SarahMade

40 Before 40

2009-02-13T09:20:00.000-08:00

So I turned 30 the other day and one of my goals was to finish making my 40 before 40 list. I tried to keep it realistic. I will put the ones I have done in green.

Road Trip down the west coast (it is acceptable to do this in a number of smaller road trips)
Be on the price is right (being in the audience is acceptable)
Procreate
Procreate (again)
A real vegetable garden that i plant myself in the back yard
Chickens...that eat my compost
Learn how to live so the house is not a complete wreck
Off-the-Continent travel
Unicycling...and knitting...at the same time
Get a knitting pattern published (in print)
Get a knitting pattern published (online)
Go on an out-of-country midwifery adventure
Pay off store loan
Build a midwifery practice of at least 20 births per year
Learn to spin, or at least try
Gainful self-employment (Gainful being the key word)
Make the fabulous flower quilt
Start a retirement plan
Belly Dancing- do it
Make a sweater
Make an afghan
Adopt a lasting exercise regimen at least 30 min 3 x a week.
Reduce my resting pulse rate to 80 or less
Replace my lawn with one of those kinds of lawns that you don't have to mow. (No, not astroturf, like a groundcover plant.)
Remember to take the cloth bags to the grocery.
Make a family tree
Finish the hallway walls of photos
Get rid of the motorhome
Lower my footprint so that it only takes one Earth to sustain a planet of people like me.
Knit one of those starts as a circle sweaters
Become a CNM
Neither own nor wear a powersuit. (So far, so good)
Dance in Thriller (bonus goal- as a pregnant or baby-wearing zombie!!)
Buy a house
Maintain a healthy weight.
Make/participate in a Home Birth float for the 4^th of July Parade.
Have a Christmas tree with ornaments and stockings in my house.
Begin an Altzheimer's prevention regimen.
Make priorities and set limits so that I am not overworking. (It's ok if I'm doing it now, and for about another year or so, but it's a temporary thing and I don't want to be doing it when I'm 40!)
Knit enough socks so that I can wear handknit socks all the time!

New Years Resolutions 2009

2008-12-31T12:40:00.001-08:00

First, a look over last year's resolutions. I met 3 out of 6 of them, which is pretty good. My etsy store never got revamped because I got really busy, and I wasn't really more social either for the same reason. On to 2009's, which are nothing spectacular since I have enough on my plate as it is.

1. Do not get any moving vehicle violations. (2008 not such a good year for this.)
2. See 15 babies born.
3. Pass all the classes I am planning to take.
4. Keep in touch with friends. My goal is to call one person I have sort of lost touch with every month. (Attention out of state people: be expecting a call!)
5. Meet my ambitious monthly savings goal.
6. Turn off the TV before I get really tired so I can read some every night.
7. Finish my 40 before 40 list before I turn 30. (Finish making the list that is, not doing everything on it.)

Christmas Meme!

2008-12-10T16:03:00.000-08:00

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Wrapping paper, hands down. I enjoy wrapping presents (possibly because I used to get paid like a quarter per package to wrap my mom's which can really add up). I also enjoy unwrapping presents and I think it is much more enjoyable to unwrap a gift than simply reaching into a bag. Also, you get to shake the box and try to guess what it is, with bags, you just look inside right away. I don't like the waste that comes with wrapping paper, I use newspaper sometimes, and reuse paper I get on gifts that is in good condition.

2. Real tree or Artificial?
Real, although I do not put up a tree at my house. Where would I put it? I am simply too busy and my house too messy for my own tree right now, but I always help my parents pick out theirs and put it up.

3. Why are you willing to answer these questions?
I am tired of writing a paper.

4. When do you take the tree down?
There are 12 days of Christmas!!! I have pretty rigid beliefs when it comes to Christmas decorations: they should not go up before thanksgiving, the tree really shouldn't go up until mid-December and it shouldn't come down until after January 6th (12th day of Christmas, Epiphany)

5. Do you like eggnog?
Sort of. I usually have some silk nog every year, but I like it in small doses.

6. Favorite gift received as a child?
Umm....I was surprised by that Nintendo and the little trampoline was fun...funny how I don't really remember the presents.

7. Hardest person to buy for?
My dad.

8. Easiest person to buy for?
My mom, she likes nice stuff and girls are just way easier all around, you can't get away with giving a boy fancy soaps and lotions most of the time!

