For the readers of my blog who don’t know already, I am an avid baker (and cook in general). When I was younger I used to want to be a chef but then somewhere between the age of 12 and 14 I realized (smartly) that that would be way too much stress for me. From [...]
It’s true, I haven’t totally fallen off the face of the earth into some unknown abiss but I have been very busy spinning.
This is 4.3oz of BFL that I bought from It’s a Colorful Life at Black Sheep. I really love the colors but the top was felted a bit – apparently the sheep fumes [...]
I haven’t gotten my act together enough to take pictures of my knitting however, I’ve been very busy spinning.
8 ounces and 747.5 yards of fingering weight 2-ply yarn from the superwash merino that I go from Crown Mountain Farms in the Hotel California colorway (with a quarter for scale). It will be used for what [...]
So I’m playing the procrastination game in regards to my blog right now, major progress however, has been made with my cardigan though and I have more spinning. Both need pictures taken though – hopefully that’ll happen tonight or tomorrow morning. That being said – a friend of mine found a meme on the Very [...]
So now that the first few days of the Ravelry Olympics are over, I’ve made pretty good progress (that’s what happens when you neglect most everything else).
Above is the Rambouillet that I got from Lisa in exchange for short-row lessons. It ended up being about 8 ounches. I really really love it, the color looks [...]
Today, August 8th, 2008, is of course the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympics (well ok the soccer prelims started two days ago – you can watch them on NBC’s website if you are in the US) but its also the start of the Ravelry Olympics, also known as the Ravelympics.
For those of you on [...]
My blog got an award the other day!
The person who writes NeedleFingers awarded this to me, along with lovely people like Neuroknitter and Abby (which were two people I would have awarded it to). So, onto the rules and then my choices:
1) Show the award. Link back to the blog that gave you the award.
2) [...]
Reasons why I love the rain
And because I’m not Neuroknitter and didn’t feel like puting my knitting amongst the flowers (if I did it would envelop them and what’s the point in that)…
