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 …
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 …
In which Stephanie gets to me again with her tempty ways Read more »
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Completely unrelated photo so you don’t have to suffer through yet another pictureless post from me We went to a neighbor’s solstice party last night. Most of our neighbors were there. It’s that kind of neighborhood. I’m not sure how …
Well, Diego is doing very well. He’s getting to be a little old man, though, and sleeps a whole lot. Hence not a lot of photo ops, and not a lot of blog coverage. He would like to thank those …
oh yeah…I used to blog about the dogs a lot, didn’t I? Read more »