9. Do you have a nativity scene?
No, no decorations at all really, see above about the tree.

10. Do you send your card by mail or e-mail?
No cards. Waste of whatever.

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Probably these sweater skirt sets I got from my aunt and grandma in 6th grade. They were fantastically '80s and sparkly and just awful, would have been ok if I was 8, but not 12. I only wore one of the sweaters once when all my other clothes were dirty and I got made fun of! Probably would be a great find for a college kid at the thrift store now.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie?
Harry Potter (If they aren't Christmas movies, why are they always playing them at Christmas??)

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
Whenever I see something that screams someone at me I get it and save it for Christmas or their birthday, if I don't have anything I wait until the last minute, just hoping something will jump at me.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
Yes and I'm sure I will again.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
Corn and Beans and chex mix....and Leftovers (which is when it is acceptable to put chex mix on top of your Christmas dinner, not at the table.)

16. Lights on the tree?
Yes, if I had one.

17. Favorite Christmas song?
Santa Claus is a Black Man

18.Travel at Christmas or stay home?
Travel, but not far.

19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer’s?
Absolutely

20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Um, no tree, no topper.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
Both, and more. The more rounds of present opening the better, and that goes double for Christmas dinners.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year?
Traffic, and working late.

23. Favorite ornament theme or color?
I like miniature knitted things

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner?
Favorite what?

25. What do you want for Christmas this year?
See the list

Adventurous Knitter?

2008-11-21T13:43:00.000-08:00

Ok, how lame is it that I haven't posted for like 6 months and when I do it's a silly list?? Basically I've has been very busy and I still have to post about my summer vacation and that will be a long post and I just can't take all that pressure!!

Bold = Have already tried this
Italicized = Plan to try this
Unemphasized = Have no desire to try this

- Afghan
- I-cord
- Garter stitch
- Knitting with metal wire
- Shawl
- Stockinette Stitch
- Socks: Top-down
- Socks: Toe-up
- Knitting with camel yarn
- Mittens: Cuff-up
- Mittens: Tip down
- Hat
- Knitting with silk (sari)
- Moebius band knitting
- Participating in a KAL
- Sweater
- Drop stitch patterns
- Knitting with recycled/secondhand yarn
- Slip stitch patterns
- Knitting with banana fiber yarn
- Domino knitting
- Knitting with bamboo yarn
-Twisted Stitch Patterns (are hard with my backwards knitting grrr)
- Two end knitting
- Charity knitting
- Knitting with soy yarn
- Cardigan
- Toy/doll
- Knitting with circular needles
- Baby items
- Knitting with your own handspun
- Slippers
- Graffiti knitting
- Continental knitting
- Designing knitted garments
- Cable stitch patterns
- Lace patterns
- Scarf
-Publishing a Knitting Book
- Teaching a child to knit
- American/English knitting
- Knitting to make money
- Buttonholes
- Knitting with alpaca
- Fair Isle
- Knitting items for a wedding
-Norwegian Knitting
- Household items
- Knitting socks on two circulars
- Olympic knitting
- Knitting with someone else’s handspun yarn
- Knitting with dpns
- Holiday-related knitting
- Teaching a male how to knit
- Bobbles
- Knitting for a living
- Knitting with cotton
- Knitting smocking
- Dyeing yarn
- Steeks
- Knitting art
- Fulling/felting
- Knitting with wool
- Textured knitting
- Kitchener BO
- Purses/bags
- Knitting with beads
- Swatching
- Long tail CO
- Entrelac
- Knitting and purling backwards
- Machine Knitting
- Knitting with self-patterning/self-striping/variegated yarn
- Stuffed toys
- Knitting with cashmere
- Darning
- Jewelry
- Knitting with synthetic yarn
- Writing a pattern
- Gloves
- Intarsia
- Knitting with linen
- Knitting for preemies (unintentionally)
- Tubular CO
- Freeform knitting
- Short rows
- Cuffs/fingerless mitts/armwarmers
- Pillows
- Knitting a pattern from an online knitting magazine
- Rug
- Knitting on a loom
- Thrummed knitting
- Knitting a gift
- Knitting for pets
- Shrug/bolero/poncho
- Knitting with dog/cat hair
- Hair accessories
- Knitting in public
- Double knitting

The Green Zebra

2008-07-18T09:15:00.000-07:00

If you happen to be in Chicago, you should consider going to eat at the Green Zebra (especially if you are a vegetarian). We went there for lunch and I got the most awesome BLT. The "B" is actually mushrooms which have been magically transformed into this sort of dried, chewey, barbequed mushroom awesomeness. Also, the food presentation is so spectacular that I just had to take a picture.

