breaking news bulletin

I have finished my Staghorn pullover.
Stop.
Ends need woven and blocking done, but I consider it finished.
Stop.
I couldn’t let the year end without adding one more to the list.
Stop.
Avoidance of crochet intarsia project must.
Stop.

my house this weekend

When I wasn’t busy keeping Mack out of my cookies,

I made homemade granola.  It’s really easy and even though it calls for a lot of ingredients at first, once you buy the stuff, it makes a ton of granola.  The best part is that if you don’t have an ingredient, you can substitute something else! [...]

something nice

This weekend I made Christmas cookies.

There are three kinds of cookies I make – Fruit Drop (above), Hartshorn, and Brazil Nut.  My grandmother made TONS of these cookies each Christmas and gave them as her presents to her six children and their families.  It wouldn’t feel like Christmas to me without them.

Both the Fruit Drop [...]

I know it’s Friday

and I’ve been trying not to get too political here, but this article is so fantastic that I had to share it.
It’s long.  It’s involved.  I had to read many sentences twice and I’m quite sure I don’t understand half of the agencies and connections referenced.
What’s worse is I don’t know what to do about [...]

Contrary to the blog silence, I have been knitting.

I knit two pair of handspun socks on US3s, but the picture didn’t come close to doing them justice, so I’ll have to post that later.  These pictures aren’t great either, but you know how it is this time of year – I leave the house as it’s getting light and get home in the [...]

45

This is the year I turn 45.
This is the year I first noticed that my hands are starting to look old.
I don’t mind it terribly.  My hands create.  They take bits of fluff and make yarn, then turn that yarn into useful, sometimes beautiful, objects.  This is more valuable to me than remaining wrinkle-free.
This is [...]