My neutrals are Gray and Rust. My Fashion Colors are Burnt Coral and Yellow. My patterns are Chimera (gray) Haraklion (gray) Carrau du Temple (rust) Calla Bassa (burnt coral) Peasant (burnt coral, yellow) Shirt Tail T (gray, rust, burnt coral, […]
#1 daughter and I went to pick up her new car, and I took the opportunity to swatch for Alice, the next sweater I plan to knit. This is from La Droguerie’s new book, “le mini dressing,” a collection for […]
The book Overdressed talks about the fast fashion movement and what it is doing in terms of economics, the environment, and human costs. It’s worth reading for that information. It’s worth changing your ways if you have been drawn into […]
I’m beginning to feel better. It’s been a week since I was well enough to get my daily routines checked off. My eyes are once again watery, glued shut in the morning, and sometimes blurry. My skin has been randomly […]
I spent the weekend alternately sleeping under the influence of NyQuil and reading Caliban’s War. Sleeping as much as possible was my goal, and I did pretty well with that. When I was awake, I went for maximum comfort, as […]
Cough, headache, sinus pain, fatigue…normal how you feel when you’re sick kind of feelings. I have been working fairly full days, cooking and cleaning up after meals, but not exercising or caring for my skin, not keeping up with deliveries […]
I’m working, but I’m also definitely sick. NyQuil at night and Tylenol in the daytime, working as much as possible, but yesterday after work I lay on the couch under a blanket watching the Great British Baking Show and drinking […]
I’ve done the Seamwork Design Your Wardrobe challenge every year since it started, but this year is different. For one thing, I am the same size this year as I was last year, so I actually have plenty of clothes. […]
The Seamwork DYW Project begins on Monday, mid-February. January was the Health and Beauty Project, but February my big goal is to get my work routines in trim and my blogging out two weeks for each client, so the first […]
#2 son came to visit for a long weekend. He opened his Christmas gifts, we had purple pancakes, lasagna, ouefs en cocotte, blueberry cake, and salted caramels. The elder of the little helped mix up the pancakes. We played games, […]