Recently it has been hot around here. Really hot. Like hard to sleep, sweating while doing nothing hot. However because I am a fiber addict I have found a way to work with wool through the heat. I’ve been sitting on the couch cutting the still dirty tips off that wool that I washed a […]
I have been participating in the Tour de Fleece this year. The Tour de Fleece is an annual spinning event that coincides with the Tour de France. They spin bike wheels, we spin yarn. My goal has been to spin for 15 minutes everyday. I have totally not managed that. But I have managed to […]
It was blazing hot inside the conservatory for the most part so I didn’t stay too long, but the building is divided into four parts. The initial entry contains a lot of orchids and tropical plants. The next room seemed to be completely dedicated to begonias in a riot of colors. The third room was […]
We are lucky to have a beautiful park in Spokane called Manito Park. It has perennial beds, a formal garden, Gaiser Conservatory, a rose garden, Japanese garden, lilac garden and more. It is a great place to visit and just walk around. Because there are so many gardens there is always some part of the […]
These were sketches on the concept of wrestling with angels. These were studies for the painting that I made for Luke’s grandmother for Christmas last year. This is a close up of the bird in the final painting. This is a journalistic page from my sketchbook from earlier this spring. This page was painted not […]
I have achieved victory over my Holden shawl despite the many times I had to rip back. I really wanted to do a fancy photo shoot of me wearing it, but we have reached temperatures near 100 degrees in my area, my apartment is a mess, and I do not have access to an air […]
I was given this beat up Peanuts tray from the school lost and found where it was languishing still at the end of the school year. I decided that with a make-over it could be a helpful part of our household. Modge podge and old book pages were the solution. We went from this: To […]
Along with completing small scale paintings in my sketchbooks, I also use them to plan bigger paintings in different media, doodle to entertain myself and play around, and to observe the world around me. Here are some pages from my sketchbook. The idea of rolling wheat and hay fields as a sea is not […]
Say that 3 times fast! It is true I have started my Stripe Study Shawl and I am enjoying it immensely, thought I can tell it is going to be killer at the end as you work, increasing, all the way to a very long border.
I happen to have a lot of friends and relatives who are big into computers. Often when we get together, they all get on their computers and play games together. I am hilariously bad at both video and computer games so I tend to hang out with them and knit or sometimes sketch them and […]
