the peaceful peacock

Bench Mon­days. That explains a few things.
From my obser­va­tions in this side of the blo­gos­phere, it seemed that every­one had sud­denly been over­run with mice or some­thing.  Well, it just so hap­pens that it’s Mon­day and I have a pair of shoes to show you, so I’ll be jump­ing on the band­wagon for a bit.  […]

I recently made a hat for a friend, inspired by a whole lot of hand­spin­ning and my pal Linda’s book, Cro­chet Adorned (avail­able on her web­site or at your local bookstore).

I really dig this book because in addi­tion to the mod­ern, ele­gant adorn­ment pat­terns (flow­ers and medal­lions and but­ter­flies, oh my!), Linda has also included […]

One for Papa.
This hat was made from my first hand­spun yarns and knit up on nee­dles that were far too small for my adjust­ments to this awe­some pat­tern that I will be using again and again and again.

One for Mama.
This tam was made from the upcy­cled yarns from my stash using a pat­tern from my very favorite crochet […]

On the left there you can see the lat­est ver­sion of my upcy­cled yarn efforts.  Basi­cally I ply a bunch of plain bits together into some­thing new and funky.  I’ve been learn­ing a lot by work­ing with already-made yarns and it’s a relax­ing and low-key way to prac­tice nov­elty spin­ning tech­niques like coil spin­ning and […]

This week’s trea­sure hunt for it begins with a colour… was to squash as many col­ors as pos­si­ble into one frame.  Easy peasy with our new diaper bag:

You might remem­ber this from a few posts ago but here it is all fin­ished and home from the Com­mu­nity Food Co-op’s Earth Day Art Show.   It’s made from […]

The first of my blog­ging assign­ments for the sum­mer!!  (More on that later.)
The boy and I pulled up his lit­tle step­stool and got down to busi­ness on a cloudy, rainy after­noon this week and made some of our favorite cookies.

This was his first time help­ing with some­thing that involved chocolate chips…

He was espe­cially good at help­ing with […]

After all of the design­ing, plan­ning, and hours and hours of stitch­ing, I’m finally ready to update my Etsy shop.  With all of the details set to go, we were plan­ning on a lit­tle trip to the park to take advan­tage of the beau­ti­ful sunny days we’ve been hav­ing lately.
And although I may be ready, […]

Though there’s been a lot of rest and prepa­ra­tion for baby going on around here, I have man­aged to steadily ham­mer away at the pile of unfin­ished projects that I shared with you all a cou­ple of weeks back.

After much sewing, seam rip­ping, cut­ting, and more seam rip­ping, the boy now has a sweet lit­tle pair […]

As part of the Gypsy Road team chal­lenge last month (Tak­ing Care of Num­ber One), I whipped up this lit­tle wrap­around skirt for myself.

Here’s the view from the side of the pocket, which is a bit too big but I’m not going to take it off and redo it so there.

And the other side.  This wraparound […]

Lately I’ve been aim­lessly wan­der­ing around the world of the third trimester, try­ing to nav­i­gate where I’m headed and deter­mine what self-imposed  expec­ta­tions are going to be met within these next few pre­cious weeks.  Look­ing for­ward, reach­ing toward the ever­stretch­ing fin­ish line, try­ing to run when it’s get­ting tough to even walk these days.
Time to slooooooowww it down.

And […]