I was going to take a nice photo of our new aluminum ice cube trays that we got at a garage sale this summer, but it’s hot and I would rather drink the ice cold water and sit her by the open window. But the ice cube trays are great. We got two trays for [...]
Archive for August, 2009
melting
Posted in Portland OR, garden, home, random daily things, tagged Portland, Joe Wirtheim, propaganda, organic, posters, compost, grow, Vicotry Gardens of Tomorrow, ice cubes, trays, aluminum on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Felt
Posted in books, handmade, knitting, sewing, tagged Alterknits Felt, felt, knitting, market bag, Martha Stewart, needle felting, Purl Bee, Sewing Green, Willamette wrap on August 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have been drooling over this book for a long time, and now it’s mine. Needle felting always seemed nice but this book has really made me want to do actually do needle felting. My favorite pattern in the book is the Willamette wrap, because it is stunning and so geographically appropriate. The wrap is [...]
I started a second blog to cover the bulk of my thoughts and photos on baby related things. I will probably still share some of the baby knitting here too but didn’t want to bombard everyone with baby everyhting all the time, since it’s starting to play a big part in my life. I plan [...]
argylin’
Posted in handmade, knitting, tagged argyle, Knitpicks, knitting, Knitting for him, navy, pool, Sky, vest on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I thought that I had blogged about this before, but now it looks like I haven’t introduced the argyle vest yet. Please meet the first inches of Lars’ argyle vest. It has been a planned work in progress for years now, but didn’t really get a start on it until about a year ago. After [...]



