Ephemeral Chaos

The way the animals want to snuggle. The pup will sleep under the covers, and I sometimes end up with three pets curled up with me in the a...

Having managed to score exactly 5 1/2 hours of temp work this summer, I am essentially making a living as a rock star. The last time we did ...

LB and I hosted five musicians last week, in town auditioning for a State Department music/diplomacy program. It was a whole lot of closenes...

Since my former LYS boss let me go, I have more time on my hands and a lot less disposable income. So this year, we're going to be doing...

I finally got around to linking two of the blog patterns to Ravelry and to photographing them. First, Helga , a bulky ponytail hat. Second, ...

I've been thinking a lot about stuff lately. Not in the vague sense of "stuff" (as in "I hate that stuff!"), not in...

I had good intentions for awhile there, but a headache and a bit of teh-crazy in my life have reduced me to dots. LB put in a request for s...

Last night, my friend Megan told me she checked my blog a lot, but didn't care about the knitting stuff. She only wanted to know what wa...

Apparently I've been busy. Not quite busy enough to practice work avoidance by getting online and whining about being busy, but too busy...

Technically, I suppose, the term "miracle" should be reserved for the true hand-of-God material, like walking on water, parting a ...

Last Christmas, I ran across a link to a woman who had made a cat sweater out of three balls of $45.00 yarn (No Rav link, but you could find...

Know anyone who wants a kitty? Really.

I thought I'd seen yesterday's girls before, so I went rummaging through old posts tagged postcards. No luck. Eventually, on an old...

Today, for the first day in months, I put on a pair of knitted socks. Thought about it yesterday, but it wasn't quite cool enough. Today...

I haven't had as much time as I'd like to knit, but I've made good progress on Nancy Bush's Gentleman's Sock with Lozeng...

Rachel asked me last night why I don't knit anymore, but I do. In fact, my arms are aching right now. It's just that I've reach...

I swear this is not a staged photo. Although, knowing Frank's propensities, I'm open for suggestions for props more inventive than l...

a stack of ungraded papers. a copy of the anniversary issue of Vogue Knitting . I have knit the anniversary scarf and made up the flowers. ...

Inspired by Wendy and by a flyer I picked up at a Craft Mafia show, I decided to make a cat mat and sprinkled catnip inside the blocks as ...