This sock has fairly subdued patterning and I think a lot of men would be ok with it. My own man prefers his socks plain and dim, er, dark. This pattern is a more interesting knit than endless stockinette. It’s free, and you can download the PDF here. Please let me know if there are [...]
Please take a look at my other blog –I’m putting some small artworks up for sale to benefit the Red Cross’s Japanese Earthquake Relief Fund, and offering free shipping for those items and any others ordered at the same time. When something so monumentally awful happens, it’s easy to feel helpless. I’d like to [...]
Yesterday was such a lovely warm, sunny afternoon. I went to visit my mom, and couldn’t resist trying to capture an image of these crocuses and snowdrops in the bright sunshine. Blown highlights, but I like the picture anyway. Spring is definitely almost here, and after a dull Lower Mainland winter, I’m ready for it!
Maia was the oldest of the seven sisters known as the Pleiades (these days you can see the sisters in the night sky above and right of Orion the Hunter, if you’re in the northern hemisphere). Maia was the most beautiful of the sisters and lived quietly in a cave in the Arcadian mountains. These [...]
As promised, a new sock pattern: “Spring Showers”. I think these socks are perfect for this time of year — warm enough to be cozy, but a little lacy so you can show them off as the weather becomes more Spring-like (and it *is* going to become more Spring-like, right?). This pattern uses about 400 [...]
