Hi makers, how are we all? Incredibly, we made it through November and are now in the last month of the year! November was such a wild and overwhelming month to be online with the US elections and their aftermath, and the following bombardment of […]
It’s been a while hasn’t it? There is of course the usual stuff, what with the start of the academic year, me taking on more courses, and the inevitable arrival of the midterms. Like a lot of you I’ve been trying to make sense of […]
Hey there, As you may have seen on my instagram, I’ve been experimenting with a whole new branch of yarncraft: natural dyeing! I planned to experiment with natural dying since the beginning of summer, but you know how it goes, and well I only got […]
Okay, so I may have hinted at finishing this hap a few times before, and I might have been promising to take pictures of it for over a month, but it’s just very uncomfortable to take photographs of The One Shawl to Rule them All/The […]
Isn’t it funny how I always think that during any given exam period I will have time to pop in here for a blog post and rarely do? I need to work on my time management a bit. Last week I wrapped up my midterms. […]
This week a rather exquisite parcel arrived at the Treehouse: Straight from Kate Davies’ Scottish home, seven neatly packed skeins of Buchaille. As people who follow me here or on Ravelry might notice, I’m a bit of a fan of Kate’s designs. Owls was the […]
At the start of September, as if on cue, the temperatures dropped, and now it feels as if autumn is here to stay. The perfect time to take a look at one of the things I have been working on throughout the summer holiday in […]
I just finished my first socks. My first hand knitted socks, ever. After almost a decade of knitting (what, really?) I’ve taken my needles on a trip to ground level. I know knitted socks are quite popular; There are people who solely knit socks. I never […]
Something colourful arrived at the Treehouse last week. Due to my considerable enthusiasm and anticipation in the wake of its arrival my boyfriend expected that an unruly amount of yarn was coming the Treehouse’s way. But no, this time a very different, and curiously flat […]
When I went to Scotland last year I brought home some great yarn gifts to myself. Some have been knitted up already, others are still waiting in the yarn treasury for their turn. However, I did not only bring yarn back for myself. I brought […]
