Fridays with Franklin: Hot, Wet, and Kinky
For an introduction to what goes on in this column, click here. For the first part of this adventure, click here. And so I undertook to do something further with my second…
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Fridays with Franklin: Very Kinky, Indeed
The Wedge Pattern played nicely with the yarn. You can’t see the precise shapes of the wedges, but the regular changes from knit to purl gives the fabric a very interesting and pleasant faceted effect.
Muffintop
Nothing gets me over-excited like trying out a new way to knit a familiar shape. I hate stopping to eat, or answer e-mails, or see people. I just want to go go go go go go until I find out whether it’s going to work or not.
All in the Wrist: A Handy Guide to Making and Giving Button Cuff Links
I grew up in a family of Jewelry Guys. Guys like my grandfather. He wore dark, conservative suits to work; but at leisure, he treated each finger to a fat, gold ring and fastened thick ropes and chains of gold around his neck and wrists. The term “bling daddy” was not then in common usage, so my grandfather was described by Marv, his favorite jeweler, as being “a connoisseur of the finer men’s accessories.”
Cage Match, Concluded
I try to give you a good read, truly I do, with laughs and thrills and the occasional car chase; but you can’t, as my grandmother famously said while on a date with Mick Jagger, always get what you want.
Cage Match, Part Three
I was at a gathering once with a knitter who held up her shawl-in-progress and squealed, “This has been so much fun to knit! I’m actually slowing down because I don’t want it to end!”
I had no idea what she was talking about.
Cage Match, Part Two
The wrestling match with the cage purse continues in part two.
Cage Match, Part One
It scarcely seems possible, but by the close of this series we will have reached the fiftieth installment of Fridays with Franklin. Fifty! Can you imagine? I was flipping through…
Fridays with Franklin Afternoon Addendum: The Adventure of the Llama on the Corner, Concluded
So. This morning, when what was to have been the final word on the mitered, shadowed HiKoo Llamor cowl appeared online, I took a fresh look at that duplicate stitch…
The Adventure of the Llama on the Corner, Part Five
For an introduction to what goes on in this column, click here. For the first part of this adventure, click here. I find that so often that the finishing touches…
