Anything over and done gets its day in the sun.
It’s a pretty cool thing when enough people get to know you that when something right up your alley comes your way, four different people, half of whom you don’t even know, feel the need to tell you about it. That’s what happened to me concerning Saturday’s even at Old Economy Village for Worldwide Spin in … More In Public
When I first conceived the idea of the Pentecost Mystery Knit-Along shawl, it already had a name in my mind: Seretha. That’s the name it has on all my pattern drafts, it’s the name of the shawl I made, and it’s the name of its recipient. I changed the formal name of the pattern to … More On The Art of Friendship
As I’ve said before, some patterns are born full-formed from the mind; some are vague ideas that come to fruition after extensive research… and some are inherited. From yourself. Back when I first started knitting intensely, when I believed that there was never any need to buy anything but the cheapest available option of a … More Behind the Design: Ordinary Time
So I made it! I’m done! … Actually, anticlimactically, I finished yesterday. In the car. On Ravelry I signed up for Team Hopelessly Overcommitted, and my main failure it seems was to hopelessly overcommit. That’s okay… maybe this is indicative of personal growth? The Puerperium Cardigan was finished just as we crossed into Rhode Island. … More Done and Done
Two days to go? Really? It’s time to seriously pour on the sauce, ladies and gents. At the moment, we are on the road to Rhode Island. I’m writing this blog post in Textedit on a serpentine road somewhere in northwest PA, hoping to assemble it online if we stop for lunch somewhere with free … More Sprinting
The story behind these gloves is a simple one. I was sitting around, I don’t remember if it was on a Tuesday night at Starbucks or just hanging out at work, but I was chatting with Barb about something or other. I really don’t remember how the subject came up – whether I was talking … More Behind the Design: Father Joseph
Exactly one day too late, I finished Mithril. One day too late, that is, to participate in Susan Pandorf’s lovely KAL giveaway; it’s not like the yarn went bad. Although you might suspect it from how it looked when it came off the needles. Like anything lace, it would take some water and pins to … More Freedom and Irresponsibility
You got a hint of this one: it was the reading knitting of choice in Navarre, while I read George Marsden’s Fundamentalism and American Culture. It went in the car with us from site to site, and sat on my lap for long hours while I pored over millenarian diagrams. What is it, you ask? … More The Tale of the Boring Cowl
Once upon a time, I cast on a sock. It was out of a ball of Zauberball, in some gorgeous spring colors that I love to see together. It was an incredibly boring sock, but that was what I wanted: a boring sock. The ultimate in vanilla: some K2xP2 ribbing, followed by endless rounds of … More The Tale of the Boring Hat
My brainpower is at a pretty low ebb right now. When I went back and looked over that last post, my writerly self-esteem dropped a couple notches. My life is fascinating and wonderful, but taking up so much physical and emotional energy that I have none left to write about it. So in that spirit, … More The Tale of the Boring Shawlette
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