Archive for July, 2010

Like I need more sock stash. »

I don’t really but who cares. I was in Sausalito last week and I checked out a new LYS on my way to the beach. At the Raverly meet up a few months ago, I had won a gift card to Bluebird Yarn & Fiber Crafts and I’m sorry I don’t have any photos to [...]

Inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. »

My Monday afternoon Methods professor, the eminently esteem-able Dr. Eric Engdahl, gave me and my art cohorts an assignment last week – to create a work inspired by the artist Andy Goldsworthy. I hadn’t even heard of Andy Goldsworthy before last week but I’m so glad I know who he is now. I’m also grateful [...]

Goats and goats and MORE goats! »

Kind of odd this morning that I happened to be driving down Valley View when I spotted hundreds of goats on the hill next to the road. Well it *looked* like hundreds but was probably less than a hundred all munching peacefully on the dried grass. I guesstimate that there must have been at least [...]

At last! I finished something. »

I actually finished this scarf quite some time ago – on May 24 say my Ravelry records -  but only recently found a model whose neck was worthy of this cotton/bamboo blend. Special thanks to Maria for wearing the scarf in what turned out to be a chilly summer day in Concord, California – it [...]

Hitting the books these days – not the needles. »

Homework, homework, homework! That’s all I do these days. It’s pretty dull, I tell ‘ya, and the knitting has been next to nil. Hang in there folks. There’s only four more weeks to go (of the summer session) and then I should have more time for the things I love most. Summer is the slow [...]