I spent an amazing 48 hours in Ashland and Southern Oregon last weekend and I’m only now getting around to blogging about it. I was felled by a stomach bug the day before last and I’m still not sure if it was the flu or food poisoning but that’s no excuse! Here, now, I’ll tell [...]

Continuing my recent tradition of quickie blog posts, I want to wish you all a Happy Holidays. Have fun whatever you celebrate.

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When I finally overcame my block about the edge for the log cabin blanket, it actually went very fast. I’m very pleased. Instead of working in the round, I knit each edge separately and sewed them at the corners. Easy peasy! Why did I think it would be so difficult?
I threw it around Max [...]

Working two jobs with the possibility of a credential program on the horizon, leaves precious little time for knitting.  This blog post will hopefully reassure you that I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. Not yet anyway.
I knit the “Noro” scarf above using Mochi Plus instead of Noro and it was such an [...]

I’m a huge fan of natural building, urban homesteading and water conservation – among many other things – so I have been particularly interested in what four young women, all natural builders, have been exploring at Villa Sobrante. I got to know Lindsay, Massey, Sasha and Trilby through knitting nights at Artfibers (which they first [...]

Case in point: This is my new REI colleague, Antonia, happily knitting away in the break room. We quickly realized during training – she was training me – that not only were we fellow knitters but that we had actually bumped into each other at Artfibers recently, when she was on a field trip with [...]

I took some time out of my hectic schedule to go to the movies with Alice and Liz. We saw (500) Days of Summer which had some laugh out loud moments and was quite entertaining. It comes highly recommended by me but better hurry – it won’t be in theaters long.
I am NOT recommending Inglourious [...]

I’m not sure if scanning old family photos is the best way to preserve them for future generations. I’ve been reading a lot about digital archiving recently and I wonder what’s going to happen to all the photos in my Flickr account when I die. Should my children have access? What if some nuclear disaster [...]

There hasn’t been much knitting lately and I think I’m suffering from a late summer malaise. I’ve been working on the same old projects, trying to finish a few before I begin any new ones. It’s hot again and all I want to do is go to the beach.
So please bear with me as I [...]

I discovered a very interesting blog post about Budhha shaped pears and other wonky shaped fruit which dovetails nicely with my previous post on pears. Read it – it’s cool. The link came to me through the cool folks at yay!everyday.

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