Every once in a while I run across a craft that is both stupid simple and very lovely. I am always torn when I have found such a craft. They are the perfect sort of thing to give as gifts, but if I brag about how easy they are, or worse, post a tutorial, then […]
Read more "Stupid Simple"A few weeks ago I mentioned that some of our friends had been very generous with the bamboo from their yard, and that even after making a large number of tomato frames I had quite a few pieces of bamboo left. Today’s Mother’s Day project is finished and I have several fewer. It’s a little […]
Read more "What to do with bamboo"The strawberry plants that were bearing flowers at the beginning of last month are now bearing fruit, quite a lot of fruit actually. We pay our tithe to the local critters, but we are certainly getting enough for our purposes. Last year I remember seeing these awesome pictures of raspberries suspended in soda. I thought […]
Read more "Summer Strawberries"I’m late getting my post up this week because I had a wonderful weekend. I have two food related items to post today. The first is a thank you to my cousin, Leah, for posting this recipe to Facebook. She was absolutely right. This recipe for biscuits is amazing! I have probably had better, but […]
Read more "Successful Culinary Weekend"As those of you who know me, or who read me on any kind of regular basis know, my professional training is in science. So when faced with a problem, in this case, my less than enthusiastic feeling for my last knitting project, my immediate approach to figuring out what went wrong, is to experiment. […]
Read more "Science of Knitting"The problem with knitting, for me anyway, is that it is a cold weather activity. I never think of starting a knitting project until after it begins to get cold (not cool, cold). And since, I start most knitting projects by spinning the wool, and I am not a particularly fast knitter, I never finish […]
Read more "The Problem with Knitting"It’s spring break here, and for me that means that my children and my husband are both home for an entire week. That’s a really good thing for my garden, but first, unfinished business! Last summer we received from a Freecycler, a porch swing. The fabric was the worse for wear, but the frame was […]
Read more "It’s that time again…"In my last post, I left you wondering what had happened to the other 2 and a quarter pounds of my Finn fleece. Admit it, you’ve been worrying about it all week. So here is how it breaks down. 12 ounces of the fleece, I didn’t even bother to wash. The fleece had not been […]
Read more "Never felt this way before"My birthday was last month, and rather than sock the money I received away to justify all the little extra craft purchases I make, I decided to splurge on a somewhat larger toy. Enter the Drum Carder. A Brother Drum Carder to be precise. What is a drum carder? It is a mechanism for preparing […]
Read more "Batting a Thousand"Here are the roses that I worked up. There was one more that was such a complete failure that I couldn’t bear to post it. Unfortunately, scatter-brain that I am, I can’t find the little piece of paper that I took notes on while I was making the patterns, so I can’t post them. 🙁 […]
Read more "Ratta Tat Tat (Part II)"