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Well, I love it. As you can tell because I am smiling so much I lost my eyes! When El Capitan first told me he wanted to learn knitting, I figured he would learn to knit a row or two and be on his way. But he really likes knitting!…

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” ― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life Friday we drove up to Oxnard, California to stay at a hotel by the water. We got a late start because I was working, and then when we were in the…

Um, you guys, I think he is a knitter now. The Captain has done an amazing job on his scarf! His tension is perfect and even, he can tell when he has dropped a stitch, and this weekend he even did his own felted join!! The felted join is pretty…

It happened. As promised, he cast on. And he is knitting! The captain has sat next to me during endless nights of knitting: there was my Stockholm hat phase, my Helsinki hat phase, one scarf, two sets of prototype socks and one recently cast-on prototype redux sock. He likes the…

No one told me it was national Ask Laurie All The Hard Questions day. I didn’t get the memo but everyone at work did, apparently, as each and every interaction today was some form of: “I have this urgent/expensive/critical issue, do you know how to/who can fix this for me?”…