Knits

One of the nicest things of being in the 5th decade of this journey called " Life" would be the profusion of babies in the lives of my near and dear ones. Friends and cousins proudly share grand tidin...

I have knitted a pair of socks. Socks crafted from a lovely present of German self-striping sock yarn. Yarn in shades of blue, prussian green, greys and some more water shades in-between. Its been...

Once upon a time, many  years ago, a dear friend took a vacation in Iceland.  Those were the times when I would be seen knitting through the Delhi summer. Of course, that knitting would be in comforta...

Nephew dearest had finally found his soul-mate and life partner...and the entire family breathed again! Weddings are becoming rarer, and therefore more precious to us senior folks. Talking about marr...

Just a month ago, my knitting heart had been splintered to pieces by this project. It was the latest addition to my "commendable list of goof-ups"  and here I had been dreaming about adding items to t...

Weeks have slipped past, and I have helped them to slip past me with great excuses, gastronomic excesses, grand lazy days and quick trips to here, there and no-where. My morning routine is studded wi...

Beautiful, graceful and big....these adjectives have been invented to describe a dear friend. She is gracious and stylish too. I have never seen her with a hair out of place, and I have never heard a ...

Cables are my Achilles heel, my favorite flavor, the most predictable choice for a new sweater when I am the knitter. I love the classic cabled look,  the way cables entwine and coil their way up a s...

The entire month of Jan has been dedicated to this throw. It is still to reach that final stage of completion, but the journey has been nothing but lessons and fables and aches n pains and reflections...

Phrases have this delightful way of acquiring new implications with changing times.  In a life spanning nine decades, there would be changing times aplenty. I was a witness to some of these changes in...