About six inches into the design, I felt I had chosen the wrong yarn for this project. As a summer tank, it needs to be UNbulky, and for an under layer in the winter, it needed sleekness. Plus, once I found the right needles to achieve the gauge, the thick/thin nature of Cascade pearls [...]

Debra Dorrell, owner of “A Good Yarn” in Prescott wants help spreading this news:
A Good Yarn, located in The Old Firehouse Plaza at 220 W Goodwin in Prescott, is proud to announce a book signing with Debbie Macomber on Saturday June 7th, at 1:00 P.M. The bestselling author of A Good Yarn, The Shop on [...]

My friend Sandi (who happens also to be a champion biathlete AND my massage therapist) is one of the most disciplined athletes I have ever met.
She asked me to create some fingerless gloves that she could layer over liners for her early a.m. cycling outings in the forest. Brrr.
We looked around and found a promising [...]

Finishing up a few projects means I get to buy more yarn! Yay!! Here are a few that I’ve wrapped up in recent months.
1. Cascade Pearls Shawl.
55.7% cotton, 44.3% viscose. Knit on size 6 circular bamboo needles purchased at a great little shop in Tucson, Kiwi Knitting Shop. Color 8176 (a very creamy, lustrous [...]

A few random musings on baseball matters that do not reference steroids or the Mitchell Report:
I’m looking for best uses for old baseballs. Kind of like Hints
from Heloise, but maybe with more of a Hank Aaron twist? We have a buckets of these old baseballs sitting around our place and now that our kids are [...]

Niche bloggers display pinpoint control when it comes to staying on-topic. Some of the rest of us need a little more latitude. My belief is that revealing yourself through discussion of a few personal interests makes it easier to get acquainted across the blogosphere. So, what you might construe as off-topic, I find illuminating.
Take knitting, [...]