When I was a child, there used to be some fabulous spider webs under the barn at my home. When the morning dew caught th…

When I was newly married, my grandmother gave me an old platter that had been hers. It may have been her mother's before…

Lots of knitters love their cats so much that they willingly tolerate their pets tangling yarn and sabotaging their proj…

When a friend needed a birthday present for her hipster sister, she described some ideas she had and asked if they could…

I love so many Scottish things, (especially my dear husband who would look so "studly" in a kilt, if only he would!). Th…

The tiny black-capped chickadee is the state bird of Maine. It is very sociable and energetic, appearing almost acrobati…

When I was a child we lived in a wonderful old farm house in Maine. The heat from the wood furnace in the basement scarc…

Lobster is considered the "King of Seafood", and the fishing industry in Maine is second only to the timber industry. Th…

When Mr. and I returned to our home state of Maine in 2012, one of the things we began to notice was how the lupines had…

For years I've been knitting a traditional version of the Norwegian Star hat. By playing around with that chart and exte…

In Maine, the autumn leaves are at their peak of beauty in October. The colors and designs in this hat were chosen to ce…

It's Spring! The daffodils are blooming and my friends are beginning to put some pansies in the ground.When a friend was…