Knitting

Learning all the time, mid-life transitions, and outdoor-living in Vermont

August 5, 2019

This is an interview where we're challenged to ask questions about the status quo - in society, in schooling, and our own lives. We're shown the courage of stepping into new opportunities and adventures, by necessity, and encouraged to trust in our ability to learn what we need to know, when we need to know it.

Ideas to get you crafting this winter

December 3, 2017

This is the time of year I think, dream, and plan my winter crafting. Tis' the season. I think about finishing projects I didn't last winter and starting new projects. If you're anything like me, you're doing the same thing.

The meaning of making

December 2, 2017

The women I come from, my mom, aunties and grandmas; make beautiful, useful, warm and cozy things. They knit, crochet, sew, quilt, appliqué, and weave. I belong to a lineage of women makers, it is a heritage I am proud of and deeply grateful for. Women who make warmth out of scraps, beauty of balls of yarn, homes out of handmade.

The Spring Shift

May 11, 2015

We had a string of sunny days last week and the season shifted, irrevocably, into spring.

Mom's Shawl (I'm a slow knitter but a fast reader)

January 6, 2013

Those of you who have been around for awhile may remember that my mom and I started a knitting project together when our family lived with my parents last summer. I teased my mom at the time that it would take a couple years for us to finish this project. ...

I don't have to do it all (and neither do you)

December 28, 2012

One of the things I have loved about my thirties is the increasing clarity I have gained each year about what I love and don't love. The re-discovering of myself and my new dreams post baby and early childhood years. (We are in the second half of our child raising ...