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 …
Month: January 2008
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 …