I awoke one morning this winter with a vivid dream still in my head of a fabulous formal garden in the pasture outside our house on the farm. Don’t get me wrong — the pasture is beautiful, but it’s full of native grasses and, to be honest, some weeds and thistles. It will never be [...]

  The nearest town to our farm of any size is Tahlequah, which is about twenty miles away, and when we make a run into town, we take one way, or sometimes the other way, too often without exploring the dirt roads and blacktops that create the maze in between. They are out of the [...]

  On cold winter evenings the old farmhouse can be comfortably heated using just the old woodstove, and there are usually enough windfalls around the farm to keep a season’s supply of oak, hickory, sycamore and black walnut. The stove does well until about three in the morning, when a chill blankets the room and [...]

The Vitamin D sweater is off the needles just in time to bring a little sunshine into the late fall. This sweet little cardigan was knit using only three skeins of PathWays Sock Yarn (colorway Rumplestilskin). It’s a great sweater weight for tossing over a simple t-shirt and jeans for anything from a quick trip [...]

Friday as I dressed to go into Tulsa to enjoy an evening football game I happened to put on a small shawl that I’d never photographed for my Ravelry project folder. This is the Confidence Shawl knit using PathWays colorway Bittersweet. I love how the subtle shifts of deep orange to red to soft orange [...]

subtitle: finding sweater mojo For several years now I’ve struggled to find sweater mojo. Where’s my groove? I cast on sweaters. I frog sweaters. Sometimes I frog them before they get very far and sometimes they are near completion before I finally toss in the towel. Back in May 2010 I cast on the Nonpareil [...]

Yesterday. It. Happened. A wind came through, it brought rain, and cooler temperatures arrived. It’s quite possible that we’re finally done with 100+ temps. I’ve been done with them for some time but they still kept happening almost daily. Maybe it’s just the flipping of another page on the calendar and seeing September that has [...]

For 29 years there was a great little storefront restaurant in Tulsa called Halim and Mimi’s that offered probably the best Lebanese cuisine in Tulsa. Halim worked the cash register, wrote my name on my order without asking for it, put ice in styrofoam cups, and clipped the ticket to the wheel that rotated back [...]

Chris and I have loaded the big cargo van with about as much yarn as it can hold and tomorrow morning we drive down our lane off the farm onto the gravel road beyond, thus beginning our trip to Chicago for Stitches Mid-west and the Mid-Ohio Fiber Fair in Newark. The name Lost City Knits [...]

The Ravellenics Games begin tomorrow and I’ve been having a dickens of a time with the long wait between deciding the pattern and yarn for this years event.  I’ll be participating in the Cast On Trapshoot, or as a friend calls it, the Cast On Crapshoot. The goal for COT is to complete 30% of [...]