Squid Knits

I may have been on vacation this week but that doesn't mean that I haven't been busy. The week before the break Little Squid's f...

Earlier today I predicted a long, cold winter. Having thus predicted, it was imperative to make sure that the apartment was fully provisio...

Yes, there has been knitting, sewing, spinning and weaving going on -- just not much photo uploading! So, for your crafting fix ... Baby B...

I've been admiring Dave's weaving and absolutely had to try one particular pattern. So, I threaded the loom in a straight twill, a...

Yup, for the second time in a month, we have a snow day. We'll ignore the fact that the last snow day was off by a day (we should have ...

Schacht did not ship my stroller at the same time as the loom. Why? I have no idea but the good folks at The Woolery were on top of it ev...

... what to do with all this fabric! Just a taste of the latest to come off the loom. Better pictures after I wash both sets of yardage. (T...

A 3 yard sampler of twills and tabby-twills. I threaded the loom with straight twill draw on 4 shafts (let's pretend that I have the la...

Yes, yes I have spent the entire day setting up my new loom. Why do you ask?

Today we had something totally unprecedented ... a snow day announced at 11:00 a.m. the day before the storm. No kidding. That said, here...

I've been looking for something really deep to post about and even had a huge monologue going on last night as I was trying to fall asle...

Done! All of the goals that I posted at the start of break have been accomplished. Little Squid now has new, warm mittens Papa Squid has a b...

This was not one of my goals. Nor was it executed by my nimble fingers. What is it? It's the mascot of the Stuyvesant Computer Science...

I'd love to show you what I've done this weekend but I keep losing my camera! It reappears, briefly, but disappears when I most wan...

The break was not totally about going and seeing. There was some crafting going on. Dumbo had another hat-ectomy. His hat attachment syste...