Home home home.

I love it here. Except for the mess, and the way that the laundry is really, really bad. That said – and the mess is really incredible, the kitchen floor’s clean and the kids are alive, so how badly can it have gone? (Please don’t answer that. I don’t want to know.)

I got in last night at 2am…and Joe and I are going out the door in 10 minutes to go to a studio together. Intrigued? You should be. Even if you don’t care what the project is, Joe and I usually don’t work together business-wise very well. (If you hear a smallish explosion coming from the East end of Toronto this week you know we have failed again. That other noise is the sound of everyone who actually knows us cracking up at the thought of Joe and I doing this.) The last incident was attempting to lay a hardwood floor together (I do not have “no plan”. I’m an organic thinker) and before that there was the afternoon that I went with Joe to the studio to help him out with some phone calls and was asked to provide him with a copy of what I was going to say on the phone. (I’d accuse him of being a micromanaging lunatic, but the hypocrisy would certainly strike me dead.) We’ve got the team thing figured out within these walls, but it’s a whole different matter at work. I’m taking this…

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but I’m not exactly sure what it’s going to be. We shall see.

118 thoughts on “Home home home.

  1. Good luck, Stephanie. And it must be so nice to be home, even with pounds of dirty laundry. I’m trying to be the first to comment. Hope I make it.

  2. Hi Steph – glad you are home safe! today we are buried under ten feet of snow (okay, inches, but still…) so I am staying home. I’ve been reading you book and find that I am a low-stasher. Interesting that there is a name for that! It’s been fun following your adventures! Good luck with this new teamwork assignment, hope you get to enjoy the joys of home for awhile! donna

  3. That is scrummy, yummy yarn..
    As to working together, I have my fingers crossed that it all goes well.
    I used to manage Ollie, my other half, and we spent a lot of time ‘debating’ who was right. Obviously I was. Thankfully, before our relationship took a serious turn, I found another job… phew.. 🙂

  4. I’m sure your family is very happy you are home. Good luck on the collaboration with Joe – it never seems to work for me and my husband. Glad the wonder publicist built some time into your schedule for you to collapse in a heap before the next whirlwind leg of the tour.

  5. Sounds intriguing, I couldn’t work with my OH. We’d kill each other!!
    Just finished Casts Off. Absolutely brilliant!

  6. Yeah, that laundry can be pretty insidious with the way it suddenly piles up. I no sooner get the last load out of the dryer, when I turn around and there are 3 more loads sitting in the “to be washed” hamper. I keep telling my family (there are 5 of us too) to stop wearing clothes, but the only one cooperating is Dear Daughter, who turns 4 today. **sigh**
    Anywho, I will keep my fingers crossed that work between you and Joe will go smoothly.
    Oh, and get some rest. You deserve it. 🙂

  7. Pretty yarn….but I have no idea what you might be planning to do with it. Maybe just keeping out of the way at the studio?
    I met Mr. Beth at work, and we still do that kind of work (writing/editing) together very well. Other kinds of cooperation take a lot more tact and sensitivity. (Hey, how did you know we started working on the bathroom again this weekend?)

  8. My mother and I cannot work together on anything. We are both Irish with mean matching Irish tempers and are experts at pushing each others’ buttons. The last project we attempted was simply hanging drapes. The fallout lasted for weeks, but the drapes are still hanging.

  9. Stephanie – I’m delurking after a year or two to say that I’m glad you made it home safely! What with all the crazy weather this weekend, I was afraid there’d be another sad (but funny for your readers) saga. I hope things go well at the studio…I’m sure the yarn will turn into something gorgeous! 🙂

  10. Ohhh my…you are a brave one! After all that traveling between book engagements and Sock camps..home to a mess (but clean kitchen floor..I am impressed!) and your going to work with Joe!!??! You sure you got enough sleep?! Ah well that pretty yarn will calm things down…welcome home Steph! Take lots of coffee!!!

