The cult co-op's annual meeting wasn't so bad. The usual suspects got up and spouted their insanties, and we got through it without a lot of other nonsense. Of course, they started half an hour late, and we barely had quorum, but hey. I did finish a baby sock, got back to the apartment all excited a...

my friend laura is having a baby very soon and i'm very excited for her.  she was a great comrade-in-pregnancy for me and i am psyched about greta having a baby pal.  i knit this sweater for laura's little guy. pattern: ribbed baby jacket by debbie bliss (ravelry link) yarn: it's a worsted...

Beginner Seeing a pattern doesn't mean you know how to put it all together. Take baby steps: don't focus on the folks whose skills are far beyond your own. When you're new to something – or you haven't tried it in a while – it can fell impossibly hard to get it right. Every misstep feels like a ...

var iamInit = function() {try{initIamServingHandler(420,617,713127,"http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/Resources/Css/css2.css")}catch(ex){}}() Well, we’re due for one, don’t you think? It’s been a while since we had a good ole fashioned Britney Spears crotch sighting. This one is es...

One of the things I got about a year and a half ago to sell at the store, was beautiful glass hand spindles made by Michael Ernst, in Oregon. They are truly lovely. Delicate, shiny, and functional. I figured they would be a hit at the SPA and would be sold quickly. I took them to the 2008 SPA and no...

I have been spending too much time knitting, and when I have other stuff to be knitting, all I can work on is my new Noro sweater.  That's what Noro does, it sucks me in and mesmerizes me with the awesome colors.  I have to keep going to see what will happen next!!  So I think ...

Things are most definitely looking up.  Yesterday I did the running around thing.  Typical Saturday activity thanks to the blue laws still in place, I can’t shop on Sundays.  I hit the Post Office to mail my NJ and NY state tax returns.  Followed by a trip to the mall and the Genius Bar wh...

Hiya. :)  I went to the New England Textile Arts Spa Knit and Spin on February 27, 28 & March 1, in Freeport. It was really really really fun! I was there as a vendor, and we did pretty well, almost as well as last year. I had a great time. Unfortunately I was too busy to get out of the ve...

we had yesterday has turned ugly, damp, rainy, gray and very typically pittsburgh. ah well it was too much to ask that we maintain the status quo after just one spring like day.  why the daffodils aren't even blooming yet and for that matter neither are the snow drops which will come...

It’s here!  UPS dropped off my new toy this afternoon and I immediately got to work putting it together.  If things had gone as planned there would be a few pictures of that process but it got cloudy and all my pictures came out blurry. So we skip ahead and we have a fully assembled 32â€...