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My friend Maggie introduced me to Hitty. Hitty is a sweet little doll and main character in the book Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. I haven’t gotten hold of the book yet, but from what I picked up Hitty starts out as a bit of mountain ash and is carved by a family friend in [...]

I had another birthday a few days ago. It was thoroughly okay. And more socks. They look more or less like the other socks that I’ve already finished. I did the longer cuffed socks first, now I’m just trying to squeeze out a few pairs of the shorties out of the skein ends. There is [...]

…and more to come. I think. I haven’t exactly been very definite lately. I seem to work best in bursts. After a stint of yarnlessness (it was really not pretty) I went through a bit of a knitting related dry spell. Actually, if I hadn’t been for the knitting this week I would have probably [...]

I promise I’ll follow up on the spring rolls soon. Cross my heart and hope to knit with nasty scratchy acrylic. But tea cozies always get me excited (obviously, I don’t get out too much.) Matt is moving his studio back to the house, which means that the space I appropriated for sewing had to [...]

Please don’t ask me where salad rolls end and spring or summer rolls begin, because I have no clue. I really don’t. I just like them, because they taste good and don’t make me feel bad about myself, and I thought since it’s quickly warming up that it would be good to share something that [...]

I used to think that saying meant something about actually stitching the fabric of time, and I had no idea that it referred to actual mending. I guess I’ve always been an abstract thinker, or a very twisted literal thinker. We’re still waiting for the roof to dry out enough so that we can repair [...]

Our house is from the 40′s– we sort of expect things to go wrong from time to time. What we don’t expect is for everything to go wrong, all at once, all the time. So there’s just a bit of water damage in the bathroom. Just a little. I mean, it’s not like we have [...]

I know everyone says not to apologize for not blogging, nor blog about having not blogged. I could make excuses. I could cringe and wait for criticisms. I could simply ignore the fact that I’ve once again let my self imposed obligations fall to the wayside. I could apologize. All of the above are more [...]

Candy. Sushi. Candy + Sushi = candy sushi. I’ve wanted to do this since spotting this Make: How to. I made the rice crispy treat base, but everything else was a group effort with the kids right down to the roe eggs and oddly placed jelly & marshmallow frogs on the board. Lexi even added [...]