Book List

2008-06-27T07:41:00.000-07:00

Another meme from Allison

These are the 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users.

Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school (I turned them blue instead too), italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read them for school in the first place, put !! next to the ones you mean to read...someday.

I don't consider myself well-read, so I was kind of surprised that I had read a lot of these.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina -too boring, even on tape
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22!!
One Hundred Years of Solitude

Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary!!
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice*
Jane Eyre!!
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies!!
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma*
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods everyone loves it, I just couldn't get into it
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha got in an airport to read on an airplane
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales (intend to finish)
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World*
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch!!
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984*
Angels & Demons*
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility*
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Miserables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune!!
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short history of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita!!
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey

The Catcher in the Rye*
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything!!
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid

Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit*
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth* I highly recommend this one
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Today I'm a reposter

2008-06-18T13:06:00.000-07:00

So I saw this on Allison's blog and felt compelled to do it too. Meanwhile I discovered that she's friends with Jen, who I know from high school. Small world, or at least small state!

1. Where is your cell phone? ………….. purse
2. Your significant other?…………………London
3. Your hair? ………………………………....barrette

4. Your mother? ……………………………Wisconsin

5. Your father?…………………………………church

6. Your favorite thing?………………………sunshine

7. Your dream last night?………………….. sweaty

8. Your favorite drink? ……………………….juice

9. Your dream/goal?…………………………awesomeness

10. The room you’re in?……………………..store

11. Your ex?………………………………………New York

12. Your fear?……………………………………sweaty

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? kids

14. Where were you last night?…………..home

15. What you’re not?………………………….weak

16. Muffins?………………………………………donuts

17. One of your wish list items?………….. books

18. Where you grew up?……………………..here

19. The last thing you did?………………….. phone

20. What are you wearing?………………….. t-shirt

21. Your TV?………………………………………useless

22. Your pets?……………………………………..furry

23. Your computer? …………………………….dell

24. Your life?………………………………………good

25. Your mood?………………………………….blah

26. Missing someone?……………………….. sorta

27. Your car?……………………………………….new

28. Something you’re not wearing?…….. skirt

29. Favorite Store?……………………………ReBelle (duh)

30. Your summer?………………………………school

31. Like(love) someone?………………………yup

32. Your favorite color?……………………….dye

33. Last time you laughed?……………….. Today

34. Last time you cried?………………………Wednesday
35. Who will re-post this?……………………..reposters

Baby Birds!

2008-05-03T04:50:00.000-07:00

The bird outside my window has had 4 babies. It is really neat to watch them being fed, but it's hard to be fast enough to get a picture.

It's Bike Season!

2008-04-17T15:45:00.000-07:00

This is my bike. I got it last year near the end of the summer. Isn't it pretty? Today I rode it to work for the first time this year. I've decided to set a goal for myself to ride my bike 92 days this year (no, it's not random, it's 1/4 of the days in a year). It shouldn't be too hard, but I think it will make me ride it more than if I didn't have a goal. 2 down, 90 to go.
Also, it seems like a lot of people are starting diets and I'd like to loose a little belly fat, so maybe I should start one too. Diets for me really just involve being more aware of what I am eating (yesterday, being on a diet meant picking most of the breading off of my onion rings.) Anyhow, I decided to look up how many calories I should ideally be getting per day. You always think that 2000 is like the normal, average amount. Well, I only get 1400! Harumph!

Stash, what stash?

2008-04-13T21:54:00.001-07:00

So, I've always thought that I don't have much of a stash. Just a box under the bed with a few skeins in it, nothing too exciting. Then today I went looking for a particular yarn that I knew I had to start a project with. That's when I realized that my stash doesn't seem that big because I have multiple stashes. So here they are. 1. The current project basket. For all on the needles projects, recently finished projects and their leftover yarn and several random skeins that just got thrown in there when I was cleaning the living room.
2. Leftover bits of superwash wool.
3. Basket of mostly chunky yarns that I assembled together when I was inspired to make some funky hats this winter. (Number of funky hats made so far: zero)
4. Yarn that was selected from stash #5 because it was deemed 'superior' or 'inspiring' and that something was going to be made out of it "soon". The selection now seems quite random and I'm going to recombine it with the big box.
5. Project leftovers (mostly of usable quantities) and inferior yarn. This is the box that I have previously thought of as my stash.

