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Banana Hammock

The above is a picture of my newest work-in-progress, and a way of knitting I learned just tonight: toe-up on two circs. If you don’t knit, this is all Greek to you, but if you do knit, this is so cool! I feel really smart for learning it. I came home and showed it to [...]

Christmas makes my ass hurt.

As Christmas approaches, so does the deadline for completion of my Christmas knitting. God help me. I got three more presents done in the last week, and all three went out in the mail this morning, thank you Jeebus. My brother’s and my mom’s were pretty easy, although I injured myself on my mom’s several [...]

Gold medalist

This year’s Ravelympics were a triumph for me: a 200% better showing than I had at the 2006 Winter Games. This year I medalled in not one, but two events:

It’s that time again

We all know I love the Olympics, as well as a chance to engage in lemming-like behavior with my fellow knitters. So I joined the Ravelympics. Similar to the Yarn Harlot’s Knitting Olympics for the winter Olympics in Torino two years ago, the Ravelympics features a million and two knitters (okay, really the count stands [...]

Fiber is good for you.

Hey, you know what’s awesome? When you realize that your refrigerator door is open about an inch when you wake up to pee in the middle of the night. And then? When you open the fridge in a panic and realize that everything in it is room temperature and the door has probably been open [...]

Which way to Walton’s Mountain?

Boston stories in the next post, promise. Really. But now, for something entirely different. We all know I am a joiner. I joined Plurk, I joined Twitter, I joined Facebook, Ravelry, MySpace, you name it, I’m on it. But for as much as I like the tech, I also love being connected to the “old [...]

Definite yarnivorous behavior

When Joe the cat was little, he was a hellion. Destructo kitty #1. During his young life, he was notably responsible for breaking a Depression glass punchbowl (valued at $200 at the time of its demise) and destroying an entire freezer full of meats and frozen goods because he accidentally unplugged it. In July. And [...]

Finished by the skin of my teeth

Last night I learned something. Sea Silk that has been dyed red? Bleeds red when you wash it. After three soaks and a final bath with a bit of white vinegar, I think I’ve stopped the bleeding. I wrote on the little note that accompanied the shawlette that it might need another vinegar bath and [...]

Vacay!

I spent the weekend knitting. And knitting, and knitting, and knitting. My sister-in-law’s birthday is today, and I wanted to give her a nice lace shawlette to wrap around her shoulders. It’s still nice, I just fucked up part of the pattern and knit it backwards. If I had the time to rip half the [...]

The holidays revisited.

They’ve implemented a new phone system here at Some College that includes an integrated computer program. Basically, Big Brother is at my work place. I have to tell the computer every time I’m leaving my desk, even if it’s just to pee. All the stress that I felt leaving my body over the past five [...]

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