  11. Working together is a challenge…but he should just be glad you’re ready/willing/able to walk out the door with him so soon after getting home. Dude, I probably would have needed to lounge in my robe until noon at least.
    The yarn is scrumptious and will be beautiful, no matter what it becomes.

  12. oh oh Sounds like you are going to have “””ONE”” of those days . Good Luck to you . My Dh and I don’t work well together either–forget it,. I’m having “”ONE”” of those days today . Started by opening the curtains to see WHITE CRAP at least 2 inches of it covering everthing in sight and at this time it is still cominmg down !! OH well can’t control Mother Naure said I so do some knitting. I want to knit a sweater and the pattern suggests a size 5 1/2 mm needle. I’ve done 4 inches with 30sts. with the size they suggest and another 4inches with a 5mm and and am now onto a 41/2mm.!!! Are there some people that should never knit something that calls for guage and just knit blakies , scarves and things that don’t have to have the guage right ? Oh my goodness I’m seriously wondering about this right now. Are there other people out there that have this trouble or am I the only one ? Futher more what do you do about it ? I’m almost ready to put this away in the stash except I have all this glorious Manos wool and just LOVE it to pieces.

  13. Hahahaha! And I thought I was the only one that witheld the desire to thump my man with the paint brush/phone book/object-nearest-to-my-grasp when we worked together! Not really – but sympathize wholeheartedly. Hope that yarn helps keep you sane… That and lots and lots of coffee – how are you even awake? Glad you’re back and so happy to hear about sock camp!

  14. *Organic thinker*? Genius!
    That both capitalizes on the latest green/environmental movement AND supports your in-the-moment (leave it until you absolutely can’t anymore) way of working.
    *Organic housecleaner*, anyone?

  15. I cannot imagine the amount of yarn it would take for me to even think about working with my husband. Love him love hime love him, but don’t know if I could work with him. Good Luck!!!!!!!

  16. I’m dropping in because I’m reading your new book & know that you & your fans will understand my sorrow today. I’m stuck at home waiting for the appliance repair(wo)man. My washing machine is broken & there are two completely knitted purses waiting to be felted. Last night the water heater went out also. Now there are 2 appliances between me and finished projects. I lost my temper when the appliance folks I scheduled to come today called & said, “we can be there Thursday.” I realized it would be silly to scream, “BUT I HAVE TO FELT!”, so I just said, “we need hot water.” No worries, I’m now waiting for another company to come between now and 1pm.
    I started the weekend with 1 purse, but then had to make another because “when the washer is fixed, I might as well have more items ready to felt”.
    One of the reasons I’m furiously knitting is that I promised my children I would knit 20 skeins of yarn before I bought anymore. I recently had to take back a dresser from the yarn &, as a result, it is roaming freely in the house. This is bothering everyone but me (and the cats). I feel oddly comforted surrounded by it, but everyone else would prefer a fiber-free dinner, fiber-free ironing board, fiber-free couches, etc.
    Thank you for your books. I feel somewhat normal – at least among knitters 🙂

  17. WHAT???? Make those girls do their own dang laundry!!! Once you hit age 12 at my house, you’re on your own for your clean undies!! (which, is only a small issue if you have teen boys…. but at some point they DO start caring about clean boxers)….

  18. WHAT???? Make those girls do their own dang laundry!!! Once you hit age 12 at my house, you’re on your own for your clean undies!! (which, is only a small issue if you have teen boys…. but at some point they DO start caring about clean boxers)….

  19. Glad to hear that you made it home safe and sound. It was good to have you here in Denver.
    I’ve discovered, in reading your book, that I’m a “traveller” and not a “tourist”… I like that!
    Working with Joe? Could you be doing a recording, perhaps?

  20. Glad your home safely 🙂
    In the studio with Joe – could you be putting your book to the audio so we can all hear it while driving/walking/commuting, etc….?

