I am quite lucky to have wonderful friends who, while not necessarily knitters themselves, wholeheartedly embrace the knitting obsession and even act as enablers. It gives me no end of happiness to know that I am surrounded by supportive and enthusiastic interest for what is often deemed a trivial …
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2018
Happy New Year from the frigid coast of Connecticut! It is officially -3° F (-19° C) at 9 am, with a windchill of -15° (-26° C). I'd say this would be a typical February day in central New Hampshire, where I lived for a time, but here on the coast on the first of the year? It's rather unusual. Ok, …
Happy Holidays!
Very Happy Holidays from our knitting family to yours! …
Snowfall in New England
I bet, from the title of this post, you are expecting some pithy, romantic descriptions of us New Englanders, gathered round the wood-fired stove sipping mulled cider and knitting as the snow falls silently upon our maples and pines, or of us out snowshoeing and hiking the hills in the cheek-pinking …
The Anatomy of a Mistake
Half a lifetime ago I spent the summer before my senior year of college traipsing around the British Isles and Ireland – you know, for “research.” One of those months I spent living in the middle of nowhere on the Isle of Skye, the largest island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It was an … …