An Old Knitty Lady

Category: General

  • Catching Up

    I still have an entire November and some bits of December to account for. I have been volunteering with the East Bay Heritage Quilters: three more days since the quilt show in San Mateo mentioned in the October 18 post. First was the working party organized to produce the patchwork postcards that they sell at their…

  • I’ve Been Off

    … because I took a temp assignment at a nice mid-sized law firm. But never mind about that. What do you think of my auto decor for Autumn? I’m a little worried about spontaneous combustion. The car sits in the sun in the BART lot all day, and it’s been hot again. I’ve even driven…

  • Make Work

    Hmmmm. I’m noticing a theme to my recent post titles. Well, it is how it is. And there’s good news! My best box of crochet hooks is recovered ! . . . along with my listed Etsy merch. So I have no excuse for not bounding forward with the Etsy merch listing process. Alas ……

  • It’s Still Too Hot

    But I drove out to my favorite sitting spot in Point Reyes Station, because there is almost always a breeze in that spot, and there was, I got a little bit done. I took some photos that may be useable. Don’t know yet, because I have not pulled them off the phone, though it’s been…

  • Dithering …

    It is too hot. Mind you, in the San Francisco Bay Area we have no business to complain. The citizens of Arizona have been sweltering in the 100s for weeks. But those of us acclimated to these Mediterranean environs get a little cranky when the temp gets over 80. Me, I cannot cope at all.…

  • And It Worked …

    At 200-and-some miles, on the over-the-hilly bit between Paso Robles and San Luis Obispo, the vehicle engine commenced to misfire in a very worrying manner. (I now know that this is what the previously intermittent rumblings were about, engine misfires.) On the way back, the loss of power up several grades got so pronounced that…

  • There Is a Trip Planned …

    An extravagantly reckless trip that may blow up the engine of my vehicle. The Conference of Northern California Handweavers is having a do, down in San Luis Obispo, in early August, and during a manic phase a couple of months ago, I paid for it. But the vehicle does not like to spend more than…

  • Technically, I suppose …

    It constitutes outlawry, but I like living in my car. I had thought that the Supreme Court, back during my young personhood, and with regard to that county government expedient known as the “Chain Gang” (that is, being picked up for vagrancy and sentenced to 60 days on the county roads), had declared it unconstitutional…

  • And the Other Thing Going on …

    Everybody has their “How I Coped with the COVID Lockdown” thing.  And mine kind of melded with: What does a collector with no premises collect? There I am, some three years back, deprived of gainful employment, on an ample government stipend, and at the mercy of YouTube for distraction. There really is not all that…

  • I’ve Been Making Flowers

    So, I live in the car, but how much infrastructure do you need to crochet a flower? And I am not entirely bereft of stuff. There is a storage space, and a respectable stash of yarn and other fiber in the storage space. I cycle things in and out of the trunk. There is sewing…