Best Friend Bandana

It’s National Dress Up Your Pet day! We’ve encouraged everyone at work to participate, with pictures of their pets in our school color (orange!). I’m an equal opportunity pet lover, but I’m surrounded by hardcore dog lovers in the office, so that was the only species we had pictures of today. My kitty, Yobi, is […]

12 Days of Yarn Christmas

Does anyone remember, very long ago, when I geeked out over those yarn advent calendars? And I said that I got one? I’d like to show you Loopy Ewe’s 12 Day of Indie Christmas! I went with this calendar for a few reasons: With 12 yarns instead of 24 or 25, it was much closer […]

Winter Woolfest

One of my favorite fiber festivals of the year is the Winter Woolfest in Wamego, Kansas. Usually in early January, it’s a perfect way to spend that Christmas cash burning a hole in your pocket. Hosted at the historic Columbian Theatre, there’s two floors full of vendors and free classes! It’s well worth the two-hour […]

Shave ’em to Save ’em

I love a good challenge, even more so when it’s for a good cause. Shave ’em to Save ’em is a Livestock Conservancy initiative that’s working to make heritage breeds of sheep more viable to shepherds. There are 22 breeds of sheep on the conservancy’s priority list, four of which are listed as critical (which […]

New Year, Same Me (but with Loftier Goals)

Happy New Year! 2018 was great to me, and what I’m most proud of is I actually completed (some) resolutions I made on this day a year ago: Read 20 books This one isn’t really fiber arts related. I mean, I read fiber arts stuff all the time, but I think that was a little […]

A Holiday Recap

I hope you all had excellent holidays, ’cause I sure did! I love to give of my talents this time of year, so that’s what I tried to do: I made quite a few of these snowflake ornaments and F-bomb stress balls for my coworkers (my sister got an F-bomb too, cause I new she […]

A Holiday Hiatus

Thanksgiving is just about upon us: family is flying in from out of town, menus are being prepared, and battle plans are being made for the Black Friday sales. Of course, you don’t have to fight crowds on Friday if you’re making your holiday gifts. As I’m sure most of you are doing the same, […]

Corset Coffee Cozy

Holiday knitting is now in full swing! First on my list is an appropriately themed coffee cup cozy for my Ren Fest friend, Chrissy. I designed this corset a couple of seasons ago, so I’m super bummed that I missed making her one then, but now I have something for her for Christmas! And really, […]

Line Knitting

I didn’t post on Tuesday because I was in Disneyland! Just a short trip to spend some time with some Disney friends. The one thing you can always count on in Disney is lines, lots of long lines. Phones today are super helpful with that, but batteries can only last so long. I always make […]

Gin the Cotton

We returned from Branson to quite a lovely sight: Dad was able to harvest some of my cotton while we were away! These are just the first four bolls, there’s (hopefully) a lot more on the way. I thought it would be best to gin it (or remove the seeds) as we harvested it, for […]