no knittin, no spinnin

I haven’t done squat this week. Well, that’s not entirely true.  I haven’t done anything fibery.  I’ve been consumed with healthy-ing up my life, cooking and planning meals and exercising and reading books whose message all boils down to the same thing:  you are what you eat.  This is a fair representation of what I’m eating.  [...]

a little meme

Abby tagged me for a meme, and just in time too, cause I need to take and upload pictures to have any on-topic blog content!  1.  What was I doing ten years ago?  Professionally – the same thing I’m doing now, which really depresses me!  Personally – my son was two, I was living in the [...]

stash busting – the BBP (or Big Blanket Project)

I started knitting a blanket out of handspun this week.  I told a friend recently that I’m feeling overwhelmed by all the handspun I have and was thinking of knitting a blanket.  She kind of scoffed at me; I’m pretty sure she was doubtful I had that  much handspun that I’d need to tackle a project so [...]

simple things

Have you seen Tastespotting?  Beware, it’ll make you do things you have no intention of doing.  Make you want to cook things you previously had no intention of cooking.  I added Tastespotting to my Bloglines and after two days, I was acting completely irrational. I paid a small fortune for fresh Bing cherries. Which I then [...]

the secret thoughts of cats

And you wonder why your plants haven’t come back this spring… I’ll look away and when I turn back, you’ll be gone. Still lookin’… You’re still here.  Okay, I’ll close my eyes and when I open them again, you’ll be gone. one, two, three…disappear! Rats.    Enough of that.  I’m taking a nap.  

I’d like you to meet Maude

She’s a dummy.  She has no ears, so it doesn’t offend her when I call her that.  She’s a little sumpin-sumpin I found on Craigslist for forty bucks.  Even though she does not adjust to my current measurements, I saw her as a good investment and incentive to get down to HER measurements.  I can’t have [...]

I’m a little bit country

Our guild’s picnic at Pia’s house was great.  She really has the best of both worlds – she’s 20 minutes from the city but her neighborhood requires that each house have a minimum of five acres surrounding it.  There’s room to BREATHE.  Pictures speak louder than words, so I’ll let them tell the day’s story. This [...]

random photos

I have a new toy.  I haven’t learned how to use it yet.  I’ve just been wandering around the house, snapping random photos. Like the other week when I made a cake. Man, I wish I had a piece of that now! I played around in the yard after a morning rain. I think these [...]

lace and I are having a fling

it’s probably just a summertime thing truth be told, it’s the blocking that does it for me those crisp points are so pleasing it makes me happy just to look at them Do you blame me? Pattern:  Forest Canopy Shawl Yarn:  Mariposa colorway, Malabrigo Lace, which held up to blocking better than I expected.  Still, [...]

Diamonds and pearls are a girl’s best friends

  Isn’t it great how it just sticks to the bricks? Very light and airy… it’s perfect for summer. Pattern:  Diamonds and Pearls Shawl by Sheila January in The Knitter’s Book of Yarn Yarn:  A tiny bit over one skein of Koigu KPPM Needles:  US 9 Time to knit AND block:  Three days.  I shit [...]

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