Pretty Little Yarns Blog

I don’t know about anyone else but in recent years it can feel like time is moving at a glacial pace, but then suddenly you look up from the everyday moments of life to realize that it has in fact dashed on like a comet, you just hadn’t noticed.  It is through many moments like these, stacked one on top of the other, again and again that brings me here today having thought it was not too long ago that I wrote last, only to discover nearly two full years have passed!  This means that if you have not been following us over on...

It's amazing to think that this time last year we only first learned terms like physical distancing, epi curves, and yes, even sourdough starter.  I had just gotten into a consistent dyeing schedule to prepare for festival season when suddenly we hit that first lockdown, and I was planning homeschool routines and baking bread instead.  I don't know if I was optimistic or naïve or something in between, but I remember thinking the kids would just have a long March break, we would all bake some bread, and then it would all get back to normal.  That wasn't quite how things worked out. ...

When I sat down this morning to write a blog post, I hadn't realized exactly how long it had been since my last one.  Months.  It turns out it has been over 3 months since I wrote, with April's novel coronavirus disbelief still in tact, about the ways our world had changed in shutdown.  Since then, it feels like the world and life in it is simultaneously ever changing and also staying very much the same.   Day to day life at home has settled into a new sort of normal.  The children are still more or less omnipresent and we continue...

It's hard to fathom how very different the world is today than it was just 1 month ago when I wrote my last post.  Looking back at it, it can't even believe that one short week after I wrote it schools closed down, followed by daycares, and then what feels like the entire world came screeching to a halt.   I know I don't need to tell you about all the ways that COVID-19 has changed everything about life.  I read all the articles, see the photographs, and try to process a million terrifying statistics each and every day, just as...