kitchen renov

We have a small house.  It was built in 1929, when families were small and huge fiber stashes were unheard of.  It has some of the charm of homes built during that era – tall ceilings, lots of trim, lots of windows.  We knew when we bought it that the kitchen needed renovation -  it [...]

nostalgia

I was taking pictures this morning of my cheating-on-my-sweater projects and was going to write a random post (it is Thursday, afterall), but have gotten completely sidetracked. This is my seed-stitch-avoidance knitting project – simple socks with luscious yarn I got from my favorite indie dyer, Yarn Zombie.  Jackie has a way with colors that I [...]

spring fever

I can’t concentrate; I have no attention span whatsoever.  I spin a little and then stop.  I knit a row or two and stop.  I found buttons for my Hexacomb cardi but have I finished seaming and sewn them on?  Nooooo….. All I can think about is redecorating our home.  I’m addicted to HGTV and Design [...]

I’m a quitter

Some people get going when the going gets rough, but me?  I get quitting.  This applies to house projects, knitting projects and life projects.  I’m an equal opportunity quitter.  Remember my Rick James socks?  Yeah, I quit them.  I haven’t totally quit them, they’re not frogged, just hanging out in my handspun tub, but they [...]

What to do, what to do…

I started a new project with my first wheelspun yarn. It’s a pinwheel cushion out of Barbara Walker’s Fourth Treasury of Knitting Patterns.  But I have a dilemma.  When I spun this, I plied light roving with dark and it created a pretty balanced yarn overall.  Except for the very end, when I ran out [...]

A present!

I got a present!  How fabulous is that?  I told Kat with Southwest Trading Company about our roof troubles, and she sent me this: Three skeins of Amaizing yarn – their new yarn made out of corn!  Or, CAAARRRN, as they say in Indiana.  That was SO sweet of her!  I’m also working on a [...]