I’m sprung, girls.  There are no two ways about it.  I am in love, and that means I am in trouble.  And this time, it’s trouble squared. Yarrow is gorgeous, but evil.  And Speedwell is gorgeous (this picture does not do him justice), but evil. These two are hell on paws.  Fur bags full of […]

You’ll have to excuse my lack of blogging recently.  I’ve been on vacation for the last week or so, burning through leave at my old job before I start my new job.  The Vernal Equinox was here a couple of days ago, and it really feels like I’m staring at tons of new beginnings, and […]

Kiri, in Elann Baby Cashmere, Tapestry Blue.  Knit on US size 7 needles Pony Rosewoods, Addi Naturas, and Susan Bates Quicksilver needles in that order.  More or less.  The Quicksilvers kept driving me nuts because I hate the metal-on-metal sound, and the Naturas kept driving me nuts because that little divot at the join was […]

Kiri is knitted, washed, and pinned out on a sheet in a pet-less room.  Tomorrow morning, I expect some good palatal double Ls and some fine clear diphthongs from all of you after I weave in the ends.  Halla-fricking-Lleu-Llaw-Gyffes-yeah. And, as if that weren’t good enough, I have reached near-completion in my new studio.  I […]

Can’t talk: watching curling! I am writing during commercial breaks.  Running up and down the steps over and over again so you, Gentle Reader, don’t think I’ve fallen off the planet.  Really, I’ve fallen into a long-awaited winter.  An Olympic Winter, no less.  I’m absolutely chuffed.  It snowed!  It finally snowed! Kayo needs snow.  And […]

Juno asked if I like brown.  You know what kind of brown I like, Juno?I like Boyne river-reed brown And mini-horde of amber brown And oak griffin brown And ladder-back chair brown And elk, doe, and buck-skin brown And birdseye maple brown And birchbark brown And rust brown But I love Kayo brown above all […]

So, getting back to normal here at the Mean-Skuta Manse.  And for us, “normal” needs a prefix. Somehow I accidentally agreed to be in a calendar (fully dressed, get your minds out of the gutter) some friends are putting together.  I’m normally pretty camera shy, having experienced both a shutterbug step-Dad and, well, stalking ( […]

Apart from the whole car accident and its attendant drama, this is what we’ve been up to round here. First, Scott gave me an amazing present: If I remember correctly, he gave it to me on the Solstice.  But I could be eliding dates, because my brain is still a bit scrambled.  That, my lovelies, […]

Scath: is still alive and purring, though terribly noncommittal about his plans for January.  He’s thinner than I would prefer; a bit too interested in my sock yarns and their new handmade Virginia Jenkins basket; quite sick of having pills shoved down his throat; and has been well and truly photographed by my Step-Dad: he […]

So, my Aunt Judy’s birthday is coming up.  Judy asked for a felted purse like the one I made for my Mom a while back.  Since I’m trying to figure out how to make these bags more efficiently so that Tuatha can sell them, I figured I should go the knitting machine route with this […]