I think the Blog is back to normal, but if anyone notices anything buggy please let me know.
What I meant to do was change the design and stop spammers from screwing up my stats with their bogus links to my page but now that’ll have to wait a little longer.
Especially now that I’ve […]
Well, I couldn’t leave well enough alone.
I tried to install an upgrade of my WordPress software today and pretty much ruined my day off from work and almost lost all of my posts.
There are a lot of changes from the version I had, to the 1.2.2 version that I now have.
And since I made a […]
Thanks to those of you who wrote and tried to help.
It was Emma’s comment that finally clued me into how to correctly read a knitting diagram/chart.
Her advice about “every square resulting in one stitch” was what finally made it click for me.
Thanks Emma!
I also didn’t follow the pattern at the very ends, where […]
I finally found a pattern I really, really want to make.
It’s from the new Rowan (number 37; Spring/Summer 2005).
There are so many gorgeous items in this issue.
I’m starting with this one because I just happen to have four balls of Cork sitting around waiting to be knit. And I love the […]
Last weekend I came across another interesting find at the supermarket.
A ready-made crust with which to make Flammekueche, a specialty hailing from the Alsace region of France.
Flammekueche is a thin crust pizza made with crème fraîche or fromage blanc, onions, and bacon.
With a name like this, it’s easy to guess that […]
Off in the Distance: Glazed Tile Church Steeple
Couchey, France
After a few weeks of deep freeze and snow flurries, Burgundy warmed up enough for us to don our knits and venture off for the first hike of 2005.
The black hat I knit last month was field tested along the famous Route des Grands Crus and […]
Relooking
I came across this word on the French Elle magazine website.
Elle also uses the term Avant-Après (Before & After) to describe a relooking.
I’m unable to find a definition for relooking in my French dictionary which leads me to believe it may be one of those new […]
