Squid Knits

As you know, I recently started at a new (to me) school. This is a school with a whole lot of potential and ... no knitting club. A few of ...

Yesterday was all about purling and trouble shooting mistakes. About a dozen young people came out, grabbed stash and left, leaving me with...

Yes, we have MEN. Young men, but men all the same. The number of male knitters at my school jumped from one to three in the span of half a...

While I was inculcating 3 more newbies, and teaching cabling, purling and sock knitting to some "older" knitters, a few young ladi...

Theoretically there should not be an edition of "Teens Knitting" this week since I plan on shoving all of the teens in the buildin...

I have been fighting a cold for a week now and as colds go, it has not been too bad, makes me sound much worse then I actually feel. Got th...

My current principal is a guy. Like the rest of my principals, he supports the knitting club and thinks the whole thing is a bit odd but c...

My day was dragging. People were peppering me with requests -- mostly reasonable, but all while I was trying to count to 34. Over and over...

Last week my assistant decided that I needed some fun, and made a big push to recruit knitters. She made up colorful posters and had them p...

Yesterday was report card day. As soon as one of "my" kids (be it scholar or knitter) walks into my office on report card day, I ...

Yes, the first boy joined us this week and took off like a shot! He already knew how to crochet so knitting came quickly. I got him castin...

Kids have been asking about the knitting club for a couple of weeks but, as always, I was a little slow getting things going. Still, all sa...

My feet hurt. Has something to do with last days at school and constant patrols / events. Yes, even at 6 a.m., my feet and legs are still ...

Earlier today a teacher noticed a drip in his classroom. The leak was traced to ... wait for it ... my radiator. When given a choice of n...

On Monday and Tuesday I work a suit. A "proper" suit with a skirt, hosiery and heels. The theory was that this is more professio...

The last two days have been beset by Murphy's Law. Nothing horrible happened, just annoying stuff that, when added to the Quality Revie...

For those of you who still think that my squirrel stories are tall tales, I present proof in form of photographic evidence. Here you see tw...

I miss my students. Mid-year Regents exams began last Tuesday and the kids only came in to take the few exams they had to take. I saw a f...

The mittens are in the mail in packaging guaranteed to embarrass little sis (she is using her sorority house as a mail drop). The Muppet Fur...

Thank you, KnittyOtter! See all this stuff? It came yesterday, courtesy of our favorite Otter. See that box full of yarn? It was only ha...