I had a little help during the … … sixteen-hour knitting marathon involved to get this blocked and wrapped for Christmas. and thoroughly enjoyed the making and gifting this year. Now I’m off to Vogue’s Knitting Live Event in NYC. Yipp-ee-i-ay! This is one of those things that’s been on my “List of Things to…
Category: 2012
New Photography Notebook Available
I’ve been playing in the photo archives and now there’s a new notebook in my shop over on blurb! “The Write of Passage” is a lined-page notebook, embellished with path, entryway, and window photographs, all of which were taken in New England and New York state. Click here to preview.
Sing a Song of Gingerbread
There’s nothing like having company over to motivate me to organize piles of books, discarded mail that needs shredding, fabric-waiting-for-a-project, and at this time of year, holiday catalogs that I feel as though I must look through at least once for fear of missing that great something. On the first Saturday every December a group…
New e-card says Thank You
A ‘thank you’ in words alone did not seem enough, so I embellished one of the vintage copyright-free downloads from The Graphics Fairy to accompany a little email note expressing gratitude for yesterday’s festivities. My brother Anthony is the co-founder of the pretty-darn-famous OTTO pizza restaurants. Yesterday he closed his Coolidge Corner (Brookline, MA) location and…
How to Reinvent a Life When You’re 84
I held her hand through the forty-five minute MRI scan of her brain and chest. We had not shared such extended proximity to one another in decades. That afternoon she had crumpled on the sidewalk outside the senior center. After refusing medical attention, she was eventually lured into the ambulance by my cousin, who lives…
My Interpretation of the Gypsy Rose Blanket
Remember this garden-inspired basket of yarn stash? The transformation into a very different kind of flower bed has begun — one that will keep me warm and cozy while snuggling on the sofa with a good book this winter. The Gypsy Rose Blanket made by British crafter Adaliza is constructed with crocheted squares, but I…
There’s a Blanket in the Garden
Since the moment I laid eyes on Adaliza‘s crocheted wonder, Gypsy Rose, in Kristin Nicholas’ blog post, I was full-on in love, but working with wool in the heat and humidity of summer is not what I do, so I went a little wild and ordered a mountain of Kristin’s Julia yarn (discontinued but recently reissued as…
Studio Peek and new eCard
This week’s eCard is a photo from my weaving studio a few years back. I love using other artists’ color palettes and seeing where they take me in my own work. The watercolor print card of summer peaches on a lavender tablecloth is still one of my favorites, and made delicious inspiration for the shelf-top…
Anatomy of a Craft Idea
Did you know that gladiolas are August’s flower? Perfect segue to today’s post. The handwoven shawl in the photos below all began with a single one of these, in a deep fuschia. The technical details are: the shawl is an 8-harness twill, woven with three different tones of pink warp threads (those vertical and threaded…
Dipping into the Sketchbook Archives to Get my Groove Back
This drawing and the two below dating back to my twenties, when I was a weaving student in western North Carolina and lived in an authentic log cabin that had been brought down the mountain by mule, in pieces, and reconstructed next to a brook and a stand of oak trees. And from my memoir, Girl…