Monthly Archives: June 2012

A Parade of FOs.

What better thing to do on a hot, hot summer day than blog.  I was so excited yesterday to chop all my hair off!  It feels and looks so different, but I love it.  It’s so me. :) I finally got around to photographing a couple of the things I’ve finished! I actually made this...

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Feeling the Weight of the Stash

Hi fiber friends, how are you all?  If you are in the south like me, hopefully you have not melted yet… looks like it’s going to top out at about 100 degrees today at precisely the time I have to photograph a maternity session.  (I don’t talk a lot about my photography here, but if...

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Georgia Vest – Done!

Done and not an “ugh” as I feared… quite the opposite!  It’s amazing what blocking can do. So the pattern is the Georgia Vest by Cecily Glowik MacDonald.  It is a suuuuper simple knit, I’m not kidding guys.  Barely any thinking involved.  The only mod I did was leaving the buttons off.  I never planned...

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Recently

1) Finishing up my Georgia Vest, which I am afraid, in the terms of Ravelry, may end up being an “ugh.” :(  We will see after the thing is blocked. 2) Malabrigo Sock skein yarn barf swift disaster.  The entire skein ended up in the trash, which really hurt for this frugal knitter.  And this...

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Gulf Shores

This post is not fiber related in any way, so feel free to skip this post if you like.  I just thought I would share a few snapshots from our time at the beach. Gulf Shores, Alabama is so pretty…it does feel tourist-y but not as heavily crammed with other vacationers as, say, Panama City...

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