( Read more... )

For reasons I'm not going to get into at length, I've been knitting a variety of Hogwarts house-livery scarves sized in the range for beagles and teddy bears, and it occurred to me ( Read more... )

When it comes to crafts and hobbies, I'm a grand dabbler. I could dabble for our national Dabbling Dilettantes Drill Team, if we had one. I get very excited, do tons of research (this step made easier by the Internet, of course), acquire some tools and materials, maybe even complete a project or two ... and then suddenly get burningly excited about ( Read more... )

I just recently clicked on my knitting tag, and was shocked at how few posts were there. I knit a lot more than that ... especially recently (i.e. since mid-February). On the road trip to-and-from Toronto for FKO, I knitted like a mad knitting thing. I've finished multiple pairs of socks since the first of the year. And does any of it show in my ( Read more... )

In fact, I even unvented it, to use Elizabeth Zimmerman's terminology. From this sock pattern. So I'm not sure it's quite kosher to write it up as a pattern 'by me'; I've asked them for permission to do so and we'll see. But meanwhile, here's pictures!

( Pictures within. )

I was reading emygination's recent entry about being intimidated by lace knitting, and went looking for some patterns to point her at for practice ( Read more... )

Or at least less crafty. Or less obsessively crafty. Or something.

Fact the First: I am bringing playstation-and-games-and-guitar-controller to Grandma's house tomorrow for Big Family Christmas, and to anach-&-jerusha's Tuesday for general spreading-the-addiction and hanging out.

Fact the Second: I am often very rough on my belongings, and have been since I ( Read more... )

I'd say not much is happening around here, but the same amount of everything is going on; I just don't seem to have much to say about it. I've been spending an awful lot of time half-asleep on the couch. Man, I wish I had time, money, and emotional capital to (a) get back into therapy and (b) get medicated again ( Read more... )

My Very First Sockses Ever:

( Side-on photo )