I always try to spend the first day of the year doing what I want to do all year. For this year it’s knitting – both starting a new project and working on a WIP – cooking healthy food and spending time with family. Looking back on 2012 I feel like I could have finished […]
Use It or Lose It
shockingly I see a lot of pink, red, purple and green Have you seen talk about Use It or Lose It on the Stash and Burn board? 13 projects in 12 months – a new one every four weeks. With that in mind, most (all?) need to be fairly small. And given I haven’t finished […]
If at first you don’t succeed
I started Elisbeth back in August. I made great progress and quickly knitted through a skein and a half. It looked like it might be larger than what I needed. I measured and yep – too big. So it sat. And sat. And sat. Then I realized that the design looks very similar to a […]
Stash sale 2012
In a fit of “I need to get a tidier house” I put a bunch of yarn up for sale on Ravelry. There’s a lot of great stuff up there – Rowan, Noro, Classic Elite and even a 16 skein lot of Jamieson’s DK. The not-so-great stuff is going in a big bag to Good […]
Eating well
I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately about healthy eating and the role that fats play – saturated, omega 3s, trans fats, mono and polyunsaturated fats. All this reading has made me take a hard look at what I eat and what I’m unconsciously deciding about my health. This isn’t about weight loss or […]
Giving Thanks and Paying it Forward
A couple week ago, Sam posted about a blanket drive she’s hosting for the hospice that cared for her dad. She knows first hand how appreciated and loved these blankets are. I read the description and I was hooked. I wanted to donate a few squares for this very worthy cause. And let’s be honest […]