Category — A Knitter's Life

My first born left for college.
She is 2500 miles away.
I’ve spent two days trying not to think.
It hurts too much.
I bawled all the way home from the airport.
I’ll see her at Christmas.
It doesn’t help the tears.

Sing your heart out dear.
I could not be prouder.
ilyvm
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…you’re laid out in the endodontist’s chair, head lower than your legs, shot up from three different syringes of novacaine, and you can still turn a heel.

Note to self: if you allow the daughter to create the clues for hiding the Easter baskets, be prepared to locate your high school Spanish and French dictionaries before you will find your knitting surprise.

I swore I’d never buy one. Never. Ever. I have yarn. A whole basement corner stuffed with cones and skeins. This Ashford followed me home from a church sale.

My life this week is a mix of planning the vegetable garden, working on a pair of Fiber Trend clogs, and swatching on the Passap Duo 80.

Daylight savings time and frost free mornings can’t come soon enough. I’m tempted to plant peas in protest. Here are a few of my winter photos.

My addition to Scarlett’s 9 Words Women Use - Fine, 5 Minutes, Nothing, Go Ahead, Loud Sigh, That’s Ok, Thanks, Whatever, and Don’t Worry About It, I’ll Get It - is the Royal We.

What type of knitter are you? Random Knitter can flit from project to project with no stress. Linear Knitter needs to start, finish, and then start again. A different view than the usual product vs process knitting debate.

Even when my life seems chaotic, knitting is my rock. It is the one area where I can have closure in a world where most daily jobs are never finished.

A simple description and photo on how to clean an Apple Mighty Mouse so it scrolls smoothly.

Knitting socks is only half the fun. You have to wear your works of art as well.

December 26 is mommy freedom day. I hide from the world behind my closed office door and knit, eat, and blissfully, completely ignore my children.

We survived teaching our daughter how to drive with humor.

When time is limited and the to do list is long, knit. It is the only sane choice.

I’m very thankful for a husband who likes to cook.

People who design crosswords should know fiber definitions.

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