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I bought Barbara Schoenoff’s In the Style of Queen Anne pattern as a birthday gift to myself (two birthdays ago, at least, maybe more) and although I’ve admired it greatly I haven’t gotten around to giving it a go until now. I don’t know why I have this freak-outedness that goes with doing someone else’s pattern [...]

I ran out of poly-fil. I managed to exhaust what was left making persimmon shaped bunnies in my attempt to use up all of my remaining holiday fabric. Using a whole bag of poly-fil is quite the accomplishment for me, because I’m pretty sure that like wire hangers and those little plastic bread bag clips if [...]

Mod Podge is miracle stuff. Especially since I’m convinced that somewhere encoded in my dna is an imperative to never throw away a wooden box. I’m pretty sure that since this box had an ugly fish (now obscured by gesso) design on the top that it bore dried and horribly out of date smoked salmon from my [...]

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 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 [...]

At least pictures going back to mid-2007 thus far. I have much more to do. And some pictures that appear to have not made the transfer, but most (at least until Jan 2006) seem to be alive and well. And I’ve been knitting! Possibly the ugliest socks I’ve made to date. The yarn is Lion [...]

There was a time when it took less than an hour to make Lexi a pair of socks. Baby feet are that small. Now she’s a big girl, and at the end of this summer she’ll be a whopping 5 years old. Now it takes a dedicated evening to come up with almost a pair [...]

Law of mohair #142: Intentional ripping of mohair from knitted article in progress will be prevented by the innate ability of mohair to suck and tangle into itself. Law of mohair #143 All mohair articles larger than 2 cubic inches knitted on metal circular needles will reject said needles when the article is in a [...]

We have an older F100 Ford pickup truck. This isn’t a brag point, it’s just the vehicle we drive. If you aren’t familiar with this style of truck, relax, close your eyes and envision a gun rack. Slowly let the truck form itself around the gun rack and a tattered John Deere baseball cap in [...]

I’m still working on my capelet, but wondering is it a WIP at this point (since I’m working on it) or has it graduated to UFO?