I've been knitting my first top down raglan sweater, the pattern is called "the step by step sweater" by Florence Miller and you can find it here: pattern There is also a corresponding youtube

New toy alert: my Ender-3 V3 KE + Linux Mint are cranking out yarn-ball tool holders and totally feeding my maker brain.

Roughly 9500 stitches later and here it is! This is the second sweater I ever completed using crochet and I am very happy with how it turned out :) It's for my mother and she is close enough to the same

Weekend Experiences sometimes last longer than a weekend!

Finally got my needles out again: found a new knitting group and a knit along.

Slideshow of yarn shop shenanigans

Relaunching a small business

Thoughts on life as a Fiber Artist

There is something about fiber arts and gaming that just seems to go together perfectly. Maybe it's the fact that they are both creative endeavors that allow you to escape from the real world for a while.

We are seeing a revival of natural plant fibers in the world of textiles. Once, we used a much wider variety of plant fibers than we do today. What happened? In the 1960s, synthetic fabrics overshadowed

Fiber Artist Returns to Hive

Woke up to more rain and had nearly half an inch in the gauge. It did not last much into the morning before the sun popped out from between the clouds. It got windy and bits of rain fell as little cells

Another super early morning, I was out the door and on the road by 5am headed to town to pickup grain from one brewery. There were 6 1/2 barrels that I condensed into 6 so it was easier to strap them down.

Sundays always seem to have us up later which gives the nice change of having light. I woke up with my head draining which was welcome but not the most enjoyable. The heat of the water and the steam help

Last year, 2020, I refound my love for knitting. I finished 25 projects - mostly socks. They are one of my favorite thing to knit. All my grandchildren received a pair and my son got a little bit jealous.

My youngest son is a true minimalist. He has few things and what he has, he likes to be a particular way. As a skater, a beanie seemed a useful gift. He picked the wool from my stash - a 100% Merino worsted

These patterns represent dragons. It was so much fun to knoll it, but unfortunately - or fortunately for my friend- I made them too big for me. They were a lot of fun and I might make another pair soon...

Spent most of the day organizing and going through paperwork. I so hate that. Had an early dinner and took a shower. I did cut my hair in the afternoon and needed to wash off little hair pieces. Finally

Hey Hivers. I'm taking a break from travel blogging today to share some art with you. During quarantine, I made a quilt! For those of you unfamiliar with quilting (I've found it's not very well-known in

Morning! I finished a hat last week and continued to make progress on the huge throw blanket I am working on. I was in a training class for Tuesday and Thursday and that gave me some time to work on the