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Continue reading →: Mitts and artichokes
The extreme cold snap has inspired me to spend a lot of time checking the pipes to make sure they aren’t frozen. Only one tiny problem with the pipes – the not-so-brilliant renovators ran the cold water line to the kitchen right next to the dryer vent outlet. If it…
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Continue reading →: Studio Day
Saturday morning when I let the dog out it was -15F outside my front door. That sort of weather makes me want to huddle under mounds of blankets, and knit warm cozy things from wool. And that’s just what I’ve been doing. I started a couple of blog articles, but…
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Continue reading →: Insanity
I’ve put together a reasonable selection of supplies for beginner, intermediate and advanced card/tablet weavers, braiders, etc. Cotton, linen silk; cards; and so on – enough to keep a band-weaver happy for a very long time. Most band weavers, that is. I realized recently that I do not have any…
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Continue reading →: Technobabble
I’ve fallen in with a bad crowd. You know the type – a roving gang of internet thugs, hanging around in dark alleys, skipping school, smoking under that big tree out back. Enticing people to hang out with them, and to waste lots of time messing about online. Yes, it’s…
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Continue reading →: My morning commute
See the pretty shiny road? And the pretty shiny shrubbery? Easily the worst commute in the six years I’ve been here. This is the winter of ice, it seems. It’s still falling, predicted to continue and turn to snow over the course of the day, topping it all off with…
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Continue reading →: Sprang sashes
This past fall I was approached by an 18th-c. reenactor about the military sashes worn during the American War for Independence. Many of the famous portraits of George Washington show him wearing this sort of sash. It’s common knowledge among textile geeks that these are sprang, as described in various…
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Continue reading →: 2009
“Start as you mean to go on” seems to be the general consensus on the new year. If that’s the way it works, though, my 2009 is going to be late and disorganized. Four days into the year and I’m already desperately behind and overcommitted, just as I ended 2008.…
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Continue reading →: Fixed
The upload is now working, so I can share with you the current state of the interminable stripy socks. Finished. Both of them. That was my Christmas activity while spending time with family, and I grafted the toes on the 26th. (I managed to graft one of them purlwise –…
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Continue reading →: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
Minor technical difficulties around here. I haven’t been able to upload photos for nearly a week. Sharp-eyed readers may have noticed that the cookie pics were hosted elsewhere (though I can’t imagine why anyone would have paid any attention to that). I wrote a careful, detailed email to the support…
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Continue reading →: Adventures in Cookieland
That sounds like the title of a truly awful children’s book, doesn’t it? Nothing horrible though, I promise, though the quantity of cookies I baked today is truly ridiculous. I used all the flour, all the eggs, all the vanilla, and enough butter to keep a whole herd of cows…
Welcome!
I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.
I also do some science and write some fiction.
I’m Phiala most places on the internet.
