Croom clearing

Let the 2014 clearing commence! It was time to get back into my croom (creative room) after a few months of using it as a dump sight and start to put things in order so the creative energy could flow again. I was not expecting to confront the issue of gleaning the boxes of decades old sewing patterns I have amassed & been too sentimental over to realistically deal with in the past but obviously the willingness angel had other plans. The next thing I know, I've tossed 2 boxes of fashion history from the 80's. Those I kept fell into one of 3 categories: 1) still viable in terms of style lines or function, 2) would provide a good belly laugh to the executor of my estate and 3) purely sentimental. Here are a few that fell into the latter category. I sewed my first garment from the skirt pattern when I was 10. The Betsy Johnson bell sleeved jacket was the first time I sewed (and matched!) plaid. I was a stylish 13 year old.

Progress report

Spent a lovely lunch at Max's with the femmes de Barnes today. It is a perfect day that includes Max's sweet potato fries with their arugula aioli & family stories! Completed the first end of my BooKnits Boo Humbug scarf today which included a picot bind-off across 100+ stitches. In dog years that's something like 374,832 stitches needing to be bound off in the tricky fuzzy -but beautiful- Fyberspates' Faery Wings. How can I hate a yarn whose name evokes whimsy & sparkledust?

Ready, willing & able to [please fill in the blank].

It's a New Year...

It's a New Year...and it's time to get back to writing in some form -no excuses- so I'm resurrecting this blog to keep my creativity front & center in this, my personal numerology year of 3 -a number with a big emphasis on communication & creation. In addition, the angel oracle card I pulled for the new year is willingness which led me to create my 2014 motto: Ready, willing & able. I plan to greet each day with this battle cry! I'll need this to get the energy pumping in order to honestly assess all the wips & projects I have in various stages of planning. And I don't just mean fiber projects (of which there are a few trillion) I am including making in it's broadest meaning. Here are a few ways that color intrigued me on the first day of 2014.

Ready, willing & able to [please fill in the blank].