So I have been knitting… not much, but some. I have a finished sleeve on Jared’s alpaca, a sleeve that I am calling finished even though I haven’t decided what to do about a major error involving failure of forethought and requiring another two inches of knitting. I was all set to show it to … More A Big Dang Problem
The first week of May it was so hot that the unshorn sheep at the festival were being frickasee-d in their own skin. Two weeks later, everyone in the same zip code is pulling out their sweaters and raincoats and layering up, because it’s COLD outside. This is good for me, though, because it means … More In like a lion, out like an… icicle?
I was not terribly planning to blog yesterday, but if I had been, I would have had a really good excuse not to blog. Here is a bad picture of it: Do you see, on that big tree in the middle of the photo, that toward the top of the photo the tree has a … More A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
It’s finally happened, folks! I am a publish-ished designer. By that I mean that I got a pattern carried by a major yarn company, and I got paid for it, even though the pattern does not necessarily exist anywhere in physical form. See it in its natural habitat here. I am, as ever, jazzed by … More An Awspishus Day
It’s well into the afternoon, and I think I’m finally over my hangover headache. We may or may not have attended an excellent cinco de mayo party last night at which Jared proved that the ice crusher he got at a yard sale is totally worth the real estate it takes up on my shelf. … More Fleecy Farmy Friends
Around 1:30 today, we finally made it back to the show for our non-working day, and we blitzed through the festival in fine style. I learned a ton of things just wandering around the big sheep barn with the guys, so I shall share some of them with you. I learned that you can tell … More Sheep & Wool 2010 Day 2: Shopping! Sheep! Sheep shopping?
I am so tired. and I need a shower. So badly. but because I love you, my bloglings, I will write a post for you with the awesomeness and stupendous insanity that was today, at day one of Sheep & Wool 2010. I got the the fest around 8:10, and so my mummy doesn’t kill … More Sheep & Wool 2010 Day 1: Retail! Spinning Children!
I hope you know what tomorrow is. It is the day of all wooly reckoning. It is… MARYLAND SHEEP & WOOL 2010
What is it about a place that gets under your skin? I wanted to mediate on this, so before we started packing all of our crap, I spent some time taking pictures of our home, while it still felt like home. It was really hard letting go of this place. This is the longest time … More Closure
We’d more or less decided to go to Trinity over Gordon-Conwell (pending acceptance, of course), until we looked over our receipts from last week’s trip and discovered a crucial fact. Apparently, Massachusetts does not tax yarn purchases. FINALLY, a state that UNDERSTANDS that yarn is just as rudimentary an essential as, say, milk! or broccoli! … More Deal Changers
Osborn Fiber Studio 