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The Christmas Crafting
I let myself off the hook this year, big time. In fact, there were only four handmade gifts total.
First were the neckwarmers I knit for the boys. Eamonn’s been asking for a scarf lately – last week was so chilly! – so I looked to my go-to pattern and scaled it down for smaller [...]
continue reading "The Christmas Crafting"Collaboration
I’m not always on the ball teacher-gift-wise, but this year, I managed to get it done with a little help from the kids. Erin’s coffee cup cozy tutorial is something I’ve been eyeing since she posted it last year, and I finally decided to try it, when I realized that it’s a perfect project for [...]
continue reading "Collaboration"Playing with old(ish) jewelry
I treated myself to a new goldenrod-colored sweater last week, and a pair of argyle socks to match, and as I was driving home from Target, I was doing what any other jewelry designer would do – taking a mental inventory of my necklaces, trying to remember if I had anything to match my new [...]
continue reading "Playing with old(ish) jewelry"Boys and their hats
Every time I sit down to blog lately, my head fills up with lazy thoughts: I don’t feel like uploading my photos to flickr; I don’t know what to write about; maybe I’ll have a quick peek at my email first. And on and on. Until here we are six days since my last post, [...]
continue reading "Boys and their hats"They’re done…
…and I need a nap.
I finished them last night, but today I needed to pack them up all pretty and safe, and get them on their way. Stopping, of course, to take a picture or two now and then. I don’t like to send custom work out without snapping a photo of it first – [...]
Christmas Mokume
The snow fell yesterday, most of the afternoon in big fluffy flakes. I often say how much I dislike snow, but the truth is that the objectionable part of a snowfall, to me, is its aftermath – the shoveling of it, the driving in it, the trudging through it. The actual snowfall itself is something [...]
continue reading "Christmas Mokume"Crickets
Aside from the chirping of a few lonely crickets, this space has been awfully quiet for the last few days. That sometimes happens here when I haven’t been creative, and there isn’t much of interest to share, but this time a lack of craftiness has not been my issue. In fact, it’s been quite the [...]
continue reading "Crickets"Eight almost down, seven more to go
It has been a whirlwind ornament-making extravaganza over here. I started the first batch of four before Thanksgiving, and for the last two days have been working on the second batch of four. I now have eight very hairy ornaments in need of a trim, and some facial features. They should be all spruced up [...]
continue reading "Eight almost down, seven more to go"Nice to have a weekend project
This weekend we did that thing we sometimes do when Neil will be away at a conference: we went with him and took advantage of the hotel room that would otherwise go largely unused.
When we go to a hotel, the boys enjoy the change of scenery, and would be happy never to leave the room. [...]
One for me, seven for you
Ok, technically, the one that’s for me isn’t even for me to keep – it’s for my MIL, and it’s part of her birthday gift.
I went back to my trusty little blue Knifty Knitter loom this week and made my very favorite neckwarmer pattern: Cashmere Neckwarmer [the only link I can find is to Ravelry]. [...]