In other news, a bird has made its nest right outside my sewing table window! It's really the perfect spot, very sheltered, what a smart little bird!

It's Dyeing Weather Again

2008-04-08T12:32:00.000-07:00

So this blog was supposed to be about stuff I make, right? Whatever, here's some yarn I dyed last week.

New Kitty!!

2008-02-21T07:47:00.000-08:00

This is the adorable new kitty that is coming to live with us on Sunday. He is 9 months old and super affectionate. I am hoping him and Scotty will be pals and that he will keep a respectful distance from Peanut (unless by some freak chance she actually likes the new kitty.)

Were You Aware?

2008-01-24T20:40:00.000-08:00

I am a midwife, and now I have a website to prove it. www.lexingtonhomebirth.com

New Years Resolutions

2008-01-10T08:27:00.000-08:00

ok, so I know I haven't posted for a long time. My excuse, I was busy busy, then there was Christmas, then I was busy, and then I was lazy. Anyhow, I have no pictures, because I am lame, but here are my resolutions:
1. For the first 15 days of January there will be no sewing, but cleaning and organizing instead.
* ok, so I've already broken this one because yesterday I sewed a bag for myself....and I've kind of lost momentum on the cleaning....but I'm having a party in February and that should motivate me.
2. Get a midwifery website up. This is a January goal.
3. Get 6 midwifery clients this year. I think the website will help a lot with this.
4. ReVamp my etsy store. This is a March goal. I never really worked on the etsy store, but I want to get a banner thing and get really good pictures for each of the summer skirt designs, so the store will have more of a unified look.
5. Be more social. I think I have this goal every year. Hermiting myself away is my default mode.
6. Ride my bike more. Should be easier, now that I have a bike.

Mumlors!

2007-11-03T07:28:00.001-07:00

Last weekend I went to the Indiana Handicraft Exchange in Indianapolis and got these supercute nesting Mumlors, 100% handmade by box wonder.

The Knit List

2007-09-22T13:58:00.000-07:00

Alright, I've seen this on a couple blogs, and I love lists, so I've got to do it too.

Black = done it
Green = want to do it
Yellow = maybe
Red = think I'll pass

Afghan
I-cord
Garter stitch
Knitting with metal wire
Shawl
Stockinette stitch
Socks: top-down
Socks: toe-up (on the needles)
Knitting with camel yarn
Mittens: Cuff-up
Mittens: Tip-down
Hat
Knitting with silk
Moebius band knitting
Participating in a KAL
Sweater
Drop stitch patterns
Knitting with recycled/secondhand yarn
Slip stitch patterns
Knitting with banana fiber yarn
Domino knitting
Twisted stitch patterns
Knitting with bamboo yarn
Two end knitting
Charity knitting
Knitting with soy yarn
Cardigan (this winter's planned sweater: central park hoodie)
Toy/doll clothing
Knitting with circular needles
Baby items
Knitting with your own handspun (spun it, but not knit with it yet)
Slippers
Graffiti knitting
Continental knitting (it's the only way to go!)
Designing knitted garments
Cable stitch patterns
Lace patterns
Publishing a knitting book
Scarf
Teaching a child to knit
American/English knitting (yes, but why bother)
Knitting to make money (not like a living wage or anything)
Buttonholes
Knitting with alpaca
Fair Isle knitting
Norwegian knitting....i'm not sure if i have or not because i don't know what the distinguishing feature is.
Dying with plant colors
Knitting items for a wedding
Household items
Knitting socks (or other small tubular items) on two circulars (perfectly pointless)
Olympic knitting
Knitting with someone else’s handspun yarn
Knitting with dpns
Holiday-related knitting
Teaching a male how to knit
Bobbles
Knitting for a living
Knitting with cotton
Knitting smocking
Dying yarn
Steeks
Knitting art - what does this even mean?
Fulling/felting
Knitting with wool
Textured knitting
Kitchener BO
Purses/bags
Knitting with beads
Swatching (even though I hate it)
Long Tail CO
Entrelac
Knitting and purling backwards
Machine knitting
Knitting with self patterning/self striping/variegating yarn
Stuffed toys
Knitting with cashmere
Darning
Jewelry
Knitting with synthetic yarn(Yuk!)
Writing a pattern
Gloves
Intarsia
Knitting with linen (i've used hemp though, which is very similar)
Knitting for preemies
Tubular CO
Freeform knitting
Short rows
Cuffs/fingerless mitts/armwarmers
Pillows
Knitting a pattern from an online knitting magazine
Rug
Knitting on a loom
Thrummed knitting
Knitting a gift
Knitting for pets
Shrug/bolero/poncho
Knitting with dog/cat hair, though there's plenty of cat hair in my knitting, i'm sure!
Hair accessories (if headbands count)
Knitting in public

