rising waters
While I was in Florida last month Laura and I went horseback riding at Forever Florida. It was one of the only times during vacation that I had a break from the duties of motherhood. Alas, my stirrups were too high. The wrangler adjusted them once, and I thought that might work, but for the last 30-45 minutes of the ride, my legs dangled on either side of the horse. My horse was called Okie. He was okay,

every girl needs an opossum button
Talk about an albatross. This cabled cardigan was just that. I started it May, the eighth (2009), to be exact. It was going to be Elsa's summer sweater because of the short sleeves. The pattern is free. It's called Cabled Raglan

ranting a bit
Cross-posted from my food blog, potlikker. I'll have real knitting and quilting content coming soon, promise.I've blogged about food for five years next month. And only in the last year have I sought out publicists and asked them for review copies of books published by their companies.Prior to that, publicists found me, sent me press releases, and offered me copies of the books under their care. Some titles were not subjects I'd normally read. After stumbling through a few of those,  I decided to contact publicists directly so that I could get review copies of boo