This year for thanksgiving, the Jennings clan came up to visit Chez Osborn. The food was grooood. I learned the following things about hostessing: (1) Having seven people in a tiny apartment at any given time is sort of exhausting. (2) Doing all your meat in the crockpot is a great way to cut out … More Thanksgiven
It’s a little odd that I am freakishy happy about that statement. The “turkey” (chicken) is eaten, the leftovers piled high in the fridge, the family gone, the house quiet again, and we had a great time. I will tell you all about our fun tomorrow, as it was great times. I’m so thankful they … More The Wool Is Gone
Thank you all (and by “all” I mean “my mom”) for participating in my gripefest a few days ago. I do honestly want to affirm all the stress and insanity so many of us are feeling as the holidays start to set in, but the morning after my last post, I went to chapel and … More Attitude Upgrade
Fashion/Ministry blogger Peacebang has declared today “an intergenerational, ecumenical Moment of Whining” about all the work we have to do this week to get ready to be happy and thankful. After two weeks of near-perpetual illness, frantic fleece-dyeing, insta-papers, and being too stressed out to sleep, I am more than happy to participate. It’s 34 … More Not Dead, Just Buried
After having played with the alpaca fleece, I felt ready to do the “big project,” the reason I had spent so many hours learning to dye. While Rebecca likes sports weight yarn, I love worsted weight. So I had bought 5 giant hanks of Valley Yarns Stockbridge, undyed worsted weight yarn, each 250 grams, 545 … More Mom Learns about Variegated Dyeing
It has officially taken me as long to blog about November’s socks as it took me to knit them. You have no reason to believe me, but I did in fact finish these socks on November 8th. Though I wouldn’t be honest if I didn’t tell you that most of the reason I waited to … More The Rewards of Arbitrary Persistance
Friday was for fleeces, but apparently Saturday was for being sick as a dog. So Sunday was for Sabbath, which leaves Monday for… making up. (Wasn’t that clever? Thanks, I thought that was clever.) I found out last week that I have a week and a half to wash and dye the rest of the … More So then are Tuesdays for Torture?
So, you all know I bought my first fleece this fall and have been bitten by the dyeing bug. It has been great fun playing with this fleece and dyeing it all sorts of colors. This is the sum and total of what I’ve done so far, about 90% of the fleece finished: The materials … More Mom Plays at Dyeing
I promised some black bean dyeing quite a while ago, and do not think I have forgotten! But before you do any dyeing, you have to mordant – and the mordant used for black beans is common enough that it really merits a post of its own (unlike vinegar mordanting, which to my knowledge is … More Dyeing with Black Beans (& Mordanting with Alum)
This has been an awesome week for socks. Sucky for almost everything else, but wicked great for my new Feta Cheese socks. After only a week of obsessing I’m through BOTH socks up to the patterned toes, which have me a bit stymied. Still – most of two socks in a week? It’s like I … More ahCHOO!
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