I've been thinking about hand-dyed yarn a lot lately. You know the kind. That skein that makes you literally gasp out loud in the yarn shop. The colors feel alive. It's so full of promise and you snatch it right off the shelf! Maybe something like this? You take it home, wind it up, start crocheting and... you start to feel disappointed because it just isn't at all like what you imagined. If that's happened to you before, I want to say something clearly: You're not doing anything wrong. Most...
13 days ago • 2 min read
You may or may not have noticed that I didn't write to you last week. I meant to! But all of a sudden, on Thursday evening, I realized... Wait! TODAY is Thursday, not tomorrow. Oops. I thought I'd probably write the next day, or maybe even on Saturday, but we were at Disneyland to celebrate my in-laws' 50th anniversary and we were busy all day every day! Here we were waiting in line for the Ferris wheel (NOT the swinging one!): Making memories like this was pretty special. Eight adults and...
20 days ago • 3 min read
I'm sitting at my kitchen table this morning, coffee growing cold in my blue Molokai mug sitting beside me. The rose-ringed parakeets are squabbling and squawking at the bird feeder on our back porch while a handful of feral chickens meander hopefully underneath it, anxiously waiting for some choice morsel to get tossed out for them to gobble up. I'm sitting here letting my coffee get cold because, like many of you, I'm sure, my heart is so very heavy right now, and I just can't seem find the...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
We spent last weekend in a lush little oasis on the Big Island, surrounded by about a hundred owls. I kid you not! (Okay, so they weren't real, living owls. Now that would have been a whole 'nother adventure!) The Storied Ground Opening Reception at Kahilu Theatre was on Saturday, and we stayed in a cute little Airbnb called the Owl Nest. There were owl decorations, owls painted on the furniture, owl print fabrics, and even a couple owl themed books and playing cards. You name it, if you...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
This past week I've been working a little bit on a lot of different things, to include my first FO of 2026! Ta da! Twilight Fade Crochet Pillow cover number three was made with a skein of Red Heart Super Saver (Jumbo!) that my son picked out for me for Christmas. And of course he picked rainbow colors! This one ended up being a little smaller than the original, but luckily I had a 16" pillow form already, so it worked out just fine. And, clearly, it has been kid approved! If you'd like to...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
This morning I’m sitting beachside on the south shore of Oahu, writing to you in a word doc because I have no internet connection. And I’m okay with that. Of course, that means I probably won’t actually send this email until the afternoon! But that’s okay, too. I finished my secret squirrel yarn for the spinning magazine and we had a break in the rain, so I brought the finished hank to the beach for a little morning photoshoot. The light wasn’t quite optimal, being low and kind of behind, but...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Happy brand new year, my friends! Do you have anything cool planned for 2026? Not so much on the cool side, but it is what it is, our big thing for this coming year is our next PCS (Permanent Change of Duty Station). This summer we expect to be moving back to Georgia for the second time, to Fort Benning again. Maybe living on post this time, though? We'll see. But before that happens, I'm kicking off the year with another big, capital A, Fiber Art thing: I've had THREE pieces juried into the...
2 months ago • 3 min read
This week I got started on a new project for an upcoming issue of Spin Off magazine and I'm absolutely delighted that I've been given permission to share a few sneak peeks and behind the scenes views of the process as I'm working on it! Whoo hoo! I really appreciate not having to work in complete secret because I'm the most excited about a project when I'm in the middle of the ideation and creation phase. That's when all the good photo ops happen, too! Until the end for the FO pictures, of...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Okay, friends. It's been a long time coming but I finally have a new crochet class on Skillshare! And if you're a last minute gift maker, this one is for you!! Last year I shared the written instructions for The Littlest Snowflake in a newsletter, but now you can follow along with me step by step as I walk you through exactly how I crochet and stiffen one of these pretty little snowflakes: And that's worsted weight cotton yarn, y'all, so you can actually SEE what you're doing! Once you get...
3 months ago • 2 min read