On Friday, I met up with a few friends after Adoration. One of them, Jill, handed me two large bags of fiber that had been donated to the Pregnancy Aid charity that my church does. She said the people that did the knitting rejected the yarn because it wasn't the right size. Whomever donated this yarn went to a lot of trouble to go to the pricey ( Read more... )

Holy crap, it's less than a week to Christmas!

Checklist (are you paying attention thomryng1. Menu planning (so far, only meat figured out ( Read more... )

Fiber Friends please check out this auction:

The NW Shetland Sheep Group is holding an online benefit auction for the Black Sheep Creamery, one of the family businesses devastated by the flooding in Lewis County, Washington. The Gregorys recovery will be long and difficult. We all have things to be thankful for, and especially that we can help ( Read more... )

A friend of mine who's been battling cancer on and off has been diagnosed with (chemotherapy induced) Leukemia. Seems you go often enough and your immune system gets blown out. I've got some yarn and I'll be making her a prayer shawl from a free download on a vintage crochet site. Some of the shawls I've seen on the prayer shawl site are... well ( Read more... )

I love crochet. I love the fact that it's different and the skill needed for it comes from a quieter place in my head. I also acknowledge that any dimwit can make "art" out of crochet but not everyone can make artfully crafted crochet. I have seen the rape and pillage of "crochet art" on the web and it's not pretty people! I don't read Crochet ( Read more... )

Kim Werker just emailed me.

While Hairpin Lace isn't technically crochet it uses the hook and either single or double crochet. There's a lot more to it than I learned at Madrona this week. The basics are all I need to get started ( Read more... )

I'm in the Fiber Frenzy room... I'm teaching myself something new, the provisional cast on using the crochet hook. Why praytell am I doing this...this... abomination? Because I just bought One-Skein Wonders and fell in love with the cute little beret. Thinks I to myself, "Self, this is cute... make it out of that gorgeous Blue Faced Leicester that ( Read more... )

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At 6:15 am Monday morning I saw a man with the face of JFK and the dreads of Ziggy Marley. The Check Coolant light went off in my head. This was in sharp contrast to the four days that I spent among several hundred white women in ponchos. The same light went off when Stephanie Pearl McPhee spoke about the uncoolness of knitting my initial reaction ( Read more... )