
My son asked me to knit him a sweater. I packed four skeins for vacation and came home with four inches of ribbing. Here's what that has to do with what's on sale at the shop this week.


My cousin Colleen's husband is a watercolor painter who told me something about wet paint that got me thinking about wet wool. Turns out water plays the same trick on both of us -- you can't know what you really have until it's done its work.