wooly bully

This weekend, for the first time since I can’t remember when, we had absolutely nothing to do.  Nowhere to we had to go, no huge chores to be checked off the list, we could do what we wanted the entire weekend.  It was heaven! 
On a whim, I set up my carder yesterday morning and decided [...]

zinnia friday – a collaboration*

Perfect…

They deserve to be shown off.

they are a flower with attitude…

borderline garish at times!

Not demure or understated,

they definitely have something to say…

loudly!
*photos by me, words by Cyndy, who’s a poet by nature. 
Happy Friday, everyone!

ready for fall

New socks make me want to put on my Birks and walk along the sidewalk, crunching leaves underfoot and enjoying the cool breeze!  Unfortunately, I’ll have to wait a little while for that.

Those are mostly plain vanilla socks, but I jazzed them up a little.  The cuff is a broken rib pattern – k2, p2 [...]

playing catch-up

Despite not blogging much lately, I have been spinning, knitting, and taking pictures.
Remember the three ply I was in the process of making?  I combined two bobbins of light colored fiber with one bobbin of brighter-colored fiber, and this is what I got:

Oh wait, the cat’s in the way!  Let me try again.

I absolutely love [...]

health care reform

I have been reading an excessive amount of news lately (now that blogs and Ravelry are blocked, I’ve filled the void with news articles), and of all the items/articles/opinions I’ve read about health care reform, the interview between PBS’s Bill Moyers and former health insurance industry insider Wendell Potter paints the most compelling, honest and [...]

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 just [...]