Ephemeral Chaos

Some days, I feel like I've nothing to say when I update my journal, but I actually did manage to do quite a bit last week. 1) I'v...

For one of my craft-it-forward projects for this year, I opted to knit Sir Riley Brown here a scarf. Yarn : Lion Brand Wool Ease (bas...

The bits and bobs of life have piled up, and I had forgotten how useful dots are to clearing them out of my head. I have ambitions to say mo...

The way the animals want to snuggle. The pup will sleep under the covers, and I sometimes end up with three pets curled up with me in the a...

I'm in the midst of a gap in my knitting. I've finished up some major projects (Dreambird, Catkin, swap items) and am holding off on...

I had high hopes for that animal sitcom (dressed monkeys! poop jokes! that perky lead actress! lots and lots of adorable animals!), but I ha...

Things have largely settled down on the chicken front, but it was a challenging spring. Out of our first batch of chicks, one ended up bei...

I'm not teaching this Summer, but as of yet no temp work has come through. This week I made bread pudding from a pack of badly freezer b...

Grades are due in three days, so of course I am quilting. I entered one of the more tractable chickens in our local pet parade a few weeks...

Since my former LYS boss let me go, I have more time on my hands and a lot less disposable income. So this year, we're going to be doing...

I've been having voice issues, literal and metaphorical, of late. Having done some damage at a rock star gig on Thursday, and experienci...

Shortly before Xmas, a friend posted that she was looking for someone to finish a sweater for her. The sweater pieces had been languishing i...

I finally got around to linking two of the blog patterns to Ravelry and to photographing them. First, Helga , a bulky ponytail hat. Second, ...

I've been thinking a lot about stuff lately. Not in the vague sense of "stuff" (as in "I hate that stuff!"), not in...

A few photos of some recent acquisitions: a notions case I bought when I was on a rock-star road trip last weekend. some vintage rick-rack ...

Mardi Gras is almost over, and I didn't get to participate nearly as much as I would have hoped, but I'm using it as an excuse for ...