friends

To my dear vegan friends

I love you– I really do. But we need to get a few things straight: My dogs will never be vegetarians. I appreciate your sentiment about my animals eating other animals, but they were designed to eat other animals so I’m not going interfere. Besides Greta’s bowels do bad things when she manages to get [...]

OOoooOh, this rocks!

OOoooOh, this rocks!

I ordered some custom stitch markers from Opal and she surprised me with a whole box of goodies along with the markers. But first– the markers. Lets just linger here for a moment to let the glory that is handmade goodness sink in. Just breath. Relax. Try not to covet. It feels like warm sweet [...]

I was born late

I was born late

and never quite caught up. I haven’t put forth any serious spinning effort in a while, every once in a while I grab my spindle and work on the reddish brown baby alpaca but the wheel has languished in the closet since August. Opal knows what it takes to get a girl spinning again and [...]

Creative adventures

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 [...]

Fiber, Christmas, Birthday, and blog

I’ve been spinning alpaca, some lovely rusty brown and some silvery gray that I ordered from Little Barn, the delivery time from Little Barn was speedy, arriving prior to Christmas, which gives me reason to think that my first experience with them was just a hiccup. For that, I’m really glad because their prices and [...]

Champagne for fingers

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 [...]

I will back up frequently and obsessively.

I will back up frequently and obsessively.

Oh wow. Poor Opal. Her blog freaked out, it might have been the SQL database or just a weird glitch but it was going to this page neither of us have ever seen before. Of course while trying to fix this my laptop decides to just shut down. How is that for luck? Speaking of [...]

Mail Day!

Mail Day!

Oh, the mail man brought good stuff for me from Opal! The cookies and macadamia nut chocolates were in serious danger once Lexi saw them. She grabbed the boxes and ran (for kind of chubby 3 year old that girl is fast) yelling “Opal cookies!” (Think she might remember the last box?) I recovered most [...]

The Lace Knitters Prayer

Now I lay me down to rest– a pile of lace upon my chest. Should I die before I wake– that’s one less yo, k2tog I’ll get to make. Amen.

Chartreuse

Chartreuse

I so had to search out the color chartreuse because for the life of me I knew there was a thing named Chartreuse where the color was the same as the color chartreuse but I couldn’t for the life of me remember what it was. Turns out that it is a brand of bright green/yellow [...]