I am saddened to hear that Gore Vidal has died - he was ( as I've pointed out before ) one of my favourite American cultural and poli...

Way back in May , I showed you a progress photo of a wrap that I was weaving.  I finally got the finished project shots back from my photogr...

It was finally cool enough for five minutes yesterday for me to put on these socks for a quick photo shoot.  I finished them a while ago (an...

While the fiber arts are my main passions, I am also an aspiring DIY-er in many other fields, as well.  Artisan breads and cheeses, homemade...

The weather here is pretty unbearably hot, right now.  It's been in the low 30s all week, and without air conditioning, there's been...

The Inspiration Several years ago I saw a project on Ravelry that was using a cardigan from Anthropologie for inspiration.  Sadly, that ...

As you can see from the pretty diagonal lines, I've finished the quilting on my Swoon quilt.  As planned, I just did simple straight lin...

I finished sewing together my quilt top on a few days ago - it went pretty quickly, since it was basically just a matter of sewing some thin...

Although I've mostly been showing off my quilt progress, lately, I have been steadily knitting on one project or another.  While I had C...

A long long time ago, I bought a bunch of variegated sock yarns from Blue Moon Fiber Arts .  Over the years, I've used up most of them, ...