Anything over and done gets its day in the sun.
My brainpower is at a pretty low ebb right now. When I went back and looked over that last post, my writerly self-esteem dropped a couple notches. My life is fascinating and wonderful, but taking up so much physical and emotional energy that I have none left to write about it. So in that spirit, … More The Tale of the Boring Shawlette
To all my brothers and sisters of the East: Happy Easter! Christos Anesti! Χριστός Ανέστη! Христос воскрес! This Lent, Holy Week, and Easter have been a particularly cruciform journey for me. It seems fitting then – almost too fitting to sully with words – that the second Easter pattern is a baby blanket, designed after … More Behind the Design: Carolingian Cross
Lilies are the Easter flower. Easter Lilies are particularly so because of their pure whiteness and distinctly trumpet-like shape. Loud and reckless without being garish, vulnerable and precious without being weak. They rejoice without fear, to celebrate the day of the year that we are to celebrate the most with unmitigated joy. When Jesus rose … More Behind the Design: Lilies for Easter
Everyone loves Robert Frost’s famous poem, so much so that to quote it would seem cliche. This project hijacks this old-school meme, just a little bit. The concept is simple, and doesn’t bear much explaining beyond the pattern description. These cables are meandering roads that come together to form the icthus fish – another cliche … More Behind the Design: Road Less Traveled
My stated goal: To make a sweater that fit in with the “new” sense of style I have been acquiring since my Halloween haircut: dark, feminine, professional, comfortable. The selected pattern: Victoria by Lori Versaci The yarn: Shelter by Brooklyn Tweed, in “Long Johns,” 9 skeins. Results Analysis: success. I knit this sweater in about … More Love, Children
Some patterns just… happen, nearly of their own accord. This one was truly the lovechild of necessity and laziness. Navarre Beach is a beautiful place – but it’s very windy. My haircut is that sort of reverse-mullet, short in back and long in front, which made it nearly impossible for me to read on the … More The Progenitors of Invention
Out of all the patterns I have designed so far, Rachel’s Tears has the most of my heart and soul packed into it. The name of this pattern came from two places. The first is from an Anglican service in a little booklet called Liturgies and Prayers Related to Childbearing, Childbirth, and Loss; the service … More Behind the Design – Rachel’s Tears
You might be able to tell by the time you finish reading this post, but I’ve spent the last week listening to a book tape with very dry and precise prose. I love books on tape, and when I become particularly absorbed in one, I begin writing as if I can hear the reader voicing … More Secretly More than a Swatch
As you remember, I was crying, jumping up and down, and quietly ecstatic about the yarn Rebecca spun and gave me this past Christmas. I really had not even dared to hope she would give it to me. It was too too pretty and represented a heck of a lot of time and skill. But … More When a Daughter Surprises You
… and back to the mundane again. The mundane, but the lovely mundane. After all, we fight the good fight and run the race so that we can have a good home to come back and enjoy normal, human things, right? And, at least in Christianity, becoming more human doesn’t mean becoming less embodied. That’s … More Fashion Twelve-ward
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