Don’t make underwear out of Lamb’s Pride

Honestly, that’s the title of a thread on Ravelry.  I had to share it.

Happy Friday, people!  Have a great weekend!!!

and the knit goes on…

Sorry.  Lame title, I know. 
I’ve recovered my love of the knit (but my mother’s second sock remains missing) by casting on for a new project – the Hedgerow Coat from IK Fall 2007. 
I decided to start with a sleeve since I didn’t feel like swatching and continued to knit way past the point where it became [...]

four years in the making

We’ve been in our house almost four years and for four years, I’ve had foliage, but no gladiolas.

This year, we got a surprise.  I did not plant this, and I think I appreciate its beauty even more because I did absolutely nothing to create it.

It was a gift that I wasn’t expecting, and I wanted to [...]

dizzy

Sometimes life can be pretty rough, and when it is, I spin.

70% targhee, 30% angora, a little over 500 yards of three ply from an 8 oz. roving ball I got at the January Spin-In.

4 oz. of merino/silk from River’s Edge Weaving Studio, also purchased at the January Spin-In.

This is some wool I dyed quite [...]

vacation: the good

Wow!  Thanks for the encouraging words, and thanks especially to those who shared your own vacation woe-stories!  It certainly makes it easier to think that we did the right thing by throwing in the towel on our Frontier House vacation!
So…back to the story.  We drove home Tuesday afternoon, ending a 34 hour round trip from [...]

Frontier House

Recently I mentioned that I was about to embark on my own version of Frontier House, and that little adventure began last Monday.

Memorial Day morning, SB, the boy and I drove to Swan Cabin near the Joyce Kilmer Wilderness area in North Carolina.  We knew the forecast was for 50% chance of rain for the first two [...]