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 Monday: Morning Surf Scarf

    When I picked up the current issue of Spinoff Magazine I knew I had to buy it for the Morning Surf Scarf pattern. How perfect is this for the Water element of Project Spectrum? Absolutely perfect! And I knew exactly which yarn I wanted to use for it, too. I was going to use some…

  • Crafty Monday: Aleita Shell

    I finished and wore the Aleita Shell this past week and I am very pleased with it! It is made out of a cotton yarn, Tahki Cotton Classic, which I had never used before. I really liked knitting with it! I also loved the vast array of color choices. I will definitely be using this…

  • Crafty Monday: I’m hooked!

    The other day a nice lady came into the library wanting to come to my knitting program tomorrow. The only problem was that she wanted to learn how to crochet and I don’t know how. So my colleague, who does know how to crochet (but couldn’t make it to my program) offered to go to…

  • Crafty Monday: Chickami Tank

    I made another Chickami! Why, you ask? I’ll tell you! I was going through my shelves of sweaters, doing my yearly washing and putting away of the wintery ones, when I came across my Apricot Jacket. Remember that thing? I have a love/hate relationship with it. I absolutely adored knitting it. But I hated the…

  • Crafty Monday: Unripened Nanner Socks!

    I finally have a finished object to share! Actually these were finished a couple of weeks ago but I haven’t had much time to post. This summer has been INSANELY busy. They are the Nanner Socks. Pattern by Wendy Johnson. I came across Wendy on Plurk way back in the beginning of June. Since Wendy…