One of the goals I set for my epic 2020 to-do list? Make more preserves and pickles than last year! Along with my killer marmalade [Fait accompli!] the makings of a good Manhattan have been top of mind. Last weekend, after procuring three small bags of organic sweet cherries, I bought myself a good cherry…
When Shall we three meet againIn thunder, lightning, or in rain? First Witch, Macbeth Wait, what? All this time, and I still haven’t shared the history of the #wyrdshed? No better time than in the midst of isolation…. On May the 4th, 2018, a heavy weather day in Toronto, the gargantuan Tree of Paradise shared…
Ever since I got my fancy-pants bundt pan, I have been making one cake with more frequency than any other. And, with the stress of the kids going back to school mid-pandemic [I mean, I found myself yelling at people on transit to wear their damn masks the other day!], we’re all going to need…
This was the summer to go overboard. And wow, did I ever go overboard! Over the course of July and August, I really put a dent in my Sew Nine(teen) 2020 blotter! In fact, I basically walked the plank, clung to the anchor, and plunged down into the sea-cave where the sewist-mermaids live. I’ve only…
Perhaps it’s my interest in weather, or the seasons. I mean, I wrote an entire doctoral thesis on natural phenomena [read: WEATHER] in Pope’s Epistles to Several Persons and Thomson’s Seasons! In any case, going back to at least 2018, I’ve had this habit of organizing my instagram posts around a monthly hashtag of my…
As a lover of to-do lists, to-sew lists are a no brainer! No wonder I’ve been drawn to the #makenine and #makenine2020 hashtags on Instagram and the original @makeninechallenge account established by Rochelle of Home Row Fiber. Rather than posting that annual #BestNine grid of her most-popular posts of the year, Rochelle inspired makers to…
I can’t say that I sew often, seeing as it’s difficult to take over a whole room of the house, which must be TV-adjacent — not that I actually end up doing more than listening — haul the machine upstairs, and open the ironing board the dog tries to BITE because of the horrible opening…
