“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you strange.” – Phil Harrold, att. Leander Harding, att. Flannery O’Connor. Knitting again has been… strange. The “normal” people who surround me interpret my relationship with knitting as somewhere in between an obsession and a lifestyle choice, and I’m not even sure where I’d categorize … More Strangeness
If you haven’t figured it out yet (from my repeating it incessantly), the MD Sheep & Wool festival is a huge opportunity for mum & me at OFS. Thus, it seemed only right and proper to celebrate with a couple of new patterns, which are debuting this week in honor of Sheep & Wool. If … More Little Hat & Long Sweater
We did it! It’s done! Everything that Mom & I promised for sheep & wool is dyed, reskeined, labeled, designed, tested, edited, printed, and packaged. Today mom drops the whole mess off at Cloverhill, and it’s off my shoulders for one lovely week. (The bad news is that I am now out of excuses for … More Coming at MD Sheep & Wool
Before and after Easter, I’ve been in such a frenzy of activity that coffee counts as a meal and I have to force myself to sleep so I don’t get headaches. But the Saturday and Sunday on which we celebrated Easter was a fantastic break in the midst of the crazy. Saturday was Jared’s birthday, … More Joy in the Storm
With the Maryland Sheep & Wool fest coming up in less than two weeks (excuse me while I breathe into a paper bag for a few moments), I’m having to shut down the store for a bit. Sorry this is so sudden. Due to a major miscalculation on my part, I ended up with 4 … More OFS Yarn store Closed for Sheep & Wool
Back at the end of January, before we were all sick to death of snow and cold, when we were still in the starry brightness of the season of Epiphany, my very own Drama of Scripture scarf came off the blocking wires. Jared & I took it out for a photo shoot. I had no … More Easter Joy
In the quiet of Holy Saturday, now that the KAL is nearly wrapped up and Lent is nearly over, I want to take a wee post to acknowledge the cool people who made this project possible. Thanks again to all the essay writers, who gave their time and thought and heart into the essays that … More Credit Roll
It’s Good Friday. Lent is nearly at an end. Now is as good a time as ever to look over our Lenten disciplines and take stock of where we’ve come. As many of the KAL-ers have been discussing our Lenten experiences on the Ravelry forum, it seems like a lot of what we are facing … More Reflections on Clue #7
~by Rebecca Osborn. [So far, I’ve spared you any academic writing, but that ends today. I was so fascinated by a class discussion in my Systematic Theology class that I decided to make that topic my last paper. Since it fit so well with our last week’s topic, I decided to write it in time … More The Final Judgment: Why it Matters
Just a quick note to say that I am not completely snowed under, but I’m pretty close. God gave me a couple of precious verses on Tuesday that I am clinging to: “When I thought, ‘My foot slips,’ your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up. When the cares of my heart are many, your … More Crazy Sauce
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