Work-work-workity-work
It’s not that horrible, at least that’s what I tell myself. I tell myself a lot of things when I’m sewing, things like “I’m never doing another craft show again.” (Lie.) Things like “This is so not worth the effort.” (Lie.) and “Next year I’m just going to buy gifts for everyone and not worry [...]
Yarn!
Oh wonders will never cease. I actually have a project full of soft and lovely yarnage to report on. I started this shawl the evening before the house broke. It’s out of lace weight handspun gray alpaca and the pattern has been spawned from my tiny aching brains. I spent way too much time staring [...]
Breathe
Ooh I’m bad. I went to Craft Warehouse to buy a tool, I was at Wally World to buy poly-fil. Either place I could have bought the paint I need to finish the table– for some reason I had a little too much focus on the eyelet punch and poly-fil (usually my problem is buying [...]
Creative adventures
Any post that starts out with a cute little kid is a good blog post right? You know I aim to please, so here’s Lexi modelling her duly adapted jeans. Note the linen ruffles at the bottom of the legs– that fabric has been here before. Is she not the most adorable thing? The t-shirt [...]
Insecurities and bellybuttons
In recent days (and by “days” I mean “years”) I’ve almost totally dropped calling myself an artist. I all but dropped doing any art work in the sense of things which are simply meant to be aesthetic. Much of that had to do with a few business decisions, such as dedicating our limited shop space [...]
It’s a pickle
Tied into things that I quantify there is worth, price, cost, usefulness. Pretty much in that order as it relates to handcrafts and art. I noticed while listening to Lime and Violet that while they raved over yarns that the word “cheap” came up again and again. This is in no way a criticism against [...]
Champagne for fingers
I owe Opal a huge thank you for recommending some wonderful knitting podcasts on her blog, listening to other knitters and spinners has kept me sane through the final stretch of gift knitting and spinning. Between marathon movie sessions with the husband and kids and podcasts I’ve been able to keep on track and ahead [...]
Stitch markers, fishsticks, and jello
I managed to give myself a friction burn right in the middle of my right hand ring finger when I was turning yesterday, which has got to qualify as one of the worst places to get a nice swollen blister. Luckily I’m left handed so it doesn’t impede all of my activities, but I am [...]
I’m not a monkey with a chisel
Technically I have a personal blog that has a shopping cart (with stuff for sale) so it is a shopblog, but I really detest some shopblogs because they are nothing but “Buy this, and ooh lookie, buy this too” and “I just made these, and wouldn’t you know everyone wants one?” So I try to [...]
Tessellating stitch pattern
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 [...]