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The Twelfth Day of Christmas Knitting concludes this season with my first and favorite gift that I made this year. What with the new idea I had this year of applying actual forethought to my Christmas knitting, I had some strategic conversations in early October. One was with my mother, who had a suggestion for a … More And a Pair of Mittens for my Grammy
This calm Saturday brings us past the halfway point on these Twelve Days of Christmas Knitting. Day seven, and number six. Today I will describe the “hat” I knit for Jared this year. By “hat” I mean “knitted thing he wants.” We knit each other something every Christmas, and for the first few years it … More Six Feet of Blue Scarf
It started innocently enough, with a facebook message to my sister-in-law and a modest order to Knitpicks: four skeins of “Wool of the Andes Bulky.” A trip to the winder in mid-October, and they sat by the couch, needles at the ready. Then, they started appearing. And multiplying. Are they mittens or tribbles? I had … More Eight Monogrammed Mitts
There are two new markers of the equinox season. One is a biannual text from our cell phone company, informing us that because of the “sun transit,” the sun will be blasting directly at their satellite, and our service will be disrupted. The second is the placement of the afternoon sun such that, during our … More Two Mice In the Sun
This is a story that begins with a book. N was given this book before she was born, by a knitterly friend of her mother’s. It’s a story about her mouse whose mother knits her a sweater while she waits for her baby sister mouse to be born. The prose is lilting and winsome, and… … More One Book, Two Sweaters
The last few inches of my handspun Lothlorien were completed while watching, for the third or fourth time, all the most obscure DVD extras on the LotR:FotR:EE. Not for the first time, I think to myself that the Lord of the Rings Films are, to a slice of my generation, our equivalent of Star Wars. … More Not Idly Do the Leaves of Lorien Fall
The third or so episode of Doctor Who (new Doctor Who that started in 2005, mind), the Doctor takes Rose back home for a quick visit, change of clothes, say hello, that sort of thing. Except there’s a calculation error somewhere, and they accidentally come back a year later. So Rose has been missing for … More Keep Calm and Don’t Blink
The first Lord of the Rings film came out fifteen years ago. Let that sink in. I saw it right around when I got my learner’s permit, and the film is now old enough to get a learner’s permit. Half my life ago. I read The Fellowship of the Rings right before the movie came out, … More Dwarrowdelf
It took two and a half months, but I’m finally finished with “Conwy” – the final pair of socks from Knitting on the Road by Nancy Bush. Yarn review: Oh, Ranco! I bought this yarn Long Ago and Far Away, at a yarn shop on Cape Cod, if I remember correctly. Back when Jared and I … More A Conweight is Lifted
It all started with Bird Bingo. Literal Bird Bingo. Jared’s dad had gotten this game for N’s birthday – she had a thing for a random animal matching game at Mimi and Granddad’s house, and this was a close replacement – and sure enough, N loves it. We don’t actually play bingo, of course; we dump … More The Booby Slippers
Osborn Fiber Studio 