Posted in embroidery, knitting, tagged Cascade 220, embroidery, knitting, moebius knitting, October Lady Sweater, projects, puppies, scarves, stripes, sublime stitching on November 12, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Hi… so… I know it’s been a while… but I promise… I’m still knitting.
Witness:
The February/October/November? Lady Sweater now has a sleeve. I’m really languishing on the second one (ain’t that the way?) but I’m hoping that scoring some buttons soon will inspire me. Goal is to have this done for the boy’s performance, which approaches [...]
Posted in embroidery, knitting, tagged Cascade 220, embroidery, hedgehogs, home, knitting, log cabin blanket, love, sublime stitching on September 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I finished another tea towel yesterday, and I’m really, really excited about it:
I’ve been wanting to put this idea into stitches ever since I bought Sublime Stitching’s Forest Friends pattern. Two hedgehogs. In love. A reference to me and my boy: I love purple and he loves blue (and was once Sonic for Halloween). I’m [...]
Posted in embroidery, sustainability, tagged conserving, embroidery, kitchen, sublime stitching, sustainability on September 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
My mission for this past week has been to embroider some tea towels. More specifically, my mission was to embroider tomatoes onto a tea towel.
Success. I took the towel with me this weekend and we used it, instead of paper towels, to wipe off our cutting board. The towel was a little stained by the [...]
Posted in food, sustainability, tagged color, conserving, embroidery, farmers' market, local food, peppers, purple, sublime stitching, tomatoes, vegetables on September 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Alarm clock goes off. 6 AM on a Saturday. Gross. I flop out of bed and manage to grab a hoodie and my keys through the fog of slumber. There are a few cats meandering the streets, but that’s about it. It’s early. It’s dark. I’m tired.
But I’m happy. Or I will be. Early Saturday [...]
