a parting sketch of nina's kitchen

Last week I moved out of the house where I'd been living for the past year and a quarter. It had really become a home and I was sad to leave it. My friend Lia visited and we sketched my kitchen. I chose the sink and cabinets, complete with paper hearts I had scattered all over for Valentine's day.

an almost-finished sweater!

I started knitting this sweater my first year at Smith. Every winter for the past five years I've pulled it out of the closet, worked on it a bit, gotten frustrated with a dropped stitch or other nuisance, and put it away. 

This year I'm really going to finish it! I even trekked back to the tiny yarn shop in rural New York where I bought the yarn because I had run out about halfway up my shoulders. Check it out:

 

I may put off finishing it until after Christmas because I really need to work on a pair of socks I'm knitting for my brother. But the sweater... it's so close!

I am [ironically] about to leave for a tropical country quite soon, where I will not be wearing this sweater.

inchies - crafted by nina

a fellow pirate recently alerted us craft corsairs to a phenomenon called inchies. 

mine are a little bigger than an inch, but you get the idea. I pulled out all the bags of assorted fabric scraps, buttons and tangled embroidery floss from my craft box and came up with these:

perhaps an inchie will be coming to a mailbox near you soon?