As you remember, I was crying, jumping up and down, and quietly ecstatic about the yarn Rebecca spun and gave me this past Christmas. I really had not even dared to hope she would give it to me. It was too too pretty and represented a heck of a lot of time and skill. But … More When a Daughter Surprises You
… and back to the mundane again. The mundane, but the lovely mundane. After all, we fight the good fight and run the race so that we can have a good home to come back and enjoy normal, human things, right? And, at least in Christianity, becoming more human doesn’t mean becoming less embodied. That’s … More Fashion Twelve-ward
It’s time for some topical whiplash. I’ve been asking you for the last week to look at new products and buy things, so it seems supremely weird to me to go from that to sharing deep heart-stories. But that’s about the full range of this blog: from marketing to mysteries. From the sublime to the … More Testimony
I always feel a little bad doing a bunch of “work-y” posts in a row – this blog is primarily a form of self-expression, not a marketing tool. But… it is also a marketing tool. We’ve been working our little tushies off trying to do justice to the new Kirby Meritime yarn, and the fact … More Gooseberry
What do you get when you take a Mondrian, chuck all the blacks and whites, and add some curves? Honestly, I have no idea. But that is what Mum thought of when she gazed upon her new completed design, which we are calling Mondrette! (pattern now available on ravelry; kits with pattern included available on … More Mondrette – New Pattern & Kit!
So yesterday, you got the pretty tale of Rose of Sharon: symbolism and style, with which I am immensely pleased, and for which I am immensely grateful, get thou not me wrong. But this was probably the most difficult design I have ever completed, and today you get the Rest of the Story. The first … More Behind the Behind-the-scenes
The idea for this shawl happened all at once, as these things often do. And it happened in church, as it often does to me. We were visiting the Church of the Ascension in that fancy area of Pittsburgh called Oakland, and over the side chapel I spotted this. I was lucky to have my … More Behind the Design: Rose of Sharon
Hello, everyone! This will seem terrifically random and out of context if you are reading it before April 8th, 2012. But it may still be useful to you, because it is a Tutorial on how to perform mattress stitch between two garter stitch selvedges. Here’s the story: Mattress stitch is a lovely technique which, if … More Mattress Stitch on Garter Selvedges
Thanks for yinz’s votes; you definitely helped me narrow down the selection for the tri-color hat I hope to produce shortly. At least, you helped me narrow it down a little. By which I mean almost none… so I did the only reasonable thing one could do; I skeined up all twelve colors and went … More Swatchfest ’12
I have a bag of Kirby Meritime samples – one of each, to be precise. What would you do, if you had a bag of colors sitting by your side, and a paper to avoid writing? You play, of course. My idea: A hat, big and slouchy, with a loud combination of three colors, definitely … More Way Too Much Fun
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