From Japan With Love

Mariko of super eggplant recently posted that she is going on a trip to Japan soon, and that reminded me that I have some goodies to show that my mother brought back from her recent 3-week trip to Japan.
One thing that made the things she brought back particularly special was the way many of them [...]

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Little Helper

My son and I are home today working-off our third of three back-to-back colds over a two-week period. Brutal, I tell you! Every time I think we’re out of the woods, another one comes along. I guess we were due for it, since we’d been skating clear of the onslaught of fall [...]

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Bringing home the bakin’.

I went to the Seattle Knitters Guild meeting last week, to hear visiting Norwegian textile designer Annemor Sundbø talk about her new book, Invisible Threads in Knitting. One of the things she discussed was how some of the motifs typically found in traditional Scandinavian knitting once formed a subtle method of communication, particularly with regard [...]

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Stripey footlets

They’re finally done! My stripey footlets are done. I thought I would get them done so long ago, but then we moved and became busy with unpacking and summer activities. It was touch-and-go there a few weeks ago when I finished the first one, and realized that the notes I took for the [...]

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