It is only fair that I tell you all about my latest geeky fiber project, The Beekeeper's Quilt.

It is a knitted thing where you stuff little hexagons and sew them together in to a quilt whatever size you can endurance-knit up to.
So my kinda thing.

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Today was the last day of the Belvidere Christmas rush ( Read more... )

So here is the silk I dyed:


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I cut (half) of a lock of hair off this morning to poke into a dye-bath, just to test it out ( Read more... )

Today's been a pretty good walking of the impossible line for last-day-before-work day: both accomplishing things and getting a break.

Morning Pages. Posted new yarn to Etsy*. Watched The Half-Blood Prince**. Did laundry. Did yoga. Wrote some fiction pages. Ate a couple of times.

Right about now I'm panicking about not having updated my Tumblr, or ( Read more... )

Today I managed to do everything, except write, which is next.

I'm not always writing what I *want* to be, right now (my novel is fighting, I think because I'm boring it) but at least getting to do something. Okay, not always writing what I THINK I should be. Not the same, eh?

I'm not doing good posting about my second round with The Artist's Way, ( Read more... )

some better (but not great) photos of the KoolAid project.


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Today I went for a driver's license exam. To my own surprise (there was some hairy second-guessing on that park-on-a-hill maneuver) I passed!

At the tag agency I also registered to vote.

I have done neither before, and I turn 26 this year. I don't know if I am doing these things because I care more, or I care less, but I feel pretty good about it ( Read more... )

So the other day I scored some sweet footwear at Goodwill:


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I just remembered it's not just Protect the Boss and City Hunter I haven't finished yet, because they got too serious to spin to. I haven't finished Secret Garden or Runaway Plan B, either.

(Though of the last three really good ones, Runaway Plan B is the easiest to slip into, and I've watched it the most steadily.)

Man. Have I finished *anything* ( Read more... )