Something strange has happened in this apartment full of sunshine, warmth and good intentions. Every activity, every floor tile, every shoe...everything has been affected, and I am yet to get my brai...
It's the first grey day of this winter. For the last two days, clouds scudding across the sky have been shot down by sunlight but its overcast and still now. The clouds stop the temperatures from fal...
With festivals, lights, crackers, wind and rain ( not this year), October leaves the mountains with fanfare and pomp, leaving behind quiet sunny days and bright blue skies with the Himalayas lithograp...
This summer had seen the beginning of The Ranikhet Knitters Group..a motley group of knitters, who would meet every month, share and show their knitting projects, talk about knitting, lunch together (...
Avid knitters in India have to get their thrills about yarn by either trawling through websites like this and waiting for someone to bring it to them, or pay some huge shipping bills and track the par...
Gradients of colour can either form pools of colour, irregular colour stripes, or even a proper pattern, as in sock yarns. Stocking stitch knitting becomes exciting when one is waiting to see what ...
Craft...defined as an activity involving a special skill at making things with your hands ( and mind, and heart, and vision, and dreams). The 60s and 70s, when TVs were just entering homes, phones w...
Over the past 6 years, the sanctity of the regular evening walk is rarely broken. The dogs show off their uncanny sense of timing ( changing with the seasons), I stop everything else to put on my walk...
The knitters were reaching that point when they could wake up in the middle of the night, and complete a triangular shawl with their eyes shut tight. Knitting the same things again and again and agai...
26th September-- and I am going on vacation .. This time, there is no Pepper to haul into the front seat, cuddle and pat that enquiring, perky face while driving the 3 odd kms to Hema’s house. Bisk...