Jared is out of the house at a retreat for the weekend, and I am at home by my lonesome for over 48 hours. This may not sound like a big deal, but we haven’t been apart overnight in the over two and a half years we’ve been married. This has left me with a … More Treading Carefully
Today I have for you a fix and a ramble. Clue #2 of my In Dreams Mystery Shawl is almost done. This is an amazingly bead-heavy clue – I think Jonica (she is working on two of the things! Holy crap) worked out that there are 912 beads on just this clue. These are worked … More Hunched
Spring is trying so hard to obey the groundhog here in Ambridge, PA. Did you know that Punxatawny Phil is only correct in his Feb. 2nd predictions 39% of the time? He has a 50/50 chance of being right, and can’t even make that. I therefore tend to be skeptical, but Jared keeps saying things … More Optimism
Appearances can be deceiving. Jared told me once that humans are extraordinarily bad at estimating relative volume. You know this if you’ve ever had to dirty three tupperwares because you wrongly estimated the size you would need for your half-pan of pasta sauce. It turns out this is also true of body parts. When I … More Ordinary Loveliness
I rarely leave the house without something knitted on my person, and every now and then this will elicit a comment from someone like “When are you going to make me one of those?” The “someone” in question is usually someone I don’t know very well, possibly an older jokester-type-dude who is probably someone’s uncle. … More Cleverness
Valentine’s day – I mean Cyril and Methodius day, since St. Valentine has been extricated from the official Roman calendar of saints – Goodness, that means it’s halfway through February. Good thing I’m more than halfway through February’s socks. They’re the “Latvian Stockings” from Folk Socks by Nancy Bush. This is a month where the … More Zzzzzzzz.
Osborn Fiber Studio is growing…. a new dyer, new yarns, new bases, new suppliers, new patterns, and a ton of things that exist only in the form of spreadsheets and emails being passed furtively back and forth between Mom and myself. To fit with these changes, I am closing the OFS etsy store and moving … More Handmade with HTML
I’ve not had a chance to tell you that after my miserable failure to make a gradiance yarn for the Rivendell Smoke Ring, I found a way to rescue that project from the gutter. The middle skein out of five was pooling terribly, and since the ring was of a fixed circumference, there wasn’t a … More Cowl Succeed
I might be just a little obsessed. “Fixated” would also be an appropriate word. You know it’s bad when you’re telling random friends, who you know very well don’t knit, about your project… and it takes you fifteen minutes into your description to figure out they don’t really care… I had two parties to go … More I Really Do Have a Life.
Your local fiber obsessor is a glutton for punishment. Option #1 in my “In Dreams” yarn dilemma started out looking like this: 3000+ yards of beautiful silver silk/nylon cobweb. So fine, in fact, that if I were to knit a shawl out of it, it’d come out about half-sized. I wanted to use it, and … More There Must Be a More Difficult Way
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