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Yesterday I got a special visit at work from the newest addition to my parents’ family: Kirby! Kirby is a living testament that if you make a promise to a 5-year-old that they will get something when they are 8… you should fully expect them to hold you to it. Mom told Bethany she could get a dog [...] In the tradition of the Yarn Harlot (PG-rated blog) and Mamacate (R-ish-rated-blog), I present to you a list of random things, randomly presented on a Wednesday. 1. On Monday night, we celebrated a Burns Supper! This is a celebration of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. Scots celebrate Burns night to remember their national poet, read his [...] Yet another lesson learned, or if not learned, at least painfully reinforced. The lesson: read the pattern before you start knitting. That lovely top of a sock I showed you yesterday? It is exactly to gauge, with more or less perfect tension. It fits perfectly on a foot with an 8″ circumference, as the pattern foretold. [...] I’ve been working at Cloverhill for about four months now. In some ways, I feel like I’ve always been here for ages. I’ve been doing everything from inventory to teaching classes, and now for the first time I get to make a shop sample. I’ve been itching for fair isle (a type of multi-color knitting), and [...] Okay yous guys, so the coolest thing is going to happen next month. Four years ago, for the last winter Olympics, the Yarn Harlot came up with this crazy thing she called the Knitting Olympics. The idea is this: you pick a project that will be challenging (but not impossible) for you to complete in 16 [...] I think that, with knitting, part of the idea is that you gain the ability to recognize mistakes early on in your work. That way, before you’ve done, say, a quarter of a given piece, you realize when something has gone wonky, and you fix it before you’ve invested too much time in it. Well, let’s [...] Doris Beall, the spinning wheel. Surnamed after my two favoritest senseis in all of Tung Soo Do, and so that Jared could introduce her in a rhyming couplet. Forenamed because… Well… okay, I have no idea why. I just looked at her and thought… “Doris!” and it stuck. (Before you think I’ve totally lost it and [...] I’ve got to admit… it’s kind of hard to blog when your house is a complete mess of destruction and mayhem. And it’s kind of hard to blog about your house being a complete mess of destruction and mayhem when you utterly fail to take “before” pictures. That’s right, we’ve been remodeling! Well, not remodeling… the [...] It’s not raining outside, but it’s raining in my brain… not really anything new or interesting to blog about. So I will give you this little bit of funny that I’ve been saving for just such an occasion. Every day, after I make our pb&j sandwiches, I pull out the plastic wrap, [...] A lot of people are intimidated about knitting. If you’re reading this and you know me, you might be one of the many people who has said things to me like along the lines of, ”Wow, you are so talented; I could never do that.” I realize this is meant as a compliment, but it [...] |
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