Doesn’t this photo make you just want to smile? This is Christa at the fashion show at Castle Farms. This year we took a different perspective with the show and featured designers and their work. With a carefully tuned script in hand, Stacey told the story of the designers and their pieces. This is a...

The title “grandmother” has certain responsibilities. Like taking part in a new child’s life. Unfortunately, my 6-month old grandson lives in the northwest Chicago suburbs – it’s not easy to pop over and say hello. So, Sunday, Mother’s Day, I climbed on the train at oh-dark-thirty (as we used to say in the Army) in...

This photo captures Stacey assisting Deb in a front porch photo shoot. I promised Deb that nothing would show but the skirt . . . but they agreed that this photo was too fun to hide in my computer. Our front porch hosts many photo shoots. Sometimes I’ve got stuff sitting on the porch and...

Well, the Estonian Garden Wrap lives again! I ordered more yarn, two cones of Jaggerspun4/8 Zephyr, just in case the dye lots didn’t match my earlier knitting. It was my luck: they didn’t match. But, I decided that I liked my (now) swatch enough to start again from the beginning. So, here’s where I am...

Pretty isn’t it? Even unblocked, you can see that it really has potential. You might even recognize it as The Fiber Trends pattern by Evelyn Clark, “Estonian Garden Wrap.” Unfortunately, I didn’t think before I set out on my wrap adventure. I didn’t do my math. I got caught up in the heat of the...