My Summer Vacation

2007-09-20T11:06:00.001-07:00

So, me and Erik went to North Carolina for an extended weekend. Stopped at some yarn stores and vegan eateries on the way yum yum. So we get to our destination, Frisco, and set up in a lovely campground. Bellies still full of frozen custard and kinda tired, we go to sleep early....and then wake up 5 hours later in a puddle of water. This is the beginning of the 24 hours of unfortunate vacationing. Anyhow, we move to the car and sleep the rest of the night there. Fortunately, we are still very psyched about being on vacation and all, so we get up and head for the beach. The beach! It is the real destination of this trip! Yay! It's not exactly sunny outside, but the water is warm. It is also very windy. Isn't it always windy at the beach? Sure. So I play in the waves, it's fun...until my ears start to hurt. My poor sensitive ears. I am protecting them with earplugs and a scarf, but the wind...it manages to get inside somehow. So I sit on the beach with a towel draped over my head to protect my ears and play in the sand. There's not many people at the beach. Go in again, get knocked down by a couple waves, come out again, Erik and I build a sandcastle. I like the beach. It sucks that my ears hurt. Will Sarah never be able to have fun swimming in the ocean again? We go for a walk, come back, go in the water again. Then the officials tell us to get out of the water. The waves are getting too high. Bummer. On the way back to the car we get pelted by sand. Attacked. The beach is attacking us! It hurts. A lot of sand gets blown into the car. We go back to the campsite. No one else is camping. Hmm, maybe because it's Sunday. We dry our blankets out. Listen to the radio. Oh, a tropical storm is coming. Well.....hmmm.....I guess that would explain a lot of things. So, we upgraded to a little cabin so we wouldn't have to sleep in puddles and possibly be carried off by the wind. That settled, we set out to have ourselves a fabulous dinner that we had promised ourselves since we'd PB&Jd for lunch. We'd seen a copy of the menu for this place, they had some lovely pasta thing with mushrooms and capers and artichokes and tempura on top...it sounded sooo yummy. Sounded. Not Tasted. They were closed. As was nearly everything else. Seriously, the only place open was Bubba's BBQ and you know how excited I was about that. Oh, well, we had a roof over our heads, some mediocre cornbread in our bellies, and super scrabble, it could have been a lot worse. And the next day, the sun was out, no sign of rain, we managed to find a beach with public showers so we wouldn't have to be covered in salt and sand all day and we spent a lovely morning-early afternoon at the beach! Smaller waves, cooler water and a LOT less wind!! No achy ears!! Sand castle with an actual moat and everything. Then we went off to explore the desert. Well, it looks like the desert anyways, except for there's a lot of footprints. It's really a giant sand dune, and it's really bright with all the light reflecting off the sand, which is why we look kinda funny in the picture, because we are trying to look at the camera without going blind. Anyhow, then we stopped in Asheville for the day on the way home and went to some nice yarn stores and tried to get vegan yummyness, although my top 3 choices were all closed. Rats! I did have some channa saag that rivaled Stitar's (in Nashville) for best ever, so that almost made up for it. Anyhow, a quick vacation, but fun and restful and thoroughly vacationlike.

Composed Mitts

2007-09-06T10:40:00.001-07:00

These are colors I would not have picked out myself, but luckily there were a lot of partial skeins of Blue Sky Alpaca Sport lying around, so I only had one color to pick out and it had to match all the others. Anyhow, no doubt they are more beautiful and subdued than if I had picked out all 6 colors. Anyhow, it only took a week to make them and they were fun to knit, and they are soft and comfy. I look forward to wearing them next year (since they'll be hanging in the store for this season!)

