Sorry I haven’t written, but I was runnning around Montana with my father and brother.

We were in Glacier National Park just two days ago and I can’t believe it. Coming back is always hard! The blog will likely be quiet this week as I get back into the grind. In the mean time, you can [...]

Despite my extreme interest in crocheting lately (which, I predict, will cease and desist once I have to work up the sample for the class I am teaching), I have also been doing some sewing lately.

This weekend I worked on more scraps for the scrap quilt. It’s so colorful, and I’m pleased so far. I [...]

I finished my orange socks yesterday. Woohoo. I am so excited about them, they make me want to try all new sorts of things and buy all sorts of yarn. Except that I think I have some stash yarn that might work for another pair. The one thing that I think is important when it [...]

It seems that I’ve transitioned into making footwear lately. It started with these booties for Ruby, which led to another pair of booties (commissioned by my sister).

I love the way they came out. I didn’t add buttons to this pair because I don’t personally know the recipient so I used felt flowers instead (don’t worry, [...]

Yesterday I felted some rocks just for the heck of it. I was felting something else, something to be revealed later, and I already had all the materials so I knew I had to try it when I saw this tutorial. And a good tutorial it was! I had a couple of problems, mainly smacking [...]

Sometimes there comes a point when, as a freelancer, there just isn’t a heck of a lot going on. I’m there. And while on the one hand it starts that familiar worry of “Will I ever have a project again? Where will my $ come from?” on the other hand it’s a chance to chill [...]

This weekend I got started (and finished) another skirt for fall. I had one yard of very cute apple corduroy in my stash, which I’ve been saving  forever because there wasn’t enough fabric to make anything to wear with it. After I made the denim skirt last weekend I realized that it didn’t take that much more than a [...]