The shawl of doom is blocking, the poncho of doom should be (but isn’t yet) blocking, and I’ve cast on two other things I can’t show you. So here’s a photo album from the other category of project in my life: gardening! The community garden, as a matter of fact, which thanks to excellent fertilization … More Proto-proto-proto-salad
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
I have been going crazy trying to knit a baby hat for a friend’s shower. Friends and I picked the yarn together, tittering to ourselves – they know it’s a girl, and they don’t mind pink, but they are pretty thoroughly egalitarian, so we thought it would be fun to pick the most gender-neutral baby … More The Hat that Would Not Be Knit
We got back around 4:30 this morning from the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part 2. I went as Hermione from Prizoner of Azkaban – pictured above are my “time turner” (an earring on two necklace chains), my “wand” (birch, 14″), and the stockinette I plugged away at through the movie. … More Harry, the Hallows, Love, and Life
So mornings do not seem to work for communal labor at this point, but we found a solution for working outside in July in the afternoon: the sprinkler. It makes us impossibly dirty and muddy, but also cool. After two efforts, we had a glorious little melon/squash patch. Canteloupe on one edge, watermelon on the … More Projects
I read/look at the photo-rific sustainable-farmy blog posts of fellow Marylander McKenzie whenever she posts them. She takes these scrummy pictures of wherever she’s working/whatever she’s eating that are transporting in their loveliness. So when I finally got around to making squash flower quesadillas the other night, I brought my camera with me. Every summer … More Summer Socks and Summer Squash
Distress! I sat down this morning to work on Michelle’s poncho, ready to knit the final front and back points to give it a lovely kerchief shape. Simple knitting would be peacefully accompanied by reading a book on Christian symbolism. That’s when I took a good, steady look at the thing. The decreases at the … More Square 2
Moving into a new house, one is filled with high hopes. Future housemate and I have grand plans for turning this arid wasteland: Into 50% vegetable garden, 3% compost heap, 5% clothesline, and 42% bonfire area. We need to get a move on, because our front porch full of “seedlings” have turned into a barely … More Yard
Presented in list form, to save you the headache you’d probably get if you were to look for order in this series of half-coherent thoughts. 1 ) Whenever my husband walks into the living room at whatever unrighteous hour of the night to find out why I am there and not in bed, he always … More Thoughts from 1:39 a.m.
With a little extra effort and about eight inches of welted ribbing, June’s socks are done, only three days late. Pattern Review: This pattern, “Country Socks,” from Folk Socks, has some secret charm to it. On the needles and off the foot, they appear composed of a plain, wide rib. But put them on a … More Socks with a Secret
Osborn Fiber Studio 