I took a break this Christmas! I decided not to try and rush knitted presents for the niblings (making it the first time in all four years Abby did not get a hand knitted present from me), supposedly in order to concentrate on the busting of the stash. What ended up happening is I ended up making presents for the roommates instead.


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Here is a pair of gloves I finished a few weeks ago:


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With my batgirl sweater came the possibly terrible idea to attempt a range of knitting projects based around DC characters. For no other reason than that I'm a huge nerd. And who better to start with than the Black Canary? (and just in time for new Birds of Prey, too)


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THIRTY DAYS OF MEME: 24 Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

Since my last knitting post I've had a couple of people ask me to knit things specifically for them - which is really flattering and I love making things for people, but at the same time, I'm not willing to get obligations get in the way of enjoying to knit, so they're kind of low priorities. ( Read more... )

GUYS GUYS LOOK AT THIS GODDAMN SWEATER.


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I have SO MANY spoons today. And I've done a lot that I can't just put into Twitter. So:

- Izzy and I made coffee cupcakes with mocha icing and they look gorgeous. We're so good at this baking cakes milarkey ( Read more... )

Apparently verbally throwing up over LJ worked. Or rather, was a symptom of my recovery, as I was able to put words out there even if they were rather shitty words. (I'm keeping the post public, but I haven't read it since writing it and I don't think I intend to). Anyway, I'm doing OK. I spent yesterday doing absolutely nothing except playing LEGO ( Read more... )

And lo, this is what I have been doing today. Exciting, innit? New! now with extra #loudtweet editing! So stop your whining.

• 16:32 Twitchie Scorpion: How long until Abby's big enough for this, you think? tinyurl.com/4lzgbp #
• 16:32 The New York Times tackles "Butch Fatale": Holy crap, this Daphine Merkin woman has issues. tinyurl.com/byasxa #
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