Around here
White starry asters are now blooming in the front garden. And echinacea. And one late cranebill geranium. I wanted to replace the globe thistle at the end of my perennial rock garden. I tried...
Category: knitting
Wintry mix
Freezing rain. The car was coated with a layer of ice. We had to scrape the windshield before heading to town for groceries. The weather forecast calls for a “wintry mix.” I always pause...
Knitting and me
I am coming to an end of this shawl I started knitting in September. It has been time-consuming. When I started it, I didn’t know how long it would take. I thought – maybe...
Tunisian crochet hats
In my slow study of routine over the past year-plus of pandemic isolation, I’ve come up with a special time of day I call “mindless mornings.” It starts after tea is prepared, or maybe...
Learning to knit
It looked so easy on the video. I thought I could do this. But it is clearly the work of a beginning knitter. My stitch count varies uncontrollably between 10 and 13 (supposed to...