Category: general

  • Hello, again, world.

    Hello, again, world.

    While most of my planning and goal setting happens in the autumn, I often use the new calendar year as a time to make small changes for my business. This year’s shift is to meet the modest goal of flexibility and finding new ways to adapt during this continued and prolonged period of change and…

  • a very good place to start

    a very good place to start

    I’m always curious about origin stories. In my work helping clients with their solo and microbusinesses, I know that customers want to know about how a business began. These stories are part of us, and for many, they are a challenge to pause and share. I realized I’ve never shared my story. Construction In April…

  • Working with Anzula’s Yarns

    Working with Anzula’s Yarns

    I hope this post finds you and yours well as we begin to understand our “new normal.” We adapt. We mourn. We celebrate. We wash our hands. While I (once again) haven’t been consistent in writing here, I’ve been working with yarn and fiber. Some days I work on designs with intricate details that are…

  • swatching & schedule

    swatching & schedule

    Instead of writing here, the time that I normally set aside for this has been devoted instead to swatching. Here’s the resulting pile of some of what I’ve worked up over the past several weeks: This includes yarns from Anzula, Artyarns, Lorna’s Laces, Oink Pigments, and Yarn Over New York. What will these swatches become?…

  • five gift ideas

    five gift ideas

    I know. It’s the time of year when we’re bombarded by lists about the best gifts for everyone we know. While it’s not my personal tradition to go gift crazy this time of year, here are my suggestions for now and year-round! Gift one: Time Right now everyone wants more time. Perhaps you could help…

  • tangled frogs

    tangled frogs

    I didn’t mean to vanish. Sometimes yarn has other plans for you. It can also happen that one issue cascades others. Over recent weeks I’ve felt that my superpower has been to tangle yarn and redo the same project multiple times. drops It began with dropping a couple of stitches off the knitting machine. While…