Month: March 2020

the best knitwear designs + mdk’s march mayhem

Like many others around the country and the world, most of us in Marin are currently in lockdown until further notice for at least two weeks due to COVID-19. Schools, museums, and universities are closing and a multitude of events have been canceled — including baseball for our son, which we are pretty bummed about. People are going crazy hoarding toilet paper(?), canned food, and bottled water. (Please drink water from the tap! You don’t need to make things worse by adding more plastic to this situation!) At home, we are trying to stay calm, keeping to ourselves, not touching our faces, and washing our hands often. All this I’ve realized today comes easy to me when I stay home because there’s constantly a pile of dishes in the sink that need washing, thus my hands are “Spic and Span” clean and I don’t have a chance to touch my face too much when I’m busy knitting! I think I may save myself! No… joking aside, I am glad that people are taking this seriously …

cupcakes

orange-vanilla muffins and wool eye candy

Walking in the morning has been wonderful the last few days. Today especially, the sun was shining and the air was super crisp. I love it when I make it up to the trail in the morning before heading out to the office. It makes the day feel less like a regular weekday. Estelle likes it too! She is so happy when we get out early. Now with winter behind us, I have no more excuses to not do this more often. (Every day? #Goals!) Over the weekend, I had the chance to flip through some of the new magazines that have been arriving in the mail and piling up on our kitchen counter. I especially enjoyed seeing the article on Cattywampus Crafts in the Martha Stewart Living March issue. This store’s 33-foot-long wall, full of everything from cotton to mohair is the stuff of every yarn addict’s dreams. (Yes, me!) I recently discovered Cattywampus on IG and have been following them ever since, just for inspiration. Because I admit that some days I dream …