All Purls. No Swine.
“You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree… Continue reading Occasional Quote of the Day–Lawrence of Clouds Hill
Newsflash, all! Knitting isn't rocket science. It's OK to try things you've not tried before (in the knitting world, no-one will die if your brilliant idea is a dud), and it's OK to make mistakes. We've all been there, trust me. Me, perhaps, more than most, in life, if not in kntting. I love to… Continue reading Free Knitting Pattern! Super-Easy Lace Scarf
Greetings fellow knitters (you know who you are). I just got cancelled from KnitCamp! It’s a knitting community I joined only about a week ago, at a friend's (former Lefty, now not-so-much) enthusiastic suggestion. She really enjoyed it because the woman who ran it hadn’t gone woke and/or wasn’t bullying her customers about such matters.… Continue reading Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Knitting Wars
I’m 65 years old. I’ve never been much of a drinker, but I’ll cop to having been a bit sloshed a few times in my life, most of them in the distant past. As I get older though, the stuff has more of an effect on me, which is why it’s probably a good thing… Continue reading If I’m Ever Arrested, I Hope It’s For Something Like this
OK, the title of this post is a bit of a cheat, since the Romans didn't engage in the craft of knitting as we know it. However, the Latin verb confervo means "heal, grow together, knit," so I'm stealing it for the purpose. I first wrote the post below on Ricochet more than five years… Continue reading Confervo Ergo Sum: I Knit, Therefore, I Am
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, here it is. The happy hat, the charming chapeau, the tasteful topper, the lovely lid, in short: The most beautiful MAGA hat in the world! The world has never seen anything like it! Ever in the history of the world. No one’s ever designed or knitted a hat this beautiful! No one! Now,… Continue reading Banned on Ravelry! Make Hats Great Again
Ravelry is an online knitting and crochet community, a tremendous resource of knowledge and expertise, and the go-to place for its millions of members all over the world for both selling and buying, online knitting, and crochet patterns. It probably won’t come as a surprise to you that politics, when they infect the site, list heavily… Continue reading A Letter to the Ravelry Community
I just finished reading the excellent post by Richard Easton on Affirmative Action in Inventions, about the burgeoning movement to rework history. Not by acknowledging that, in many cases, the contributions of minority workers, including women, in scientific and mathematical fields have been overlooked or ignored (which would be a fair statement of the case). But by… Continue reading I’m Barefoot and Hopping Mad