Sneaking a quick post while the kid naps…
He’s conked out, but I don’t know for how much longer. We had a busy morning. A playdate with Jonah, then a long stroller walk to the Goodwill to buy some more books for Thumper, then a nice long walk …
Positive Negative Socks
I’ve always got a pair of stockinette socks on the needles. Here’s the latest pair: I’m planning to make a second pair just like them, so I can choose matching or coordinating, depending on my mood. Trekking # 183 and …
Fragment #1
Chipped diner mug, heavy white ceramic and a rough spot at the rim, barely noticeable until your lip hits it on the first sip. Weak diner coffee, three a.m. and then that unexpected roughness against your bottom lip and isnt …
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 …
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 …