Weekend Scrolls & Reads

So much for automated scheduling! Here's last week's Scrolls & Reads, augmented....

I joined the Alabama Chanin Facebook group and suddenly my feed is wonderful again. AC's time-consuming sewing method would make it hard to sustain a dedicated blog, and this group provides a much-needed space for encouragement and show-and-tell.

I couldn't stop reading The Year of Less. Cait Flanders gives a candid first-person account of how minimalism is about mindset and not just a curated wardrobe of high-end Garanimals.

Knitters and hand-sewers might want to check out these stretches.

I owned a boxed set of The Little House on the Prairie books as a kid and imagined Laura's life to be a paradise of churned butter and friendly farm animals. We couldn't we live in a soddy? This interview makes me want to read Prairie Fires.

For some reason I can't bring myself to spend the money on Fashionary templates, as awesome as they seem. So I downloaded one from the Fashionary site.