Well, I’m making progress on the Foggy, Foggy Dew shawl, though it’s reached the point where things seem to move at less than a snail’s pace. It’s about 15 minutes per plain purl row, 20ish for a pattern row. So this seems to translate to about a repeat per day. I weighed things yesterday afternoon, […]

I spent rainy yesterday tidying a bit. It was a day of impressive thunderstorms. Storm the third for the day was reported on the evening news as having dumped 1.65 inches of rain on this town specifically, in about 90 minutes. Not a good week to want to dry things outside, I suppose. So, I […]

In-progress shots of lace are always so disappointing. But I’m sure enough of you are lace knitters to know that, and thus be able to do a little light imagining… The Triangle (will somebody name this for me? I am no good at naming things, I fear) has grown to the point of being about […]

Saturday morning dawned, and with the boy at his grandparents’ house we were waking up slowly. Chad made some smart-aleck remark, and I retorted, paraphrasing the episode of “Deadwood” we’d watched the previous night: “I no more need your witticisms than I do a balloonist!” I looked out the bedroom window and there, drifting just […]

Friday morning, and Thursday did result in almost all the batt club boxes making it out the door. The remaining 4 go today, whew! Yesterday also brought me this: Thank you, Amy! As it happens, I was just thinking, “man, I need a little bag to put some of these things on my end table […]

It’s an utterly bleak and gray rainy day. I’m thrilled. Unfortunately, they’re saying on the radio that even if it rains all day today and all day tomorrow, it won’t likely be enough to make a huge difference to the crops, and we’ll still need several more inches of rain, soon. So we’re keeping our […]

Some of you may recall these 50/50 merino/tencel dye testers… There were several, but these were the pair that I culled to spin for myself and test which of several methods of dyeing I planned to use with merino/tencel moving forward. The one at rear, with the greens, remains unspun as yet, but I did […]

Well, here it is, Wednesday morning, and I haven’t gotten that plying video done yet. It might happen today, but there’s also some production work that has to happen, it’s the boy’s last day of school tomorrow and he’s got a couple of days of early release, and lo and behold, it turns out we’ve […]

Yeah, definitely Monday. I can’t wake up yet it seems, and I clearly need to refill my coffee. The coffee’s on the right, next to the chocolate-covered strawberries Chad made me yesterday (that’s right, I’m keeping him, no you can’t have him, don’t even think it, I’m a dangerous woman, make your own strawberries). As […]

Finish-A-Thon March 2007: Item Number Two!