Today, June 26, begins the third full day of this adventure. Our trip over “the pond” was uneventful. The 7.5 hour flight was full of knitting. Joy got about 15 minutes of shut eye, but I was still running on excitement and kept on knitting. And dropping needles. That is certainly a good argument for...

It has begun. The summer TNNA tradeshow opens tomorrow. This show is the largest US event for buying yarn, needlepoint supplies and related “stuff.” For the first time, I’ve taken products developed at Heritage to the show. We’ve got a booth and are selling our Knitting Boot Camp curriculum, My Little Knitting Book, and more...

  Grab a cup of tea.  This is a story in words and pictures of creativity and connections, comaraderie and the birth of Jai-Jai Bouclé Inselhaus (Jai-Jai for short).Sometimes I get overwhelming urges of creativity, silly-ness, nurturing. What’s really dangerous is when they are all rolled into one! Let me start in the beginning (that’s...

I promised photos . . . mind you, one-year old boys don’t sit still very well, so these are as good as it gets. He isn’t quite confident walking yet, so he goes on all fours. Don’t you love the determination in that face?

This is just a quick grandmotherly post. Here’s the sweater I knit Luke last weekend at a retreat hosted by Christa Kindt-Newhouse at Insel Haus. It was a lovely weekend and this sweater is a great memory from it. It is a present for Luke’s first birthday next week. Hope it fits! The technical details:...