Blue Mitten Interlude

I was so proud of my herringbone mittens, that went with my coat so well. But it’s still jacket weather, and walking out of the door in my black and white herringbone/tweed jacket, I picked those saffron-and-oatmeal mittens up and thought, well, shit.

Fortunately, I was on my way to work. At work there is both […]

October is the month.

My favorite month.  Although the wind has not with frosty fingers punished my hair, as yet. Due to September having been far cooler here in the mid-Atlantic.

There was a period where you couldn’t walk here without stepping on volumes of Heidegger, but I finally finished that huge paper, with some help from Robert Frost. If […]

Mittens of Determinate Negation

I made these mittens, but I haven’t told you about them.

First fair-isle ever. A proof of the principle that the more complicated the project, the richer the satisfaction.

I admit it, I ripped a few times. But it was worth it–after a while, I got a rhythm, two strands in the left hand, and it worked. […]