Look, things feel awful.  I get it.  I do.  And I'm doing what I can to fix that.  I voted for Biden and for Sarah Gideon (because I'm lucky enough to live in a state where we will probably flip our senator from republican to democrat, and holy crap that [...]

I didn't forget.  No really, I didn't.  I didn't forget about the houses, I just got distracted by the acorns and haven't shown you much of them.  But the houses have been clicking along just fine. And well, at this point I'm starting to have a small village. The pattern [...]

If you're my neighbor, you're probably eventually going to come upon me, sprawled out full length on the ground, pointing a whole lot of camera at a very small bit of knitting and carefully nudging a clump of moss or a wisp of leaf into just the right spot.  Which [...]

Just about two years ago, I brought out Hoard.  It used real acorn caps on top of knit acorns, which was adorable, and gave a person an excuse to go crawl around under trees and hunt for treasures.  But there is another way to top your acorns.  You can totally [...]

As far as coping mechanisms go, this seems fairly harmless. I mean it's not quite as productive as the stress cleaning and stress baking I usually do. But I think I got all that out of my system in the first few months of the current crisis. But it seems [...]

So, if you knit your own acorn caps (instead of scampering around under the trees hunting for them like a deranged forest sprite) you can make double acorn caps on demand. ⁠⠀ ⁠You know...just in case that's something that might be of interest to some of you. Because some days [...]

You folks are delightful.  Together we raised $2,000 to send off to my local food bank (they are a bit technologically limited so I can't show you a screenshot because I have to actually mail a paper check, and I do not love you enough to show you a photo [...]

Small things are happening (yes, again). I don't have the focus for much right now (it's the rage and despair, they're hell on the attention span).  But my goodness I can do small things. And sometimes small things come out rather nicely! Ok, questions and answers... Yes, that's the Hoard [...]

Things feel hopeless. Really wretchedly hopeless. I'm tired and I'm scared and I'm angry. And I feel completely helpless. And when I feel that way, the best thing to do is to find some tiny thing to do to help someone else. Mostly because it's good to help, but also [...]

As promised, a lovely pair of leafy mitts to go with the hat from earlier this month! Henceforth is out, and it continues to support my theory that knitted leaves are unspeakably charming. No really, I don't think I've ever met a knitted leaf I don't like.  Hats, mitts, cowls, [...]