All The Crafting Ladies
I’m knitting a shawl out of fire-colored Madelinetosh yarn, and when I say “Fire-colored,” I don’t mean orange, I mean the shawl looks like it is on fire and made of lasers. I don’t think much of the...
View ArticleFull Disclosure: Knitting Edition
Knitting gets a lot of love for its so-called “meditative aspects,” but I rarely knit without doing something else at the same time. When I’m knitting, I’m also watching TV, or watching someone play a...
View ArticleThe 20,000 Word Itch
So the writing is going. Is it a jinx to say the writing is going? It’s probably a jinx. So far this month I have produced 18,435 typed words and thousands of longhand-note words in a rainbow of hues,...
View ArticleKnitting Alone
A long time ago (March seems like a long time ago in November) I was sitting in a deserted hospital waiting room, knitting. It was after nine, and the daytime bustle of patients and visitors had faded....
View ArticleFive Senses: Pretty Things To Look At
It is day 2 of the NaBloPoMo challenge, wherein I make every attempt to post every day for one month. And, for the next several days, I’m going to do something I never do — try to have fun, without...
View ArticleKnitpicks Options Case Makeover Part 1
So the moment after I realize my migraine is gone is a GREAT moment. It’s a brand-new world where my brain is no longer melting out of my eyes. Problems are often solved. New things happen! Last night,...
View ArticleMaking and Doing
This summer, I was reading Zoë Oldenbourg’s The Crusades and this passage struck me like a lightning bolt: All things considered, the smell of stables is not a great deal more unpleasant than the reek...
View ArticleEmbracing Mediocrity
I have always thought of perfectionism as an ideal state. If I was a real perfectionist, everything would be perfect! Going to work full-time changed my perspective on that. Astonishingly, I haven’t...
View ArticleWIP Tuesday
Recently, I’ve been trying to appreciate what I have. Nowhere is that philosophy more applicable than in the case of my yarn stash. I have accumulated A Lot of Yarn over the years. Lovely and wonderful...
View ArticleI Heart Pictures
I am falling in love with photography. I have been falling, slowly, over a period of nearly seven years. I began to fall, thanks, in great part, to Ravelry. I opened my Ravelry account just as the...
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