Some shots of the shawl of doom that I finished last weekend:


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Things I failed to take into consideration when I decided I wanted to do a shawl in sock yarn: it takes not a little more knitting with sock yarn, but much more knitting to get things to the same size as with a thicker yarn.

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Things that are good:

• I am healthy again! I think. I woke up this morning with no burning throat, chest pain, stomach pain, or anything other than a minor runny nose. I WIN.
  
  
• I made chocolate chip cookies to bring in to class, and there are loads left over. They are tasty.
  
  
• Neil comes back home tomorrow.
  
  
• I made zaofan a pair of socks that he liked.
  
  
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Physics today was incredibly frustrating, because we have gone beyond simple stuff like just adding vectors to figuring out tilting our x/y axis in order to solve funky-angled problems, and I'm just poor at that sort of thing. So we came out of lecture, went to recitation (the TA session) and asked the TA, and she said, "It's just Newton's third ( Read more... )

If you're a crocheter, knitter, or sewer and have some extra love to give, (or if you're none of the above but local and want to learn, I'll help), join me in sending a few handmade items to homeless LGBT/queer teenagers in New York. It's summer now, but come winter, things get cold again -- we can whip up a few items to send to Sylvia's PlaceWith ( Read more... )

It's April now! So I can officially take some money and walk to the yarn store and try to distract myself from the giant crushing stressed-out sensation in my chest and buy myself yarn for a hat ( Read more... )

Over the years, dear Williams College Registrar, I have applied to a crapload of schools, and you haven't charged me for any of the transcripts you've sent. All this edumacating may have melted my brain, so I apologize for the goofy manner in which I sent you a fax entitled: Transcript request pretty please, and I really appreciate it even though I ( Read more... )

Every time I'm knitting something in public, someone smiles and asks me whether it's a scarf. It's awesome that knitting clearly makes me more approachable (like an old granny?), but the question always makes me boggle a little because when the question is asked it's never a scarf. Sometimes being asked the question makes me wonder about my ( Read more... )

One of the nice things about knitting is that it keeps you quiet and from turning into an ostrich, even when things feel crappy. Like today, when my throat is on fire because the cold I was fighting off got the better of me, I am still humming a silly song I made up. ("I'm a big girl now ( Read more... )

So... apparently, when you relax into the rhythm of knitting, you make bigger, looser stitches... which means that even if you have the same number of stitches on the needle, you end up with more width in the stitches you do cast on. I have 3 more inches of width in this sweater than I'd planned, and I'm almost halfway done with the sweater ( Read more... )