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I may actually make a dent in the stash!

Dulcinea asks: “What is needle-turn appliqué and why can’t I sit on it?”

My Fuzzy Valentine.

Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow for the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the water looking out in different directions. back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging after funerals we are saying thank you after the news of the dead whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you looking up from tables we are saying thank you in a culture up to its chin in shame living in the stench it has chosen we are saying thank you over telephones we are saying thank you in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators remembering wars and the police at the back door and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you in the banks that use us we are saying thank you with the crooks in office with the rich and fashionable unchanged we go on saying thank you thank you with the animals dying around us our lost feelings we are saying thank you with the forests falling faster than the minutes of our lives we are saying thank you with the words going out like cells of a brain with the cities growing over us like the earth we are saying thank you faster and faster with nobody listening we are saying thank you we are saying thank you and waving dark though it is --"Thanks" by W.S. Merwin

I've finished my first quilt, which is chock-full of deliciously cute Japanese fairytale prints. I'm especially loving the samurai Puss-in-Boots.

Cross-country skiing in Tabernash. The snow came down.

A TARDIS phonebooth, knit-bombed by certain crafty Whovians who shall not be named. Currently at the Festival Playhouse in Old Town Arvada.

The Secret World of Arrietty. Another beautiful Ghibli film depicting handcrafts, domestic labor, and a deep love for the natural world.

This greedy robin is eating all our hawthorn berries.

A glorious passage from The Dervish House by Ian McDonald.

This fluffy baby owl is distracting everyone at the gym.

Pinocchio Ducky!

The Shetland Trader's "Aestlight" shawl, knit in a Sargasso blue merino. I made this while the winter hung on.

Rewatching Miyazaki's Spirited Away. Love this film. Completely forgot there was a knitting scene.

Signs of spring.