Knitting on Susan Pandorf’s LotR pattern series
So I feel a little weird sharing this. It’s not the average, normal citizen who keeps a spreadsheet in her Google Drive aligning chapters in fictional books with favorite yarns, but, well, you know I’m not exactly a normal person. (Whatever that means.) And I’ve been looking forward to this for a really long time, saved and … More The Next Big Thing
Fall is different this year. Come to think of it, it’s different to me every year. One year I’m sentimental about the passage of time; another I’m drawing allegories about seasons and life stages. This year, as I’m up before the sun with Naomi, and the quiet of her first nap begins while the mist … More Liminal
There are some knitters for whom their craft is a tiny compartment of perfection. In an otherwise slap-dash, rushed, incomplete, messy life, knitting is something they can always keep trying until they get it right. If there is even a suggestion that a piece they are working on is wrong, or they lose count, or … More To Rip or Not to Rip?
We spent a lot of time near water last week. Lakes, ponds, streams, swamps, and a decent amount of rain. I’m not sure what it means, then, that pretty much the only thing I knit was a pattern themed on fire. Before we left, I dyed (or had dyed, since my history with green is … More Fire knitting in Water country
I didn’t quite stay up all night to finish In Dreams when I said I would, but I did the next morning. Not having the car last week, it took me a couple of days to get it to the new house, then to get around to blocking it, then to let it dry. But … More Dreams
I am so close I can smell it. I have been doggedly chipping away at the final clue of the “In Dreams” shawl, but as you might imagine, when I got to the beading rows, everything slowed to a crawl. To describe: the shawl is shaped like a semi-circle, starting in the center of the … More Endthis Shawl
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
Much of the 15 or so hours spent in the car last week was spent doing garter stitch while reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire aloud to my spouse. But when he could do without listening to the kerfuffle surrounding the Quidditch World Cup, I cranked out clue 5 of In Dreams. This … More Suspense
Though you wouldn’t know it from reading this blog, I have actually been knitting. It just gets a little photographically dull when the thing you are working on looks largely the same from day to day, you know? The knitting hasn’t been dull, though. With every fully-focused moment I can spare, I’ve been chipping away … More Hollow Complaints
I had intended for this to be a Mardi Gras post, but I put it off for a very good reason. After a long couple of days of hard work (two 6-page papers in 24 hours. What!), I realized I was going to blow off my friends’ invitation to go out for a good time…. … More Shriven
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