Or back when my mother and I both really liked my profile, my mother had this silhouette piece done of me. I think I remember the hat -- a modified cloche with a wide velvet ribbon that was my Easter bonnet in maybe 1961 or thereabouts. I remember a...

Although in the knitting early days my fingers/brain seemed intent on not learning the rhythm of the pattern, the Brilla Prudence lace collar knit up quickly once it really hit the front of the knitting queue. I cast on on the 10th of October and...

I'm not much for the holiday itself but I'm pretty good at being thankful or at least I try. Today's posting is one of those life's simple pleasures to be thankful for in this case, a sunny day, Southern California and a rose in bloom in November. A...

In either a tweet or a FB status update, I noted that one of the problems with creating databases is changing sort strategies. It isn't a big deal when the sort is purely theoretical and/or bits and bytes but if you change the sort strategy of...

I finished knitting my version of Colonnade on the 11th and did a first pass on the blocking shortly after. Even before it was off the needles, I did some checking into my notes on polygons and confirmed that the curving my fellow guild member saw in...