My husband, with his Rain-man like capacity to remember dates, reminded me that today is Charcoal's birthday. Here is Charcoal's cak...

My oldest kid is a knitter. I had tried to teach him a few times in the past, but this summer, one of his day camps featured classes in Fibe...

My mom: Did you hear about that teacher? Me: What teacher? My mom: The one who they found in the river. Me: Where? in Wilkes-Barre? My mo...

Watching what's going on in Texas and other hurricane-ravaged parts is very upsetting. Chrissy Gardiner, of Gardiner Yarn Works , has ...

I've been feeling my lack of kittehs deeply lately. It might have something to do with Mindy's little CJ or the Amputeehee 's ...

Listen to me You can hear my mellifluous voice on the WEBS podcast from this past Saturday; it's downloadable from this link or via I-T...

Today I'm pleased to be hosting a blog tour for the new book Casual Elegant Knits: Classy Designs for Men and Women by Faina Goberstein...

I am pleased to announce that I will be participating in a blog tour for a new knitting book, called Casual Elegant Knits: Classy Designs fo...

I first met M. when I was in junior high school. We began by studying geometry together and ended up best friends. That was thirty years...

If you read Mindy's blog, you know that there are very few people in the world who love animals more than she does. And you also know ...

I am a Democrat and I've never been prouder. This week, I watched as Hillary Clinton was officially entered into the books as the woman ...

I can finally show you a project I worked on this past spring. As part of Ted's Fiber to Scarf Exchange , I received a mass of Louet No...

my dear friend Kathy Merrick today in downtown Cape May but I was mistaken. (Hey, Kath, are we going to see any more of your beauteous cro-s...

For me, going to the boardwalk at Wildwood is the seventh circle of hell. Even though I usually enjoy doing kid stuff, the combination of he...

Nope, not Charcoal. I couldn't be prouder. P.S. Extra points for anyone who can guess what yarn it is. . .

Please don't tell my six year-old daughter, but yesterday, Cinderella, Tinkerbell and a few other of her no-good gangsta beeyatches got ...

This is the time of year when everyone in my house gets in A Mood. I think it's partly because the novelty of the summer has worn off, a...

I spent the last week reviewing page proofs for Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarn and it's very exciting to see it so close to final...

Think of the challenge facing poor Robin Melanson. People have been knitting mittens and gloves for hundreds (thousands?) of years. In the...