can't get enough stripes.

apparently, roommate and i were too busy eating and drinking to take pictures of all the glorious food and drink that came through our door.

our menu included: pulled pork over cheddar bacon waffles, garlic rosemary pork tenderloin, barley salad w pomegranates, pickled collard greens w pineapple, bacon wrapped dates, chiorzo in a blanket, prosciutto and melon, assorted meats and cheeses, meyer lemon cake

some of what our dear friends brought: radicchio slaw, beer soaked sausages, ribs, jerky, arugula salad w pear, three cheese crostini topped w ham, spicy kale, fennel ricotta muffins, grapefruit yogurt loaf... and so much more. what else was there?

drinks: whiskey slushies, bloody marys, red and white wines, several growlers from bierkraft, too many bottled and canned beer to recount

thank you everyone for making our 2nd pig party even more fun than the first.

5 colors of felt pig's tails. wire sewn in to create the curl.

today is pig party! roommate and i are very excited. sweating it out prepping for our guests to arrive. looking forward to being overly saturated with pig and beer by the end of the day.

march 1st is both national pig day and national beer day. tomorrow, roommate and i will be hosting our 2nd annual pig and beer party. (last year's invite / spread / decorations)

jc, thanks for the notecards. happy to know i'm not the only one with pig on the brain. these will be put to good use!

i adore brown. and what's better... orange, brown's private room. just couldn't resist crashing a former DZ employee reunion.

fabric: white flannel with multi-colored pokadots

detailing: cotton floss crochet edge and hand-embroidered name

size: 40" square

on an early-spring cleaning kick...

my sewing machine finally got a cover. i used martha's tea towel cover idea as a guide. instead of using a tea towel, i dug through my fabrics and found this linen/cotton, dotted gem by kiyohara called canvas dots.

after pulling out a 90% completed, two-tone gray, slouchy, cashmere hat (hopefully to be re-stitched, stay tuned), i decided to take on a more immediately rewarding task. i organized my yarns. i found angoras, mohairs, cottons, cotton-wool blends, aplacas, royal-alpacas, merinos... hand-spuns, hand-dyeds... lace, fingering, dk, sport, worsted, bulky and chunky weights... so much yarn. enough for several project. the most exciting part: i found over 6 skeins of cashmere: 2-, 4-, 5-, 6-ply, in grays, blues, orange and pink. 

it's going to be a good, productive month. 

anyone have any requests?

sat outside of purl, all bundled up, with my first latte in weeks and a new book all about wool. such a great saturday morning.

fabrics: liberty's philippa front w anna maria horner's buttoned up sea back

detailing: cotton floss hand-embroidery / machine sewn edge

size: 9" x 9"

happy birthday jonesie!

a man and his dog, in a kayak  / 1999

uncle wray turns 59 today. yay. sadly i could not join him and his beautiful wife up in maine to celebrate. but mom and i did send up a birthday treat.

during the summer of '99, the whole family went up  to maine for our annual vacation. one day we took the family flotilla (a couple canoes, a few kayaks, small motor boat and a bathtub-sized sail boat) down river for a picnic. on this particular day, uncle wray was looking for a companion to kayak around with. no one was up to it. no one, that is, but jackson... a gorgeous weimaraner, weighing probably no less than 80 pounds.

the framed contact sheets above show the loading, launching and subsequent failure of uncle wray's kayaking adventure with jackson.

jackson passed away this year at 14 years old. he will be missed.

happy birthday uncle. love you.

after work today, i headed over to the delicious city bakery for a night of hot cocoa and knitting. met my dear friend renee there (lucky duck, her number got pulled for the raffle). it was a wonderful showing from the new york knitting community. over 250 people. tickets sold out 2 weeks prior.