Owl knitting chart

The Tricksy Knitter chartmaker was an online tool designed by me and built by my DH Charles in 2010. We retired it in 2017. It was a wonderfully cool tool for creative knitters, and it was bittersweet to retire it. But technology is a demanding master/mistress and we didn't have the time to maintain it. Thanks to ever

Today there's a bitter wind blowing off the nearby mountains and I'm quite surprised the highest peaks haven't got a covering of snow. With such a bracing wind what better way to keep warm than a morning spent cutting logs ready for the winter days ahead. My husband loves his chainsaw and everything to do with cutting wood. I think he might have been a coppicer or charcoal burner had he lived 100 years ago. His enthusiasm and hard work thankfully will provide us with log fires until next…

I'm an engineer, binary numbers (0 and 1) are my world; knit and purl are similar: just 2 stitches that made up amazing things we use everyday. I'm always in awe that, after centuries of knitting, people are still discovering new methods of knitting! The Mohave desert where I used to work is filled with wild life. Driving home from work, I used to stop along the roads to look for bunnies and owls, feeling so alive in the desert! The owls are what I remember most. I recently lost a…

The Tricksy Knitter chartmaker was an online tool designed by me and built by my DH Charles in 2010. We retired it in 2017. It was a wonderfully cool tool for creative knitters, and it was bittersweet to retire it. But technology is a demanding master/mistress and we didn't have the time to maintain it. Thanks to ever