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Old website and a new blanket

The Website News You may recall at the end of 2022, I tried to upgrade the PHP on my website, which failed, and then ended up deleting my entire website. After playing with my backup for the site for longer than I had time for, I’m calling it. I used to be good at WordPress and the backend stuff. Admittedly, there’s not much I can do with corrupted backups. I may try again in the summer, but I still have some hope of saving it. New Blanket Crochet Goodness I got bit by the crochet bug again this year after...

Growth and Restore Kind of Year

I’m starting to feel like it’s a growth and restore kind of year. Restoring spaces, places, and things that fell by the wayside, growing into new spaces and places that feel right. In the context of knitting/crafting this is restoring what I once enjoyed about my YouTube channel (it’s coming) and my Instagram. For growth it’s stepping into new spaces maybe finally letting myself stash a bit of yarn again. Last week I could not keep my hands out of my stash and UFO pile. While I’ve got a few projects that I’m working on, I keep going into my...

The never ending sock yarn blanket

I will be completely honest, I’m still working on the sock yarn blanket that I started during the Olympics, the 2008 Olympics. (Ravelry pattern project page here). I might be a day or week off, but I remember putting into a lot of work on it during that time period. I’ve made pushes to get further before, but I’m nervous that this WIP is going to turn 20. On a related note, I’ve finished an entire mitered square blanket in that time out of larger squares that took around 5 years and I gave it to my mom for Christmas...

Happy 2024

2023 was a year of schoolwork and designing. I think those two things are what I did most looking back. I wrote a lot of patterns that I never expected to do since I was suppose to retire and I managed to fit 40 credit hours into the span of 12 months (still finishing 3 of them this week with the intercession semester). I was told I couldn’t finish my degree in less than 2 years with a major change, well I’m graduating in May, after I don’t want to think about how many years, major changes, interruptions, school changes....

Happy 2023 and some changes are coming

2023 is here and I’m ready to talk about what’s changing in my life. A few months ago, I had a sudden urge that I needed to complete my degree, but with a change in my major. I had stopped classes a few years ago when my work schedule was overwhelming and school wasn’t an option anymore (before I was designing). I finished the final semester with a 4.0 and then school fell off the map. Fast forward to now, I reapplied in November and was accepted back in, now as a double major. I want to finish my original...

Happy December!

I learned a super important lesson last night, don’t fiddle with upgrading the PHP when your backup isn’t accessible (or make a new one!). As you might have noticed, this site looks slightly different now. I’m going to leave some of the new tweaks up, but I will bring back the rest of the blog posts once I have time to sit down and do so. I’m not the WordPress genius I once was, and there have been many changes to the software since I learned back when it was just starting to get popular. Heck, even getting to this...