Knitting through Nancy Bush’s Folk Socks: WIPs and UFOs
It was a very near thing. The postman didn’t come before we had to go to school, and there was a maddening moment when his truck drove by when we were two blocks from our house. We were on foot, or there might have been a chase. But the precious package greeted me when we … More The Nearly-Midnight Oil
I got so close – so magically close. I finished the first January sock but left the toe un-grafted, in case I decided to pull out the toe and do it in another color. Then I knit the second from the other end of the ball. As a result, as I ran out of yarn, … More Tracking
And I am coming down to it. I think it is in keeping with “Sock Yarn Week” to take a day to winge a little bit about my poor January socks. This is where they were on Friday: 2/3 of the way through the month and I hadn’t even turned the heel. Appalling. But nowhere … More There is a wire
It’s over a week into the new year, so you might suspect me of neglecting my monthly sock thing. Not so, friends, not so. Jared & I had a quiet new year’s eve at home, playing video games and snacking and watching no descending spheres. When we saw our clock tick past midnight, the first … More Happy New Ouch
For everyone who did the math, whether algebraically or geometrically or logically or intuitively, you were right. I did not have enough white. It would have been obvious if I’d admitted it to myself, but deep down I sort of wanted my socks to look the same. I didn’t think of myself as an advocate … More Finnished
Remember word problems? I remember hating them. I think it was because I was good at math, but word problems really required not math, but reading comprehension and analytical abstraction, which I was not taught (at least not in math class). But now I love them, because I enjoy logic puzzles, and because I don’t … More Word Problems
It finally happened – the interwebs ate a post. Here I was, almost finished, moving some text around, I press Ctrl+Z one too many times, and it all disappears. Usually I am pretty clever with these things. But why am i surprised? I’ve written eleven pages of papers in the past two days; my brain … More US4
It has officially taken me as long to blog about November’s socks as it took me to knit them. You have no reason to believe me, but I did in fact finish these socks on November 8th. Though I wouldn’t be honest if I didn’t tell you that most of the reason I waited to … More The Rewards of Arbitrary Persistance
This has been an awesome week for socks. Sucky for almost everything else, but wicked great for my new Feta Cheese socks. After only a week of obsessing I’m through BOTH socks up to the patterned toes, which have me a bit stymied. Still – most of two socks in a week? It’s like I … More ahCHOO!
November is here! There’s not much green left on the trees, and we’ve had a couple of honest-to-goodness freezing cold mornings. Every last ray of sunshine causes a burst of gratitude as I try to prepare my psyche for several months of intense dreariness. (And to think… I have aspirations of living in Canada someday. … More The Needles Flieth
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