Miscellaneous Design Studio

Category: fun

  • Year of Projects: Week 26

    I think I’m approaching that time of year when everything starts to blend in together and one day becomes the next with no real delineation yet you still mark the passage of time in days, weeks, months. This is what Deep Winter does to me. Today is February 14th, Valentine’s Day. But that’s not a…

  • Book Hangovers and Snowy Days

    Last year I read Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and I instantly wanted to devour EVERYTHING I could find by the author. But for some silly reason, I decided to hold off on reading another one of her books. Mostly because I don’t want to put them down and I get sad when it’s time…

  • #YarniaPix2021 Recap

    I decided to participate in a January Photo Challenge, which tagged #YarniaPix2021, on Instagram starting the first of the month. It really inspired me to wear my FOs! On Instagram, I listed the pattern, designer, yarn and colorway where applicable there too. In case you don’t use Instagram, I’ve made a gallery of most of…

  • Year of Projects: Week 24

    No lie, last week WIPED ME OUT. Publishing and promoting my Merry Un-Birthday Hat was most of my week. I had been working on Merry Un-Birthday since JULY of 2020, I’m so happy that its been released into the wild. This also makes 17 YOP items completed since August! Get the pattern FREE (rav link)…

  • Merry Un-Birthday Video Links

    At long last, Merry Un-Birthday is ready! This pattern works with ANY two sock/fingering weight yarns held together. You can get the pattern on Ravelry Here! Use the code MerryUnbirthday to get it Free Until 02/11/2021 My new light box made it possible to get some great pictures of the finished project!! Having the kids…

  • Year Of Projects: Week 23

    Thing have been feeling chaotic at our house. Nothing has changed, except I’m feeling overwhelmed by the day to day stuff. This may be because we’ve been having a cold, dreary snap in the weather making it more difficult to WANT to be outside. I had hoped to have my Merry Unbirthday Hat released late…

  • Revolution 40

    Yesterday was a great day! Not only was it my birthday, but America gave me a REALLY great gift! We watched the inauguration with our daughter (a first grader), our son (pre-K) was completely not interested in the proceedings. We made a cake on the 19th, the Chocolate Cake from the Snoop Dogg cookbook. I…

  • Year of Projects: Week 21/22

    Way to start off the month by not writing an update last weekend! No worries though, because there wasn’t anything that exciting going on. The biggest piece of news is I FINALLY released Chaos Cables!! Its available on Ravelry and Etsy! If you purchase through Ravelry and use the code CHAOS2021 through January 20, 2021,…

  • Holy Chaos, Batman!!

    FINALLY!! I have released CHAOS into the world. Kidding. Kinda. Chaos Cables is now available for purchase on Ravelry! Now through 1/20/2021 you can get 50% off with the code CHAOS2021. After talking about if for months, I am so excited to finally be able to share this project with everyone! I have 3 cowl…

  • Baby, Take a Break.

    A number of connotations in the title, this being Friday, the 8th of January, 2021 and all. First, I need a break from the news cycle. The insurrection of the 6th is still being processed in my mind; I have a lot of feelings right now. None of them are sympathetic to the perpetrators terrorizing…