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Right now at the Illinois State Museum, there is a display of Civil War era quilts and other textiles.  In one of the cases are several sock...

I predicted in the last post that, since I loved the singles and wasn't so crazy about the skeined yarn, that I would love the knitted p...

I hadn't planned to spend the weekend with bluegrass pickers but I did and boy did I have a ball.  The Friday night concert was fabulous...

Among the many important questions one asks about life and being, a new one occurred to me tonight. Can one have too many handknit socks? ...

I guess it fits in with the time of year but I spent a lot of the weekend trying to finish things that had been on the needle for quite a wh...

Sometime late last year my friend, Karen, and I started going to some meetings at the Three Sisters Park up in Chillicothe, IL, where a gro...

I love knitting socks.  Plain socks, lacy socks, any socks.  I love knitting socks.  I love them because they're so easy to take with yo...

Like most knitters, I usually have a pair of socks on the needle.  Easy to carry around, you can work them whenever you find yourself waitin...

Remember I was working on spinning some mohair and was wondering if it would work to ply it with the turquoise merino? Well, here are the re...

I finished 4 ounces of the Blue-faced Leicester fiber in the colorway, Victorian Garden. Although I originally thought I would do a 4-ply, i...

Nothing like a last minute trip over about 1,600 miles to renew, redo and redecorate! What a wonderful trip and what a wonderful time with m...

I knit a lot of socks. Not as many as some, but I do my part. Mostly lately I've been doing pretty plain vanilla socks, things I can do ...

I spent a great deal of the week sitting in on meetings. The good thing is that, since I wasn’t an active participant, I was able to spend t...

Finished the Collinette socks... Opens things up for the next pair. Here's what I'm going to use. I dyed it with the Jacquard Acid...

I've finished the Dalek and I'm loving it! It's amazing how when you get things like this stuffed, they take on a life of their ...

Today is report on progress day. Life has been happening so I haven’t been doing too much lately but here’s what’s going on. Collette Socks:...

I had plans for today. I had quite a few plans for today. Did you ever go to the store with a list in your head of 4 things you needed? Did ...

I’ve kind of let things go since the big push to finish the Danish sweater. But I haven’t been idle. Here’s a pair of socks that I started q...