This month’s Harney and Sons shipment has landed, and it’s all about the green! The organic plain green has a nice grassy, vegetal smell, and the Japanese Sencha is more vegetal with fruity overtones. I have to admit, green teas are not my favorites, by and large. I will go for black tea over almost… Continue reading Tea For Two: June = Green Tea
We finally got out to see Godzilla: King of the Monsters this evening. We almost didn’t. We were both tired. The showtimes meant coming home for dinner and then hanging around for a while and then going back out, which is a thing that almost never happens for us. But we went, and boy am… Continue reading Go Go Godzilla!
It was a big chore night, so I didn’t get any knitting in tonight. Parts of the house are significantly less dusty and disorganized than they were just a few scant hours ago, though! I did sneak my shawl along to work and hid for 15 minutes at lunch so I could get a row… Continue reading So Many Chores!
This has been a satisfyingly yarny weekend! I did have some errands to run and chores to do, but in amongst all that, I did get to do a lot of knitting 🙂 I did get some done on Forest Weave, but it really doesn’t look any different than it did before. There’s a bit… Continue reading Very Yarny Weekend
Work has been pretty crazy for the last several weeks, and sadly is going to stay crazy for a few weeks more. Evenings have been sort of hectic too, so I haven’t gotten as much crafting time in lately as I would have liked. I’ve been grateful for the relaxing time I have had, but… Continue reading Weekend!
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post listing all the yarn shops I knew of in Alaska. We get a lot of visitors, many of whom may be crafters who would like to know where to pick up some yarn while in Alaska. In the time since I wrote that original post, a… Continue reading An Updated Guide to AK Yarn Shops for Visitors
Section 2 of the beaded version of my new shawl design (NSD) is done, and moving into section 3! The pattern and beading should stand out a bit more after blocking 🙂 The yarn and beads for section 3… Hoping to get through section 3 by Friday, then I plan to get back at Forest… Continue reading More Beads
After years of avoiding it, I finally did it – I tried spinning! My crafty friend loaned me a selection of her hand spindles, a book, and also a big bag of different types of roving. Saturday night DH was at a WWII movie night, so I settled in with a Bluprint class on spindling… Continue reading Spun Right Round
I did get a lot of knitting time in yesterday, some of it in public, and managed to get my Apple Swizzle hat done! The pattern is by Thea Colman (Baby Cocktails) and the main feature is dip stitches. Dip stitches are when you pull extra loops of yarn through the fabric you are knitting… Continue reading Apple Swizzle Hat is Done!
Quite A Yarn 