The most memorable moments of my teaching life may seem trivial to some but are truly momentous in my mind.
The class was a combined grade 2,3,4 group of cognitively delayed students. Roy was a feisty, tow-headed spitfire in grade 2. If marks were given solely for effort, Roy would score straight A’s. He put a [...]

Sitting at my spinning wheel, with the sun streaming in the windows, and 3 dogs cuddled around my chair and wheel, provides me with a sense of contentment and peace I haven’t been able to find anywhere else for the last little while. My thoughts drift away with the repetitive hum of the [...]

My dog, Winnie, turned 2 yesterday. To remind me that, in Wheaten years, she’s still a puppy, she created this carnage with my most recent knitting project. While I was in the kitchen cooking supper she pulled the balls of yarn, 3 of them, off the coffee table, where I thought I’d stashed [...]

An error in my pattern was brought to my attention by Kathy. Thank you so much for contacting me about this! The .pdf has now been corrected. Rows 2 and 4 are the purl rows (with garter border stitches) and Rows 1 and 3 are worked with k2tog’s and yo’s. I had [...]