being back on the bike recently has been great! my new commute is roughly 25 minutes to school, 15-20 back. i take a longer route to get there because i prefer bike lanes and milder hills in the morning to the chaos that would be faster but otherwise less enjoyable ( Read more... )

http://www.dettasspindle.net/WoofspunDogYarn/WoofspunDogYarn.html

if you want a hat/scarf/mitten set made of alaskan husky, you'll have to take a number, please.

i restarted the tangled yoke cardigan two weeks ago during a weekend excursion. amazingly, though i'm knitting on the same needles and my tension is pretty invariable, i'm hitting gauge this time. ...and i know because i swatched beforehand. somehow the knitting overseers just know when you've swatched and when you haven't. i'm one more roundtrip ( Read more... )

before it gets too hot for knitting with wool, i'm trying to create a full wardrobe of sweaters for the 5 more years of winter that i'm about to experience ( Read more... )

given the pace at which i've been (not) knitting, it looks like only some/none people will be getting knits this holiday. this could be both a good and bad thing. good because people do not have to receive knitted things from me. bad because i'm not in the mood to buy anything but craft supplies ( Read more... )

so, starsky was begun and finished during my time on The Project. i refuse to wear it until i am living and working in dc again. i'm pretty happy with how it came out, though i wish the shawl collar was a bit bigger. i doubled the width recommended by the pattern, but i still think it's too small. i caught on a bit late to how the short rows were ( Read more... )

it's amazing what you can get done on a 5 hour plane ride. i usually sleep on the flight out, but try to stay awake for the flight home. the back and fronts are blocking, and i'll aim to seam them and put in the collar (or most of it) this weekend. i'm really excited so far by how well all the pieces have come out. the real challenge will be ( Read more... )

seattle is beautiful! i spent most of the time in an office overlooking the water, but when we did get outside, it was wonderful. if i thought that i could deal with having fewer than 4 seasons, i would move to seattle or the bay area in a heartbeat. but, i like my 4 seasons. i like sweating buckets and losing the feeling in my extremeties. i'm a ( Read more... )

finally, i have unearthed my digital camera, so i can post my summer knits:

( Summer FOs! )

so i finished my summer knitting last month. i finished the rusted root, made a razor cami with the remaining skein, and made a top-down raglan with a dayflower lace panel and picot edging that i really like. i'm thinking about frogging the cami and using the yarn to add some length to the rusted root and then maybe make a headband with the scrap ( Read more... )