The Inconsequential Blogger

I pulled my modest 4x10 foot plot of flax today. I bundled it as I pulled it and then put it in the yard to dry out a bit before further p...

I just finished a pair of little knitted pants for my grand-niece, who is a few months old. The yarn is hand-spun superwash Bluefaced Leices...

A week ago, my husband and I spent a few days in Michigan on the shore of Lake Huron. Lake Huron is a beautiful, clear lake - in places alm...

I'll be signing books at the Howe Meadow farmer's market in Cuyahoga Valley National Park tomorrow, Saturday, August 18th! I'll ...

Yum!

I pulled a bit of my flax today. This is one of the two bundles I pulled: The two bundles represent about 1/8 of what I have grow...

I've posted about my Japanese indigo experiment - growing and dyeing with Japanese indigo for the first time. Now I'll begin posti...

I've been growing Japanese indigo plants in my garden this year. This is the first time and I've been very nervous about it. We...

I spent a couple of weeks on the knitting, and here is the finished product. It's the first sweater I've ever knitted ( if you don...

Smashwords is having its sitewide discountpalooza in July and I've signed up with two of my ebooks -  Rose of Par Kluhnd and The Witch ...

The sweater project continues. When spinning, my default yarn seems to be a two-ply with a gauge from fingering weight to sport weight. How...

I have finally begun a project which I have been looking forward to for some months. I found a really cute sweater pattern in this book (w...

I have lavender, lemon balm, yarrow, hyssop, and calendula hanging to dry now on my drying rack. The first batch of many, I hope!

At a recent trip to Triangle Bog in Kent, Ohio, I snapped a picture of a cranberry blossom. They're pretty small (click on the picture t...

I decided to try dyeing with red cabbage. It's one of those dyes that may not be particularly light-fast, and different colors can be a...

I wish you could smell them.

I just ate a strawberry off of my hanging strawberry plant. Yum! The plant was a Mother's Day gift.

Here's what the dog and I saw on our jaunt around the pond today:

My book signing at the indoor farmer's market yesterday was fun. I brought my drop-spindle along with a finished skein of yarn to show ...

I really like my new drop spindles. Here's what I'm working on now: