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- A couple of holiday recipes from beloved old women
- 5/27/2016 A Dandy New One-Row Buttonhole . . .
- Babies and Lace, Darling or Dangerous?
- The Knitting Cruise to Alaska
- 2-Fisted, 2-Color, Stranded Knitting
- Fixing a Big Hole in a Sweater
- Cast-Ons and Bind-Offs Roundup
- A Couple More Handy Cast-Ons
- Elegant Ends: The Tubular Cast-on and Bind-Off
- Loose at Both Ends
- Cheryl’s Baby Blanket Knit by her Ma in 1947
- Edges in Knitting, a Closer Look
- Cheryl’s Unified Theory of Finishing in Two Parts
- Ban stair-step bind-offs!
- Why do you knit?
- The Problem with Patterns
- About the Long-Tail Cast-On
- The Nature of Knitted Fabric
- About yarn
- Fixing Le Le’s too short sleeves
- Alaska Cruise Classes
- How to wind yarn by hand
- A Dandy One-Row Buttonhole, some . . .
- A Dandy New One-Row Buttonhole
- The Never-Ending Garter Stitch Afghan and Your $5.92 Gift
- The Never-Ending Garter Stitch Afghan and how it will help you
- Afghan 101
- The Don’t-Show-Bethany Shawl Pattern Link
- Cables and Clearing the Decks (Pattern Included)
- Cables, Cables Everywhere
- Confidence, Common Sense, and the Sound of Spring
- One Way to Adapt a Sweater Pattern to Your Gauge
- A scarf pattern and something for USM/BOND knitters
- Two Baby Boys, Mrs. Shubel’s Pumpkin Bread, and a Holiday Wish for You
- Off the Streets and Out of the Taverns
- Why You’re Frustrated with Gauge and Why it’s Good News
- Patterns are Guidelines, not Gospel
- Hungarian Irene’s gulyás
- Color on the BOND Download Package
- How do you use YouTube? Seriously.
- Understanding Yarn Weight
- The Good News is the Bad News
- The Beautiful Daughter, a Year Later
- Gutenberg, Google and Beyond
- Cracks . . . in Ice and a Marriage
- Dating Jesus
- I don’t often scream and what’s in it for you . . .
- The Beautiful Daughter Afghan Pattern
- Island Blackberry Cobbler
- Your Knitting Self and Dr. Seuss
- A simple holiday season and Pumpkin Bread. . .
- Easy cake baking
- Homemade Cream of Tomato Soup
- Lactose intolerance
- How to wash the feathers of your nest
- The larder . . . don’t make a home without it . . .
- White bread
- An abbreviated “recipe” for Ma’s Thanksgiving dressing
- Wonder Bread and Ma’s Thanksgiving dressing
- 20 Food Rules
- Saying grace before meals. . .
- Food . . . it’s more than what you put into your mouth
- Beauty is Food, Food Beauty (with apologies to Keats)
- The 21st century North American hunter-gatherer . . .
- Arnica Montana . . . it belongs in your home
- Onion salad??? Yep and it’s delish!!
- Grandma’s chicken and dumplings
- Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food
- Dense salads . . . 100 ways or more
- Roasted “spaghetti sauce”
- Roasted veggies once a day . . .
- SPAM®, a treasured icon . . . but should you eat it?
- SPAM® more expensive than sirloin steak?
- Marilyn’s Zucchini Chocolate Cake simple style
- The zucchinis are coming . . . let them be cake
- Yogurt and Garlic Pasta
- A refreshing “slaw”
- Yogurt cheese dressing instead of mayo
- Dense salads continued . . .
- Opportunistic eating #1: dense salads-chicken
- Too Many Choices