  21. Laundry…Tis the beast that never dies, ACK! But a clean kitchen floor?! Wow! Post a pic of that would you? I don’t really remember what that looks like anymore….I mean I try, you know…but…
    You mop, you scrub….then BAM! it’s all over…within moments…

  22. If it’s not a podcast or audio book, I’m poking myself in the eardrum with DPN’s because I shall be so disappointed that my ears will never recover…. it shall be on your head.
    Hmmmm that was supposed to be funny- but I think I’mm scaring myself- maybe too much cold medicine—-;) good luck working together- been there- done that- still married- it’s survivable;)

  23. Dear Harlot-
    Thanks for your books. I used to think I was the only one. I learned to knit in Houston, where you have to hunt hard to find other knitters. I have a sizeable stash that I am quite proud of. I also hoard neeldles, project bags, and knitting books. I live in the land of knitting. The neighbors are the best.

  24. I’m so glad there isn’t another airline saga for today– I had my fingers crossed! We’re awash here in the Hub but the Boston Marathon is underway and there may even be baseball in an hour or so … great excuses to stay home, watch others exert themselves on tv, and work on Second Sock (Adrienne Fong’s gorgeous Road to Hana pattern). As for laundry, my spouse (met at work, still together 20 years later because we DON’T work together anymore)is teaching daughter #1 (age 9) first steps of sorting and loading the washing machine!! Woo hoo.

  25. Hi Stephanie,
    Your latest book did arrive in the mail last Saturday…and I enjoy reading it a lot.
    Enjoy your time at home,
    Bette in Munich

  26. Maybe you should adopt our tactics. Whenever we give a talk of any kind Steve says, ‘I do the talking. Pat interrupts.’ Needless to say, I get in more words than he does. It works well!

  27. Glad you are home safe and sound! Good luck with Joe today…just remember to breathe. It will all turn out well in the end.

  28. that’s some purty, purty yarn that you have there. what’s the brand and colourway?

  29. Don’t tell me… you’re recording your books so we can listen to Harlot audiobooks?
    If this is true, and I can get a copy in the next, oh, DAY, I will not go insane at the most boring temp job ever. 🙂

  30. The clean kitchen floor begs only one question: what horrible thing happened to said floor that the only way to mask it was to mop it?

  31. You have to wonder what series of untoward events caused the floor to have been cleaned by the alive children. When I go home after a trip and something is clean, I know for sure that something else went terribly wrong.
    Pretty yarn. Get some rest, will you?

  32. I can’t wait to hear how the working together went. I can’t imagine myself and my significant other working together….we’re way too much alike! Just try to remember that needles are for knitting; not stabbing. It ruins their lovely points!

  33. So, what home improvement project did Joe surprise you with when you got home at 2am? Because after the bedroom, you deserve something.
    Though, I suppose the kitchen floor could count…
    Glad you got home ok and good luck working with Joe.

  34. My ex-husband and I did work together one summer. But then again, he’s now my ex. Yarn is gorgeous! That may be my favorite color in the whole universe! A beautiful small scarf?
    Julie

  35. Hubby needs a new office person. I have a crappy job situation, and could do the job at his office without blinking. We have such different ways of doing things, we won’t even consider it. We value the marriage too much to work together.
    Good luck working with Joe…

  36. Ha! Good luck with your day in the studio together! I’m really looking forward to *that* story. 😉
    So happy you’re home with your family again.

  37. Ha! Good luck with your day in the studio together! I’m really looking forward to *that* story. 😉
    So happy you’re home with your family again.

  38. I also just got home yesterday. Although I went the opposite direction (away from the family). So good to be home. And now my boyfriend is away for awhile, leaving me with lots of free knitting time.
    Underwater knitting…trippy.

  39. So glad to hear you are home safe once again.
    Do tell, what is that yummy pink yarn? It was love at first glance with that one!
    Good luck with the studio project!

