Greetings, y'all, from Austin.  The trip down was lovely. I flew out of  nasty, rainy, chilly Chicago and landed in sunny, warm (okay, h...

When last we met, I had just placed mixed Wedding Ring Shawl v.1.0. Then I placed an online order for a cone of cobweb-weight silk yarn in s...

I began the Wedding Ring Shawl . I noticed an error in the Wedding Ring Shawl. I frogged the Wedding Ring Shawl. I re-knit the Wedding Rin...

Now that the little book is for the most part tidied away, I'm playing catch-up with a lot of life–including the 1,000 Knitters Project...

You know that part of Oedipus Rex where Oedipus is all like, "Tra la la, I'm king and I'm married to a sexy chick and I got th...

To the Guy in the Northwestern Cap She came in here to study. She is not looking for a date. Specifically, she is not looking for a date wit...

Yesterday was Mother's Day, and all across the country mothers were getting things–flowers, cards, telephone calls–from their children. ...

Do not tell Interweave I posted today. I'm supposed to be finishing the essays for the little book. But I had to show you how the cente...

I imagine that there are people who can be creative in a vacuum, but I'm not one of them. I had a visitor once, a young aspiring decorat...

I did it. Seventy-five finished ink-and-wash panels for the book . On time. It's funny. Now that they've left the nest, seventy-five...

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...