I am sorry to report that our microwave of many years has finally bitten the dust. I had put in a bag of popcorn for lunch one day, listening for pops. The microwave is so old that cooking is timed by educated guesstimates rather than following directions on packages, and popcorn is best timed by … More The Passing of an Appliance
The insanity continues – with the open house coming up in just 8 days, several things still sitting in dyepots, nothing reskeined or tagged, and various administrative crap to carry out, I try to keep working. If for no other reason than if I stop, I start thinking about how much there is left to … More ‘Till the day I dye
Welcome to the new site! After a few days of agonizing in which I did very little, Fjord did some stuff I didn’t see, and Jared did some stuff I don’t understand, osbornfiber.com has launched. I hope you enjoy the pretty new format. Soon (by which I mean “when I get around to it unless … More Look! I made a banner!
I’m pretty sure my mother would never knit in church. As a kid, I was pretty free to do as I liked during mass, as long as it was quiet. When I was too little to understand what was going on, mom apparently didn’t think that making me sit still in a pew for a … More Controversy!
The Christmas projects continue. I picked back up the thing that I was ignoring, finished up a fun thing, and started another thing. Things continue apace, but not at the ploughing rate you would expect from someone who gets paid to sit around and play with yarn all the time. No, I’ve been prepping for … More Cheap Advertising
I can’t get to FarmVille. I’m sitting here at work and I can’t get to my farm. All I get is the sad-looking cow. I’m sitting here, knowing full well that my coffee and pepper plants are withering as I type, and there’s nothing I can do about it. It’s driving me batty. What will … More Thoughts from Yesterday
Last night, I was ready to end my knitting career. Last night, I was ready to impale myself on my needles. Last night was one of those nights that all of us knitters have, when we forget all the reasons that we try to change the world with string and sticks and seriously consider garrotting … More One of those days
We’ve all survived Halloween now, with its pumpkin carving contests, orange Christmas lights, and stories on NPR about having weird things done to your body so you can freak out your friends posthumously. If you, for some masochistic reason, decided to go to a shopping mall today, you surely heard the first strains of Christmas … More Christmas – Knitter to Knitter
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