But I’ve been busy knitting. Well, and working. Work is getting pretty busy too… So two Mondays ago (whoops! where did the time go?) my Stephen & Penelope yarn package arrived with wooly goodness: I’m thrilled with how the orange and magenta go together, so these are what I’m going… Read More »A bit behind on posting
Just a quick post tonight before I hop on our Friday night family Zoom call: I’ve picked my “Oppositional” top back up and I’ve finished the central blue/green reverse stockinette section. I did some short rows and some gentle decreases towards the waist after the bust – not super form… Read More »Friday Flash Post
Every profession, hobby, sport, etc… has it’s own humor. Some are inside jokes based on the vocabulary and jargon unique to the subject. These, I’ll admit, tend to be my favorite. Some are based on stereotypes of the people who participate in it or create broad (and harmful) generalizations. These… Read More »Thoughts on Knitting/Crafting Humor
Well, Maybe a day too late? We have had some proper winter weather this week – several inches of snow built up over several days of regular snowfall and unusually cold temps for this part of the world. Depending on your preference, our lows at night are in the teens… Read More »Finished just in Time
I set aside my cardigan at the end of the week to pick up the Through the Trees cowl again. The weather is more consistently cold, and I thought it might be nice if TheEnabler was able to wear his cowl this winter. The lace was starting to feel a… Read More »Light Through the Trees
Sorry for being a bit radio silent for the past week! I really have no good excuse lined up this time… My fingers have not been idle though – they just haven’t been typing blog posts. I’ve been working away at my Oppositional top and I’ve made it to the… Read More »An Unpopular Opinion
I think many of us have fantasies about being somebody we aren’t, or certainly we did as children*. Whether ballerina, astronaut, or dinosaur, we all had make-pretend. My brother justified his toddler-biting-people phase with the explanation that he was a crocodile. Or maybe it was an alligator. My sister was… Read More »Badass or Total Dork?
Friday night my sliced finger was sufficiently healed that I was able to switch from a giant gauze wrapped finger which, even as it was less tender, got in the way of knitting, to one wrapped in a normal (if slightly large) bandaid. And thus, I could recommence knitting. Thank… Read More »Knitting again
I’ve mostly been working on the cowl this past week. At this point I have the pattern memorized – once I was a dozen or so rows in it became possible to see what the next row should be based on the previous ones. I’m about two repeats into the… Read More »Quick update
Back in November I preordered the Winter 2020 PomPom Quarterly magazine because the previews for several patterns looked really interested. I received it a few weeks ago. I think I also mentioned I did a little stash toss and reorganization a few weekends ago. In the process, I came across… Read More »Through the Trees – Cast On
