I haven't been active on social media and very much would like to close my accounts on IG. But I do still enjoy sharing my work. The last several months have been an experiment to see how I do without a feed and feedback:and it's been fine. I do feel out of touch sometimes so I've signed up for more newsletters from makers and shops I enjoy. And I'm realizing that it would take the pressure off to just post anything I'd like here, rather than trying to keep to coherent narratives and long form writing. I was a regular blogger in my teens and early twenties, it has only been recently that I felt that Content should meet a certain Standard (as set by who, advertisers I don't even want??) Anyway, today's the day most of my yarn comes out of an extended quarantine after a small carpet beetle out break discovered on Halloween. Talk about terrifying. I have a bug phobia and a strong emotional attachment to yarn and clothing so it was not easy to deal with. The cau...
It really shouldn't surprise me that two years after starting a blog, I managed to publish only one, brief introductory post. This is very me. I have half a dozen drafts and more thoughts than I can count, but somehow couldn't get my fingers on the keys. Until now. You would think that 2020 would have been a great time for me to start writing more. But much like my reading queue, writing took a backseat to fretting about everything else in the world. I also stopped running, and have the daunting task of building myself up to working out again. Not that I have any right to complain. While I had losses last year, I also had the privilege of getting married in a 6 person outdoor ceremony in a beautiful park, in perfect weather. I'll share more about the shawl I made for the wedding later. One thing I didn't utterly abandon is knitting. I am so grateful I started knitting before things got depressing, as I do not think I would have had the energy to learn something new tha...