Category: general
snow day spindling
When it snows (and sleets) in mid-March, sometimes you just need to spend a bit of time with a spindle in a bright happy colourway. Pictured is a tiny turkish spindle with Happy Fuzzy Yarn BFL/silk in colourway Kelp.
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…