What Do You Want to Make Today?
If you’re not a fiber artist you might not have heard of Kaffe Fassett, and if that’s the case he should certainly be on your radar. He is the color guy for knitters and quilters, having designed countless gorgeous, colorful, complex garments and quilts that are heralded as works of art. Adventures in Color Imagine […]
Note: as an affiliate of this program, I will get a little money if you buy it through these links. All opinions are my own and I have really read these resources. If you’ve been following along this year, you know that my word for the year is energy. And for the month of January […]
A lot happened in this first weekend of the new administration that might have people wondering about the state of press freedom, access and coverage coming out of Washington. Even before the inauguration the new administration was talking about changes to the way things are communicated to the press, with the possible elimination of daily […]
The girl is quite literally an Obama baby. I had a doctor’s appointment — after which I’d given myself permission to start trying to get pregnant — the day before his first inauguration. We talked about that amazing concert on the Mall that had me in tears, so full of excitement I was that this […]
Affiliate links are included for your convenience. If you’re connected at all to the knitting world, and probably even if you’re not, you may have heard about the Pussyhat Project, which aims to outfit as many women as possible who are marching in the Women’s March on Washington with hats that look like cats. Even […]
I’ve been on a bit of a mending tear (ha!) recently. I had this huge stack of things that needed to be fixed, and I have other things on my list, but I’m plugging away and thought I would share some basic mending methods with you. Probably the most common problem that requires mending — […]
One of my big goals for 2017 is to read a lot more than I have been for the past few years. I enjoy reading all sorts of books, but I haven’t been reading a lot of fiction lately (unless the Magic Tree House series and other things I read with the girl count) and […]