a podcast about knitting
I realized this week that watching television without knitting in my hands is pretty close to impossible. It’s not the lack of knitting, however, that makes it so, but the lack of quality programming. With knitting, I can sit through pretty much anything. (Gritty urban drama about drug abuse, joblessness and/or teen pregnancy, taking place…
I’m taking a little time away from work for health reasons. Cast On will return in a few months, most likely in the Spring.
Through all the long years since I first learned to knit there has never been a time when I didn’t have something on the needles. For almost twenty years knitting has been my constant companion; the first thing I pick up each morning, after I put the kettle on, and the last thing I put…
I don’t make resolutions, as you know, but if I did, mastering the art of the one-handed hipster photo would have been on the list for 2010. Clearly, I need to learn where to point the camera to make best use of the auto focus. Nevertheless, despite (or, possibly due to) my own ineptitude with…
Unless it’s a hurricane. Or unless you’re in Britain, where it’s apparently more important than anything going on in, say, the government, or the finance sector. The top story today is: It’s snowing. (Inside sources report that this is largely due to something called Winter.) Not that I’m complaining, mind. Hearing about falling snow instead…