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The locals tell me that it can snow all the way into June. June. (Sob.) Snow. (Sniffle.) Get this– next month, on the 3rd, a yarn shop is going to open up here in town. I’m so excited. The only way I could possibly be more excited about a yarn shop opening would be if [...]

My dear friend Lisa Castano hand-dyed some gorgeous merino roving for me last year, I got this lovely single from it. Lisa is in Gresham Oregon and she does a fantastic job of handpainting rovings in small batches as well as handblending different mixes of fibery goodness. Eager to get some knittable goodness and to [...]

No one is going to get that bastardized reference are they? Moving right along then. In keeping with my current thing of making creatures out of garments– sock frogs! Frogs made of socks. One of these days I’m actually going to get around to making a classic sock monkey. My soft sculpting techniques need some [...]

This little guy started life as a pair of knit gloves. Usually I find stretch gloves perfectly useless as gloves but I haven’t made a softie in a long time and the idea of a maneki neko was way too tempting to resist. The paw holding the fish is the thumb of the glove, and [...]

I finished this hat sometime in late November I think. I’m not sure, life was kind of hectic. You know, in the way that being doused in gasoline and offered a lit cigarette is kind of hectic. Maybe it was mid-December. Okay. I should say that I finished knitting it, weaving in the end and [...]

There is so much snow. Oodles and gobbles of snow. Snow everywhere. On everything. Cold cold snow. Lots of it. It’s a knitters freakin’ paradise, or it would be if I could find a proper LYS out here. I’m pretty much stuck to Micheal’s in Klamath Falls for yarnage. Let’s just take a moment to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]