Entropy is a fact of life. Stuff wears out, decays, or is lost. We crafters and those who receive our oh-so-generous gifts are not immune to this. Still, it can hurt a bit when something we’ve made is destroyed or lost. I would say however, that the manner in which… Read More »The How Matters
I’ve been knocking out some spinning so far this week. My rainbow gradient is finished (well, aside from a wash), and I think it looks fabulously sunny and summery: I still need to count up the yardage, but I think I’ve got somewhere between 400-500 yards total. At around 200g,… Read More »Flavors of Bright
It’s day three of a heat wave in the land of no A/C, with daytime temps in the mid-90s/mid-30s and at night we don’t reach our low of 70/20-ish until around 4am. I am shutting up the house by 9am each day, and kitties don’t get more than 5min on… Read More »Blarg… so hot
After my virtual class on how to design my own color palette for the Shetland Muse hat, I wasted very little time in selecting and ordering yarn. And “by very little” I mean I’d picked them out and ordered within days. The color design sheet I’d made served me in… Read More »Sheepses
After flying through the socks for my aunt, and then working at consistent and fairly rapid pace to complete TheEnablers’ Zauberballe socks… I am working a bit more slowly on my own pair. I’m getting a few rounds done here and there, and they aren’t sitting idle for more than… Read More »So Many Fluffies, so little time
Over the weekend I finished up the last of the singles for my rainbow gradient! I took rather a lot of photos, but I’ve picked out just three for you to admire their colorfulness in their little turtle shapes. I enjoy how, when I flip them over, I can get… Read More »Six Little Turtles
I took two classes at Unravel over the weekend on Baltic knitting techniques, both taught by Aleks Byrd, a knitwear designer and illustrator with family roots in Estonia. The first was on Saturday on Baltic Braid techniques from Estonia and Latvia. I’d heard of Latvian braids before, and even did… Read More »Weekend Trip to the Baltics
This past Thursday was the start of the Farnham Malthings Unraveled Virtual Festival. I kicked it off with a class by Felicity Ford called “Sunsets & Sheep: Recolouring a Stranded Colourwork Design – Felicity Ford” which said it would build “confidence around changing the colours of a stranded colourwork design.… Read More »Sunsets, Sheep, and Shades
It has been a busy two weeks… and last weekend didn’t get me much of a leg up on this past week. That’s because it was spent getting vaccinated, and recovering from getting vaccinated. My husband and I both had our appointments for our first shots on Saturday. His was… Read More »Whew, still here
It’s been a fairly cool and rainy spring, which is OK. Northern Germany tends to stay cool well into spring, and we needed rain after a couple years of drought. But still, some days have felt more like February never quite left, than like it was late April or early… Read More »Impeccable Timing
