Knits

The Crusade to Reduce Stash has been eating up the yarn in my cupboards and baskets, and it sure is a good feeling. While there is wool and warm acrylic yarn all over the house, its those unique cotto...

March 2013 saw that memorable time when the knitters met me for the first time. 6 of them arrived, zapped to see a greying, garrulous woman with short hair and jeans, terrified to be at the receiving ...

2017 is turning out to be all about our little Mili. I wake up early, and then wait for her to stir against my shoulder so that we can run out and greet the rose tinged dawn sky. Meal times, play time...

Mid February means mellow winter sunshine and a definite climb in temperatures. The night sky has wisps of warmth flying through the chilly frost, the sunrise has spectacular orange and pink hues high...

There is a word in Hindi, "satsang"--Association with the good.  Though it is used to refer to spiritual gatherings and discourses, I use the word to describe a gathering which does me good, or which ...

Twenty days of this cold month have been spent in futile attempts to escape the sharp nips of Madam Mili, in arranging heaters and hot water bottles to make a warm evening and in knitting essentials a...

Weeks of pure sunshine filled days make me go weak in the knees with gratitude, spend long hours with the dogs, my thoughts and the knitting progresses just fine. My knitting is like a growing deciduo...

Once upon a time, a young medical officer in the Indian Air Force was posted to a remote airfield of the country. It was her first posting, her first experience of being the only woman in the entire s...

That KAL project drew to a close.... I knitted a smart lemon-grass  I-cord border on the sleeves... I basted the raglan line of the sleeves, and stitched the sleeve seam... And then, I tried on the...