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Butterflies
2007-08-28 23:16:00 Highlights of the weekend: The Pavilion of Wings at the Natural History Museum ? the exhibit closes after Labor Day so if you?re in the LA area hurry up and check it out. The Baron and I roamed through what felt like a large screened-in porch, except full of flowers and butterflies, and had lots of ... More About: Knitting , Audiobooks , Butterflies
Some days you?re the windshield . . .
2007-08-24 21:21:00 Today is turning out to be a really great day. First and foremost, the response to yesterday?s Frost Flowers & Leaves round-up post has been overwhelming and positive ? I hope that my experience working the shawl will prove helpful to future knitters ? I was glad for a chance to give back and participate ... More About: Days , Knitting , Audiobooks , Some
Frost Flowers & Leaves - Finished Object round-up
2007-08-23 20:06:00 Finally, the Frost Flowers & Leaves Shawl for Glamorous is finished! VITAL STATISTICS: Pattern: Frost Flowers & Leaves, by Eugen Beugler for A Gathering Of Lace Made for: Glamorous, my younger sister Yarn: JaggerSpun Zephyr Wool-Silk Yarn, 2/18 Lace Weight (50% Chinese Tussah silk, 50% fine grade Merino wool), Charcoal Colorway Yardage: My “one-pound” cone originally weighed 17.2 oz and ... More About: Round Up , Object , Knitting , Round
The danger of a good book
2007-08-23 02:55:00 Yesterday my friend Little Miss Law talked about what?s on her nightstand: The Man of My Dreams, the latest book by Curtis Sittenfeld. LML talked me into reading Sittenfeld?s first novel, Prep, a few months ago. It?s a thinking-girl?s chick-lit novel about an awkward girl who feels like a misfit at an elite boarding school. ... More About: Book , Danger , Good , Knitting , Audiobooks
Many mountains conquered
2007-08-21 01:31:00 It?s been a very big few days. Saturday night, 11:18 pm, I completed the Frost Flowers and Leaves shawl. Edging grafted (badly), ends woven in, shawl completely off the needles, date with boyfriend cancelled to achieve these ends (though I don?t think he minded, he was happily ensconced in his cave, watching a movie while ... More About: Mountains , Knitting , Mount
Mortifying odds and ends
2007-08-16 23:34:00 Nothing at all is really wrong this week, but I still feel lousy. My eyes hurt (this is a pretty common state of affairs) and I feel like I?m getting the flu. Maybe it?s West Nile. I hear it?s everywhere in LA these days. And not only am I nursing a ... More About: Knitting , Odds , Ends , Mort
The power to rip
2007-08-15 01:52:00 Some days I feel powerless. There are so many pieces of life that are outside of my domain: will it be rainy, and will my car spill over the edge of the twisted road as I drive to work? When I get where I?m going, will I find happy, helpful, kind people around ... More About: Power , Blogging , Knitting
Audio bliss
2007-08-14 04:06:00 This weekend I was in a blissful book cocoon, curled up with The Corrections and the Frost Flowers & Leaves edging. The border edging has been a grind, but I?m in the home stretch now for sure. The best part was when I decided to take the lifelines out of the interior of the piece, ... More About: Audio , Knitting , Audiobooks
Insanitting
2007-08-10 04:00:00 I hit tons of traffic on the way in to work today and at one point in my commute I even picked up my knitting and worked a few rows (no worries folks, it was that part of the commute where you basically park at a red light for 10 minutes so the car was ... More About: Knitting
Ball winder ? swift = Trouble with a capital T
2007-08-08 22:53:00 So I think I should begin by saying I really love the concept of a ball-winder. And I even love my brand-new one. There is something so incredibly wonderful about the neat, pretty little cakes of yarn that the winder makes. The huge, floppy skein of yarn spins and wiggles and suddenly ... More About: Yarn , Knitting , Audiobooks , Capital , Ball
A new girl in town
2007-08-08 02:19:00 My youngest sister adorable is back from her post-grad Europe trip and getting ready to move to LA. I get a bit over-excited about things like this and immediately set about organizing things and ?helping? perhaps a bit too much. I?m just so happy that she?ll be living nearby, and also hopeful that her being ... More About: Girl , Town , Yarn , Knitting
Monday-morning round-up
2007-08-07 01:45:00 This weekend was very busy, in the quiet, restorative kind of way. As of Thursday I had no plans at all. On Friday night The Baron invited some friends over to watch weird boy movies. One of the boys brought his girlfriend and she brought her knitting. So while the boys had a male-bonding night, ... More About: Round Up , Morning , Yarn , Knitting , Monday
All aboard the shawl edging train!
