- We have chickens!Like the title says, our little mini farm now has chickens! I’ve wanted chickens forever, so I am beyond excited about this development. (Dill a is a little less excited. …
- What’s old is now new.If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook you know that we recently moved from our teeny tiny ranch house in the middle of suburbia to a pre-civil war era …
- Lopapeysa is here!I’m so happy that the Lopi book is now out in the wild. We worked so hard on it! I’ve already knit a couple of Adventure Sweaters, and am currently …
- Cover reveal!The American version of our cover is now live! Stackpole Books has released pre orders through Amazon and Barnes and Noble. This book creeps closer and closer to being real …
- Post covid…We’re officially post covid in this house! I definitely attribute the “easy” time I had to being vaccinated. Evelyn I’ll just attribute to her youth and luck. She had a …
- “What’s my job?”I ask as she climbs the high ladder and doesn’t want to use both hands. “to keep me safe!” She quips back as she begins to do a safer version …
- New Pattern, same imposter syndromeI have a pattern in Knitty! KNITTY! You know, the online magazine/blog that was THE resource in the early days of the knitting revival? My toes are curling just thinking …
- One year of PelotonTW: Miscarriage and weight loss talk ahead. This is me. This is me after losing the last pregnancy I could ever possibly have. Pushing 190lbs, and sad as fuck. Now, …
- Doing that thing we do…I hate that I don’t get to play as much as I want to. I went to a friends house a few weeks ago, picked up a guitar and my …
- Is this okay?It’s what I ask myself every single day. Taking Evelyn with me into a store, masked of course, but most people aren’t. Is this okay? Is this the moment we …
- Drunk Knitting Post…Finally starting to catch up on some of the Drunk Knitting videos that Kyle and I filmed. It’s amazing what almost 2 years of a pandemic with a kid in …
- Iceland.There’s so damn much to say about this trip. Of course most of it will be in the book, but there are so many things beyond the book that I …
- At least there is knitting…No matter how much the world sucks, at least I can pick up needles and yarn and make something happen. I’ve been knitting lots of cardigans for Evelyn, since she’s …
- Where in the world…is the time going? It’s just slipping away from me! I’ll do a proper post at some point, but oh my goodness. The stress of these “interesting times” we are …
- Kyle’s Fingerless GlovesBrand new pattern alert! If you’ve been following along on youtube then you know I’ve been busy teaching Kyle Cassidy how to knit! Since we’ve been stuck at home and …
- A quick update…I’ve been meaning to post this forever, but I was hoping to do it from Iceland, while shooting photos with Kyle Cassidy. However, our trip was delayed thanks to Covid. …
- Happy Birthday EvelynSunday we celebrated the fact that we’ve had our tiny person for a whole year!The theme of the party was the Neil Gaiman book, Blueberry Girl. My friend Lorraine read …
- Sorry for Being A**holes, MomSorry for Being A**holes, MomA Mother’s Day letter in the form of a dialog co-authored by David Dunn and Joan Dark (a.k.a. Toni Carr). David writes in plain text. Joan …
- Rest in…. something.I found out Saturday night that my birth father died. I have very little memories of him. I remember him bringing a garbage bag full of Christmas gifts and it …
- Babies in Public SpacesA few months back I heard our friends Neil Gaiman and Cat Mihos were going to be just a couple hours away from us in Ohio. Which meant that not …