According to one dictionary definition, a thrum is “The fringe of warp threads left on a loom after the cloth has been cut off.” So thrums are the leftover, what’s left after using up the bulk of it. And that’s what my creative time is like. I create things in the thrums of my time, after the bulk is cut off for work. A little thrum some evenings before bed, a little thrum early in the morning, before work, and a bit of thrum on the weekend. You can get a lot of stuff done that way, and of course you can make beautiful things with thrums.

This blog started as a knitting blog, so it made sense to organize it around fibery concepts. However, it has evolved and is no longer focused on yarn-related creation, though I’m sure there’ll always be an occasional post on those kinds of creative endeavors. At this point it doesn’t make sense to change the name of the site, so I leave this page as an explanation of what is certainly an unusual word for most visitors.

Welcome to Thrums – life in the spaces in between. If you go back to the first post thinking you’ll find some kind of “well howdy-do here I am” you’ll be disappointed. It’s not that I didn’t do that…..I did. And a few months in, my blog crashed and burned and I couldn’t get any of it back. So it kind of starts in midstream, alas.