When I was making multiple Ulysses for the admission’s counselors at Cornell College, I had a little bowl of head parts beside a bunch of faces staring at me on my desk. I made five at a time, so it was a funny site sometimes, if a bit macabre. Hopefully you’re ready to begin putting… Continue reading Ulysses Knit Along; Week One, Part Two
A few months ago, I was helping my mom through one of my patterns. My mom is an artist and a very accomplished weaver, but she is still a beginning knitter and was struggling with the increases in the pattern in particular. She didn’t understand initially why I had chosen different increases for different parts… Continue reading Creating Shape; Leaning Increases and Decreases In the Ulysses the Ram Pattern
What a weird/bonkers/bananas spring its been. When the Coronavirus news began to appear from China in late November, early December, I remember having a little shiver of weird feeling about the whole thing, but shelter in place orders and everything being closed were NOT on my spring of 2020 bingo card. I had plans, man.… Continue reading Sock Yarn and Quarantine
Our library trip this week led us to bagels and grandpas, which is ideal for someone like me who has been missing her grandparents lately. For me- This short novella by Fredrik Beckmann- a new favorite of mine. In the introduction, the author says, “This is a story about memories and about letting go. It’s… Continue reading Grandparents and Grandsons; Spending Time and Saying Goodbye
When I was a little girl, I spent a lot of time watching television- as did many of my generation. I spent a lot of time alone, and lived in a neighborhood that was, at times, a bit sketchy. After school, there was nothing I liked better than making myself a snack- usually a yogurt… Continue reading Creativity and Trash- a Bear Story
When I put an offer up for knitting or crocheting services, I usually get about 10 hits, so when this went a lot further- I was very excited! But- I needed to come up with a plan in order to get everyone a hat who needs one. So, here’s the plan: For the next two… Continue reading The Hat Project
Gypsy caravan. I could live in one of those. Easy. If I didn’t have all these other people to think about, that is. I don’t want to go for the whole gypsy/traveler stereotype thing. And the minivan already looks like a clown car when we all pile out, so my dream of caravan and… Continue reading Minimalist Panic episode 2: That really small space I’m always yacking about
We’ve been sorting all morning. Wait. Change that. We’ve been “sorting” for over a month and we’ve come to that nasty place where you think you have a lot done, but the house looks absolutely trashed. Papers everywhere. All of the important and pretty *things* are packed away and out of the way. The detritus… Continue reading A reminder from the starling
My desk sits in our little front room, and is surrounded on the north and east by windows that look into our front yard. This morning, as I was wrestling with a particularly difficult section of an assignment on diversity, I noticed some movement on the ground outside that north window. There were ring-necked doves,… Continue reading The Blessing of Birdseed
It seems I’ve always crocheted. When I was a little girl, my mother taught me the single crochet stitch, sat me down with some red yarn and had me make what turned out to be a wonky, somewhat ugly scarf. During this time, my friend Fawn, who lived outside of town on a little farm… Continue reading Yarn
Wren & Starling 