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The stars are projectors. »

Installation by Jim Campbell at SFMOMA.

Baby oh baby. »

I’m furiously trying to finish this little baby jacket before the big baby shower next Saturday. I made the same jacket, from the pattern Easy Baby Cardigan, for another baby not too long ago. This time I’ve added the hood and it’s for a girl. I know it’s not the color we normally associate with [...]

Sparkle. »

Variations on a theme. »

This has become my default hat pattern and if you want to know the particulars, just contact me. I love figuring out new stripe configurations, in shades of gray of course. Although I must say, the weather here has been positively summer-like, but who’s complaining.  

Happy New Year. From San Francisco. With love. »

The 24 hour hat. »

Yeah so I guess I had a lot of free time today, Christmas day, as many of us do, so I managed to finish a hat for a friend who doesn’t have one. And he’s bald! Normally this friend of mine wears only black but I just couldn’t bear to knit an all black hat [...]

Happy Holidays. »

Lizzie’s first slippers. »

Today I helped my little sister, Liz, felt her first slippers and I felt so proud. Honestly, I had so much fun that it revived my excitement in felting. Liz got it into her brain to make slippers for several members of her boyfriend’s family but I don’t think she realized what she had gotten [...]

Nothing kooler than Koolhaas. »

Finshed a hat, starting a sock. »

I finished another koolhaas this evening but there is not natural light and therefore no photos. You’ll just have to wait until tomorrow. In the interim I give you my latest sock knit from some lovely, stretchy Paton sock yarn I found at Michaels. Sleep well friends and see you tomorrow.