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All the instructions I could find about how to patch holes were about how to patch stockinette. I couldn't work out how to do garter, so what I ended up doing was more or less darning each spot; the mends are visible but garter stitch in wool is kind of a mess to look at anyway, so it's not perfect but I think all the loose loops are caught and ( Read more... )

For my parents' 40th anniversary, my brother bought a ton of yarn in several shades of red and I knit them a ruby afghan. My mother still uses it all the time and loves it, which is very gratifying, and alas it now has a few moth-eaten spots, so when I was back visiting after her recent surgery I brought it home with me and now it's out on my ( Read more... )

I read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child finally this weekend and enjoyed almost all of it very much. ( bit spoilery )

I haven't been around here much lately, it seems. I read all of you every day; I just don't have a lot to say that isn't about how the house still isn't finished. We moved in a year ago and they broke ground for the addition in the second week of January, so either way you look at it we've been living in less-than-ideal circumstances for a long ( Read more... )

Today I wrote and handed in the second-last paper I will ever write as a student. (This time I'm pretty sure I mean it.) The last one is an 8-10-pager due in a month (and worth 40% of the grade). I've got a couple of discussion threads to participate in before then, but really, this MLS thing is just about in the bag ( Read more... )

It was a long nap that I woke up from feeling pretty cold and stiff, and I decided I didn't want to go out again into the winter - so I'll go to the movie another time. Instead I switched on my electric mattress cover, so the bed will be nice and toasty when I get in it later, and finished another repeat of the baby blanket I'm knitting (for a ( Read more... )

So I'm thinking of doing a checked baby blanket. I could either do knit 10/purl 10 for days and days, with a garter border, or I could do entrelac. Never done entrelac before, and I'm a little anxious about doing a border (this one pattern calls for a crocheted border, and I don't crochet; but surely I could pick up stitches all around the edge ( Read more... )

Socks I was knitting: finished ( Read more... )

A long, long time ago, I got some blue yarn and some bronze yarn (genuinely - it's brown with a sparkle) and made a Ravenclaw scarf. I was so chuffed by this that I bought red, green, yellow, pink, and grey, and also gold, silver, black-with-sparkle, and purple-with-sparkle, so that I could also make Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Sparklypoo, ( Read more... )

I'm just a non-posting machine, these days, innit. What's been going on lately.

Last week was Monday-Thursday in my current pattern of working four tens instead of five eights; and I Got Things Done, oh my goodness.

( Friday )