For the record, I know next to nothing about trauma-informed everything. It’s a topic I’m really interested in, but I’ve read like two chapters of a Gabor Mate book one time, and I have a couple friends who know a lot about it. But I have spent a lot of this month in a state … More April 2023 Round-Up: Trauma Responses

In my post about Halloween a few months ago, I said something offensive. There are plenty of things about Halloween that make me ambivalent. I’ll not go into them, because I do not wish to judge others for their choices in things that aren’t that important. (Unless you’re being unsafe. That’s not cool. Be safe.) … More A Halloween Retraction

I’ve now completed the 2022 Breed & Colour Study, the final B&C from the amazing Katrina of Crafty JAKs Boutique. This pound of fiber: Has become these five pairs: Am I showing off? yeaaaaah a little bit. Sorry-not-sorry. I worked really hard on these socks over the last year, and I’m over the moon with … More SCS+BCS: Wrapping Up Five Pairs

Okay you guys. This is the LAST pair of socks knit from the LAST skeins of 2022’s Breed & Colour Study project. (Although not, I’m sure, the last post about them.) I finished them in the first week or so of January, and they are gorgeous. The above skeins are spun from the below leftover … More SCS+BCS: Combo-Spun Top Socks

Let’s talk about putting a cake together. Here, I’m not going to say anything that you couldn’t learn from watching just about any instructional video about making cakes, from someone who does it better than I do. But it would feel strange to omit this part of the process – where the baked cakes actually … More Six Assembly Steps

Happy Easter everyone! It’s Easter Monday, and I’m sacked out on the couch after spending most of the day having a great visit with neighbor kids. Our bodies are recovering from that last push of lots of Easter services, and adjusting to having sugar in our diets again. In between the necessary things, I found … More A Little Easter Fun

Yeah, so I’m kind of dipping from a lot of studies right now. I realized when trying to come up with a concise title for this post that this is ticking a lot of boxes! I’m studying spinning for socks, color handling, and the current Wool n’ Spinning color study. This is totally fine, but … More SCS+BCS: Carded Cables

Family This month was about a lot of things, but it was mostly about this: My mom finally made it up to visit. It was so good for all of us to spend the last two weeks with her. She arrived the day after Valentine’s, and left yesterday. We’re all a little devastated, but she … More February 2022 Round-up: Mom Month

Stringbean turned 9 on Thursday! And yesterday, we had a birthday party for her. Our communal obsession with cakes has taken many forms. For Stringbean, she has been working on her birthday cake design for months. We had to negotiate a bit to fit her expectations within my abilities, but in the end, we achieved … More Rainbow Cat-icorn Cake