Lamb and Frog

Stella Diane Thomas Gray joined her husband Raymond on April 6, 2010.
She was 99 years old.
She was laid to rest in her Temple clothes.
What I Always Knew
She was an amazing seamstress.
She was an amazing gardener.
She worked hard—real hard and for no ‘pay’.
She saved money rather than spent it—she was a child of The Great [...]

I guess I sort of left you all hanging since my last post. Well, for starters, I got all that yarn plied. All. Of. It. Three days, three batches. I am planning on selling at least two of them. The other one I am either going to use or put up for grabs—I’m still thinkin’ [...]

This morning Stinky (go figure) asked “Who invented socks?” I said “I don’t know, but whoever it was was pretty clever. They make your shoes fit better—more comfortable—and keep your feet warm.”
“Albert Einstein?”
“No, he was in the 1900s. Socks have been around since probably the 1400s or 1500s.”
“Tom Edison?”
“No, he was in the 1800s. Socks [...]

In the previous post I talked about finding out where on the creativity continuum you are most comfortable. Do you like to follow the rules? Do you have the discipline it takes to learn and practice them to achieve a level of skill? Are you willing to take risks? I believe that most people are [...]

A fellow fiber artist once told me that she never used patterns because they “limited her creativity.” She made items (usually afghans) that had designs in them (think beadwork or intarsia), but they were almost all either single or double crochet–and they were almost all rectangular. For her, the creativity was in the color, and [...]