Hey local folks! Two exciting chicken announcements have been in the works for the last several weeks and I’m excited to make them both public today. Five Green Acres Pastured Chicken is now available for pre-order! Harvest Day is Sunday, June 2 – plan to pick up your pre-ordered birds or cuts and join us in the Harvest Potluck Celebration.
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Check your hardware store for a pair of ceramic block magnets. Scrounge up a neat old tin container. Antique stores are filthy with typewriter ribbon tins and other appropriately-sized metal containers. I’ll bet even an Altoids tin would work. Ka-pow! I’ll wager that making one before the start of KCW will increase your efficiency next week by a minimum of
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Oh, I’m so excited to show you my newest sweater! Such a labor of love it was, from start to finish. What a joy! I had been waiting to knit this up for a long time – a few weeks ago I mustered the courage to begin. For the yarn, I sought out the fattest wool I could find. I
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A friend came by a few days ago to instruct us on the ancient art of psanky, or Ukranian Egg Dyeing. In just a couple of hours, we covered the basics and got down to designing our own eggs. Psanky is basically egg batik. Beeswax is used as a resist, applied in a fine line with a kistka, the reservoir
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At last, a cowl. It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of this knitting pattern, so carefully designed to complement the unique hand of First Harvest yarn. Winterlit, it is called and indeed, the saturated hues shine like a beacon through the grey. Winterlit is knit in Herringbone stitch, an elegant but easy to learn stitch pattern
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Something wonderful is waiting to be born. A skein of yarn has yielded a magnificent antidote to late Winter. Woolen loops and knots, made with sticks, have been arranged just so, the choreography has been recorded, the results tested and loved. I am now fashioning it all into a virtual paper airplane, giving it wings to reach you all, wherever
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Using the Felt Slippers pattern on the Martha Stewart Living website, I paid a debt long overdue. How can these girl-toes I jokingly munched on not so long ago have grown to such size, past even the confines of last year’s slippers? I asked myself this in November, I reckon, and then fell into the belly of a giant whale,
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There are so many titles I could give to this post: Knots with sticks and string. Things I’d like to wear before Winter’s end. Woolen gluttony. That point in Winter where I hit my knitting stride and crank out projects which have languished on the needles for more than 1 or 2 years. Instead, I’ll stick with the theme
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Sweet, vital, enveloping beeswax – it is the defining aroma of the Solstice and the days leading up to it, when big blocks of golden light incarnate are melted down on the woodstove and poured into votive molds to await summoning on Solstice night. We celebrated our first family Yule by illuminating the night with candles and sharing a meal
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Grampa had a big birthday this Thanksgiving, one that could only be properly rung in with a piñata. It was all things a piñata fashioned by little hands should be – slightly awkward but bearing much charm, boasting a roomy interior, and surprisingly concrete in only one or two spots. The nose on this guy, for example, could withstand the
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