Sempstress

It’s pretty again! Yay! I like pretty…..

My apologies to anyone who was trying to read anything while I was bouncing through themes. That was probably ugly.

I just upgraded my wordpress install, and reverted to the most standard of standard themes. I’m hoping this will fix the issues people have mentioned about browser problems, etc. Please expect to see a new theme in the next couple of days – I miss my tagcloud and image frames already!

…but only if you really like pink.

Mom and I were in Milwaukee a couple weeks ago, and we stopped in to a fab little yarn shop called Just 4 Ewe. The owner, Jan, enthusiastically shared enough fiber tips and tricks to send my brain into complete and happy overload (while her dog, just as enthusiastically, kept trying to lick my feet). If you’re in the area, I strongly recommend the shop – but think carefully about your choice of shoes. Anyway, one of the things Jan recommended was using Wilton’s Past Food Colors to dye fiber. She showed me roving in a series of joyful pinks.

Now, I have some sort of crafter’s disorder that causes me to believe in absolutely every trick I see, read, or hear. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m costuming Oliver! for Wheaton Drama. Yes, some one is letting me, the girl who believes that leash laws should apply to children, costume a show where half the cast isn’t old enough to drink. That’s remarkable, so I’m remarking upon it. The show has lots of fun arts&crafts projects: some knitting, some dying, some distressing (ideally of the costumes, rather than the costumer). The exciting thing, I think, is that there are a lot of very good-natured folks helping me knit up scads of scarves and maybe some hats and things to be used in the show. After the show, we’ll be donating all of these to Snug Hugs for Kids. I think that’s pretty cool. Anyone out there want to knit a scarf for the show? ;)

In other news, it’s just dawned on me that this is a blog, rather than my old geriatric set of static html pages, and I can write things without actually having a full article in mind. Le sigh….. I feel like a dinosaur sometimes. All this technology has gotten totally out of hand, I tell you!