*Felicitaciones a la España, quien vencieron ayer por primera vez en el World Cup en 2010. En su honor, escribo este entrada en mi español avergonsadamente mal, lleno de cognados falsos y circoluciones. Pongo una traducción mas o menos literal por abajo, y voy a escribir enteramente sin diccionario. No he practicado en tanto tiempo que … More Victoría!
Hanners is back! Taking up my lap space in all her cuddly glory. Now that she’s repositioned herself in such a way that I can lean over her and type without disturbing her on her throne, maybe I can get on with what I was doing. As you can see, my world cup knitting has … More The Return of Tempcat
It’s hard to believe it’s been a week since that last whiny post about my sweater. We’re only just recovering from a lovely, but long, long weekend in Ambridge, our future home. The long and the short of it is that we had a lot of success – too much, in fact! We found two … More Transcendence
Behind the scenes, I have been working steadily on my World Cup Hoodie. I haven’t been updating you on it, because “Yay! I did another 3 inches of stockinette stitch!” is not good blog fodder. But that’s how, quietly and unsuruptitiously, I have outlasted the US team and made it all the way down to … More How important is daylight…?
Thanks everyone for your kind comments yesterday. I’ll just leave it at that. It’s hard to stick on your sadnesses when it’s the first day of July, the sky is blue and clear, and it’s 74 degrees outside (that’s degrees F; it’s 23 degrees C if there’s anyone reading this with their heads outside their … More Norway in July
During the last stages of finishing my Evenstar shawl, I’ve found myself having to answer this question: How do you finish knitting something for someone who has died? When I signed up for the Evenstar Knitalong by Sunflower Designs, I gave the project very little forethought. Lord of the Rings? Lace? Circular shawl? I’m in. … More Over
As of today, Jared Osborn and myself have been friends for ten years (when we met) committed for six years (minus ten days- DTR) in mutual affection for four years (when we started dating) in love for three years (when we got engaged) and married for two years. I want to say to my love, … More 2 years
So where were we? Oh yeah, you just turned a heel. Don’t you feel clever now? I always do. Anyway, now that you’ve got a nice heel, we need to connect it back up with the rest of your stitches to make a tube again. But the long sides of that heel flap are in … More The Flap Heel: Gussets Come and Go
Somebody may have requested at some point a tutorial on sock heels. Since I have, somewhat recently, inflicted some basic socky knowledge on two other of my dear, unfortunate friends, I thought it might be nice to provide some visual aids to the basic construction of a top-down, heel-flap style heel, which is what I … More The Flap Heel: Flap and Turn
Clearly, I am very easily entertained. My Basic Hoodie, as expected, is SO SIMPLE that knitting a plain sock might actually be more interesting. But a two-row lace pattern and raglan increases have been enough to spur me on through the entire yoke in about a week. It rather helps that my poor fingers are … More The Little Things
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