Evan Sarah Epstein

So, it’s been a while since I posted anything. The last couple months have been a total whirlwind and the next few promise to be more of the same. Part of that whirlwind has been my Friday night knitting group (which hasn’t been able to meet in the last month because of our ridiculous schedules). [...]

Over the course of the past year or so, one of my big goals has been to make more of my own stuff. I was already fairly proficient in the kitchen, but I wanted to add to what I already did. I wanted to take up crafts like knitting and soap making, make more of [...]

A couple months ago a girlfriend and I visited my mother-in-law, Mary, to learn how to make soap. Mary is a total renaissance woman. She makes soap, weaves baskets, spins her own yarns to use in her beautiful knitted creations. And she’s funny and smart. Really, I don’t know how much more I could ask [...]

My second grade teacher taught my class to knit. A pretty remarkable feat now that I think of it – a class of about 40 inner-city kids, many of whom had various behavior issues – sitting still for half an hour every day to knit. And she taught all of us. With needles and yarn [...]

I recently spent a long weekend at my parent’s house. I didn’t know it when I got there, but it was exactly what I needed. I’d been in a funk. A deep funk. An “I’m about to hit the one year mark in Seattle without a job and I am now on the one year [...]

I’ve been so busy exploring the area around me that I haven’t gotten around to posting anything in a while. Suffice it to say that I have found what I think is the prettiest part of the state: the Olympic Peninsula (with parts of the Kitsap right behind it). It is just breath taking and [...]