Hacer Santa Fe

When my friend Becca and I were weighing our options for summer travel, we had two strong contenders: a short cruise or taking the train to see friends in New Mexico. We chose the latter. Not only was the train cheaper, but we may not always have the option to take a train to see […]

Knit ATX

Austin, Texas is a happy place for me. I have family there. Some of my favorite food places are there. You don’t know true luxury until you wake up and walk to phenomenal breakfast tacos. And even though the weather there is usually much milder than back home, Austin has no shortage of stellar local […]

Betsy’s Yarn and Tea

I know knitting and crocheting are having a hey day right now (and we love it!), but that means quite a few crafters don’t know what it was like to walk into a local yarn store in the early 2010s (my hey day!). The stores had every type of worsted weight yarn imaginable. Ribbon yarns […]

Knitcessities

A lot of things coming back to my Disney College Program lately! When I lived in Orlando in 2016, there were no local yarn shops. There was a needlepoint shop that had an indie dyer come in on the third Saturday of the month, but as I was working in housekeeping at the time, it […]

The Quarter Stitch

I just spent the most wonderful week in New Orleans with a couple of friends for a “spring break” trip (they are teachers, and it was their spring break). We stayed at the edge of the French Quarter, so we could walk around with adult beverages and back to our hotel. Imagine my surprise, in […]

StevenBe

I had another wonderful weekend of dancing in Minneapolis, Minnesota this past weekend, and I once again took some time away from the dance floor to check out a much-anticipated local yarn shop! I first met StevenBe over a decade ago at the National Knit and Crochet show, that also happened to be in Minneapolis. […]

Nimblefingers

I think I am finally fully recovered from my swing dance weekend in Houston. That’s not to say that I didn’t have a blast and learn a lot (I also got to rock my new skirts). It was just so, so much dancing. I barely even had energy to knit by the time I got […]

An Arkansas Adventure

The storied Bachelor/ette trip is complete! We spent the weekend in Bentonville, Arkansas, which was very cool. One of the groomsmen and I had to discuss it, because we couldn’t put into words what is so cool about Bentonville. There’s a lot to do there, including a lot of cultural and active pastimes. There’s a […]

Snips of Thread Revisited: The Yarn Pantry

Emma isn’t the only one who traveled to far-flung yarn shops in February. Her mom, Cyndi, also managed a stop at an old favorite with new digs. She agreed to share her thoughts on the updated store: A recent visit to my niece’s house to catch up with my sister took us to Humeston, Iowa—a […]