Living in America

Phoeknits wrote an excellent post on Expat living.  She's an American living in England, I'm a Briton living in America.  This is what it's like on the other side of the equation. America is such a young country.  A hundred years is a long

FO and UFO

My dining room windowsill is the catwalk for knitted objects.  Just outside the window is a line of conifers, then a forsythia bush being eaten by a honeysuckle, like a slow-motion cage match.  The forsythia is not winning the fight.  This is my pair of finished Immigrant socks, and

Recipe: Chicken Korma

I love food that's easy to cook.  This doesn't take a lot of fuss to make and it's really tasty. Ingredients: * 1 medium onion * 1 bell pepper * handful of raisins * handful of almonds * 3 tablespoons of mild curry powder * 1 packet of chicken (about

Best friends

Thanks for the commiserations on not making it to MD Sheep and Wool.  My best friend Rox, who I was really hoping to spend time with, sent me a festival care package: 4oz of long staple Pima Cotton from Little Barn, and 2oz of Icelandic roving from Dott-E.  Thank

Thwarted

I didn't get to Maryland on Friday.  Didn't get to see Rox and Eric, didn't go to the Sheep and Wool.  My direct flight was cancelled, and the replacement flight through Chicago was delayed until there was no way to make the connecting flight.

The first decade

On Tuesday 5th May 1998, Hubby and I arrived in St Louis from London Gatwick.  Most of our belongings had been sold or given away, some were in our oversized suitcases, the rest were sat on a dock in New York racking up fees because they'd arrived a

Stash and simplicity (part two)

Moving country changes your perspective on accumulated stuff somewhat.  Everything we owned was evaluated.  Can we easily replace this?  Do we really want to keep this?  Do we want this enough to ship it given that we can only ship so much?  If we want to ship it and we&

Stash and simplicity (part one)

A friend asked me "do knitters have a stash?"  I laughed.  She is a former quilter who gave away her sewing machine and fabric stash when she was all quilted out.  Ravelry lets you browse what people have in their yarn stash.  The biggest stash on Ravelry lately

Maizy monkey

Picked up a couple of balls of Crystal Palace Maizy because I was curious.  It is 82% corn fibre and 18% elastic nylon.  The label says you can machine wash the socks without turning them into popcorn, but I will test this for you.  All part of the service! Maizy

Re-stashing

I destashed some yarn on Ravelry last month and I'm down to just the things I like.   Yarn clubs are not for me, and the impulse purchases are gone now.  I picked up a few interesting things in their place: Lovesticks BFL fingering yarn  in Redwood.  I have