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- - Simple words cannot express how touched I was by the outpouring of support on my last post. All day long (and well into the next) I read your kind words about my blog, and your advice towards dealing with negativity and criticism. Criticism is a difficult topic. I deal with it on a daily basis [...]
- - You know… I get occasional trollish comments, and I just delete them and move on. But this morning I got one that was so nasty that it actually made me cry, and that is just not on. “Rochelle” I used to really enjoy your blog, however i so dislike the direction it has taken. Your [...]
- - No, this is not a cooking blog, but I’ve been cooking all the time lately. For instance, today I made the Beef curry wraps here. (They were very good, I replaced the peas with frozen edamame and ate the filling on the flatbread like a pizza!) I think I will occasionally share a recipe here. [...]
- - I’ve been stalking the website for weeks, seriously. My diligence was rewarded – I love the new patterns! There is a lot of assymmetry, which I’m finally coming around on, and lots of patterns for knits/ponte, which suits my current preferences. Here are my favorites: Designer Patterns 1280, Donna Karan Design It’s funny – before [...]
- - Wow, the post about tea got a ton of great comments – I had no idea so many of you loved tea! I placed a sample order with Harney and Sons after so many of you recommended them, and I’ve been having a great time trying out teas. I haven’t had coffee in a week, [...]
- - I am possibly a little bit obsessive. Ok… possibly more than a little! Maybe you’ve noticed, if you’ve been reading for awhile. I can’t just try to learn something, I have to set out to know everything possible (see: knitting, sewing, cooking, fitness etc). I don’t suppose it’s a problem, as I do function quite [...]
- - Pattern: Butterick 5247 (OOP) Fabric: Poly sweater knit, 2 yards Notes: I had my doubts about this one. It is, after all, a big blocky sweater with no real shaping. The sleeves are dolman, which is generally iffy. But I had this sweater knit, which is complicated enough to really need a simple pattern. And [...]
- - Pattern: McCall’s 6404 Fabric: Black ponte knit (rayon/poly/lycra blend) Notes: This is the final unblogged project from my fall sewing. Let me start by saying that I don’t make pants. Although it might be annoying to shop until I find RTW pants that fit, it’s not as annoying as making a pair that doesn’t fit [...]
- - I’m pretty proud of myself for making through most of the projects I cut this fall. I have two more that I haven’t gotten to yet, but hopefully I should get to them before the thaw (usually March around these parts!) I think that having the projects cut really saved my productivity with how busy [...]
- - I am often asked about sewing vintage patterns. I don’t use them as often as some bloggers, though I do have a collection! I finished up a vintage dress today, and I thought it might be nice to blog about some of the difficulties found in sewing something from another era. Here is my pattern, [...]
Mason-Dixon Knitting
- - Dear Ann, Let's start with a mood-elevating YouTube shall we? Every time this song shuffles up on my iPod, I can't stop smiling. Makes a girl want to move to Nashville, break in a pair of Frye boots, and stalk...
- - Dear Ann, Yesterday was a crystalline example of a minor upside of the glaciers melting--60 degrees in NYC on February 1. So I went for a walk on the High Line, and posed for a picture in my personal Honey...
- - Dear Ann, At what point should I feel embarrassed about the cowl output around here? Never? Is never OK with you? I simply am enjoying a pattern that rings all my bells at this moment. There is nothing wrong...
- - Dear Ann, So. You've made a Honey Cowl. Or two or three. (That's my third one on the needles up there, in Madelinetosh Tosh DK, Winter Wheat.) You want to know: how are the kids wearing them this year?...
- - Dear Ann, O Baby! What a darling baby is Woodie. And how efficient were you to get her cardi made while she's still small enough to have to roll up the sleeves? My sympathies on Boreal's second sleeve. Git...
- - Dear Kay, As the bleak midwinter descends, I'd like to share some solid-gold survival tips that get me through. Tip No. 1: Humidity. Go to the drugstore, past the bunion aids and the section known as Digestion, and set yourself...
- - Dear Kay, Please join me in welcoming small Woodie to the world of hand knits. My first grandniece dutifully models the teeny cardigan she got from Great-Aunt Ann. To be clear: while I would like to claim that her proximity...
- - Dear Kay, Well THAT was fascinating. I have long known that the comments on this blog are more interesting than the entries. This is particularly obvious when you look through the response to the question posed in our previous...
- - Dear Kay, Let's begin with a view of a seaside paradise, because today's story is just terrible--a real heartbreaker and by heartbreaker I mean mildly irritating knitting experience. That's Chalk Sound up there, in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, where...
- - Dear Ann, A few years ago, I went to the Fashion Institute of Technology to hear our cutest knitting heroes, Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably, speak. As you know, one of Kaffe and Brandon's super powers is Intarsia. During the...