Crochet: Inspiring Option or Distracting Dream?

Oh, the siren call of the Ripple Blanket…
OK, let me first state for the record that I am not One of Those Knitters. You know who I’m talking about…the nearly-militant anti-crochet zealots. Not large in number, but they’re out there.
Nope, that’s not me. In fact, the “problem” I’m dealing with lately feels like a sort [...]

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Blue Friday

Happy Thanksgiving!
Tomatoes by Bonnie Rollin (my mom), photographed in her Sacramento studio.
On Wednesday, a wonderfully balmy day in DC, I did the unthinkable: I left the house without my knitting!
Now, I was kind of in a rush, since Chris was working late and we wanted to have breakfast together. But I’d planned on sitting [...]

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Pulse Check Wristers (free pattern!)

Hi, friends…Thanks for checking in!
I’ve been really bad about keeping up my blog. Especially since Ravelry came along. But I feel it’s important to spend less time ogling other people’s knitting–fun as that can be–and more time writing. Writing is good.
During the past month I’ve actually been reading a lot, resting a lot, and knitting [...]

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