Promises, promises
Okay, so I found the camera. I didn’t have all that much luck taking a decent photo of the haircut, but I’ll share the best of a so-so bunch. I chose a salon that claimed to use all non-toxic products …
Author: Cari
If I could remember where I put the camera…
…I could show you: My fabulous new haircut The still-unwound Vintage kit (and frankly, with Stephanie’s latest posts I’m no longer in a hurry to cast on for that one. Wee bit scared o’ the toe leaf, I am) A …
Remember my big plan for the new novel?
The one where I’d use index cards and a bulletin board to keep track of the fictional and historical storylines and where they met and where they diverged and all that? It was worth a try, but even as I …
I am the very image of will power and restraint
Please note the Vintage kit, still in skeins, posed beside today’s paper. I have not cast on. I have not even wound the yarn. I am terribly impressed with myself. Here’s a close up of that dateline. The fact that …
In which Stephanie gets to me again with her tempty ways
A couple of weeks ago, in a fit of sleep-deprived, having-just-ridden-out-a-toddler-tantrum yarn craving, I clicked on an ad on Ravelry and bought myself a sock kit. It arrived today, and I set it aside to be started later, because Ive …
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Oh look! I knit a pair of socks v.377
Yarn: Austermann Step, colorway #26Needles: 2 Knit Picks classic circs, 2mmPattern: The basic roll-top sock pattern that lives in my head I wasn’t so into these socks as I knit them, for some reason. I’m not exactly sure why, since …
Schlumping along into a new year
Yeah…schlumping in a kind of fuzzy gray grump. Trudging through the inevitable New Year’s letdown. 2007 was a hard year in many ways, and in the days leading up to New Year’s there was a gathering feeling that 2008 would …
Sweets from the sweet
When Thumper and I arrived home today from a grueling morning spent playing very hard with Tereza and Jonah at an indoor play park*, we found a package waiting for us. And inside the package… Yes, Norma has spoiled me …
The sweater I forgot to blog
I never quite got around to taking pictures of it in progress, and I kept forgetting to mention it, and then it knit up so quickly that well its done. Oh look. I knit a little jacket. (Sorry the photos arent so …