When my buddy Star blogged yesterday that the mayor officially declared this to be Sock Knitting Week in Portland, my Sock Summit excitement reached a new level and I decided that I couldn’t be just a passive Portland knitter in all this sock madness – I need to be a participant! So I did it,Continue reading “My first socks ever + Book Review: Sock Knitting Kit”
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My own personal Best of Portland!
10/22/2011: I’ve been living here in Portland for over twice as long now as when I wrote this post, so perhaps an update would be nice, eh? Most of the places I loved back then, I still love (or at least like) now, but I’ve made many new discoveries, and some things have changed… asContinue reading “My own personal Best of Portland!”
belated photo post, just for fun…
ok this post is way belated – this is the first part of our fun times with pete’s parents playing tourists, before the berry picking and stuff from my post a couple weeks ago. i’ve had the photos plugged into a draft for weeks, and now so much time has passed, i’m just going toContinue reading “belated photo post, just for fun…”
so much spinning!
news first – i’ve become a last-minute vendor for crafty wonderland on sunday! i had just been thinking about how i haven’t done any shows since the holiday season, and i miss them a little, then i got an email that there were cancellations and i said sure! now i’m thinking, july is probably theContinue reading “so much spinning!”
berries, block prints, food, and foof!
pete’s parents came up for a full 2 week vacation, and pete was able to get a total of 6 days off work to hang with them; i managed to take most of that time off too (working on knitting patterns in the car whenever possible) so we had all kinds of adventures! there’s soContinue reading “berries, block prints, food, and foof!”
black sheep ’09!
so much fun at black sheep gathering yesterday! but first things first… baby goats! (the sound isn’t important, so turn off your sound now if you want.) http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5249164&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 i think we were told they’re 4 weeks old. oh so cute! but ok besides that… fiber! we looked at braid after braid of pretty fiber, andContinue reading “black sheep ’09!”
knitting, fairness, fiber, and more knitting
how was your wwkip day? not that we don’t all knit in public all the time, but it’s always fun to have an excuse to go knit with a friend over coffee + ice cream (in my case) instead of staying in and working all day like i normally do on saturdays. i met myContinue reading “knitting, fairness, fiber, and more knitting”
classes, anyone?
hey portlanders, i have some classes coming up!! they are: may 9th (this saturday!): freezer paper stenciling at sellwood library 1pm may 18th: sweater conversion at diy lounge (woodstock location) 5:30pm may 20th: recycled wool sweater jewelry at albina library 5:30pm june 7th: recycled wool coffee cup and mug cozies at gregory heights library 2pmContinue reading “classes, anyone?”
oops this is still a massive post…
wow, the last week was so overwhelmingly awesome, i don’t even know where to start. so i’m going to break it up a bit, to avoid a massive post that you can’t get through… so here’s part 1: fun times with amazing people! friday morning the weekend of crazamazingly crafty fun times (all because ofContinue reading “oops this is still a massive post…”
a couple tutorials
quicky post before my friend gets into town… just want to show you the last couple of tutorials i did for craftstylish. my last button post was a super fun, kid-friendly project – pipe cleaner button displays! as i said in the post, this is a craft project to bring out your inner-child-crafter. I feltContinue reading “a couple tutorials”
Lee Does Stuff 