In addition to tallying up and recording all of the pertinent information about my yarn and fabric stashes, I’m trying to finish a bunch of projects that I had started but never finished. I’m not promising to finish them all before I start any new ones, but having a spreadsheet of all of my works […]

I got myself the sort of (quite early) birthday present I always want, but would never ask for.  There’s just no way to send someone out to find the perfect handmade journal for me, you know? It was made by Kreativlink on Etsy. I got one of the larger format ones, since I like a […]

Socks for Scott, in Sanguine Gryphon Eidos.  The colorway is Simonides.  I improvised the stitch pattern, and really like how these turned out. A modified Baby Surprise Jacket for our friends’ baby CW, who is still in utero. That’s Sundara sock yarn in “Live with Harmony,” which seems auspicious. His current due date is Scott’s […]

All over the place, really.  How’s about I tell you about all sorts of things, in whatever order I remember them,  as I would over drinks in person?  Feel free to interrupt, and let me know when you need another round. I’ve spent the last couple of weekends crafting with friends from our living history […]

First there was Maryland Sheep and wool, for which I made a few dozen bags.  At the last second.  With feeling (and excellent audio books spurring me along). Most of the bags found happy homes, but I do have some orphans I should list.  I finished by the skin of my teeth and took off […]

Right, so, I’ve been working away, thinking in terms of modularity and mobility.  I decided to make an afghan as my project for Clara’s wool-along, since that seems like the best way to unify so many different wools.  My February square (yes, February.  I know)  is knitted from Cormo that I dyed in a crockpot.  […]

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 […]

This is how we’re starting. Photos, unmanipulated, as I sort.  The sorting will be no small feat–I’m going to have to buy an external hard drive if I want my laptop to continue to function.  The hard drive in this puppy is just too small. If these are the only really good photos I get […]

New hedgerow socks for my Mom, who is healing from surgery and gearing up for chemo and radiation.  The Frija is officially a hit with my Mom, who loves the color and the yarns’ exquisite softness. The hedgerow madness continues.  I finished these socks and needed movie theater knitting, so I grabbed the leftovers from […]