  40. Glad you are home safe and sound. What beautiful pinks in that yarn!
    Good luck on your joint working-together project. My husband and I are both research scientists in the same lab. We work well together, for which we are grateful. Apparently, many of our friends are amazed that we can do this. I don’t really want to know why they’re amazed I’ve decided.

  41. Ah, yes, identifying a danger zone in a marriage is a good first step towards attempting to avoiding the carnage likely to ensue when you walk right into said danger zone. Good luck! I’m sure it will all be fine, really. You are wise to bring yarn. Welcome home.

  42. Ah, home time – congratulations! Hmm…”clean kitchen floor”. You know, I don’t know as I’ve ever seen my kitchen floor, there’s almost always a book between me and it. Maybe I should look…
    Boy, your community in Knitting is never satisfied, are we? Now we want audio??? (Oooooh, Yarn Harlot, YES!) Do let us know how the project turns out. I put a tape in to tape Knitty Gritty all week, lest I miss THE SHOW – imagine my delight to find that Cat (is it Borhi?) was on this morning doing toe-ups!

  43. Let me see if I got this straight – you have a mess in the house and despite it, the kitchen floor is clean?!? Hey, those are talented kids if they can mess the place up without, you know, dropping stuff on the floor . . .
    Nice yarn, can’t wait to see what it becomes!

  44. My hubby is a micromanaging lunatic (we do have inventories of our pantry, deep freeze and DVDs/VHS tapes . . . and the only reason that we do not have them for our LPs and CDs is that they are already in alpha order by artist and/or group). At one point there was a job available at my employment. He was going to apply for it until I told him that I would quit. QUIT. Arghhh. Just be careful what you do with your needles!

  45. You have no idea how totally, utterly, completely, truly, madly, deeply I understand how great it is to be home. I was gone for only one night last week, and I almost cried when I saw my bed again. (Also, mess? What mess?)
    I had to read that twice: you are going to *a* studio together, as opposed to going to *his* studio together. For a moment I thought you were coyly telling us that Joe once again had a separate place of business.

  46. Recommend against wallpapering together.
    The last time my kitchen floor was clean it was because there was a big messy spilly thing. I would think it best not to ask.
    Glad you’re home safe and sound.

  47. When we work together on DIY projects we are a team called “Brute Force and Ignorance” – I say “Well, how hard can this possibly be?” and he hits it with a hammer!
    We managed to build a serviceable deck with a pergola on using this tried and tested method last summer.

  48. Mmmmm, home! And you didn’t even give yourself a day off? Must be a pretty important or intriguing project … you tease, you.
    Beautiful, beautiful yarn.
    Oh, and my one remaining teenager does his own laundry. However, I still have me, husband, two little ones to take care of (including diaper laundry), so I don’t think I can tell the difference at this point!

  49. My situation is somewhat opposite of yours, my husband returns Thursday after being gone for 11 months – he’ll leave again in June to be gone for at least one year, he is a US soldier. Funny things happen while he’s home, like cabinets get rearranged to “make them more efficient” – then I can’t cook since I can’t find anything, the TV shows that my 3 teen-age children and I regularly watch become shows we “don’t watch,” just ask my husband. Oh, and the most important one – he’s always trying to figure out why his side of the closet is stacked floor to ceiling with plastic bins – hmmmmm, wonder what might be in those!

  50. My situation is somewhat opposite of yours, my husband returns Thursday after being gone for 11 months – he’ll leave again in June to be gone for at least one year, he is a US soldier. Funny things happen while he’s home, like cabinets get rearranged to “make them more efficient” – then I can’t cook since I can’t find anything, the TV shows that my 3 teen-age children and I regularly watch become shows we “don’t watch,” just ask my husband. Oh, and the most important one – he’s always trying to figure out why his side of the closet is stacked floor to ceiling with plastic bins – hmmmmm, wonder what might be in those!

