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Check out my friend Opal for interesting knitting, spinning and being content.?While you’re there demand more Cookie and Onyx pictures. One of my commenters, Norma wrote: Using someone else?s computer to blog is sort of like using their toothbrush. That is so true, I don’t really have the option of bringing out my knitting and [...]

I might be at my mother’s house for a few days, which means leaving the laptop here with Matt and accessing the outside world via dial up– oh joy. I will keep up with my NaBloPoMo pledge though but I’m not promising pictures. There’s something deeply disturbing about my step-father’s computer (oh yeah, it’s Win [...]

My Grandma Betty passed away yesterday. I don’t feel like writing out how I feel, I suppose you can understand. The day that my sister got married my mom and I were with my grandmother when the doctor told her that she had multiple sclerosis. I love my sister dearly, but when she was snarky [...]

The voice kills joy, that’s what it does and that’s exactly why you should never listen to it. I think I first noticed the voice when I was trying to teach an assistant how to sew hems. He kept repeating (to himself) “I’ll never get this. This is too complicated for me. I’m going to [...]

Not only is it girl day at the homestead today, it’s also unfortunately ‘no camera day’ because the boys (that would be the 9 year old and the 37 year old) have taken the cameras up to Portland to OMSI, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. This is a totally educational experience, and they [...]

I’m so relieved. The box is here, all the stuff was in it, and it’s really really here. Now that it’s here I feel so much better, I’ve been released from the self imposed daily captivity of mail bin watching and I can actually fondle some new fibers. I can also tell you a little [...]

If Little Barn Inc. actually put my box in the mail on the 14th of this month when I had a phone conversation with Lewis, then the box will be here today or tomorrow. I’m starting to get nervous, I checked the transaction number at the USPS website and other than showing that the shipping [...]

There’s a time in life to stop, look around, take inventory of what has been learned, and ask “Are all these people @#$%ing idiots?” Today, that time has arrived for me. First there’s the lefty vs. righty knitting questions. Questions that are so laden with disdain for the sinister knitters (sinister literally means “left handed” [...]

I’m starting to see more blog entries about people posting about the pressure of the NaBloPoMo challenge– you can do it, you can complete the challenge, I know you can. Today is the halfway mark, and if you were able to hold things together this far you can do it for the next 15 days. [...]

Here’s the second stitch pattern that I started on the circle cloth. It’s a nice tessellating pattern, and in my colors (so far white, cranberry and sparkly teal) has a kind of holiday-ish-ness to it. Note that row 27 is the same as row 1 and that’s how the pattern restarts, the stitches don’t have [...]