Category: Craft

Things I make and do.

  • I’m not sure you all are interested in my knitting projects, but I thought I would post the finish of a year long project: my Year In Temperatures scarf. I finished it on New Years Eve and wove in a billion ends on New Years day and wore it to work yesterday. It’s very rustic…

  • A year in temperatures

    Inspired by my IG buddy, Heather,  I decided to start on a Year In Temperatures scarf sometime around mid May. I have been knitting a row for each day of the year, the color of the row determined by the temperature of that day. I have assigned a color for each range of 5 degrees,…

  • Welcome to my new crafty obsession 

    I’ve always had a fascination with paper crafts but have never delved very far into that world. When scrapbooking was popular I was, for some reason, repelled by it but also had a strange fascination. This interest ebbs and flows.  Recently I was in a local craft store buying art supplies and found myself drawn…

  • Pussy hats galore

    In my post about the Women’s March I talked a little bit about the lead up to the march and my indifference. At the time, I didn’t see the point of protesting. I didn’t see how it could accomplish anything. As I pondered these thoughts I kept seeing these hats pop up on my IG…

  • I spent some time last Monday doing more cyanotypes. I made them 4×6 so I could use them as postcards for the postcard swap. I am really enjoying this printing process. I am learning all kinds of things about printing in general, and specifically contact printing (which I am finding myself interested in). In case…