Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Category: Craft

Things I make and do.

  • crafty distractions

      I received my held copy of Mason Dixon Knitting: Outside the lines from the library. Can I say? I love it. I think I need to buy it because I want to make lots of patterns from the book. I was immediately intrigued by a pattern they call the Cardi Cozy. It is a…

  • Life in 2 inch strips

    So last Saturday I woke up and as I laid there in bed I thought about (as I often do) crafting. Usually I think about my current project but not this time. This time I was thinking about a certain kit that had in my closet. A quilt kit that had been sitting in there…

  • False Start

    My week of knitting has had a false start. I cast on my second Water project for Project Spectrum, the Indigo Ripples skirt from IK Spring 2007. I worked on it for a couple of days and decided that I needed to start over. I can’t even recall why. Maybe I wanted to go down…

  • Crafty Monday: Twilight Scarf

    I cast on this last week while we were on vacation. It’s the Twilight Scarf from the book A Fine Fleece. I used that silk yarn hand spun from silk hankies (the one I started to use for the Morning Surf Scarf) and some yarn I hand dyed with grape Kool-Aid a couple of years…

  • Crafty Monday: Morning Surf Scarf

    I finished my scarf last week and let it block while I was out of town for 4 days. I really like how it turned out! I’m so glad I went with this yarn. I think it is absolutely perfect for this pattern. The perfect marriage. I think it, indeed, looks like morning surf. Here…