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.

  • Plurkette Hencircle

    I am now a member of the Plurkette Hencircle Hmm…how to explain this. Let me start from the beginning. In the beginning (of June) I joined Plurk. I found it to be a wonderful thing. A total time-suck but very fun. I have met all kinds of wonderful people of all sorts in the few…

  • Crafty Monday: a couple ‘o bags

    Somewhere around May 6th or 7th this thought popped into my head: “oh shit! Mother’s day is coming up this weekend!” So I scrambled to figure out what to do about this. My biggest dilemma was figuring out what to get for my mother in-law since I would have to send it to her. I…

  • Baby Surprise Jacket

    I have to apologize for being so lame this week. I have a good excuse, though. I am on vacation and have been enjoying my garden. I’ve been working my butt off, planting, sowing, and mowing. It’s been great! So I may or may not be a bit lighter on the posting since Spring has…

  • Crafty Monday: Talia

    Alright. I got really sick of knitting the Diamond Lace Shawl and, despite being so close to the end, I cast on a different project. This is Talia from the latest Knitty. After a false start, I do believe I am making good progress. The yarn I am using is Berrocco Ultra Alpaca, which I…

  • Crafty Monday: LTKA

    I’ve been blazing through some squares on my Learn to Knit Afghan the past few weeks. I had kind forgotten that one of my goals last year was to finish this finally. That, obviously, didn’t happen. So I picked it up again and am having fun with it. This is my favorite of the squares…