Ornamental
Everything looks better on the beach. Rocks are shinier and more colorful when they're wet. Shells are too, and they don't have nearly the same risk of funny smells when they're still by the shore (that only develops after you've forgotten them in your trunk for a week). This shameless deception leads me to pocket no end of beach-y treasures. They're always less charming when I get them home. You'd think I'd know better by now, but I still fall prey to the shiny every single time. This most recent trip to Maine was no different. I came home with [...]
Inexplicable Urge
So that inexplicable urge I mentioned the other day? It's run its course and I can now tell you about it. There was a point in my misspent youth and childhood where I had a bit of a paper fetish. I was totally the kid folding her exam paper into some sort of unexpected sculpture while I waited for class to be over. So the other day I became absolutely convinced that the world would be a better place if it contained a Christmas tree covered in origami figures of fiber animals. And really, it would. Think of it. Sheep. [...]
Festoon
So...you guys like the tiny hats. First, I feel it necessary to tell you that you can totally make these up on your own. Really you can, I have total confidence in you. But lots of folks sent me messages asking how to do it, so I went ahead and wrote up the pattern. Well, first I made three more hats, and then I wrote up the pattern giving instructions for all seven variations. But, I'd feel a little bit shady taking money for something so tiny, so I've decided that all the proceeds from the sale of this pattern [...]
I May Have a Problem
So the ornaments? The ornaments that seem to be the knitting equivalent of crack? They are teeny tiny hats. Hats that eggs would wear if eggs were inclined to wear hats. And they are so flipping cute I may just die. Do you want to die of an overdose of cute too? I thought so. Ridiculously cute. Ridiculously easy to knit. More or less the speediest thing ever. Next up...likely mittens. These have to go in the mail Monday, so I can't make millions of them, but I think a mitten or two would round things out nicely. You want [...]
Potato Chips
To make sense of my morning, you need to know two things. First, I do not relish the thought of going to the dentist. I have a lovely dentist...skilled, accommodating, and handy with the prescription pad. But still, it is not my favorite place to go. Second, my friends have awesome children. I'm not normally a big fan of kids. Children as a class are known to be sticky, noisy, and a bit pungent. But not the children of my friends. They are all paragons of virtue, charming conversationalists, and very rarely sticky. Now you might not think that these [...]
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