If you’ve been in the writing business for any length of time, you’ve been rejected. No matter who you are, no matter how successful, someday you’re going to have one of those days when the agent passes on your manuscript, when the editor can’t find a spot for your story. Sometimes the blow comes swiftly, […]
Category Archives: Handmade
Renewal
I love the rituals of spring. I don’t think I’m prone to Seasonal Affective Disorder–not here in Colorado, at any rate. (We get 300 days of sunlight a year.) But I do feel incredible relief when winter finally ends. I love the sense of hope that comes when the days grow longer. I always make […]
Kona Coffee
So I went to Hawaii and got almost no knitting done. So much for my big plans to finish my new shawl. Can you tell I’m not sorry? Here is my one-and-only Gratuitous Photo of Yarn, taken at Java on the Rock, a great coffee house in Kona. Maybe I didn’t knit much, but I […]
Scala
My puppy Dulcinea absolutely loves this Scala shawl. It’s the tempting tassels, of course. Mithril also likes the dangling ribbon yarn. He had fun helping me make it. So, yeah. I’ve worn this shawl maybe twice in two years. But that will change soon. I’m taking the shawl on vacation with me, where the furry […]
Fuzzy Valentine
It’s Valentine’s Day. So where’s my snow? I took Dulcinea to the dog park, and she kicked up great clouds of dust. I ought to know better, but I’m still shocked by how warm it is on the Front Range. Tiny shoots of crocus and Dutch Iris are springing up in my garden. (Don’t they […]
Garden of Rohan
When I’m not reading or writing fiction, or taking my dog for epic walks, I’m knitting. My knitting queue over at Ravelry is currently filled with unfinished objects, in part because Dulcinea is obsessed with yarn. It’s hard to knit when a Golden Retriever thinks you’re playing an interactive game. But now I have two […]
Holiday Knitting Marathon
With a convalescent puppy at home, I’ve been doing a lot of knitting. I can’t write much or read fiction, since I need to keep one eye on Dulcinea at all times. (She is far too interested in her 7-inch incision, with all its bristling black stitches.) So I’m knitting a hat for a friend. […]
Cabled Gauntlets
When you first learn to knit, you don’t know what kind of a knitter you are. You’re tempted by quick knits, big metal needles. You rhapsodize over novelty yarns. And then you grow up a little. You find out that your favorite yarns occupy a specific range between Aran and sock yarn. You realize you […]