  51. Man, I hope you A) survive (Joe, too), and B) get a chance to collapse into sleep for however many hours you need! Eventually. And yeah, let the girls do the laundry. Or rather, nag them into it. [g]
    Meanwhile, I have a real sticky note on my monitor, ordering me in large writing to remember to tune the cable to DIY and make sure it’s *on* Tuesday, come taping time. VCR is already set up. Y’gotta love trial cable subscriptions that span *just* the right time. If they’d aired your ep 5 months from now, the cable would be gone (cable TV is lovely, but broadband is more important), and I’d be missing it! (Maybe this was why the whole Trojan-dead Windows-unable to restore backup- new computer-broadband thing came up, eh? Hmm…)

  52. You have me pondering the possibility of a Yarn Harlot audio book. If that’s what it is, I think it’s a great idea because driving is one of the few activities where simultaneous knitting is impossible and I do a LOT of it. If I can’t knit during my commute I would be delighted to at least listen to you talk about about it.
    Would a subtle hint that throwing a load in Mr. Washie now and then greatly increases the probability of clean clothes have any potential for results in your house?

  53. My boyfriend and I rarely get a chance to work together, but we love it when we do. Luckily we don’t work in the same department, otherwise angry words and dismemberment *would* likely follow…
    Are you making books on tape versions of your books? That would be awesome.

  54. Hunh? You’re taking pointy sticks into a potential conflict situation?!? May I remind you that Martha noted that pointy sticks were banned in gaol? I think I paraphrase you reasonably accurately when you concurred with “you might poke someone”…
    Loved your travelling posts. Glad you’re home again – I can relate!

  55. I am glad you are home safe and sound. Good luck with the studio stuff! Thanks so much for coming to Sock Camp!

  56. Are you at least a little suspicious about why the kitchen floor is clean?

  57. Welcome home! I just got off the phone with my friend who was at camp. I got a 45 minute synopsis of the fun. Good luck working with Joe, I know my DH and work well in parallel, but not together.

  58. Mel’s right – laundry is insidious! And didn’t you teach the girls HOW to use Mr. Washy?!!
    I hope you’re doing readings of your own words – like Stuart McLean does on Vinyl Cafe. I’d buy THAT cd. And I wouldn’t be the only one!!! Glad you’re home safely.

  59. I can’t even tell you how good it felt to sink into my own bed last night (also at 2 AM – stupid east coast weather). Tonight, I pick up the dogs and will eat dinner with Aaron in my house (after returning from yoga). Although I do love a good vacation in which you get to hang out with ‘famous knitters’ (or ‘crazy knitters’, whatever) it’s always good to get back to homebase.

  60. As a lady who is working on a pretty huge project with their husband… I can tell you this: it can be done. 🙂
    Hope you get some good rest and cuddle time.

  61. Good luck! My husband and I work together all day, every day. We have an insurance agency and we are the only two employees. (No longer true….we recently hired our older son…talk about adding fuel to a fire!) Most days it works very well for us, but some days not so much. The interesting thing is that no matter how the day goes, I still have to go home with him.

  62. If my kitchen floor were suddenly clean? It would mean something very, very bad had happened just before that.

  63. I think my partner and I would either be forced to find a way to thrive, or kill each other. It would be highly dependent upon the soundtrack. If I had to work to the sound of Mike Oldfield all day, you can be sure there would be bloodshed. I mean, one or two songs, but the whole freaking discography? Screw the clean floor. Definitely bloodshed.
    I am so impressed that your floor is clean, though. Good work, team.

  64. Laundy is a given. Nobody does laundry while Mom is away. Clean Floor? hmmmmmmm, suspicious minds want to know WHY???
    I AM intrigued as to the studio trip. Good luck working together. DH and I work together, but its better we do it on separate floors of our dwelling. LOL
    PRETTY FIBER…hat perhaps?

