Tag: buy local

  • Melt The Ice

    Melt The Ice

    There is nothing quite so nausiatingly surreal as watching my country descend into fascism while going through the motions of my every day life, relatively unchanged. One moment I’m watching a video of an ICE murder, and the next I’m going sledding with my kids, doing dishes, going to work so I can pay my…

  • Hope, Fear, and Witchcraft

    Hope, Fear, and Witchcraft

    My wife once described my knitting as “weird, indecipherable magic that involves cursing as an incantation”. And she’s not wrong! I’m happy to say my most recent project was a fun and easy knit that involved very little cursing, but it was definitely still a weird and indecipherable magic and it made a profound impact…

  • Let’s try a sweater

    Let’s try a sweater

    If you have a hand knit sweater in your closet, you should know that whomever made it must be pretty fond of you. Sweaters use a lot of yarn, take a lot of time, and are generally really tricky to get right. Giving one as a gift is kind of a big deal. I’ve never…