I had a request to revive a pattern from an older version of the blog: the Wacky Chicken (and variants Silly Goose and Wild Turkey). Please excuse the size of the preview – camera resolution wasn’t great in 2003! Despite my packrat habits, not a lot survived from that version somehow. There was another picture […]
Month: May 2020
Flower break!
The mountain laurels are blooming. So are the azaleas (down on the ground out of shot) and rhododendrons. I should probably fertilize them, but they’re native plants in a fairly native environment (our yard is oak/pine forest, though we’re outside of the technical Pinelands) and are mostly doing fine on their own. The irises are […]
Conquering the unfinished objects
I’ve talked about my ADHD in the past (that is my most-internally-linked post right there), Since my current work has been boring-to-blog stuff like sewing masks and cleaning/rearranging the work area to provide my husband with a dedicated WFH space and me with a dedicated tutorial-photography space, managing it has been extra-fun. So I’m writing […]
Ear savers / Mask extenders
Although I’ve been making my masks with around-the-head elastic, I have found myself wishing for something to give people who have a supply of surgical masks. Which, I’m happy to report, is finally starting to be most of the businesses around here. Enter the ear savers, which snap to the mask loops and go around […]
Bejeweling dragons
I hadn’t planned on making new beanies apart from the demo ones needed for the design instructions. But then I saw the dragonfly design this is based on and, well, here we are. Used-to-was I’d skip right over a design with this many color changes (26 in the original design) but I have a weakness […]