2007-08-04 01:35:00 I?ve never knit anything just for myself before. So this weekend, if it gets chilly enough, I?m going to wear my new socks. If it?s hot, I might just wear them anyway. There are so many projects that I?m eager to start, but the stars don?t seem to be aligned for any of them. ... More About: Train , Knitting , TRAI , Shaw
Tutorial: Two socks on one circular needle
2007-08-02 21:07:00 Ta da! These are my finished summer socks, and although the pattern is simple I’m proud of my progress because I taught myself a new technique, two socks at once on a long circular needle. I know there are full tutorials out there that let you work on the single circ from tip to toe, but ... More About: Tutorial , Yarn , Knitting , Rial , Circular
Diabetic coma
2007-08-02 00:56:00 I?m kind of over myself after yesterday?s super-saccharine ?life is beautiful? post. It always seems like a good idea at the time to gush like that, but I look back later and I just cringe. In this case, not that much later. Does this happen to anyone else? I hear this pretentious, sing-songy, well-isn’t-that-precious! voice ... More About: Knitting , Audiobooks , Diabetic
Beautiful things
2007-08-01 00:39:00 Every once in a while I come across something extraordinary and beautiful that inspires the artistic and creative part of me, not just the crank-through-a-lace-chart knitter, but perhaps the chick that fancies herself a little arty. First of all, there is the beauty that lives in my own (ok, The Baron’s) backyard: This is a little flower that bloomed in ... More About: Beautiful , Things , Knitting , Beautiful Things
Monday knitting update
2007-07-31 01:42:00 Two-at-once toe-up socks: These puppies are done (pretty much). I worked the last few rows in 1×1 instead of 2×2 ribbing, and I?m not sure I like it. Even worse, when I started to bind off, the regular knitwise and purlwise bind-offs just looked silly. I?m going to try the alternating k1, p1 bind-off but ... More About: Update , Knitting , Monday , Onda , Knit
Two Baby Day
2007-07-28 00:38:00 I actually had to do some work at work today, and I?ve been plugging dutifully away all morning, to the exclusion of lunch or even bathroom breaks. I finally finished, just before deadline, at quarter to three. Sadly, quarter to three is a full fifteen minutes after the grubby cafeteria closes. Ravenous, ... More About: Baby , Knitting
Over-easy
2007-07-26 20:42:00 Do you ever have the kind of day at work where you just wish and hope and pray that you?ll be called for jury duty? Yeah, it might sound perverse, but I?d love to spend the day listening to audio books, knitting, and getting paid for it. Plus, The Baron and I have been waiting ... More About: Knitting , Easy
Retail therapy
2007-07-25 19:37:00 Spending is spending, but for some reason I feel far better about purchasing art supplies (read: yarn) than I do about treating myself to some girly accessory that will be out of style in 10 minutes. It?s not like I spend more than I can afford, or really go crazy, but when the urge to ... More About: Retail , Therapy , Yarn , Knitting , Erap
New Shoes = Blisters
2007-07-24 20:16:00 Yeah yeah, so it?s not rocket science that getting new shoes means breaking them in. I think now that I have a major hurdle behind me, I?m going through something of a breaking-in period. I was talking to my dad last night about some of the big changes I?m making in my life, and when ... More About: Shoes , Yarn , Knitting , Blister , Lister
What a difference a day makes
2007-07-23 21:09:00 With the weekend?s adventures and ordeals successfully behind me, I feel like a new woman. There were several unexpected stops along the way that struck me as auspicious signs: My new shoes arrived. Don?t be fooled ? I didn?t actually get different shoes ? just a new pair of my everyday loafers, the Franco Sarto Bocca. ... More About: Knitting , Difference , Ferenc , Diff
Attack of the lace
2007-07-20 22:35:00 Another short post today as I anticipate the belly of the beast tomorrow. Yesterday I got pretty well prepared and managed to sneak in some knitting too. I?m now almost done with the first repeat of chart three on the Frost Flowers and Leaves shawl. The thing is now monstrously huge and sack-like, and last night ... More About: Knitting , Lace , Attack , Atta
Sick day
2007-07-19 18:08:00 I?m taking a day off today ? a sick day. The idea was to have a day to prepare for Saturday, when the chickens come home on my big work project. But, as luck would have it, I actually got pretty sick at work yesterday afternoon and went to bed at 9:30 last ... More About: Knitting , Sick , K Day
Cotton candy for your ears and fingers
2007-07-18 18:30:00 Many cool and wonderful things have emerged out of my blog, but I think that my favorite is the ice-cream-and-warm-cookies, chocolate-and-peanut-butter, sticks-and-string discovery of audiobooks as a knitting enhancement. I?m a fan of TV and I have plenty of knittable shows on my list of favorites, but for me, a huge component of TV is visual ... More About: Blogging , Candy , Knitting , Cotton , Finger
Anxiety dreams
2007-07-17 20:15:00 I know I?m not the only person in the world plagued by dreams of test-taking in my underwear. Even so, it?s unsettling to have this kind of dream, especially over and over. What strikes me, aside from the detail and realism of the dreams, is how arbitrary it all feels. There are several Teutonic shifts ... More About: Dreams , Anxiety , Knitting
Monday, Monday . . .
2007-07-16 19:59:00 So as predicted, the weekend was a blur ? the work stuff was boring, but I interspersed the hard work with knitting breaks and made some great progress on the Frost Flowers & Leaves shawl. I finished chart two, completing a total of five repeats, ran a successful lifeline, and worked through the set-up row ... More About: Knitting , Monday , Onda
Simple Goals
2007-07-13 21:17:00 I just have a few simple goals for this weekend: - I am working the fifth repeat of chart two of the Frost Flowers & Leaves shawl right now. I?m only going to do five, so this is the last repeat of chart two and I want it done. As soon as possible. - Once chart two ... More About: Goals , Simple , Knitting
Crossword cheaters
2007-07-12 23:29:00 Twice in one day? I know, but I couldn’t resist . . . One of my favorite things about WordPress is that it shows you what search terms people use to find your blog. Roomiekins aka Little Miss Law mentioned this to me: based on the tales of woe and passion she?s told about her relationship ... More About: Blogging , Knitting , Sword , Ross , Eater
Love curse
More articles from this author:2007-07-12 21:47:00 Last night: The Baron, in a rascally, teasing tone: “How come you?re writing about waggles? What is this crap? What about me? What about the knitting?” Ok, so perhaps this is paraphrased. And perhaps I responded to his comments with a tickle attack. But he does claim that he only ?skims? my blog looking for references ... More About: Love , Curse , Knitting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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