I have been working on the same spinning project for over two years now. It all started with this grand plan, associated with the Lothlorien cape designed by Susan Pandorf. I loved the gradient the sample was made in, but I did not want to pay out the nose for the yarn suggested. (Over two … More The Long Spin
Naomi will be twenty months old in a week. In two months, she’s gone from a handful of words to a storm of continual vocabulary expansion. As a casual linguist (having studied linguistics as part of my anthropology degree, and spending eight years of my life basically planning to be a linguist), this is a … More Toddler Linguistics
Meet “Pat”: a little tiny blurry blob whose name will be Osborn. We found out “Pat” (not his/her actual future name) was coming right before my last week of CPE started, though we suspected for a few weeks before that. (Aren’t you glad you didn’t have to listen to me whine and stress through all that … More Next
Every year that I have lived in Pennsylvania, this weird thing has happened right around October 15th. For weeks now, we have been seriously bracing ourselves for fall. My sweater collection is washed and in full rotation, and I wear exclusively wool socks. The heat has come on a couple times, and and the furnace … More The Ides of October
If you’re any kind of catholic and have heard mass in another language, you may have had the surreal experience of recognizing where the priest is in the liturgy by the flow of his words, even though you don’t speak the language. I’ve only made two hard cheeses now, but I’m already starting to recognize … More The Unprocessed Process
With all these food updates, you might wonder if I’ve forgotten how to knit. I wonder that myself some days, but the truth is that I have been knitting as much as ever. The trouble is, I can’t stick with one of these projects long enough to finish. I’ll be really into a project for … More Stitching in Place
My house smells divine at this moment. There are tomatoes slow-roasting in the oven, but the dominant smell is that of kale. Kale, sandwiched between potatoes and a whole chicken, in a crockpot. Fall is food. The ebullient joy and mad anxious rush of harvest-time, gathering in and putting up for winter. Storing up beauty … More Putting Up Apples
Thursday I made my first hard cheese. It was kinda-sorta a disaster, but I learned a lot. And ten months from now, when it’s fully aged and we taste it, I think it’ll be like keeping that first pair of socks you made that look nothing like human feet – a memento of a learning experience … More Hard Cheese is Hard
So, I have this thing about cheese. The thing is, I really love cheese. I like fancy cheese and cheap cheese. I like havarti and New york Sharp cheddar and chipotle pepper jack. I like drunken goat on a good cracker. I like cottage cheese with cheesy crackers. I like grated yellow cheddar by the … More The Thing about Cheese
Ok, site is officially moved. I’m just posting this to say HI! And see if the site works any more consistently. Basically I want to know: Can you reach the site consistently? Can you reach it at all times and from different devices? That was my main complaint on the old site, but I am … More Can you see me now?
Osborn Fiber Studio 