curse and blast!

Sorry the playlist is busted, everybody. I’ve heard rumors about project playlist getting in trouble with the RIAA, which is more serious than a little CEO shuffling. So um, I guess I’ll start looking for a new player…

etsy gift guide number E.

ALL of my spare time is being spent on a pair of badass socks right now. They have reindeerses on them!! Socks really don’t get more badass than that. Thus, I’ve been way too busy and knit-smitten to post. Well that and I keep having to take the reindeer part out [...]

dear tricia,

My friend Tricia’s thinking about yurt life! Yay! Obviously I think you should do it Tricia, the world would be such a better place if we all lived like Ewoks. It would be much cuter, too. But yeah, I remember when I was still just thinking about the whole thing, and [...]

blumen!

My bulbs came!  Yay!  Now I have to plant them.  Not much to plant, only 240 bulbs this year, but I was still crazy excited to see the box on the porch.  I’ve got a decent mix of scilla, muscari, narcissus, tulips, hyacinths, iris reticulata, and crocus, with some snow drops mixed in.  Should be [...]

knitting in the dark.

The kids crashed early last night after an adventure-filled afternoon along the banks of Humason Brook, so I found myself with a few spare hours to make this:

It’s a deformed love child of Zoe Mellor’s striped mitten pattern and Marcia Lewandowski’s Kashmiri mitten flower chart.  I followed the instructions for ages 3-4, but of course [...]