Knitting New England

Linda and I are sending a box of knitted and crocheted items to New York, as part of the Hurricane Sandy relief effort. If you'd li...

Snowing yet again, and predicted to continue another eighteen hours. Unbidden come the inevitably adverb-laden, highly dolorous thoughts. ...

Sometimes the best things are, you know. For example, who would have thought that purslane, a common weed-like infiltrator of otherwise impe...

Lately I've been downloading patterns for knitted toys, most recently this, pictured above, last night: instructions from Bernat Yarns t...

It's been just too cold in Rhode Island and so I betook myself to Boca, to visit a dear friend who winters there. I'm the only pers...

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and Friday is Buy Nothing Day , one of my favorite celebrations. On the lawn of the Rhode Island State House and...