One of the items on my to-do list for this blog is to write a few more book reviews, with a focus on books I find helpful for running a small business, especially the business of knit/crochet design.
If I post a "recommended reading" list, what are sort books you would be the most interested in knowing about? Is it important for you to know if the book is available as an e-book?
I've been playing with the Paper app, and having fun! It's been easy to learn, so while it doesn't have as much fine control as some other apps, and a limited color palette, I can see using it for quick, casual sketches.
Display of Cascade 220 Wool at a local craft store today. Kirsten Hipsky suggested on Twitter that "the yarn is performing zee forbidden palm-frond fan dance" - ha! I do like the idea that the yarn is being presented seductive and mysterious, but at the moment I was just annoyed because I'd gone to the store specifically to buy Cascade 220 Wool and hadn't planned on having to push my way through a fake jungle to get to it.
One of my latest projects: wild yeast sourdough starter. I'm using the instructions from Donna Currie's Sourdough Starter-Along over at Slice, and I'm on Day 6 (technically, this has been going for 7 days, but I had to fridge it for a day while I was away).
It's burbling away contentedly and actually smells like bread, which I am counting as success. To allow air circulation, I'm using a paper towel held down by a canning ring (although I'm going to switch to a plastic screw-top lid later today, so that the lactic acid can start developing). Because I've been sketching out ideas to submit to Defarge Does Chaucer (one of the follow-ups to the fabulous book What Would Mme Defarge Knit, edited by Heather O. of the also fabulous CraftLit podcast), I've been daydreaming about medieval illuminated manuscripts, The Door in the Wall (which I read over and over again as a kid), The Chronicles of Prydain (ditto), the A Song of Ice and Fire series (which I am re-reading), etc. etc. I walked into the kitchen this morning, looked at the jar of sourdough starter, and giggled. It looks like it's wearing a wimple and headrail.
I've been at home with a cold for the past few days, so I got comfortable.
Now all I need is another pot of tea!