My stated goal: To make a sweater that fit in with the “new” sense of style I have been acquiring since my Halloween haircut: dark, feminine, professional, comfortable. The selected pattern: Victoria by Lori Versaci The yarn: Shelter by Brooklyn Tweed, in “Long Johns,” 9 skeins. Results Analysis: success. I knit this sweater in about … More Love, Children
So… remember when I was going to knit a sweater? Like, forever ago? I asked you for advice and stuff and decided on Victoria, which I kinda knew would happen. It was going to be epic; I was going to do a bunch of posts about it, etc… Well, I kinda just… knit it. It’s … More Tutorial: Resizing Flat-Knit (Pieced) Sweaters On the Go
Some patterns just… happen, nearly of their own accord. This one was truly the lovechild of necessity and laziness. Navarre Beach is a beautiful place – but it’s very windy. My haircut is that sort of reverse-mullet, short in back and long in front, which made it nearly impossible for me to read on the … More The Progenitors of Invention
One of the complications of blog writing is that, if you’re doing things interesting enough to blog about, it’s difficult to also find time to blog about it. I have so many ideas and pictures in the pipeline that it’s difficult to turn them into coherent posts. Especially with half my pictures trapped on my … More A Conservative Encounter
To-do list for this week: -Read three books (George Marsden’s Fundamentalism and American Culture, Steven Harmon’s Ecumenism is for You Too, and portions of Hans Urs Von Balthazar’s Mysterium Paschale) -Write two reflections for Global Anglicanism -Take long walks on the beach -Experience Jacuzzi bath (none of the above books allowed) -Research PhD programs -Collect … More Task-Oriented
I am so not ready for spring. I’ve gotten used to long winters. After years of a very mild case of the SADs, I have a strategy to get through them. I milk fall for all that it’s worth, and do my best to do some picking and canning and freezing. The holiday season gets … More Surprised by Spring
Hey all! I did a video! Why did I make a video about short row shaping when there are about fifty mazillion of them on the youtubes? I will tell you. In the Carolingian Cross pattern (set to come out on Pascha 2012), there is some use of short rows. However, I include a rather … More Video: Short Row Shaping
I just submitted about 16 pages of papers, and I’ll submit another 20-30 next Friday. I’m feeling exhausted, but pretty pleased. But you don’t care about that. Heck, I don’t even care that much. So let’s talk about something you might care about: spinning! Sundays are for Spinning, as it turns out. Or at least, … More I Know What You Did Last Sunday
My Mardi Gras mostly happened on Saturday night, when a fellow seminarian and his wife threw a truly awesome empty-out-your-liquor-cabinet party. The actual Tuesday that I had was much weirder, more about mercy and grace than pancakes – hence my horrible attempt at a french pun above. It started at about 12:02 in the morning, … More Merci Grâce
Out of all the patterns I have designed so far, Rachel’s Tears has the most of my heart and soul packed into it. The name of this pattern came from two places. The first is from an Anglican service in a little booklet called Liturgies and Prayers Related to Childbearing, Childbirth, and Loss; the service … More Behind the Design – Rachel’s Tears
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