Bj and I went to visit his mother and step-father this weekend… almost five hours away, lots of time to chat in the car. And knit. And chat. Bj: "I’m burned out on knitting" me: "how can you be burned out on knitting, you don’t knit." B: "But it’s all over, you knit in my …
Author Archives: Amber
It’s the little things you do.
I started this post way back before my trip to Alaska. I’ve never been one to really save a post as a draft and post it later (partly because it does this weird spacing thing). So I forgot about it, and it got lost a bit. But I found it today after thinking about this …
Fall in Salem
Salem is seriously pretty right now. Driving back from the post office I passed the park and a million pretty trees. So I decided to grab my camera and walk around a bit. Check this out: Those are just starting to change. These are also everywhere. The ones in my back yard are as big …
Much Better, thank you.
Ah I think I’m out of my funk. Still have a bit of cough, but I’ve moved on to mitered squares, so I think I’m better. 🙂 Still haven’t gotten to the scrapping (tonight maybe?), but I did get to be extra crafty today. I put on my mom’s reject sweater:(She made this Debbie Bliss …
Ugh
Turns out I can turn out a washcloth a day even while blowing my nose every three seconds. But I can’t do anything involving counting or decreases, so no blanket work for now. I did get my invite to Ravelry finally and am going to work on that. Plus I’m feeling the scrapbooking vibe. We’ll …
Blogging Buddies
I haven’t been up to much this week, hence the slow blogging, but last night and today I finally had time to have some fun. Yesterday I picked up Emilie and we went with Sciarrino and Matt to First Thursday in Portland. We had a great time walking around the city. My favorite exhibits were …
Up in the Trees
I had a fantastic weekend this weekend with my two old roommates Sciarrino and Laura. I hadn’t seen Laura since the wedding and hadn’t really hung out with her in years. Sciarrino had this idea to go to this cool place in southern Oregon call the Treesort for her birthday (which his Friday). It’s a …
Hello Yarn
Are you sick of my hand spinning blah, blah, blah yet? The thing is I haven’t really been doing much else, I’ve been working during the day and then it’s just so relaxing to just spin in the evening. I am going to be out this weekend doing fun girlie stuff so hopefully I’ll bring …
How do you do that?
I have a bunch of emails to answer, so if some are yours sorry! One of the emails I got was a request to go over how you spin yarn. Sure! Now just remember I’m no expert, I’ve taken a few lessons, but I still feel like I only know the basics. So basically you …
Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival
Today I went to the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival. I totally stocked up on Fiber (huge shock I know). I updated my Flickr with all of it so check it out if you like. My favorite:I’m really interested to see how it spins up. That’s a pound of fiber for $17, whoo hoo! I …