In like a lion, out like an... icicle?

The first week of May it was so hot that the unshorn sheep at the festival were being frickasee-d in their own skin. Two weeks later, everyone in the same zip code is pulling out their sweaters and raincoats and layering up, because it’s COLD outside. This is good for me, though, because it means [...]

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

I was not terribly planning to blog yesterday, but if I had been, I would have had a really good excuse not to blog. Here is a bad picture of it:

Do you see, on that big tree in the middle of the photo, that toward the top of the photo the tree has a big [...]

An Awspishus Day

It’s finally happened, folks! I am a publish-ished designer. By that I mean that I got a pattern carried by a major yarn company, and I got paid for it, even though the pattern does not necessarily exist anywhere in physical form. See it in its natural habitat here. I am, as ever, jazzed by [...]

Fleecy Farmy Friends

It’s well into the afternoon, and I think I’m finally over my hangover headache. We may or may not have attended an excellent cinco de mayo party last night at which Jared proved that the ice crusher he got at a yard sale is totally worth the real estate it takes up on my shelf. [...]

Sheep & Wool 2010 Day 2: Shopping! Sheep! Sheep shopping?

Doesn't he look like someone just painted him there?

Around 1:30 today, we finally made it back to the show for our non-working day, and we blitzed through the festival in fine style. I learned a ton of things just wandering around the big sheep barn with the guys, so I shall share some of [...]

Sheep & Wool 2010 Day 1: Retail! Spinning Children!

I am so tired. and I need a shower. So badly. but because I love you, my bloglings, I will write a post for you with the awesomeness and stupendous insanity that was today, at day one of Sheep & Wool 2010.

I got the the fest around 8:10, and so my mummy doesn’t kill me, [...]