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Friday Finds… The Voting Edition | 9.4.26
Good morning gentle readers, It has been A Week, hasn't it? The heat is absolutely ON here in the South Hills of Pittsburgh. My walks have been short this week... and even despite being short the sweat factor was off the charts... as were the mosquitoes! And there was...
Unraveled Wednesday | 9.2.26
Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy September! I have been knitting and knitting and knitting... and I still have miles to go on the body of the Waffle Pullover. Each night, after dinner is done and dusted... I queue up a bit of Vera Stanhope and for roughly 90...
Seasons: Late Summer | August 2026
Less than a month ago, all of August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.” ― Lauren Oliver I am doing this update a bit differently... I am capturing a bit of a snapshot of the Summer of 2026. Summer...
Unraveled Wednesday | 8.26.26
Greetings dear Unraveler's! It seems implausible to write... the last Wednesday in August... but here we are. It was a good month for making, a good thing for this penultimate August Unraveled post. I have not one, but three finished objects to share with you all...
Sometimes Monday | 8.24.26
Brings the last week of summer vacation... at least in my neighborhood. The kids all start back next week but the teachers around me all were off bright and early this morning. I know we still have weeks of summer but this morning's temps most definitely were inching...
Unraveled Wednesday | 8.19.26
Greetings dear Unraveler's! I continue the assigned pooling knitting, but it looks much the same as last week. But!! I do have something fun to share! Last Friday I took an incredibly interesting class for MDK's Summer Camp 2026: Make a Project Bag with Paige Sato. ...
Sometimes Monday | 8.17.26
...finds Hobonichi Dreams circling round my head! Yes, I have been attentively following along as the parade of options keeps inching forward to September 1st! I have been thinking about what worked this year and what I wished worked better. I have loved the Mega...
Unraveled Wednesday | 8.12.26
Greetings dear Unraveler's! I am (still) plugging away on the ribbing for the Autumn Blips shawl... each right side row increases by 6 stitches so the rows keep getting longer. It is "almost" mindless knitting and I am enjoying it so much but I have miles and miles to...
Unraveled Wednesday | 8.5.26
Greetings Dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday to you all! This week I have been "enabled" .... yes, last week when Kym shared her Assigned Pooling project... I could hear my own assigned pooling project begin to cry from the project bag it was sitting in. Poor, sad,...
Sometimes Monday | 8.3.26
Brings a new month... August. Oh, August. Yesterday, Sylvia Plath was on my mind with her quote: August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. Saturday it "felt and smelled like rain" any minute for most of the day......
Unraveled Wednesday | 7.29.26
Greetings Gentle Unravelers! We have arrived at the final Wednesday of July and August is on the horizon. In the South Hills of Pittsburgh we had a lovely day of rain yesterday... it was much needed and I welcomed it as such. I am continuing to practice my budding...
Seasons: Summer Struggles | July 2026
Every season is one of becoming, but not always one of blooming. Be gracious with your ever-evolving self. — B. Oakman If you have followed along on my season journey this year, thank you... I appreciate you being here so very much. July...oh, July. You were so much...
Unraveled Wednesday | 7.22.26
Greetings Gentle Unravelers! July is proving to me that even smoky, hellscape months move along quickly. (Whew, right?) This week we are having an abatement in temperatures and the smoke has likewise receded to yellow. I have not been so aware of breathing (or rather...
Sometimes Monday | 7.20.26
Greetings from a slightly less smoky Pittsburgh! Slightly. We are supposed to be "yellow" for the next few days... a reprieve from purple and red! But even at yellow I am having issues breathing outdoors so modified walks will continue this week. I would so love to...
Unraveled Wednesday | 7.15.26
Greetings dear Unraveler's and Happy Mid-July to you all! Fifty-two days of stitching and I ended up with this beauty! I am so happy with it... and it is in the rotation of wearing! It works well with a simple shirt and linen pants and (as you can see by the fuzz) it...
Sometimes Monday | 7.13.26
I confess to feeling a bit of sadness that Norway is out... I am so enjoying fútbol and all the antics around it but particularly Norway... and the delight that is Erling Haaland. Oh, and all that RO-ing! (FYI, there's a mitten for all that...) Who knew that in my...
Unraveled Wednesday | 7.8.26
Greetings dearest Unravelers! I have finished the Airy, Anne of Green Gables, Ranunculus and I am entirely smitten! I was reminded how brilliant the designer, Midori Hirose, wrote this pattern. The directions are clear and there are multiple videos of techniques! Want...
Sometimes Monday | 7.6.26
The weather people are telling us that it is supposed to be the tiniest bit cooler this week... a good thing because last week I was certain we had truly arrived at the "hell on earth" stage of existence. These scorching hot days are my least favorite thing of all......