Beach Holidaze

A few years ago, we were in Bar Harbor, Maine on Independence Day. Bar Harbor is a lovely small town on the Maine coast, and they really know how to celebrate July 4th. There was a parade through the streets, a lobster fest at a local park, and fireworks over the harbor at night. Loads [...]

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Such Potential

Damson is finished. This was such a fun project. The yarn is alpaca, hand dyed by a friend. She’s taking her hand-spun and dyed yarn to Taos next month for the Wool Festival. The yarn is so lovely, light yet wonderfully warm. I used some variegated for the loopy edging.
I’m not quite done with [...]

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Puddleduck

I’m not a good shopper.  I hate malls and trying on clothes. Clerks in those fashion-forward independent retail clothing stores give me the creeps. The last item of clothing I shopped for was a pair of yoga pants. I wander around in Goodwill occasionally. My uniform is jeans and a T-shirt. Shorts in the summer. [...]

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Immersion Knitting

When I taught composition, all instructors were required to have one-on-one conferences with each student at least once a semester.  We dreaded conferences because the process took so much time. One semester I had 90 students. At 15 minutes with each one, it took 22.5 hours to see them all.
The other problem was that conversations [...]

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There has been knitting

Constant readers may not believe it, but knitting has occurred here at Chez Ravell’d Sleeve. In fact here are some finished objects for your perusal.
This pair is Riding on the Metro from Wendy D. Johnson’s book, Socks from the Toe Up.

This pair is the Lacy Rib also from Wendy’s book.

I’ve also started knitting squares for [...]

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