Distress! I sat down this morning to work on Michelle’s poncho, ready to knit the final front and back points to give it a lovely kerchief shape. Simple knitting would be peacefully accompanied by reading a book on Christian symbolism. That’s when I took a good, steady look at the thing. The decreases at the … More Square 2
Moving into a new house, one is filled with high hopes. Future housemate and I have grand plans for turning this arid wasteland: Into 50% vegetable garden, 3% compost heap, 5% clothesline, and 42% bonfire area. We need to get a move on, because our front porch full of “seedlings” have turned into a barely … More Yard
Presented in list form, to save you the headache you’d probably get if you were to look for order in this series of half-coherent thoughts. 1 ) Whenever my husband walks into the living room at whatever unrighteous hour of the night to find out why I am there and not in bed, he always … More Thoughts from 1:39 a.m.
With a little extra effort and about eight inches of welted ribbing, June’s socks are done, only three days late. Pattern Review: This pattern, “Country Socks,” from Folk Socks, has some secret charm to it. On the needles and off the foot, they appear composed of a plain, wide rib. But put them on a … More Socks with a Secret
So…. It’s not June anymore. But my June socks still look like this: There’s no getting around it; I really didn’t make it this time. And it’s not because I didn’t have enough knitting time, or because a single thing went wrong in the knitting or the pattern. It wasn’t even because I don’t like … More June-ly
This day, the 27th of June, is the first day you’ve seen June’s socks. This is at least partially because I didn’t start these socks until around June 18th. In a lame attempt to make up for their relative invisibility, yesterday I took pictures of the sadly still singular June Sock all over town. Outside … More Oh right, June.
Apparently my need for simple knitting was thoroughly satiated during my two weeks of insanity, because for the past two days I have picked up In Dreams and have been knitting on it for hours at a time. After probably 10 episodes of various Stargates (what’s the plural of series? Seriei?) and a few hours … More So Complicated
Random random random! 1. It is now that 20% of the year in which all I want to do is go to the pool, and all I want to eat are raw fruits and vegetables. (Not to be self-righteous; the rest of the year all I want to eat are fried carbohydrates.) I am sitting … More Random Summer Wednesday
This is a post that needs a subtitle: “It’s like a Block Party, but in the Present Progressive!” Which is oddly symbolic of so much in this post. I have surfaced from two crazy weeks by the skin of my teeth. There was a lot of reading, a lot of sitting in class, a lot … More Blocking Party
Warning: this is a post about theology. If you were looking for knitting content, you might be very bored. But if it’s compelling enough for me to bother writing a blog post about it, it might actually be generally interesting, since I would usually much rather post about knitting. But then again, maybe I’m just … More Merit. Huh?
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