Playing with dolls
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 [...]
Counting sheep
I designed these babies a while back after finding a nice big remnant of Berber fleece fabric at a thrift store. It screamed “Sheep!” at me, and for once I listened. The legs and face are plain black poplin and the ears are craft felt. I put a few in my booth over at Keeper’s Corner but Deb also [...]
Proof of life
Mo chuisle pointed out last night that I haven’t been blogging for a while. I knew that. Really. I actually bought an HP mini to resolve the problem but got side tracked with other postponed writing projects. Then there’s email, email is a huge distraction, I have about a month and a half of it [...]
I’m alive
This is my first post using a phone, so please excuse the brevity and any weird formatting. I’m not used to typing with my thumbs. We are in Chiloquin now. Staying in the RV at Walt’s RV park, pretty nice place. There are some really nice trails cut for walking dogs, of which I’m taking [...]
Where is a gritty reboot when you need one?
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 [...]
Making necklaces
Eye pins, pliers, beads, clasps. Lots and lots of repetitive bending. A few hours and a couple of sore hands later and I have some pretty jewelry. I guess my hands aren’t too terribly sore, because I’m still able to use them to pat myself on the back. Does anyone know what that kind of [...]
Tea Cozy knitting
This is the first side of my tea cozy. Not much to look at yet. No pattern, no specific plans other than to knit two sides and a strip down the middle and to felt the heck out of it.
Knitting without gauge
I like embossed knitting patterns, particularly leaves. The pattern is from Mary Thomas’s Book of Knitting Patterns. It’s called the Garden Plot Square. Very dowdy name for such a nice pattern isn’t it? There are leaves a plenty on it. I’m 4/5ths through the first square and 3/4 of the way through my second ball [...]
this is SPARTA!
The title of this post is my current favorite pop-culture phrase. I want to say it everywhere, under any context possible: Cashier: Your total is $13.49, you saved $3.19 shopping today. Me: This is SPARTA!!! Of course, that wouldn’t quite work as well as it did in the movie (if you live in a cave [...]
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 [...]