Category: general
Current Textiles at the Yale University Art Gallery
Since its reopening in late 2012, I have spent quite a bit of time at the Yale University Art Gallery. It’s an easy day trip out of NYC, and they have a great collection and often many wonderful special exhibits. I wrote about my first impressions at my personal blog in January 2013. Our other…
yarn love today and every day
While I’m not participating in #yearofmaking this year, I decided to join the #yarnlovechallenge for February. What is this challenge? It’s a daily photo challenge with yarn-themed prompts from @maryheatherb & @oharethey. There’s also a Ravelry group if that appeals to you. Why? I missed the community around my daily posts (not that I wasn’t…
onward. together.
It will take me a while to completely process Saturday’s march and the national and global sister marches. The power I felt Saturday night looking at photos, I’m not sure how to describe that feeling. I don’t have the right words yet and that’s ok. While Saturday’s moment is now history, the movement needs us…
creating the right design… for you and me.
As I pursued various books and websites looking for a topic to write about today, a passage I read in Edie Eckman‘s book, The Crochet Answer Book, 2nd Edition, jumped out and stuck with me. I often stand on the abyss of feeling that I’m an imposter; I didn’t study art or design in school,…
looking forward
Almost everywhere lately I hear it, the industry has changed. Which industry? Honestly all of them, but specifically around the fiber needle arts (knit/crochet/spin/weave) world, something has changed and shifted over the past few years and intensified in recent months. What does that mean for little acorn creations? Nothing. Everything. Really? Nothing? little acorn creations…
Slow spins
After spinzilla, I like to focus on slow spins. Why? I enjoy the process and working through the lessons I learned during the week of intense spinning. What did I learn? I have a default spin setting. I haven’t completed a WPI calculation on my yarn yet, but I believe it’s quite similar to last…






