I had a visit last month from a friend, a small, multi-coloured pachyderm named Cake the Nellyphant. Cake is a well-travelled little guy. He’s been to places near and far since departing from his home in Kentucky, visiting with members of my favourite online knitting group, The Completely Pointless and Arbitrary Group on Ravelry. And [...]
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A Visit from Cake
Posted in knitting, quilting, thoughts, tagged Cake, Completely Pointless and Arbitrary, elephant, Nellyphant, Ravelry, tourism by proxie, travel on Tuesday April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One Year Along!
Posted in fibre art, knitting, quilting, thoughts, tagged anniversary, fibre art, knitting, quilting, round-up, year on Friday February 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today is the first anniversary of this blog! I can’t believe how quickly time flies by. I know it’s a cliche to say that, but it doesn’t make it any less true.
One of my primary reasons for starting this blog was to give myself a little extra incentive to spend more time on my crafts. [...]
A Philosophy of Crafting
Posted in thoughts, tagged craft, knitting, philosophy, process, quilting, Slow Cloth on Wednesday January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A friend sent me a link to this great blog entry about Slow Cloth, a philosophical approach to crafting that really struck a chord with me. The writer, Elaine Lipson, lists 10 qualities of crafting that she feels define Slow Cloth. Most of them have to do with the process of crafting, with concepts like [...]
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