Crazy for Ewe

In case you missed it last week, Jenny's doing a sweater knitalong Monday nights.  The current project is Thereafter by Alicia Plummer. Thereafter is a beautiful cardigan -- simply shaped with a few elegant details including a lovely lace panel down the back and a subtle textural trim at the hem and cuffs. more

We're all quick to undervalue what we're good at, taking for granted our unique set of skills and characteristics.   I thought about this while my son, Johnny, was home for the day Sunday.  We were not at all sure where he would find his more

A few weeks ago I had what I thought was a no-big-deal health issue.  I went to the doctor, and all of a sudden I need a biopsy. Wait.  What?  I'm not a medical professional by any stretch, but even a layman like me knows that biopsy is another way of saying, Hey, you might have cancer.  So I submitted to the procedure, and went home to do what any right thinking person does after more

We're back from the weekend retreat to Winchester.  We had eight brand new retreat attendees, two mother/daughter sets, one mother-in-law/daughter-in-law pair, and return friends who came from as far away as Boston and Florida for the weekend!  It's a lovely little mini vacation at a lovely venue with great food, but the most fun part is simply being together with other knitters.  No matter how happy you are in your marriage or relationship, there's no substitute for your girlfriends, and for knitters, that's doubly true.  Only another knitter will understand some of the seemingly  irrational decisions we make - like going 20, 30, or even 60 miles out of more

These are my tweaks to Amy Herzog's Curlew pattern to make it look like the Maras Cardigan.  Purchase the Curlew pattern here on Ravelry.  Gauge is 21 stitches/4 inches. 

I'm shortening the sleeve to 7" and I'm making the length 26", so these instructions will make those m

I never got into the whole scrapbooking thing.  Although I admire those lovely testaments to life and times, it was not a hobby that called to me.  And yet, the idea of collecting and displaying mementos is enormously appealing.  Whether it's a lovely decorated album, a playbill collection, or a shelf of travel souvenirs, we all want more

We're none of us born patient, as a baby's wails demanding immediacy can attest.  But we learn as we grow that we must wait, and we find that we can.  We wait for big things and small alike  --  our loved ones to return home, our gardens to grow, and our turn to cross the street.  Waiting is hard, plain and simple. more

Earlier this month I gave those subscription meal boxes a try.  I must say that it was both convenient and extremely satisfying to have an answer for the universal question asked by nearly all men the world over: What's for dinner? 

I didn't have to figure out a menu, choose side dishes, or go to the grocery store.  All I had to do was open the box and cook what was in it. No thinking, no planning, no shopping.  Just cooking.  After 5 weeks on and off, I cancelled the subscription, because the truth is, I missed the planning more