Pocahontas County Fare

"A New Year Thought and Wish" features a garland surrounding a verse: "To greet you now, kind words I send, and wish 'A ...

"Merry Thoughts--New Year's Greeting." It's another floral holiday card, this time with a golden good luck wishbone. The ...

My grandma's postcard album has more New Year's greetings than Christmas cards. I don't know if this represents personal prefer...

I haven't chronicled my Linux adventures since attempting to upgrade to Debian testing back in January. I depend on my blog to keep tra...

I got to knit someone else a pair of socks for Christmas! (I am not surrounded by sock petitioners, and I hesitate to force unwanted hand k...

A particularly appropriate message--"Christmas Greetings to My Friend." This one is addressed to my grandma, Miss Florence Willia...

I don't know whether periwinkle flowers are traditionally associated with Christmas, but the floral holiday cards in my grandma's c...

Here's another postcard addressed to my grandma's mother, Agnes Williamson, postmarked Des Moines, Iowa, December 22, 1908. I can...

These two cards are not addressed to my grandma, but to her parents. They're both postmarked Dec. 22, 1910, and addressed to Prescott, ...

I'm not sure what spurred my current obsession with finishing, repairing, sorting, and putting away. Maybe it's been concern to fin...

Here are the latest socks from my collection of disappointing silk skeins. In the early 1990's I found several discounted skeins of ...

It's come to my attention that my storage space is finite, the most crowded corners being occupied by fabric and fiber. With this in mi...

I've become a bit more adventurous in my serger sewing. The last batch of tee-shirts were all sewn of cotton jersey, using a four-threa...

Thanksgiving postcards are uncommon in my grandma's album, but I am fascinated by the inclusion of non-turkey fowl in this one. The b...

I had expected that by now I'd be back in the swing of blogging, but you may notice a 17-day gap since my last post. This is due in par...

The woodpile this year looks particularly nice, something for which I can take no credit. (The new chainsaw does look proud of itself.) Las...

This is the most picturesque and also the most convenient polling place I've ever voted. The whole process took about 15 minutes, inclu...

More of the navy blue silk yarn, with more stripes of mohair scraps. This time, I made what Elizabeth Zimmermann called "Afterthought ...

There was a lovely yarn shop at Dupont Circle called The Woolgatherer, and I haunted the sale bins there in my grad school days. There was ...

I bought this partial skein of variegated pink mohair yarn in the 1980's, long before the development of commercial self-striping yarns...