Normally Ana and I look forward to November, anxious to get started knitting. That’s because November is NaKniSweMo, or National Knit a Sweater Month. Styled after NaNoWriMo (but without the AI), NaKniSweMo is organized around knitting (or crocheting) a sweater of 50,000 stitches in the month of November. A little challenge, if you will. Ana…
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Other Uses for Pen Cases, Part II
Sometimes you look at your collection of gorgeous pen cases, some of which sit empty at times, and wonder what else you could do with them. Just me? Where it started: Leigh Reyes/Vanness/Rickshaw limited edition pen roll, a set of crochet hooks: What happened next: Independence/Rickshaw limited edition pen roll, Double Pointed Needles (DPNs) for…
Help me choose an ink color for my new pen!
Ana’s gorgeous post got me hook, line and sinker and I just had to have the Esterbrook x Bungubox Kachofugetsu Flower Fountain Pen. It arrived yesterday and I was faced with a big decision: what to ink it with? As it turns out, I don’t know if I have the right ink! I decided that…
First Look: Lamy Safari Summer Editions
This weekend we were treated to a preview of the new Lamy Safari summer editions: Cherry Blossom and Pina Colada! While the colors certainly look summer fresh, Ana and I couldn’t decide if we were yay or nay. We joked about the rumor that they’re putting together random parts in inventory to make new color…
Journaling: A Q2 Check-in
I feel like Ana and I are sort of running on the same wavelength. Each month she prepares for a new month by pulling out her best supplies, and making small changes based on what worked the previous month. I decided that since we’re just past April 1 (no fooling!) that I’d check in and…
Yarn + Ink: Wild Thing
Sometimes, when you want to work on a crafty project you grab all the colors to see what works well together. And sometimes you never know until you start knitting. In this week’s chicken knitting chronicles, my boss handed me a skein of some WILD yarn and asked me to knit it up so she…
What the heck is a Zibaldone?
As you’ve seen, Ana and I have tumbled headlong into the world of journaling. So I was tickled to see an item in Austin Kleon’s Friday Newsletter giving me a whole new perspective! Austin referenced an article about the Zibaldone, a type of commonplace book that dates back to the 13th century. (Zibaldone is the…