I’m pretty sure my mother would never knit in church. As a kid, I was pretty free to do as I liked during mass, as long as it was quiet. When I was too little to understand what was going on, mom apparently didn’t think that making me sit still in a pew for a … More Controversy!
The Christmas projects continue. I picked back up the thing that I was ignoring, finished up a fun thing, and started another thing. Things continue apace, but not at the ploughing rate you would expect from someone who gets paid to sit around and play with yarn all the time. No, I’ve been prepping for … More Cheap Advertising
I can’t get to FarmVille. I’m sitting here at work and I can’t get to my farm. All I get is the sad-looking cow. I’m sitting here, knowing full well that my coffee and pepper plants are withering as I type, and there’s nothing I can do about it. It’s driving me batty. What will … More Thoughts from Yesterday
Last night, I was ready to end my knitting career. Last night, I was ready to impale myself on my needles. Last night was one of those nights that all of us knitters have, when we forget all the reasons that we try to change the world with string and sticks and seriously consider garrotting … More One of those days
We’ve all survived Halloween now, with its pumpkin carving contests, orange Christmas lights, and stories on NPR about having weird things done to your body so you can freak out your friends posthumously. If you, for some masochistic reason, decided to go to a shopping mall today, you surely heard the first strains of Christmas … More Christmas – Knitter to Knitter
Things I learned within the last 24 hours: 1. Bean juice left out for three days makes your kitchen smell like fish. 2. When you’re dyeing one skein two colors with a long-immersion dipping technique… do the lighter color first. 3. The natural tannins in black walnuts decompose as the walnuts rot, turning their dye … More An NFP Theme Song
Since I’ve last written, I’ve almost finished one thing I can’t tell you about but gotten so bored that I cast on another thing I can’t tell you about. Realizing that this second thing was almost the same as the first, I cast on yet another thing I can’t tell you about, and quit procrastinating … More Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Through a bizarre mix of circumstances, I haven’t knit for three days. I hate even typing that. My time at the shop has been consumed by adding twist to my recycled yarn; this translates to a lot of time at the spinning wheel. My time at home has been consumed by ripping out sweaters to … More When I Don’t Knit
Done and… Done. Lil’ brownies are complete, and with that…. I have no more knitting I can show you. There is literally NO knitting I am working on right now (and there is a lot) that is not a Christmas present for someone who might read this blog. However, it might not remain that way. … More Overrun by Christmas Beasties
I have an inordinate, unreasonable, and inexplicable affection for pokeberries. I love their perfectly smooth, round, replete, purpleish-black berries. I love the little click sound they make when you pull a perfectly ripe one off its stem. I love the fuscia color they stain my hands, and how [relatively] easily it washes off. Right now, … More Pokeberry Therapy
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