maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach(to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were;
Flex Pen Alert!
If you’re at all interested in getting a reasonably priced, flexible nib fountain pen, the new Noodler’s Ahab pens are going on sale at noon today over at Goulet Pens. I’ve got two of the original flex pens, which I
Making Mandalas
Crossposted from the Deadly Divas Everyone has their own way of expressing emotion, of managing anxiety. A year or so ago, when I was digging through reviews of various fountain pens, I stumbled across a blog called Spiritual Evolution of
Peeved at the TV
I get it. Christmas is coming. There are cards and trees and tinsel and badly played tinny renditions of carols on every other commercial on TV. (It’s only mid-November, so it’s not /every/ commercial yet) But that’s not all that
Priorities
Left Mitten, unblocked. Pattern is Bella’s Mittens, by Marielle Henault. I’m just now casting on its opposite. Yarn is Malabrigo Merino Worsted (single spun) in colorway Pearl Ten, held double. Knit on size 8 circular (yes, I know the pattern
Tour de Fleece
Apologies in advance for the whining, but I’m a little frustrated. Granted, I did not manage to spin every day of the Tour, but I came pretty close (I did go on vacation for part of it, and airports don’t
Woad is me!
Took out a lock of the fleece from the indigo bath, squeezed it all out, let it dry, rinsed it well, squeezed it again, and let it dry some more. It’s blue! Soft grey blue right now. The chemical reaction
I should’ve painted my face too…
So my usual illumination stuff for Monday nights got canceled today. Instead, I went to go hang out with the fiber arts people, who have been having fun with raw fleece. I thought I’d be safe, since they’ve already washed
Not out of the woods yet
But Max is doing better. He did eat today (though not much) and, as unglamorous as it sounds, I’m watching the cat boxes closely. Somewhere, inside my cat, is a hair elastic. It really needs to be in the litter
New Books!
Three books arrived in the mail today! Yay! Especially for a day that started out with cat barf at 5am. Things I Learned from Knitting (whether I wanted to or not) – Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (also known as The Yarn Harlot).