Nancy's Arts & Crafts

In this case, I knit three roses using different yarns and dissimilar centers.  But they all looked pretty much like red roses, even if thei...

Yesterday at the manor, almost 200 residents and family members were served a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.  It seemed to come off withou...

Husband disapproves of blog posts that have more than one topical area as he thinks writing should be "on topic." When he reads th...

Yesterday, I said I would be knitting.  And yes, I did just that.   Almost finished with the Promenade Shawl . And the (3rd, c...

Onward and upwards.  Yesterday was quiet on the home front and our activities included an 8 AM Mass to start off the new year, followed by a...

Julie suggested that The Manor House give dog biscuits to our local no-kill animal shelter  for a Christmas gift. Here is the recipe I fo...

What do you call a "busy week?"  For just the husband and myself, the week now ending could be called filled with activity, if you...

It just occurred to me that I have not yet shown knitting progress on a kit I purchased soon after Julie and I returned to Colorado in May. ...

Fall begins tomorrow, so we hear. Pope Francis arrives in the US today. And another, yes another , shawl is in the works. Yarn, courtesy...

Indulge me in the sharing of the goodness I found and re-found today in searching the web.  Here are web sites, readily accessed in the futu...

Have you heard of picture yarn?  Well, Abi Grasso from Colorado Springs dyes it up in all kinds of colors with graphics that make pictures w...

As I have previously said, J eans Knitting is one of the first reads of the morning when sitting in my chair, or actually my husband's ...

Phew.  Those fair isle socks (only two yarn colors per row, knit intermittently while holding the opposing color in the back of the knitting...