  65. I don’t do projects with my hubby!! He thinks I’m hypercritical…but after a few poorly thoughtout projects (pictures hung defying gravity and the bathroom walls painted with the towels still present, etc.). I do it my way…I hire the help and he pays! LOL ;-} Glad to hear your home! Can’t wait to see what the yarn becomes. Tonight requires a hearty meal, a glass of something yummy, and a snooze of epic proportions.

  66. Pink? Really? Hmm.
    As for working with the man in my life? I hear ya. Best of luck.
    I bet there’s a great story in there and I look forward to reading it. As long as you both come out of it alive and healthy.
    Cheers!

  67. So is this project something that I can use to convince my husband that I NEED an IPod for my 40th bday this year? Good luck with the working together. The yarn is beautiful.

  68. We have decided that my partner and I are not allowed to paint together any more. She is *far* to organized about it and seems to think that you should be able to paint walls without wearing any paint. We got the living room done without injuring each other, but have decided that she’s on her own for painting the bedroom.
    Good luck to you and Joe. When he’s annoying you, just try to remember the reasons you married him. 🙂

  69. My husband & I are CPAs & in practice together. While we generally work well together, there have been moments where he’s lucky that I didn’t have a set of sharp dpns handy.
    Does Joe have a new studio? Will you get your office back?

  70. Just got home from working on project with husband. Good luck! Have decided we definitely don’t work well together. Am so looking forward to going to my “boot camp” workout in an hour – it’s better than taking the dpns to him! Love your posts.

  71. Work with the Hubby?? It can be done. Bob and I worked a fernery in Florida for 10 years by division of responsibility. He had the west 8 acres of leatherleaf and I had the south 6 acres of plumosus. If you can get this type of separation, it’s no porblem. In the same studio? Divorce territory!?! Thank you for the Camp Cokamamie posts, how do I join the sock club and get eligible to go to camp??? I was sooooo jealous!

  72. I am so glad to hear you’re safely home, hope you get a few days rest…good luck on that working with Joe thing….’organic thinker’… :^) love that.

  73. That looks very much like the pink Debbie Bliss Cathay that I just finished doing up into a top down raglan. It was so smooth – it seems to magnify any kind of uneveness in the stocking stitch. I am hoping that it will disappear in the wash…

  74. Glad you’re safely home and hope things go well co-working with Joe. How I wish I could have went to sock camp. Then go home and hug your kids-my kid graduated from VA Tech and her friends attend Virginia Tech. Some of our friends still haven’t heard from their kids. Knit a few stitches for us tonight.

  75. It is amazing that my husband and I have worked together for the last 20 years. We have scared plenty with our “explaining” ourselves to each other. But it always makes for peace in the house when we get home;)

  76. Deidra- Sending out prayers/thoughts/stitches for your child & all those at VA Tech.. Hugging my kids extra close tonight.

  77. Sensible woman! He may have fifty pounds (at least!) on you but at least you are going armed!
    It takes four people to make our relationship work – Me, Him, the handyman and the cleaner. This is not a marriage – it’s an orgy.
    It works for me!
    Actually, so does he – even though our working together risks breaching New Zealand’s nuclear free policy

  78. Oh good, I thought everyone else with a DH was in a state of blissy harmony working together. Woo! DH and I are generally okay with fairly low-interaction projects…anything else tends toward o.O…
    The yarn feels like socks, but you’ve only the two needles, looks like. Baby sweater? ^_^
    GLAD YOU’RE HOME SAFE!!

  79. Enjoy your respite at home and good luck with the team venture. The thing to remember about laundry is that it’s never done unless you’re naked, so don’t worry about the laundry. If everyone is alive and unmaimed after your extended tour then all went well.

