How Ingenuity Can Equal New Underwear

My sister-in-law sent me the following link. She suspected that due to my history of being home-schooled and the fact that I love knitting, I would find the following blog post particularly entertaining. She was so right. I am still picking myself up off the floor. Without further ado, here’s the first paragraph of the post: “Wanna bet? Mrs. G. has a friend, another homeschooling mother, whose twelve-year-old daughter announced one afternoon that she was too old for lifeless, white cotton underwear. As a matter of fact, she stated, she was ready… “ Don’t miss the rest of the article [...] Read more »

Failure, Fear, Time, and Frogging

If you are someone who knows me, then you know I love to knit. Any moment of mine that appears to be “spare” in this very busy world often involves me sitting, standing, holding, lying down with, petting, smelling, or in some other way being engaged with yarn and knitting needles. (I have not yet figured out a way to eat yarn…but I’m sure it can be done. I just haven’t found out how yet.) I knit for many reasons; I am sure that every knitter has his or her unique response to the question (inevitably asked) about why they [...] Read more »