You got a hint of this one: it was the reading knitting of choice in Navarre, while I read George Marsden’s Fundamentalism and American Culture. It went in the car with us from site to site, and sat on my lap for long hours while I pored over millenarian diagrams. What is it, you ask? … More The Tale of the Boring Cowl
Once upon a time, I cast on a sock. It was out of a ball of Zauberball, in some gorgeous spring colors that I love to see together. It was an incredibly boring sock, but that was what I wanted: a boring sock. The ultimate in vanilla: some K2xP2 ribbing, followed by endless rounds of … More The Tale of the Boring Hat
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My brainpower is at a pretty low ebb right now. When I went back and looked over that last post, my writerly self-esteem dropped a couple notches. My life is fascinating and wonderful, but taking up so much physical and emotional energy that I have none left to write about it. So in that spirit, … More The Tale of the Boring Shawlette
After last week’s CR#2, I realized that my own Book of Common Prayer has abbreviated day names ready to go! So here I go: Easter 3 Monday: This one is easy. April 23rd is hubsband’s birthday, which included much preparation. The diversion was a fancy dinner: steamer clams with linguini and a fun vermouth sauce. … More Celebration Report: Week 3 (or, the week i partied a little too hard)
So we’ve been a little blog-light here lately, because it’s that time of year. You know, that magical time when the Osborns *always* find themselves finishing the school year AND preparing for sheep and wool AND looking for a new place to live. That time. But we are ready. We are so set. I’ve got … More Submissions
In Anglican calendars and what not, this past week was what we call “the week of the first Sunday after Easter.” I have a certain fondness for descriptivist nomenclature, though it gets a bit clunky. Monday after the first Sunday after Easter: D&D is always celebratory. Friends, drinks, interactive fiction, and general ridiculousness abound. If … More Celebration Report: Week #2
There are some knitters for whom their craft is a tiny compartment of perfection. In an otherwise slap-dash, rushed, incomplete, messy life, knitting is something they can always keep trying until they get it right. If there is even a suggestion that a piece they are working on is wrong, or they lose count, or … More To Rip or Not to Rip?
So now that it’s Easter season, I finally feel released to start some shameless and passionate advertising for the: Pentecost Shawl Mystery Knit-Along! Mystery Knit-Alongs are more or less the most fun thing ever. The way it works is that you sign up to knit a pattern that sounds interesting, but that no one has … More Swatchfest 2012
Sunday seems like an appropriate day to reflect on this seasonal discipline, so here we go: Thursday in Easter Week: Go down to the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary with roommate A to do some epic research for my thesis proposal. Take a bunch of pretty pictures, then realize I don’t have my memory card in. Kick … More Celebration Report: Week 1
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