Category: Updates

  • Purple!

    “Purple is not a real color!” That’s what people told me in the 60’ when I was a child. How could they say that? To me it was clearly a color on it’s own, distinct from red and blue. But no, no matter how I questioned their opinion or argued against it, they still didn’t…

  • Granny Squares Again!

    My grandson was born yesterday! He’s gorgeous! I’m a granny times two now. Or “Mommo” as we say in Finland-Swedish. It’s a nickname for mormor, which means mother’s mother. I’m at my daughter’s, caring for the dogs and the cat, eagerly waiting for the family to come home. So, yesterday we had a funny “history-repeats-itself”…

  • Mohair scarves and fruit salad

    Some time ago my sister gave me loads of fancy yarns. She had an exquisite little yarn shop in a small town in Pennsylvania. I loved that shop and all the fine yarns stocked up everywhere. She used to give small knitting gifts to us and even taught my youngest daughter to knit. A few…

  • Happy New Year, and new beginnings!

    Lao-Tzu, a Chinese philosopher, had the right idea: “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” 2013 has arrived and it’s my lucky 13! It won’t be a journey of a thousand miles per se, but it’s still an adventure I’m looking forward to. Who knows where it’ll go from here? Snovej…

  • For the Love of Buttons!

      “Every button has a story. Every button is a tiny piece of history: a moment in time you can hold in your hand.” – Pam Vasilow (button collector)   I love buttons. I collect them. Buttons are more or less the only collection I have if you don’t count my arts and crafts materials.…