The Pursuit of Craftiness

     I had a lovely winter holiday in Portland, and wanted to share a few highlights with you today. 1. I got to have coffee with Leethal!  2. I fi...

My neighbor was serenading his very orange canary with a traditional zither yesterday. With Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) just around the cor...

  This week has been delightfully full of dye!  I'm working on sweater-sized kits in Helix, my new sweater yarn. I've been working up some really f...

 I've developed a bit of an obsession this week. I was gifted a really fun skein of sock yarn (Blissful Knits, 75% superwash merino/ 25% nylon, F...

Alley life in Shanghai is amazing and rich. You see a little bit of everything - grandmas bouncing happy babies, mothers- and daughters-in-law occa...

1. I'm working in the garden this week. Today I transplanted chard seedlings, moved strawberry plants to the new "berry bed," and turned the compos...

There's a long list of things I miss from home (nice trash bags, unsweetened tomato juice), but coffee is item #1. After an perfect track record of...

   This week's projects: 1. Striped tea towels for friends and family. 2. Initial samples for sweater kits in new Helix hand-dyed yarns. I'm lookin...

On the needles: Blue Heaven Scarf in Gecko, my own design. I'm finishing this scarf just in time! It's blocking now, and I'm hopeful it'll be dry ...

Today I bring you an adventure in cooking American in Shanghai, starring the nangua - the Chinese pumpkin.     They're boiled and stir-fried in Chi...

As a little early holiday gift, here's a tutorial for how to make your own tiny tree ornaments. These little guys are a great way to use up yarn sc...

Tomorrow marks the start of the biggest of Shanghai's Holiday Craft Fairs: the Kristkindlmarkt at Paulaner, a three-day outdoor affair complete wit...