Welcome Ruby of Zaaberry, our KNITerviewee of the day!By day Ruby is "a mother and a scientist studying endocrine disrupting chemicals and child brain development" (um, wow!?) and in the...
Read MoreIn conjunction with the KNITerview series, I've been spending a ton of time online lately looking at knits and posts on knits. In an effort to keep all of the...
Read MoreElliot seems incapable of throwing his clothes down the laundry chute without sticking his ENTIRE HEAD into the chute to watch it slide down. One of these days he is...
Read MoreFor a little bit of knitting! A finished sweater for Clementine, who was not interested in cooperating for this photo shoot: But you just go with it, am I right?...
Read MoreWelcome Sophie of Cirque du bebe, our first KNITerviewee!Sophie's blog is a favorite of mine, and I especially adore the bright colors she chooses when sewing for her little bebe....
Read MoreI think it's safe to say that when it comes to sheer volume, the amount of woven fabric in my sewing room far outweighs the amount of knit fabric. But....
Read MoreI recently made a few more color variations of the whale fabric design and ordered them up over at Spoonflower on the organic knit (by far my favorite of their...
Read MoreI managed to get the buttons and button loops sewn onto the holiday dress I made for Clementine, just in time for Christmas. You may remember that this one was...
Read MoreI'm a procrastinator. It's part laziness, part space-cadet-ness. I wish I could get extra points for an Energetic Response when I realize something should have been done 15 minutes ago,...
Read MoreWhen we were out in Seattle a couple weeks ago it dawned on me that my dad is a crafter too...just a different kind. I really wanted do a blog...
Read MoreI think this might be it for me so far: Mt Rainier, Mt Hood (I think? off to the far right in the second pic?), and Mt St Helens, all...
Read MoreAround here I am always looking for fun things to do with Elliot while Clementine naps. Once in a blue moon he'll fall asleep during his "quiet time" but usually...
Read MoreOne complaint -- perhaps the only complaint -- I have with sewing is that it doesn't exactly lend itself to holiday socializing. You can't really put your machine in the...
Read MoreThis is what she wore to Trader Joe's the other day. You know, for our less-than-36-hours-at-home-before-we-get-on-a-plane-again shopping trip. Hey, we had to eat. And what do you say when your...
Read MoreYup a bunch of you guessed right, we're in Florida! Mr Rae's parents rented a house in Clearwater Beach for the whole family (parents, siblings/spouses and kids) and it's been...
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