My sketchbooks for It Itches * are dotted with questions I jotted down while working on the rough cartoons, so I'd remember to research ...

...of a real post, today I present a still life entitled, This Is Why I Am Not Giving You a Real Post Today . The book deadline approacheth....

Kids, I am alive and awake but just about done in. Pulverized. Wiped. It's all I can do to write this brief dispatch from a horizontal p...

Last Christmas, I chose Evelyn Clark's Flower Basket Shawl as a present for my mother. It was a success on all fronts. Mom liked it, an...

I'm sitting here with my half-packed suitcase nearby. I can't quite believe it's time to travel with 1,000 Knitters again. The ...

Continued from yesterday's post . I heard nothing further from Dolores or Harry until late that night, when Tim answered the bell and fo...

I'm back from the photo expedition to Yarnover and had a splendid time. It was a chance to reconnect with my buddy Tim from St. Paul, w...

Yes, I'm booked on American Airlines for the flight up to Minneapolis today. However, the flight has not been canceled. My original flig...

I'm getting the gear ready for this weekend's shoot at Yarnover in Minnesota. (Thank you 1,000 times to The Yarnery of St. Paul for...

It still needs a tassel on the hood (my mother's excellent suggestion) and a zipper in front, but for all intents and purposes the knitt...

TO: franklin@franklinhabit.com FR: fuzzyharry@yarnspace.com DT: Saturday, March 29, 2008 Subject: I think there will be a party Hi I know yo...

This is a dispatch from the the Panopticon Mobile Unit, reporting from base camp at Grandma's kitchen table. I'm in Pennsylvania fo...

I have two drawings due at Interweave tomorrow morning. I'm supposed to spend the day at the drawing board, living on handfuls of granol...

Well, zowie. After I pressed "Publish Post" and my recurring nightmare became public reading matter, I had a long moment of wonder...

At my age I really need to stop snacking on peanut M & Ms immediately before I go to sleep. Lately I've been mostly successful at st...

The 1,000 Knitters scarf is growing like a kudzu vine. There was another public shoot last night, at a meeting of the Windy City Knitting G...

The sky is blue, the air is clean, and everybody keeps smiling at me. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Eau Claire, Wisconsin. I'm ...

Have you ever started a project that absolutely should have worked, and then didn't? It just happened to me with the lacy Elizabeth Zimm...