There were 28 inches of snow on the ground when I went to sleep last night, and it’s still snowing now.  Sideways.  It’s snowing sideways in Virginia. I love the Seussian properties things take after a heavy snow.  I particularly love the snow gnome hats my little solar garden lights grow.  These are the biggest […]

I’m now so sucked into playing with the fancy new camera that I am not happy with any of the photographs I’m taking.  Any of them.  And yet, I want to document things I’m making and seeing.  So I’ll suck it up as best I can. The leaf-lace shawl is blocked and ready for my […]

A small locker-hooked rug finished: A bug new, hooked rug begun: I’m using leftover and recycled yarns  for this, which is great fun. And, finally, a huge linen scrap quilt top finished: Excuse the flash and stray threads and skewed seams . . . Hot damn, am I glad this is done.  It’s 103″ on […]

Like many spinners, I have fiber I don’t intend to spin.  Some of it is stuff I used to like to spin but don’t anymore, some of it is felting fiber that I haven’t felt the need to felt, and some of it is raw wool that I only have little bits of here and […]

As I mentioned, I made some socks for me; And I made some socks for Scott (which are much bigger than mine, despite appearances,  and also have little clothes-pin dents, which please and annoy me by turns) ;  And I received a gorgeous clapotis Ruadhan made for my birthday, and which I cannot stop wearing; […]

I am happy to say that Yarrow has gotten a clean bill of health from his vet.  His cone is off, his stitches are out, and he’s off the junk. Before his emergency, I was in a serious quilt-prep stage  This is what I’m working with I got a bunch of Tula Pink fabrics from […]

When last we spoke, I mentioned how worried I was about my trouble-making cat.  Yarrow is healing well and getting into lots and lots of trouble already, even with a (kitty-sized) fentanyl patch, three doses of another opiate every day, and what must be a rather upsetting wound and, er, absence of an old friend.  […]

I know most of my ABC-along posts have been more philosophical, but right now I’m just excited that this is done!  I made this bag entirely from things I had on hand.  I came up with a general design and then jumped in.   I felted a bunch of sweaters, none of which were repairable, […]