Sorry for being a bit radio silent for the past week! I really have no good excuse lined up this time… My fingers have not been idle though – they just haven’t been typing blog posts. I’ve been working away at my Oppositional top and I’ve made it to the… Read More »An Unpopular Opinion
I think many of us have fantasies about being somebody we aren’t, or certainly we did as children*. Whether ballerina, astronaut, or dinosaur, we all had make-pretend. My brother justified his toddler-biting-people phase with the explanation that he was a crocodile. Or maybe it was an alligator. My sister was… Read More »Badass or Total Dork?
In various old fairy tales, a “year and a day” is an important length of time – whether it’s the length of a magic curse, how long somebody has to complete a task, or simply the accepted length of time to remain in mourning (which is much more humane than… Read More »A Year and a Day
Friday night my sliced finger was sufficiently healed that I was able to switch from a giant gauze wrapped finger which, even as it was less tender, got in the way of knitting, to one wrapped in a normal (if slightly large) bandaid. And thus, I could recommence knitting. Thank… Read More »Knitting again
I’ve been working more on my needle felt of the stream view. I started building up the first layer of colors yesterday, working around the edges first. It doesn’t have a traditional back-middle-foreground to work towards, and working from the edges seemed a good way to start blocking out color… Read More »I guess it’s a good carpet
I doubt anybody is going to conclude that 2020 was a wonderful year on the whole. And most of us are looking forward to a 2021 in which we start to turn things back around towards better times. And it had one last final infuriating, stupid, and frustrating thing to… Read More »So Long 2020
I’ve mostly been working on the cowl this past week. At this point I have the pattern memorized – once I was a dozen or so rows in it became possible to see what the next row should be based on the previous ones. I’m about two repeats into the… Read More »Quick update
Back in November I preordered the Winter 2020 PomPom Quarterly magazine because the previews for several patterns looked really interested. I received it a few weeks ago. I think I also mentioned I did a little stash toss and reorganization a few weekends ago. In the process, I came across… Read More »Through the Trees – Cast On
On Sunday, we had our family needle felt session, with Cecilia Ho from FelTastic Fashion as our instructor. My husband comes from a large extended family – his mother is one of six children, and he has quite a few cousins. They are a family with a fairly strong creative… Read More »Family Holiday Felt Session
After finishing my Modular knit blanket last week and realizing that I have a growing pile of unblocked knits… I felt I should do something about it. So rather than rushing to cast on the next exciting thing, I diligently set about weaving in ALL THE ENDS. For the blanket,… Read More »Block Party
