Pine Tree Sock

We can learn a lot from trees:
they’re always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward.
[Everett Mámor]
Before I moved into this house that has been my home for twenty years, someone fixed a planting bed around the front to give the facade curb appeal. On the west corner, they planted a small blue spruce. [...]

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The Sojourner

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners,
as were all of our fathers:
our days on the earth are as a shadow,
and there is none abiding.
[1 Chronicles 29:15]
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling and several other long-loved books, wrote The Sojourner not long before her death in 1953. Although this book is not as well [...]

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Finally Finished

I can’t think of any sorrow in the world
that a hot bath wouldn’t help, just a little bit.
[Susan Glasee]
Too bad I didn’t have a BEFORE photo to put with this. I’d found myself apologizing every time a visitor asked to use my bathroom so I’ve spent the past three weeks sprucing it up with [...]

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Cocoon Jacket

The best way to get something done is to begin.
[Author Unknown]

I adapted this pattern to my weight of yarn and size of jacket from a pattern I received from Gloria Johnson in Dayton, Ohio. Now I’m knitting another. The inset photo shows the new colorway. I’m using a silk/wool blend yarn that is a [...]

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July 4th—Independence Day

I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn’t itch.
[Gilda Radner]

Here’s the July sock from my CD book, …and a time to knit stockings. This is knit back and forth sideways except for the cuff and toe. The heel shaping is created by working increases on one side and decreases on the other. The [...]

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