A Tale of Two Yarns

During the Hidden River Yarn’s sixth anniversary celebration, I fell in love with the Overbook shawl by Erika Flory. Aside…Erika has a collection of Philadelphia themed knits that I want to collect and I have my eye on several that I would like, nee want. Any who, the Overbook…the display piece was gorgeous, I live in Overbook, and SHAWL! When…

Book Review: The Knitter’s Dictionary

I’ve been knitting for about seven years and have amassed my share of books. I am excited to add The Knitter’s Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z from Interweave to my shelves. As a person who transitioned to knitting from crochet, I have always felt that there was something missing in my knitting education but this book helps to…

Meet The Batman Day

Last year I learned about a DC Comics event called “Batman Day.” Most likely it is portal a way for DC to push Batman themed merchandise but to me, someone who is always trying to create exciting programs for work, this was a great idea for a library event. This week my library held it’s second Batman Day and over…

Burn Out

I was just going to ride it out this latest wave of the blahs because these spells comes and go but when the spell wasn’t going and I had whined and churned over all of the what ifs to everyone who would listen, I realized that I needed to act.

The Big Chop

It has been a week since I cut my locs. The kidney disease that I have has been in remission but the damage done to my hair was not reversible. At one point, my hair was so thin that I was considering shaving it all off and rocking a look similar to Okoye from Black Panther. My locs were literally…