Sunday, March 20, 2011

Brigid

New at my fivetrees etsy shop. . . Miss Brigid!

Organizing

I've been sick for days and days. The longest I've been sick for a while--and between napping and napping and napping, I kept waking worried about work or thinking about projects I wanted to start.

So, yesterday, as the illness was beginning to relent, I whipped together a needle case for all of the my double-pointed knitting needles. My aunt gave me a needle holder years ago, which I love and use all of the time, but it officially doesn't have enough space for both single and double points.

So, here's the new concoction:


Neatly bundled up. . . but rolled out to total width, it's about 42 inches long. That's more space than I really need for knitting needles, but my collection seems to keep growing.


Not a very difficult project and I still had to take breaks throughout the day to nap between steps. Being sick is so strange. But having a new needle case is lovely. . .

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Bertram


New pachyderm at fivetrees + a few other new toys appearing soon.

Sometimes I wish I could read his mind. . .

Other times, I wish I could escape into his noggin and think the way he does. The world is a rough place right now. There's way too much to think about, worry about, get worked up about. But this little guy pretty much just worries about meals and who's going to throw the ball for him next.