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Author: Olivia Glennon

  • Project updates – Dec 2024

    Project updates – Dec 2024

    I hadn’t finished any projects for a while, but I’m slowly starting to complete things. I’ve been prioritizing both a) using things from my stash; and b) making sweaters that I can incorporate more into my daily wear. For the latter, it has led to me either redoing parts of sweaters, or working on things…

  • Whole Roast Chicken + Videography

    Whole Roast Chicken + Videography

    Yesterday, Jeremy and I cooked one of the roast chicken recipes from the new Julius Roberts cookbook. We’ve tried cooking a whole chicken before and it didn’t turn out great (the infamous Jamie Oliver Milk Chicken – disgusting. I’m pretty sure Jamie Oliver doesn’t know how to cook). But this recipe was simple and delicious. Neither…

  • Next steps

    Next steps

    With the election results in, I am thinking a lot about what I can contribute that is meaningful and fulfilling. I am not destined to be a large organizer/leader, but I think I can contribute in other ways. I don’t have a lot of fully formed thoughts now, but the thing that pulls at me…

  • Stash-busting + a Halloween Sweater

    Stash-busting + a Halloween Sweater

    Something I’ve been trying to do for a while now, but especially with a move (hopefully within the next year) in mind, is use up yarn and fiber in my stash. I have a massive amount of fiber, including whole fleeces, and yarn, but have the classic problem where I don’t always have enough for…

  • Farm Search

    Farm Search

    Jeremy and I are starting our farm search and I am so excited. I’m using the term farm a bit loosely – there’s a lot we don’t know, and where we end up will be a combination of what we feel we can handle and what becomes available. As of right now, we’re looking for…

  • Scenes from Maine

    Scenes from Maine

    Deer Isle + Coastal Maine

  • Future Dreaming

    Future Dreaming

    Over the past year I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on what my life is like now and what I’d like it to look like five years from now. As it is with most people, a lot has happened in the past four years. In 2020 I became single for the first time in…

  • 16-shaft Macomber Loom

    16-shaft Macomber Loom

    Last month I was able to purchase a 16 shaft, 48″ Macomber loom second hand. This is my dream loom – I had been looking at the cost of a new one, and knew I wanted to save up for that one day when I had the appropriate space for it. But, that plan quickly…

  • Process + Progress

    Process + Progress

    I haven’t really sat down to write or document anything formally because in a lot of ways I haven’t “finished” anything. But in reality, that isn’t 100% accurate – I have finished the sample for my Önska pattern and writing the first draft of the pattern, I finished an entire handspun shawl, and I have…

  • Stash Down Project #1 – Jack-o’-lantern sweater

    Stash Down Project #1 – Jack-o’-lantern sweater

    Alright, here we go – Project #1! Honestly, this is really only a half stash down project since I bought the mohair in order to cast this one on…but it still counts. When I went to Scotland, I picked up two balls of J.C. Rennie’s Supersoft 4-ply in this beautiful pure orange. I knew the…