Okay yous guys, so the coolest thing is going to happen next month. Four years ago, for the last winter Olympics, the Yarn Harlot came up with this crazy thing she called the Knitting Olympics. The idea is this: you pick a project that will be challenging (but not impossible) for you to complete in … More Olympic Training Camp
I think that, with knitting, part of the idea is that you gain the ability to recognize mistakes early on in your work. That way, before you’ve done, say, a quarter of a given piece, you realize when something has gone wonky, and you fix it before you’ve invested too much time in it. Well, … More On Frogging
Doris Beall, the spinning wheel. Surnamed after my two favoritest senseis in all of Tung Soo Do, and so that Jared could introduce her in a rhyming couplet. Forenamed because… Well… okay, I have no idea why. I just looked at her and thought… “Doris!” and it stuck. (Before you think I’ve totally lost it … More Meet Doris
I’ve got to admit… it’s kind of hard to blog when your house is a complete mess of destruction and mayhem. And it’s kind of hard to blog about your house being a complete mess of destruction and mayhem when you utterly fail to take “before” pictures. That’s right, we’ve been remodeling! Well, not remodeling… … More While You Were Sleeping
It’s not raining outside, but it’s raining in my brain… not really anything new or interesting to blog about. So I will give you this little bit of funny that I’ve been saving for just such an occasion. Every day, after I make our pb&j sandwiches, I pull out the plastic wrap, and see this: … More Rainy Day
A lot of people are intimidated about knitting. If you’re reading this and you know me, you might be one of the many people who has said things to me like along the lines of, “Wow, you are so talented; I could never do that.” I realize this is meant as a compliment, but it … More Intimidation
We walked into our house when we got home from Urbana, and it was 47 degrees indoors. The heat went on. Fjord and Zerg…. we’ll get you next year. I felt all hardcore until we went to drop off my brother’s Christmas present at his Towson apartment last night. He greeted us at the door … More Defeat
Christmas is over in every possible way, but we were gone during the season’s 12 days of celebration, so the tree is still up. Taking it down has not even made it into conversation yet. Also, you haven’t seen it yet. So here it is, with another new project: (You also get a good view … More Christmas is over, but I’m not over Christmas
You may think that I dutifully wrote those posts for you every day after Christmas. I hate to break it to you, my ducklings, but I stayed up until early on boxing day scheduling them dutifully to post while we galavanted away in St. Louis. Why do I break your hearts with this news of … More Hats Galore!
As Michelle so astutely observed, the eleventh day of Christmas is missing. You are probably asking yourselves why this is? Well, the reason is that I cannot count. The last post was supposed to be the eleventh day of Christmas, and the twelfth day of Christmas was supposed to be missing. So the question you … More The wrong day is missing…
Osborn Fiber Studio 