As I was sewing a button back onto my skirt today, I recalled that back in the 1950′s, boys would often peek into a girl’s sewing basket to decide whether she was marriage material. I’m glad that’s not the case anymore because not only do I not own a sewing basket, my skills pretty much [...]

I’m an avid crafter, and I’ve heard that there’s a lot of disdain in the art community for crafters. I admit that I have to laugh a little. See, I could be an artist but I don’t really want to. Why? There’s something in me that balks at creating something whose sole purpose is to [...]

Yesterday, I sat down to learn short rows via Nona’s short row experiment. The idea is pretty simple: Knit the same short row swatch three times except using a different method for each; first the wrapped stitch method, second the yarn over method, and finally the Japanese method (or catch method as it’s called in [...]

There are a one or two things in my life without which I get weirdly restless. One of these is musical instruments. The other is knitting. You think I would’ve learned by now not to deprive myself of either and especially not both. But that is exactly what I have done for the last few [...]