The Knitting Stagehand

I am SO looking forward to spending time playing rather than doing schoolwork.  It's become such a chore that I'm not looking forw...

It feels like a really long time since I was writing in here last, and things have just been busy.  After Midterms came Thanksgiving, and ...

sometimes I miss him more than he will ever know. I am comforted by knitting and hope for the future. Inspired by habit Blog

These things are addicting.  Consider yourself warned.

It's high time I wrote a little about being at Cornish along with some pictures! I keep promising them, and not yet posted any here.  Co...

A year ago tomorrow someone I barely knew suddenly left my life. A week after their Grandpa went home, so did my little Blueberry. I like...

Well, I am surviving.  I am not quite yet in the thriving mode, though I confess I am too hard on myself.  Here I am, stumbling admirably th...

It all came together in the end. I'm not entirely satisfied with the results, but I'm content with the fact that I can rework the p...

I have problems. Everybody does. The thing is that most people, myself included, go about our days ignoring our problems or denying they ...

Well, the Doublet got good praise all round, with minor comments from our darling master sewer, Cindy. It works, and I can do better next ...

Since I now have actual slops, I'm going to refer to the whole shebang as The Ensemble from now on, (provided I remember that). The Dou...

Saturday, Nate and I ran all over looking for black or grey wool suiting from which to make the "real" doublet.  We ended up going...

When I last reported in, I only had a muslin mock up. Now I have nearly a fully completed doublet. The only sad part is that this isn'...

I haven't written about this idea before, so don't worry if it suddenly sounds new to you. :) It's been percolating in the back...

Almost a year ago, my honey asked if I would help him make a doublet for Ren Faire. I, of course, said yes thinking it would be good to pr...

It's fascinating what you can find on Etsy if you search for "bustle". Everything from historic steel boned bustles to the...

"Olive's Afghan from Knitalong" I don't remember when I began this project, but it was a while ago. Perhaps spring of ...