We haven’t buckled and turned on the heat yet (well, except 30min in my office only that one super cold rainy day early in October). This is thanks to three things: 1) good insulation, 2) being cheap (me, not my husband), and 3) good woolies. We’re both clad in nice… Read More »Woolie Chic
A couple years ago I knit “It’s Not About the Hat” to learn a way of managing long floats (in preparation for the blanket I finished this September). At the end of it I knew how to manage the floats and I had a hat. But it wasn’t MY hat.… Read More »My hat! On TV!
One of the last things my husband and I packed up before leaving was our artwork. We both come from art loving families, and each brought a fair bit of artwork to our marriage, whether it was pieces collected by family members over the decades, or (especially on my side),… Read More »Home Decor, Orange and Pink
The last two days saw two major textile related milestones. 1) Our washing machine was installed. Folks, we have been without a washing machine since we moved into our apartment at the end of May. Unlike in the states, where apartments come with a washing machine, a shared laundry room,… Read More »Critical Textile Update
So in my first post I posed three packing questions: “What to take?”, “What to destash?”, and “What to leave?” I answered the first one and the last one, but didn’t cover destashing! Why not? Frankly, in the end I didn’t have much to destash. Either I am: A) Incredibly… Read More »What to Destash + Books
