Extremely pink felt
This is the garter stitch rectangle I had knit up in the prior post. The felt is formed. And it’s very pink. And extremely soft. Now I suppose because I really liked that yarn and I have to spin more. I know what’s it is destined to be; Lexi said as soon as she saw [...]
Driving lessons
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 [...]
Seriously: same blog
The old theme was lovely but starting to grate on my nerves, so I went back to the WP classic and tweaked it. Thus far I’m pretty satisfied that it’s readable. This was probably the fastest overhaul of a blog theme that I’ve ever done, in part because I wanted to keep things simple, and [...]
Babe in a Flower Basket
Lexi seems quite pleased with a shawl of her own. I think this will also make it much easier for her to leave my Icarus alone (although she’s terribly adorable when she tries to wear it, in no small part because it’s so huge on her.) See? I told you she could pull off wearing [...]
Finished the Flower Basket
Seriously, I finished the shawl. I even blocked it. It’s after 8 o’clock so the intended recipient is unavailable to model it. It’s past her bed time. Although it’s pretty heartening to hear, “That’s my beautiful shawl?” as I pin it to shape on the quilt. I think Lexi likes it. The yarn is handspun [...]
Oh, but for the love of trees
It’s a beautiful day. Absolutely lovely. The sun is out, the weather is warming up and my strawberries are showing new growth and flowers. And the new blueberry bush is showing promising growth as well. The husband is looking very healthy and happy isn’t he? He broke down and bought me some chicks (I knew [...]
Being offline sucks
On the bright side, being offline gave me plenty of time to start (and finish) a sweater for the girl-child. It’s a gray 4-ply spindle spun merino yarn, 5 stitches per inch. Mostly from the size 30″ child’s raglan pattern from “the knitter’s handy book of sweater patterns” by Ann Budd. I was sort of [...]
It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)
My husband cleaned the living room and home school area. My. Husband. Cleaned. Just let that sink in. Sometimes it just takes a while to accept certain things as reality, don’t try to force yourself to take it all in at once– it’s better for the brain to just let it sit in the back [...]
Reverse label for care
I thought since this is my knitting blog, and since I like to knit fibers that are typically dry clean only that I’d write a little about the alternatives to dry cleaning. One is wet cleaning, which is the industrial environmental friendly version of dry cleaning, it uses clamps, water jets, detergent jets and steam [...]
Bun covers
I’m making bun covers, no– not the kind that keep dinner rolls warm or are delicately crocheted dainties for a lady’s hair– the other kind. You know, the kind that cover training pants. I actually like making pilchers, soakers, training pant covers and so on– they are cute (come on, anything that goes on a [...]