Nurse-Out

2007-08-30T08:23:00.000-07:00

So apparently Applebee's is not too breastfeeding-friendly. They asked a woman to cover up while she was nursing, and they persisted even when informed of the law protecting public breastfeeding (which they were breaking by asking her to put a blanket over the baby). As a result of this there will be a Nurse-Out on Saturday, September 8, 2007 from noon to 2:00 p.m. at 4009 Nicholasville Road (in front of Applebee's) in Lexington. Bring the family, make signs and educate the public! There's also a Nurse-In in the Fayette Mall children's play area on September 1 from 1-3 to raise breastfeeding awareness.

Skein upon Skein of Blue Sky Cotton

2007-08-25T12:37:00.001-07:00

So here are some things I recently finished knitting for the store, which is mostly what I am knitting now, so there will be a bunch of store samples for the fall. I give the baby bobbi bear pattern four stars, unique construction, practically no seaming, and hugable! Anyhow, now I'm on to some fabulous fair-isle armwarmers and a fairly mindless scarf.

The Train Skirt

2007-08-07T08:24:00.000-07:00

Here it is! I decided I just had to keep it for myself since I put so much time into it.

Kentucky Midwifery Video

2007-08-07T07:30:00.000-07:00

Vegan Pal 2 Questionnaire

2007-08-04T07:23:00.000-07:00

Vegan pal 2 sounds like a ton of fun! I can't wait to make and unmake a magic yarn ball!!

1. What is/are your craft(s), & how long have you been doing it/them?
I have been knitting for 4 years, actively sewing for 7, dyeing on and off for 7 years, I do a bit of screenprinting and tinker with spinning (wheels, I don't care for drop spindles)

2. Are you a vegan, vegetarian, veg-curious, veg-friendly or other?
I am a vegan.

3. What is/are your favorite color(s)? Do you particularly dislike any color(s)?
I do not like pastels, and black white and grey are not my favorites. Other than that I mostly like all colors, particularly rich/saturated ones. I do find blue a bit boring sometimes, and prefer the red end of purple.

4. Do you have any allergies (such as pets, foods, fibers or cigarette smoke)?
I have no allergies, but do not like cigarette smoke.

5. Do you have any companion animals? If so, name(s) and type(s)?
I have 2 cats, Scotty and Peanut.

6. Do you collect anything?
I try not to, though I am considering starting a pop-up book collection, and maybe wind up toys because they are so neat!

7. Do you have a favorite vegan food, snack or dish?
I like mushrooms, cherries, blueberries, chocolate

8. What are some of your favorite/least favorite tastes/flavors?
I like sweet, chocolate, savory, thai, indian, italian, medeterranean

9. What tools/supplies/accessories for your craft(s) are you wishing you had but don't? Also, what do you have TOO many of?
I'm not really wishing for anything in particular. I'd appreciate something I can't get at my LYS. I have plenty of needles and plenty of fabric and I don't want any mainstream magazines.

10. What type of handmade item would tickle your fancy? What don't you like?
I generally don't like crocheted garments. I like useful things. Unless they are supercute, in which case the cuteness makes up for the uselessness. Handmade things in general tickle my fancy.

11. Is there anything else you would like your pal to know about you?
I like recycled things and I also like environmentally friendly things. I mostly sew with hemp/organic cotton or recycled fabrics, though there is plenty of other fabric in my stash from when my resolve was not so strong. With yarn, I prefer natural fibers, I do not like synthetics and I do not like novelty yarn.

12. What scents do you like/dislike?
I dislike almost all artificial scents. Most natural scents (essential oils, spices, etc. ) are fine.

13. Do you prefer fall or Halloween or some other Autumn theme?
Halloween. It's the best holiday.

14. Just for fun - tell your favorite Halloween or Autumn related memory.
Halloween never seems to live up to my expectations. One that did was during my first year of college, in New Orleans. I went downtown with a fairy, a hawaiian girl, a nurse and someone just out of the shower. I was a tablecloth. Nothing in particular stands out in my mind besides a long kiss on bourbon street, I just remember it was a fun night.

Sarah's Wish List

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Amazon doesn't have everything, so I decided just to make a list here, and I'll update it every now and then, it's in order of most wanted. Last updated 12/28/08

1. I have moved my wishlist over to wishlist.com here.
2. I have an amazon wishlist. Used books would be fine.
3. Classes from Mecca 859-254-9790