Lamb and Frog

For tomorrow–

We ply! What we have here is two small bobbins’ worth of 1) blue-faced Leicester in the ‘highways and byways’ colorway from the Sanguine Gryphon and purchased (by my mom for me for Christmas, mom don’t suck) at The Loopy Ewe; 2) an 80% Peruvian wool/ 20% alpaca blend hand-dyed by Dagmar [...]

random: seeming to be without purpose or direct relationship to a stimulus. non sequential. (from the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition)
Shannon the Textile Goddess is going through a rough patch similar to the one I went through last summer (documented here and here). Life and technology would seem to be running amok. This morning she asked [...]

Where “T” stands for tortilla. New Mexico, like many states, is hurtin’ for money. The state legislature is looking for ways to both cut expenditures and increase income. What do they come up with? Food tax.
Now, when I moved here 15 or so years ago all food was subject to NM State gross receipts tax. [...]

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 [...]