I have knit another baby blanket. It’s a very simple pattern that seems to reside in the group consciousness of knitters everywhere. You cast on a few and knit every row, increase every other row with a YO two stitches from each edge, then when half the yarn is gone, you decrease every other row … More This Blanket
“Bethenny Getting Married?” is the name of a TV show that I caught 5 minutes of on Hulu that looks like it is not worth the bytes used to transmit it to me through the intertubes. However, “Bethany Getting Married” is a real and happy event (without a question mark) coming up next spring. My … More Bethany Getting Married
I just survived two fillings without novocaine. I am immensely proud of myself, though it didn’t hurt any more than having someone standing on my toe for a few seconds. While lying there, feeling blood draining to my head, staring at two masked faces poking about in my mouth with a plethora of mysterious tools … More Surgery
There is a question that I am always surprised I am not asked more often. That question, which I keep expecting to hear, but which everyone around me is apparently too gracious or accommodating to ask, is… “Why is there wool here?” In and around my house, there is wool sort of everywhere. Because I … More A Mess of Wool
Finished objects flying at you in a frenzy of confusion! You think I’m lyin’ but it’s only an illusion! Okay yeah I am not metal at all. But this hat is pretty hardcore. It’s the “Proverbial Cap” by Meg Swanson, found in the latest issue of Interweave Knits, Fall 2010, knit with Berroco Pure Merino. … More Knitting Metal
August is not yet over, or even that close to being over, but the August socks are done and done. Blocked and dried and fit and happy. Yarn review: Wildfoote by Brown Sheep (Red) is one of those oldie-but-goodie yarns, that has been around as long as any of my sock books can remember, before … More Anglosocks
You know how much I love guessing games. This time, I’ve come up with a really good one, and I’ve got a pRiZe for the winner, even. Some of you know that my sister-in-law Emily is expecting tWiNs in February, and before I knew what happened, these booties just sort of fell off my needles. … More Celebrating Babies
My knitting’s been a little listless lately. The hat is so tight that it hurts my wrists if I work on it for very long; the socks are boring the living daylights out of me, and even my spinning is losing its meditative charm. I don’t even have the willpower to start anything new, and … More Funk No More
When friends move across the country and leave their stuff at your house, it is a nice thing to send it to them. It is sort of unreasonable to delay the shipping of said thing(s) because of a complex plot to actualize an inside joke in a bizarre, cross-referential way. But if it’s even occurred … More Fake Parenthood
Last week, while working on my completely ridiculous super-bulky cabled earflap hat of doom, I took the occasion to take some pictures of cabling without a cable needle to show you guys. As he leaned over my shoulder to take pictures of my fingers, Jared mentioned that I might want to deal with the real … More Cabling Without a Cable Needle
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