Well, I'm all holed up in Virginia while my Californian cohorts are enjoying this month's reminder of global warming. It's been good knitting weather out here, though, and my spirits are lifted with reruns of 30Rock and The Office and Law and Order whenever I want thanks to Netflix's Watch Instantly feature ( Read more... )

( Huge project and photo dump, WIPs and FOs alike )

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I learned a couple of weeks ago that a friend and coworker of mine has breast cancer. She's only 36. This is ungood on many, many levels. So what do I do? I baked her half a batch of sugar-free rice-flour oatmeal cookies and cast on for Shedir. (And scheduled a gyno exam for myself with the intention of trying to talk my doctor into letting me ( Read more... )

While digging through a bin of yarn looking for something last night, I stumbled upon a pair of Fetching I had completely forgotten I had knit. Expect pictures of that, too. :)

I give you, Kittyville Hat from Stitch n Bitch.


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So on the recommendation of one of the more recent emails from Yarndogs, I declared today Clean Out My Stash (After I Sit In The Sun For An Hour) Day. I've heard talk of alot of people going on a "yarn diet" where they knit only from their stash and not purchase any new yarn for a certain amount of time. Some crazies are trying to go an entire ( Read more... )

As it turned out, I wasn't late for work on Saturday. My hair wasn't as clean as I would have liked it to be, but I didn't smell bad so no one seemed to mind. Plus, there's nothing like the look on a fellow knitter's face when they can't believe how quickly you've knit something. And when they tried to tease me about not sewing my ends in, I ( Read more... )

A fellow knitter asked me recently what my "specialty" is in knitting. I told her that I think it's picking projects that are so insane that no one else would even consider doing them.

See this?


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