Knitting through Nancy Bush’s Folk Socks: WIPs and UFOs
This past Wednesday, we were privileged to attend Trinity’s Mission Day, which was like a one-day mini-conference on Anglican missionary work. We were in workshops and discussions and gatherings all day, and of course, I knit the whole time. As I sat there, listening to the stories of those who have spent their lives doing … More Whose Hose are Those Hose?
Being a very bad girl and blogging from class. Biblical Languages and Interpretation, to be specific, where I am learning that the Hebrew script has a lot in common with D’ni. If anyone gets that reference, I will be thoroughly amazed, and I will have to get together with you for a major nerdfest. But … More In Trouble
Heels heels heels. It is a long-standing truth among knitters that, while socks are spiffingly fun to make, darning socks is hateful. Elizabeth Zimmerman, the mother of knitting empowerment, herself said something like, “I have found many women employ the same darning technique I do. They hold the sock aloft, exclaim ‘darn!’ and drop it … More Reinforcing Heels
Just over a week into October, the fuscia kilthose are going along at an obedient clip. It looks like this. Looks kind of weird, eh? That is, believe it or not, right side out. That’s because this sock, ladies and gents, has a fold down cuff. Yes, its really true – On this already tiny-needled, … More Two inches forward and one inch back
It’s October… for many knitters, it’s the start of our favorite season. The air is perfectly crisp and cool, the sunsets grow glorious as they get earlier, and we begin to pull out our woolens. We pull out all our precious handmade things, rediscovering them when they get their first wear for the season. We … More Socktoberfest 2010
I don’t speak a lick of French, so I feel pretty clever in attempting a French pun, but feel free to smack me down if I’ve said something marvelously inappropriate. It was worth the risk, because here it is Sept. 22nd, and le Chausettes de Dentille are fini. They are cute, and wonder of wonders, … More Le pieds de resistance
My life is kinda complicated right now. We just moved, the house is nowhere near the state I’d like it to be in (and I haven’t yet settled on a happy state of housework mediocrity), my first paper is due in a couple weeks, I’m still kinda awkward around the bazillion new people I have … More ‘Tis a gift to be simple
It is Wednesday, my brain is full of historical facts and my to-do list is as long as my arm, so that means it must be time for random wednesday, where I spew at you all the little thoughts I’ve been having instead of attempting to sound coherent or logical or even very grammatical. Go … More Random Wednesday
So I appear to have internet for the time being. The reason we did not have it before is not because the internet-makers weren’t sending it to our house, but because there are no phone jacks in our apartment. Jared found the magical little box in the basement where the internet comes in, and plugged … More Peachy Keen
We made it! I know you have been holding your breath for an update all this time; don’t worry, we haven’t died, we just don’t have the internet. (Despite what you might expect, being without internet is very unlike death.) And we’re unlikely to get internet before the end of next week, but we’ve figured … More Moving Up
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