The thing I like best about sewing is that the results are so immediate and functional. Take this project: a heating pad and cover in a sim...

This little shawlette is really pissing me off. I don't know if I even feel like writing about it, it grates me so just to look at it! ...

Classic weekend view .... Knitting between climbs in the great outdoors. Sun glinting off my needles. Peace and quiet. And, yes, that is a b...

How good it felt to sew the ends in on this little project! The yarn is naturally dyed wool that I bought from Earth Arts when I visited he...

Rock towers and desert in the first morning sun, seen through the screen of our tent. A beautiful scene to wake up to on a Sunday morning ....

Weekend in Isolation Canyon, camping and climbing. Here's what it looks like from the rim of the canyon (with me, crouching at the top ...

I've started sewing. It's rather free-form ... I don't really know what I'm doing, but I'm having a ball playing aroun...

By nature, I am not a person of the desert. But this landscape is slowly seeping into my being. Mountain Man and I drove out to the McDowel...

Mending day. A quiet Saturday where I felt like tackling the little tasks that I've been putting off, like darning holes in handknit soc...

Saturday was climbing day for Mountain Man and me. We had a lovely drive out past the Superstitions, past the old mining town of Superior, ...

I had a birthday this week. It was a beautiful day, blue skied, sunshiny, with a sweetness on the breeze. It was the day that the first gr...

I bound off the collar last night, prematurely, to get a sense of how it was laying. The cardigan still needs sleeves, obviously, but here...

Just another sunny spring afternoon in Arcadia. Sitting in the backyard, watching the grass grow ... and the hummingbirds come and go, come...

Late this afternoon, after a marvelously strenuous day of yard work, I sat down to deal with the edge of the sweater. I started off by runn...

I've got progress on my Katarina cardigan to show off! Although, things are slightly awry. Good news first: I've finished knitting...

I've been awash in a sea of expansive white stockinette, between the cardigan and a secret blanket project. It makes for boring knitti...