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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Cold Shoulders

I grew up with central air conditioning. We moved to North Texas in the late ’60s and our ranch-style house had it. The schools had it. The grocery stores, shopping malls, and movie theaters had it. Even our cars had it. Outside it was 100-degrees, but inside it was 68. We stayed cool in the [...]

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A Slump

We have four seasons here in Central Texas: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer, and Deer Season.
That means that our growing seasons are ahead of cooler climates. So this week there will be strawberries in my CSA box, along with lettuce, green garlic and asparagus. As the heat increases, the lettuce bolts and the strawberries dry [...]

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Transformations

My favorite yoga teacher, Amy, is writing a dissertation on yoga and meditation and the mind. In class last Sunday she talked about recent research in memory and how the brain processes it. She is very excited about how this research dovetails with her own on how meditation affects the brain.
I like Amy’s approach to [...]

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Stealth Knitting

It is mid-September. If you’re in school, you should be worried about those first tests, or maybe about that dissertation research that’s not quite finished. If you’re a runner, you are thinking about cooler and shorter days to go the distance. If you’re a worker bee, you’re dreaming about your next holiday.
If you’re a knitter [...]

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