conveniently wound into a cake and so pretty sitting on the shelf that I wondered [...]

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Binding off and casting on each have their pleasing qualities.  The first brings a sense of accomplishment and the second anticipation of things to come.  Binding off the Alix’s Prayer Shawl from a Debbie Macomber book was especially nice since it took me so long to finish the project.
Have you ever thought about what [...]

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Another favorite Momism!  Whenever my sweet Mother was perplexed by something she would say, “Well it does give one pause.”  I have had several moments of “pause” over the last week when I became a victim of technology drama.
Nurse DD works in a children’s hospital ER and you can guess how busy they have been [...]

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