Fashion Admit it: For the majority of the year, you’ve been bitch-slapping your inner Martha Stewart into submission. But y’all, it’s halfway through December. Dig out the tinsel and the glu ...   More

Fashion Many of you may not know it, but Friday is a national holiday for our friends south of that 2,000-mile patchwork fence: Día de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. This celebrates that one time ...   More

Fashion It’s December. What do we do in December? Aside from all that uselessly stressful “shopping” for “presents” and doing daily calculations for the correct amount of layers ...   More

Fashion Look outside that window of yours. See that? It’s called gray: the sweet, sweet hue of the Oregon sky. Winter is here, people! Tomorrow is Thanksgiving…but in America, the word “hol ...   More

Fashion Let’s discuss: Thanksgiving is one week away. For some of us, the meal is magically beamed to the table via unknown forces, and we proceed to stuff ourselves full of tryptophan-laden delicacies. ...   More

Fashion So, now the election’s over. Thank Jebus. At least we can unclench our collective butt cheeks. Unfortunately, our economy is still as sick as an octogenarian with shingles. We can’t ride t ...   More

Fashion Last Fall I caught the fiber fever during a visit to the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival (flockandfiberfestival.com), where I picked up two balls of merino wool and safflower dye (and almost bought a ...   More

Fashion Last week I received an invitation to join Open Spin at Abundant Yarn & Dyeworks (8524 SE 17th Ave., 258-9276, abundantyarn.com) any Wednesday night (from 5 pm till close), to get help with the spinni ...   More

Fashion Last week was do-or-die in my yarn project, where I dyed two balls of merino wool in my kitchen with natural plant dyes. To speed up the drying process, I transferred the dyed coils from the basement ...   More

Fashion Last week I wrangled up the supplies to dye two balls of wool with natural plant dyes in my own private Kitchen Stadium. It was show time. The first step was to wash the wool (which sounded boring, a ...   More