Month: December 2021

Well, winter has started, sorta. We had some snow this week, and I got up to shovel and salt on Monday morning, even though I thought there was a good chance that it would be melted by afternoon (and it was). It did stay cold most of the week...

We have a finish! That being “Refuse to Sink” by Hands On Design: The fabric is 18-count aida that I hand-dyed with Rit. There were many substitutions in the floss (left to right: the fancy floss recommended in the patter, the DMC conversion given in the pattern, and the...

The Ancient Near East by Harry A. Dawe The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield The Book of Doing and Being: Rediscovering Creativity in Life,...

This week’s Christmas Lemax piece is “Plum St. Perfumeries and Chemist”: Wow, it’s retired? Well, I guess it makes sense since it’s a very specialty sort of piece, but still, kinda neat to have another retired Lemax piece. The only issue I’ve had with mine is the big perfume...

New episode of The Zamo the Destroyer Show: It’s been a frustrating couple weeks for Zamo, between Ig’s attempts to get around Mr. Hydell’s $200 minimum on the weekly poker game and Zamo’s attempts to use the RCMP as Ig’s personal enforcers all backfiring. Subscribe to The Zamo the...

emergence a longing to be free just in time for the Fall come what may Ragnarok or Armageddon better to leave than to live to crawl as the cycles go on rise, fall, rise again but lower desperate valleys and mythical peaks preferable to bland plains and dull suburbs...

I missed last week’s blog because… well, I didn’t feel like writing it, I guess. And not much had really happened worth updating about. But let’s not be so lazy this week. First up, when I woke this morning there was a dusting of snow on the ground. Of...

Well, I did get the ends woven on “Interlude” by Shannon Dunbabin and the shawl blocked: Some comments on the pattern: I think the lace is lovely, but I’m not too crazy with the construction of the shawl, or rather, the mode of increases. Basically you have the 4...