Back in March and April of last year I did a couple of series, one on spam e-mails (which quickly ran out of steam, since they are so repeti...

My aunt Ann is dying. This has been true for a couple of years -- she has a particularly virulent form of Parkinson's and is being sys...

This morning it was 30 degrees and we had rain, snow, and sleet in various combinations. But yesterday: There is something about stuff that...

But first things first. I had intended to send my sister an e-mail, but I think it should be a more public announcement (no, not that. Not...

I finished the knitting more than a week ago (here it is in it's unblocked state ), and finally got to the blocking this weekend: Isn...

Len's hat is finished: Luckily, I wrote down the decreases: the first time Len tried on the hat, it was too short. I tried to convince ...

On Sunday, I did my first hand painting with the Procion dyes. Hand squirting is more like it, since I used squeeze bottles. It's been ...

Bad title rip-off and kind of bad dyeing, too. Here are the jars of dye as they appeared on Sunday. The difference in color saturation was ...

I finished the first Tiger Eye sock sometime last week. This was my first experience with a toe-up construction. It has been a learning ex...

I have an unnatural love for the Academy Awards. It would a more natural love if I actually saw most of the nominated movies. But rare are...

I finally figured out how to weave the brocade pick up on the inkle loom (or least the method I'm using seems to produce the most reason...

It's been awhile since I posted anything about knitting (ah, January 31st . I've finished that sock and will tell the sordid detail...

A year ago (to the day, it turns out), I posted about penny dyeing . The recipe I was following said that the color would be different depe...

...but I did. I was in the process of writing a post yesterday, from my not-very-snowed-in house, but I was kicked off the i nternet and I...

No no. Not men (I never was any good at that), weaving pick-up. And, it turns out, I'm not much good at that either. I dragged out my ...

Molly Ivins died yesterday . She was funny, biting, with a healthy dose of righteous anger and an amazing amount of optimism. Read her arc...

Titles. Feh. Especially because what I have to tell you about today is so very ripe for a bad cliche. Under Construction I stayed home fro...

Since bspinner asked (and my sister is begging for one), here is what I can tell off of my Friday addled brain: I have used Sugar n' Cr...