If you have a child, know a child, or have ever met a child; if you’ve read a book or watched a movie that included one, you will recognize how much changes in that first year of life. That soft pile of flesh, so pliable and yielding at first, changes into a walking, talking being…
Tag: knitting
The one where I try to prove I have not just been sitting around eating bonbons and drinking champagne
What with Christmas tableaux and pantos and recycling wrapping paper, I’ve been unable to update with a written piece over the holidays. But rest assured! In between stomaching the sprouts and trying to squeeze everything into the luggage, I have been steadily working on various projects. Below are a few photographs to go with the…
Jill of all trades
I have been knitting and purling like a fiendish granny. As predicted, I’ve spent more Danish monopoly money on yarn and needles. But to be fair, I was getting awfully tired of my orange practice yarn. I even have a basket, complete with handles, to put everything in (though I already had that). And as…
All tied up in knots
Sometime this week I am going to pry myself loose from the couch and take the first small step toward finding an endeavor to occupy those idle hands of mine. And so with visions of voluminous scarfs and fuzzy Christmas sweaters dancing in my head, I have joined a knitting club. Colloquially referred to, I’m…
Wine and Cheese (Doodles) 