  80. A day spinning yarns with colors of the nations
    And fragrant odors of well tended garden soil.
    The evening spent in banishment of floor dust,
    Toilet rings and spoiled laundry.
    A spouse coming home to see a shapelier disposition
    To the chaos of shelter.
    Abstruse words expended
    In service for those loved.
    Well traveled yarn passes around and through
    The stitches of all needles.
    What pattern to choose?
    A broken rib for me please.
    Another day that turned out well,
    With nits and pearls for all to wear.

  81. Oh, the bliss of being at home with one’s own personal variety of chaos!
    My guess concerning your errand with Joe is that the two of you will lease or buy a studio so he no longer has to work at home.
    Then he can start recording your audio books.
    Whatever it is, we wish you good fortune, as well as time to catch up on your sleep!

  82. Dear Harlot, I’m in Toronto right now for business and am hoping to sneak out early tomorrow to go to Lettuce Knit. Any way you’d be there!? (And why is it so cold?)

  83. Not to excuse Joe for asking for a script of what you’d say answering the phone, but you worry so much about saying arse, perhaps he worries about it too!

  84. I love coming home. I love being away more, though. But that moment where you’ve finally come home when you’ve been away for a long long time is priceless.

  85. Hope you enjoy what litte time you have at home before you are back on the road! The Sock Camp sounded like a blast! Keep on keepin’ on!

  86. Divorce was imminent after the attempt to install a pair of shutters-I am now officially the fix it person. I LOVED the bedroom make-over posts-that would so be me. I just love reading your posts period-can’t wait to see you in Petaluma in June!!

  87. Nope, not audio books. I think that Joe found an acceptible studio for his music making stuff! And you will again have an office and computer to yourself at home! Except for kittycat. (smiley face here)

  88. So glad to hear that you’re home for some R&R! It was great to see and hear you in Denver (thank you for signing my books – everyone who received one loves them), but your schedule sure sounded grueling. So the kitchen floor is clean, but the laundry is really bad…is there some connection there? I know that Alaskan (not just Anchorage) knitters are looking forward to seeing you in Anchorage, and hope we may be able to do a knit-in with you at one of our lovely parks. Your visit will be a fun and special occasion!

  89. I have worked for animal-related non-profits most of my adult life, and sometimes I have also taken on the second job of helping my husband run his business (tavern with live music). We split most duties pretty well, each doing what he or she is best at — you know, he did audio, I did paperwork and inventory … he hired cute bartenders, I hired competent ones … he let people slide, I was in charge of yelling at people and firing them and stuff like that. It is very, very hard for a blissfully “que sera” Pisces and an OCD Capricorn knitter to run a business together.
    P.S. — Great poem, Peta! Love it!

  90. If you ever want a vacation with your husband, think about one that a couple we know recently went on: You go to a sailing school for three days and learn to sail, and then you get a sailboat and take it out on the ocean together for five days, working together as a team to keep it floating and going in the right direction. Fun!
    On the ninth day, you file divorce papers (included in the package price, I hope).

  91. I must know what Rose Quartz STR is! Single Trailing Rose? Scrumptuously Terrific Rayon? Spectacular To Realize? It is beautiful! Is the yarn itself a secret?

  92. ::: perk :::
    Podcast? Audio recording? Either would be brilliant. Harlot Radio, anyone??
    In the meantime, I’ve got great plans to watch a certain Knitty Gritty episode on my DVR tonight.

  93. Stephanie, I watched you on Knitty Gritty today! It was wonderful! You were calm and rational and intelligent and clever and you knit so beautifully, I love the way you wrap the yarn. Your fingernails looked very charming too! I thought it was just first rate. I’m so glad I got to see it! Yay for the Harlot! Long live the Harlot!
    Rowan

  94. I think the pink STR is heading into being a delectable lacy garment that will be an asset to both you and Joe – I’m thinking a teddy or such, but in Toronto you’ll probably need knee sox with it.
    and you’re in a studio because you’re singing backup with the band!
    Yeah, right…
    Want to go wine tasting when you’re in California? Need a ride from SFO to Petaluma?

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