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
Edited to take out all my redundant copy-pasting… oops! Forgive my frickasee-ed brain. Okay, two more things to cover in general announcements about the KAL, then I promise we’ll get back to the pretty knitty pictures. The first thing is about the flat world we live in. Thanks to the miracle of the interwebs, there … More Meta-Preparation Part Deux
Wow. Or, as Aunt Steph would say, “Alls I gotta say is… whoosh!” 48 hours after the Ravelry ad for the Lenten KAL went up, and participation has doubled. I’m thrilled, super-thankful, and having to seriously re-evaluate my schedule as I start spending a whole lot more time every day answering emails and doing other … More Meta-Preparation
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