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Happy New Year: Knitting Interlude.

4 January, 2010 (10:04) | crafts

January Fourth: First monday of the new year is brutally cold.     I want to thank everyone for the holiday wishes. A few noticed I took a break from blogging: Yep! It’s difficult to keep track of all the arguments during the holidays. In addition to the normal round of festivities, I got a [...]

Bleg: How to write Apps for Itouch?

13 March, 2009 (07:22) | crafts

Bleg: Can anyone point me to a reference explaining how to write applications for the Itouch? The reason I ask is a knitter contacted me and asked: Subject: Your Cool Calculations Have your (or are they available) thought about getting them set up as app download (for fee) for Apple Itouch like the great knitting [...]

Doily Haiku

11 February, 2009 (15:55) | Haiku, crafts

Sixty one degrees! That’s warm for February; I’ll make a doily.     As some of you know, I previously complained about the cold and snow which motivated me to crochet some 6 ft or 7 ft long afghans. The weather turned warm on Wednesday and all the snow has now melted. My lawn is [...]

Afghan Haikus.

11 January, 2009 (13:57) | crafts

      A fresh coat of paint lovely new hardwood flooring Soon its own afghan.       Cuddly green afghan draped on the leather sofa. Pyewacket loves it. Non-Climate Sunday Post As some of you know, Jim has been remodeling on weekends. He’s been doing the entire upstairs working on weekends only. This [...]

Afghans: The Cure for too much Football

28 December, 2008 (18:38) | crafts

Remember I previously showed slippers crocheted during football games? Well, football continues. In self defense, I bought 6 skeins of Coats and Clarks Red Heart, armed my self with a crochet hook and started an afghan. I got a bit of a head start yesterday, and then continued working on the afghan today. Some time [...]