Mar 3, 2010 Posted by Kim Werker

Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Making Stuff

Okay, okay, the Olympics are over.* To prove to you I did stuff other than walk around town talking to strangers and screaming my head off about sports, behold: I made some stuff, too. And only some most of it is Games-related. First up, I embroidered. Yes I did. A friend of ours is due to have a baby in a month or so, and she asked her friends to contribute a quilt square. The theme: pirates. I used a... read more

Apr 4, 2008 Posted by Kim Werker

Model Citizen Scarf (and Fingernails)

Model Citizen Scarf WIP, originally uploaded by kpwerker. Though it’s not going as fast as I’d anticipated, I’m still obsessed with working on the scarf. I suppose I’m about a third of the way done. For now, I derive great satisfaction from accurately capturing the colours in a photo. Yum yum. I’ve entered it on Ravelry (for I am a woman obsessed). Keeping with my sudden... read more

Mar 30, 2008 Posted by Kim Werker

Catching Up, Obsessed

I bought a skein of Malabrigo laceweight yarn the other day. I couldn’t resist it, in all its soft soft brightness. After rejecting every stitch pattern in the Harmony Guides on Friday, I woke up this morning, made coffee, and let the yarn do the talking. I sat all morning with it, and am even now itching to get back to it. I think I’m in love. And so that’s the “obsessed”... read more