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Mason-Dixon Knitting
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"The Nation's Leading Bi-Regional Knitting Blog" - Ann's husband <img src="http://www.masondixonknitting.com/masondixon_bullet.gif"> "Kay sure is wasting a lot of time on this" - Kay's husband
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Why I Love Blogging, Chapter 1,312

Dear Ann, Weve "amen"-ed each other many times on this principle, but it bears repeating: the best thing about blogging is the comments. You never know exactly what you are going to get, bu...

19 h ago

Winning!

Dear Ann, So, today is what I call Monday Plus One, and I did the random drawing. The winners of a copy of Wearwithall are Mary (whose email address starts with "goodmary") and Angela (whos...

22 may 12

Giveaway: "A Truly Useful Book"

Dear Ann: Im sitting on a pile of unprocessed knitting and life experience that is about 3 stories high. Every time I open up the "post to blog" page, I stare dumbly at the screen. Where to...

18 may 12 1 person likes this

Palate Cleanser

Dear all, I cant thank you all enough for your incredibly helpful comments regarding the intervention. So much similar experience--you have all helped put this into perspective for me, and Im so grat...

08 may 12

Undelivered Handknit

Dear everyone, Thank you all for checking in, wondering where we have been these past couple of weeks. Kay has blasted off on a mission to the land of Liberty prints, pet rabbits named Iman, and much...

03 may 12

Bowling Avenue: Friday the 13th Update

Dear Kay, I am VERY sorry to be so out of touch, but there are times in life when events overtake everyday life. For everyone out there who has a complicated family, all I have to say is: HANG...

13 apr 12

Dye, Dye Enu

Dear Ann, Passover is upon the House of Kay. My brisket is a-braising, my dried fruit compote is a-stewing, and my Streits matzohs are as dry and boardy as the boxes they come in. My favorite culinar...

06 apr 12

Gone Walkabout

Dear Ann, Whereve I been? Here, there and everywhere, with frequent virtual visits to Florence, Alabama. This is all the fault of someone Im supposed to be teaching how to knit, who instead has been ...

03 apr 12

Tyler Speaks!

Dear Kay, Just wanted to share yesterdays NPR interview with one of my favorite writers, Anne Tyler. (My friend Joe sent this along--at this point, Joe functions as an oracle, because he will send me...

31 mar 12

The Last Day of Winter

Dear Kay, Oh, what a beautiful mornin! (Sing it, Hugh Jackman!) That ol weepin willa is laughin at me! I love springtime so much. Im a sucker for it. The redbuds, whitebuds, chickweed, tulips--you ca...

19 mar 12

The Winner Has Two-Year-Old Twins

Dear Kay, Exotic exotic exotic. I have never read so much exoticism as in the comments everyone left in response to the little contest to win a copy of the BOWLING AVENUE proofs. China, Tortola, New ...

10 mar 12

Southernness: The Oxford American versus Garden & Gun--PLUS A GIVEAWAY!

Dear Kay, Thanks for all the questions about the Garden & Gun magazine now currently residing in a busted window of the kitchen. You all got me thinking about that magazine, which got me to think...

07 mar 12

Near Miss, Four Hits, and a Torcon 9 Craft Project

Dear Kay, Yesterdays tornadoes apparently filled a months quota on tornadoes for the United States, awful in every way. We in Nashville were lucky to dodge the worst of it, though we did get a midaft...

03 mar 12

Blankets on a Hill

Dear Ann, Tuesday nights knitting party (erm, "class") in Nashville was so dang fun. One sweet moment for me was when Yolanda showed me an album of photos that Liz Thomas had taken of log c...

01 mar 12

International Standard Book Number 978-0-9852100-0-7

Dear Kay, All right, ALL RIGHT. You have now matched my six-part series on geothermal HVAC installation with a six-part series on the making of Honey Cowls. UNCLE! I GIVE UP! YOU WIN! I solemnly prom...

24 feb 12

My Funny Cowlentine

Dear Ann, Lots to report and little time (I have to get dolled up for the Carnival of Love tonight--tickets available at the door! Fried foods! Sexy people! Good cause!), so here goes. New Cowl In To...

14 feb 12

Baby Im Cowlin For You

Dear Ann, Lets start with a mood-elevating YouTube shall we? Every time this song shuffles up on my iPod, I cant stop smiling. Makes a girl want to move to Nashville, break in a pair of Frye boots, a...

07 feb 12

Bring in the Cowls

Dear Ann, Yesterday was a crystalline example of a minor upside of the glaciers melting--60 degrees in NYC on February 1. So I went for a walk on the High Line, and posed for a picture in my personal...

02 feb 12

The Cowl Channel

Dear Ann, At what point should I feel embarrassed about the cowl output around here? Never? Is never OK with you? I simply am enjoying a pattern that rings all my bells at this moment. There is nothi...

30 jan 12

How To Honey Cowl

Dear Ann, So. Youve made a Honey Cowl. Or two or three. (Thats my third one on the needles up there, in Madelinetosh Tosh DK, Winter Wheat.) You want to know: how are the kids wearing them this year?...

25 jan 12

When the Moon Is In the Seventh Cowl

Dear Ann, O Baby! What a darling baby is Woodie. And how efficient were you to get her cardi made while shes still small enough to have to roll up the sleeves? My sympathies on Boreals second sleeve....

20 jan 12

Solid-Gold Midwinter Survival Tips

Dear Kay, As the bleak midwinter descends, Id like to share some solid-gold survival tips that get me through. Tip No. 1: Humidity. Go to the drugstore, past the bunion aids and the section known as ...

20 jan 12

Sweetest Baby in a Small Sweater

Dear Kay, Please join me in welcoming small Woodie to the world of hand knits. My first grandniece dutifully models the teeny cardigan she got from Great-Aunt Ann. To be clear: while I would like to ...

18 jan 12

The Most Haunting Books: A List

Dear Kay, Well THAT was fascinating. I have long known that the comments on this blog are more interesting than the entries. This is particularly obvious when you look through the response to the que...

13 jan 12

Beach Knitting Blowup, and a Contest

Dear Kay, Lets begin with a view of a seaside paradise, because todays story is just terrible--a real heartbreaker and by heartbreaker I mean mildly irritating knitting experience. Thats Chalk Sound ...

05 jan 12

Pull From The Tangle

Dear Ann, A few years ago, I went to the Fashion Institute of Technology to hear our cutest knitting heroes, Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably, speak. As you know, one of Kaffe and Brandons super power...

03 jan 12

Holiday Greetings!

Dear Kay, As the holidays are upon us, heres a very random list of things that are making me smile. 1. Josephs bar mitzvah. Kay, seeing your 13 year old standing up in front of a huge crowd, doing th...

23 dec 11

Vote with Your Dollars

Dear Kay, I have GOT to stay away from the Twitter. Yesterday, Julia lobbed out a link to a pattern that she declared to be a redemption of the dreaded snowflake sweater. I instantly investigated, be...

12 dec 11

Brendas Blizzard of Snowflakes

Dear Kay, Snowflakes snowflakes snowflakes. Thats what Im thinking about. A couple of weeks ago, cruel, merciless Erin tweeted about crocheted snowflakes. Her Tweet sent me into an instant nostalgia ...

09 dec 11

Mrs. Shaynes Adventures in Geothermal, Part 6

Dear Kay, Before we begin, I would like everyone to fire up the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing "Hallelujah" as the soundtrack to this blog entry. Because, honey, on Tuesday, November 29, a...

06 dec 11

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