Sleightholm Folk Art

Tag: knitting

  • Another New Beginning

    I love the promise of a new skein of yarn, and thought there was nothing so befitting the first day of the new year as a freshly wound ball of yarn and plans for leisurely knitting with no holiday deadline. As always, I have high hopes for 2012. Its all fresh and untouched so far.…

  • Calm before the Christmas

    I feel relieved that we’ve finally reached that calm before the holiday. For so many weeks now I felt like I was struggling to get everything done, and now it is— more or less– and it’s time to relax and let the day come. I’ve been relatively good as far as the cookies go (relatively)…

  • Baby Love

    This past weekend I helped host a baby shower for a good friend who is expecting her first child at the end of August this very hot and sweltering summer. The theme sort of ‘evolved’ into birds and nests and little eggs, and we had a fun time creating fresh floral arrangements with birds and…