Today’s monthly round-up is brought to you by exhaustion, distraction, overwhelm, phone pictures, and the manifest prognostications of burnout. In other words, I’m going to be complaining today. I have a sermon and an article to write this afternoon, but I find my writing gets a lot better if I can work out my grumpiness … More November 2022 Round-Up: Work, Work, Work, and Play
October is the month that started with one last little harvest from our garden: And ended with a blizzard. We didn’t actually go trick-or-treating in that. We went the day after, when it was still -18 with winds 30 kph gusting 50, wind chill in the -30s. Ugh. Gotta work for your candy. There’s been … More October 2022 Round-Up: It Got Cold Fast
This is a post that has been bouncing around in my head for a while, not quite sure how to express it. As a priest, I get this vague feeling sometimes that I’m not supposed to like Halloween. Not that it matters, or that anyone cares very much. But this year, as I stood at … More I’m a Priest Who Kinda Likes Halloween
Let’s see if I can find my way back to the beginning of the story of this shawl. The year was 2013. The month was August or September, I forget which. Stringbean, then a tiny six-month old, had been in the hospital with a UTI. Being a new mother left me feeling completely shattered, all … More Dooner’s Girasole
September was the month where things really started rolling for me, but what did not really start rolling was… Dooner’s preschool. Also, we spent a good portion of the month with at least one of us battling the same cold. We’re hoping to all go to church together tomorrow for the first time after five … More September 2022 Roundup: All the New Things
Okay, this is really the last sock spin from the amazing Breed & Color Study put together by Rachel Smith and dyed by Katrina Stewart. Not the last post, obviously; I still need to knit the socks! But it feels amazing to have spun this pound of fiber over the last several months, and have … More SCS+BCS: Analogous-Complementary Combo
Late one evening, I got a text from a local chap who has been very supportive of my cake-decorating business from my get-go. He gave me a generous budget and a general directive: make an amazing, show-stopping cake for a big birthday party for his adult daughter. The budget was enough that I could make … More First Four-Tier
For the next sock + color study, I give you yet another pair of sock yarns, spun from the Hill Radnor of our Wool n’ Spinning Breed and Color Study. I spun these yarns exactly like the blue pair, because I wanted a pretty precise comparison of how the colors worked differently when mixed in … More SCS+BCS: Analogous Red-Orange Radnor Top
Do you love August? I can’t say I have a strong affection for it, but I think that’s because I’m in general a high strung person, and that sometimes makes it hard for me to enjoy good things. I’m feeling a little stressed today, but as I look back through the pictures of everything we … More August 2022 Round-Up: Gear Switching
Hi guys! It feels like I haven’t been spinning a lot since I got back from vacation in June. My friend Alide has been my saving grace. Almost every Tuesday night, we’ve been spinning out at her cabin, and that’s kept me going. Just on those Tuesday nights, I’ve managed my next sock spin. These … More SCS+BCS: Analogous Blue-Green Top
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