Being a Virgo, and of Dutch ancestry, planning is one of my strengths. I love to spend time arranging, estimating, measuring, creating conditional options – I would have made a terrific Quartermaster. Last night as I was getting ready for bed I started working up a floorplan of the new house, based on my photographs…
Author: Annie
I knit weird and I enjoy showing others how to find the joy and intuitiveness within their OWN knitting!
We don't knit to make THINGS, we knit to make OURSELVES HAPPY!
The Return of the Non Native
I discovered while I was in MN that many folks assume I’m a native NJ girl. It can’t be the accent (do I have one?), perhaps it’s the attitude? It’s time to work on wrapping my knee-jerk frankness in a blanket of niceness so I’m not such an easy tell in MN. I’m home in…
If It's Monday, It Must Be Minneapolis
THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WASTNNA is a blur. A hazy, gin-and-tonic induced flashback of hugging lots of folks, caressing yarn, teaching young’uns to knit and something called a saki bomber. Hi Ken. Hi Drew. THURSDAYArriving Thurs night just in time for my class at The Grove (Hi Ann!), I was greeted by 16 enthusiastic…
The Mom Look
This evening one of Max’s spelling words was “Stern” Max – What does Stern mean? Dad – Severe. Max – Like Mom? (I was giving him a very stern look – he giggled…) THE CHART THING When you use a chart, remember to place your post-it note (you have one, right?) so that it hides…
Save The Cheerleader…
We love Heroes here at Chez Landy – we watch it every Monday, it’s the one show (aside from the Simpsons and Nova) that we all agree on. So the kids were thrilled when I showed them my Hero needles, I am golden in their eyes. Speaking of eyes, last Spring a friend in Ohio…
First the needles, then the concealer, now my RATS??
No matter how many times I write notes to myself, when I’m flying I forget that I’m not supposed to have liquids in my carry on luggage. In some cases my idiocy is absolutely head-smacking Like the time when, on the way to the Newark Airport, I shoved a FULL container of my FAVORITE hand…
Old Friends & Yarn
Here’s a link to a pdf file – a chullo hat pattern that I designed last year for the crochet calendar. I keep forgetting that I have these patterns lying around, and someone just wrote and asked for this, so I figured why not add it to the list on the blog and alert the…
A Tale of Three Cities
Minneapolis/ St PaulTwin Cities Score High for Emergency CommunicationMinnesota Retains Spot as Healthiest State in the NationA 61-Year Low for Traffic Deaths Minnesota No. 1 Again With 20-Game Unbeaten Streak NYCSubway HeroFire Escape Heros In a convergence of the threads of my life, the Minneapolis Star Tribune mentions crocuses coming up in New Jersey. I…
Do-Over
I can’t show the images right now because the sweater in question hasn’t yet been published, but suffice to say that when I’d finished my recent sweater for VK I was not thrilled. Or amused. It just looked – dowdy – and not how I’d envisioned it. So I chopped off the bottom and reworked…
Increasing
It’s been a while since I’ve put up a video. But I’m having a heck of a time loading onto Youtube, so until it shows up there, here’s a link to some video on m own server. I’ll add more if I can afford the bandwidth! The holidays were great. I’m still recovering, still basking…