Ephemeral Chaos

Honestly, I feel a little silly posting a pattern for what is essentially a garter stitch rectangle, but I did find it helpful to have finis...

I knitted nine pussyhats for the women's march in January, then offered to knit some Geneie Pussyhats for anyone who would buy the yarn...

I actually have been knitting and knitting a lot. I need to reach a certain income threshold due to Missouri's butt-headed insistence on...

I had said earlier that some of the Jane Austen packages were really random, so once mine went out and I began to wait for my incoming packa...

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...

I struggled with this one more than I expected. I wanted to send Jane Austen Knits, but it cost $15, half of the swap budget.  It also seeme...

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...

Only the right one actually. A few years ago, I knitted a pair of mitts for a musician friend, and he eventually lost one. He seemed...

A very winding yarn follows. A few months ago on my way back from a gig in Tennessee, LB and I stopped in Paducah, KY where I found this g...

Last year at this time, my bathtub was full of baby chicks. This year, although I really really really wanted chicks again, I opted to use t...

Behold the last FO of 2012 and the first of 2013: My friend Tempest Tea gave me some beautiful Plymouth Bazinga for Christmas, not k...

Teacher training is tomorrow, and I've written about the various annoyances of it practically every year since I started blogging. ...

Last week, I sat down and did a needle inventory, which ended up taking several hours. In the process, I forced myself to deal with my UFOs,...

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...

I almost didn't sign up for this swap, but I'm really glad I did. The theme was Garden of Live Flowers/Looking-Glass Insects, which ...

Last month I was down in Hot Springs for a couple of rock star gigs. While the band was rehearsing, I explored the town. LB swears we spent ...

After the event, we toured the Hunter-Dawson home and I photographed a few gems, including this blue glass darning egg (prob. 20th century,...

One of my first events this spring took place down in New Madrid, and I am finally getting around to posting the pix. LB and I had gone to...