n keeping with my new tradition of Saturday & Sunday are meant for Silliness, my new BloGoal is to share at least one “just for fun” thing each weekend. Better will be two. Since this week had a double whammy of Harry Potter We again celebrated TheHenry’s Birthday last week end with a day at [...]

After a week of far too much “serious” thought, it is fun to share some silly stuff. Many Thanks to Judy from Crochet Partners for sending me this this link with the photo above and some of the story that has the Story of Carol Hummel’s Tree Cozy. Naturally I could not type “tree cozy” [...]

Crochet As The New Knitting – Part III: Crocheters In The Local Yarn Shop (LYS) I do not (read Part IV next week) believe that Retailers should be totally left off the hook (pun intended) but your local shops are in many ways a partnership between the proprietor and the customer. IF you want a [...]

Intriguing Thought For the Day Supreme Court decides to allow minimum price setting by manufacturing Wal-Mart finally pulls the plug on Needlework, the long time loss leader of every store and start phasing out more than just fabric on the bolt. Think it could be related? Or is it all just business

Is Crochet The New Knitting? – Part II : Crochet In The Merchant Mall Okay so the CGOA annual conference Chainlink was last week. Health issues kept me home, and that may be part of why I am cranky However, I am also cranky because of the usual post-Chainlink complaints about the Merchant Mall not [...]