I’m off on vacation with the family and finally have a second to post! YAY! First, I have a new cowl pattern for you! My sister asked me a few months ago if it was possible to make a knit möbius… so I designed a cowl for her! The pattern repeat is Fawn’s Eyes because my sister is a real-life Snow White. Animals approach her randomly. See: Like that. I also designed the cowl to have a lacy-pointed trim, so I included a little...

I’m here for work work (although I get to see DarkMatterKnits–Squeeee!) but I just had to share another reason why you might want to love Austin, TX: Four Meat Plate (and one of them meats is already gone...

Oy! I’d forgotten how lovely the sea air is. After a few sleepless nights, it was important to begin the day of travel correctly. We landed in San Diego (great airport!) just before noon and I was already pretty wiped. The fog was lifting and the air had that crisp Pacific tang to it. Just perfect for Pandas. More pictures and fun tomorrow. Tonight, I...

The Maryland Side of Great Falls. The C&O Canal has a working packet boat and they run it up through a lock then turn and come back. Not a bad way to spend a cool morning with the...

Apologies to Lewis Carroll but there are similarities between making a gauge swatch and listening to the signs your body is sending you. How? Well, they’re both important. Every knitting and crochet pattern out there has that little line about taking time to check your gauge. Diet and fitness gurus are constantly telling us to eat better, whatever that may mean. But let’s be honest, do we do either one? Every single time? Be honest now. I...

I made decent Gluten free Sourdough Bread with a recipe from the Gluten Free Recipe Box. I’d been thinking about starting a starter (heh) but had been intimidated. I’d been heavy into baking my own bread when I (ironically?) had to get off of gluten. Now I can make a decent starter using ancient grains flours (quinoa, amaranth) and some not so ancient (sorghum, teff, buckwheat, millet). The best (of the weird) advice I’d...