Cliffs of Moher – some background On Sunday I finished my Cliffs of Moher needle felt piece. I’ll show it to you in a bit, but first I wanted to give you some background on the Cliffs of Moher and what they mean to me. As I believe I’ve mentioned… Read More »Change in Approach
Over a couple days this past week I got around to washing my Barn2Yarn skeins to set the twist. Because the weather was not conducive to hanging the drippy skeins to dry outside, I did half one day, and half the next so I could hang them in our small… Read More »A Discerning Thief
I set aside my cardigan at the end of the week to pick up the Through the Trees cowl again. The weather is more consistently cold, and I thought it might be nice if TheEnabler was able to wear his cowl this winter. The lace was starting to feel a… Read More »Light Through the Trees
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
