Category: general

  • Current Textiles at the Yale University Art Gallery

    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

    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.

    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.

    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

    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

    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…