I first saw the Cloisters Wrap by Mimknits when my friend Nolaboard cast on for hers. The pattern was instantly appealing. Designed to reflect the architectural highlights of monastic communities for women it is knit in one piece without center grafting. We all love that right? Most of my life was spent in Tulsa, OK…
A new year. Yep it’s here. A brand spanking new year. Whether your new year’s traditions include black eyed peas or resolutions, a new year is full of opportunity to make good on all of those yucky things that we didn’t like about the previous year or build upon the things that we did like.…
Another year closes and before I put it fully behind me I’ll spend part of today looking through my journal, looking through past blog posts, my Ravelry project folder and listening to some nice jazz. One thing apparent is that I did accomplish my goal of 10 shawls in 2010. Here is the last one…
Today there was no towel in the front bathroom. I remembered seeing pale sage green linen yarn in the Closet Stash recently. (Closet Stash is not the main stash but those few yarns that I bought for no apparent reason. You know what I’m talking about right?) My mind whipped up in a frenzy of…
All across the globe – and blogland – people have been making and decorating cookies. I’ve seen bedazzled Christmas cookies and read friend’s Facebook status updates about making Danish Julepepparkakor, Brunekager, S-Kager, Pebernødder, & coconut cookies. Another friend made glogg and gingersnaps for St Lucia day. It’s been a few years since I made cookies…
As midnight neared Chris took our camping mattress outside to inflate. He put it in the bed of the trailer we use to haul stuff around the farm. I took a brief nap so I wouldn’t doze off. Outside bundled in hats, scarves and coats and snuggled under blankets in the wet night we watched…
Tomorrow marks the Winter Solstice and the official beginning of Winter. Here at the farm we like to mark the first day of winter, whether it’s a hike in the woods, late night star gazing, or getting up in the middle of the night to catch a total lunar eclipse. While many people (myself included)…
It’s brain suck day here at the farm. Zombies? Vampires? (although technically I guess vampires would be blood suckers not brain suckers) Neither. Today is the day we package up the fiber to send to the mill for processing. I’ve had several people ask how I go about shipping raw fiber. Raw fiber is fluffy…
Last week we met a customer in downtown Tulsa to drop off an internet order. Normally we mail orders but this time we knew we’d be in Tulsa and thought it’d be nice to hand deliver the order. I know many people shudder at the thought of dealing with the sparse parking and the one-way…
If you’ve not entered the FB End of Year Giveaway today is your last opportunity. Click on the FB badge on the sidebar, become a friend of LostCity Knits and you might win a skein of lace weight merino yarn, a sachet, and some lavender shea butter! The next contest will be held here on…
