We spent this weekend saying goodbye to Fjord, a cool dude who has become an awesome friend over the past two years. He is going to work at the magical candy mountain, which unfortunately requires him to relocate to exactly the wrong coast. There’s nothing like imminent separation, however, to inspire a group of friends [...]
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I was pretty bored at work today… all of like five customers came through the door while I was there (and they always come at least two at a time… can’t figure that out). So I posted on facebook that I could come up with fifty things you could knit during the summer that would [...] Saturday was a long drive down to VA beach and back, which meant that after about 6 hours in the car, the recently-recovered alpaca sleeve had a mate. After a careful re-stringing of pieces (all thankfully in the right order), I’m on the yoke: …and am already three-quarters done with it. I thought this sweater would [...] You’ve heard of a bucket list, right? It’s a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket. I know I’m young, but I figure that I might as well size life by the tender parts while I’m still agile. So I’ve got a few things for the list I’ve been mentally accumulating. [...] Almost a week ago, Evenstar was picked back up for the final clue. Jonica and I went in together on a bead purchase, and I was thrilled with the color when she brought them on Tuesday. I had the provisional cast-on for the edging all ready to go, and I had the first repeat done [...] If you’re wondering what the Dorset is for, I’ve been tasked with turning it into many natural colors. So last week, I pulled out my dye pots, which I didn’t think I’d do while in this apartment. I had 5 lbs of pokeberries left from last fall’s “harvest”, and it would be split between 1/4 of [...] During the week that the alpaca sleeve was missing, I didn’t knit much. I spun, I washed a fleece, I read webcomics, I desponded. Finally I got ahold of myself. This was stupid. I had to knit something, for goodness sake. I had to take an active role in my life, not just let it [...] The last time I tried to wash a fleece, I didn’t exactly meet with disaster per se, but it ended up being rather complicated for a proper explanation. Luckily, I’ve gotten a second chance! This dorset is ten pounds of greasy white glory, and because I know you are so interested, I will show you step [...] Thanks to everyone who searched under couches and in cupholders. Turns out I did leave it at Breezy Willow, for some necessarily obscure reason, as I didn’t knit a stitch on it while I was there. It’s back, it’s safe, it hasn’t been eaten by farm animals (a sheep eating alpaca fiber… irony? poetic justice? [...] So I have been knitting… not much, but some. I have a finished sleeve on Jared’s alpaca, a sleeve that I am calling finished even though I haven’t decided what to do about a major error involving failure of forethought and requiring another two inches of knitting. I was all set to show it to [...] |
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