Glorious Comrades: Let none among you say I am not doing my bit to increase the tribe. About a month ago, I was asked if I'd teach knitt...

Once upon a time when the world was young and I was a college student, I had the luxury (which I did not, then, appreciate) of spending hour...

Elizabeth Zimmerman's immortal advice to the Yarn Addicted was to "Knit on, with confidence and hope, through all crises." And...

The lady at the yarn shop said you like cashmere but she wasn't sure which color to suggest, so I just bought everything she had. You sh...

We're having a comparatively mild day in Chicago. As I write this, it's 21 degrees Farenheit. Quite a relief, as for the past two we...

I missed putting up a poem on St. Brigid's Day. It must be an effect of creeping Buddhism. When I was a little Catholic kid, studying Li...

Lo. It is begun. I looked at the calendar yesterday and realized with a shock that the arrival of my little niece or nephew, which once seem...

Hello again. I had a long rest, and thank you so much to everybody who sent good wishes. I'm told I'm better now, and I hope so, bec...

Hey kids, I've been asked-nay, commanded-to step away from the keyboard for a couple of days and get some profound rest. I expect to be ...

I came home last night to the smell of baking brownies. The embroidered cloth I bought in Budapest was on the table, along with a stack of t...

In Which Willibald Leaves the Chrysalis and Takes Flight When last we saw him , my student Willibald was sitting on my couch trying to kill ...

I have it on the authority of a guy who was preaching in my subway car last night that because our city allowed a Gay Pride parade and hoste...

If you missed the first part of the saga, it's here . In Which We Grapple with Continental Purl As you might expect of one who has cut p...

Sometimes knitting turns out to be more than just knitting. The lime green socks I started on the Los Angeles trip are complete. So complet...

So this weekend a friend and I went on a little road trip out of Chicago and finished up our intended errand earlier than expected. He sugge...

If you look over my list of finished objects in the sidebar, you'll notice something that I admit came as quite a surprise to me. Well b...

Yes, I know. I promised a write-up of the charting software last week. I want to do it right, is all, and there simply hasn't been time....

In Which We Select a Project and Purchase Yarn Over the past two months I've been doing my bit to Increase the Tribe by teaching a good ...

I realized we haven't had a new cartoon in here since the now-infamous " p2tog ," so here's a little in-progress something...