I had a hectic week and apparently it depleted my resistance to attacks against will (but LBR it's not like my Char or Wis scores are that high to start with ...) because yesterday I tripped and bought the PDF pattern to Moon Pulls, a gorgeous lopapeysa-inspired sweater, along with an online order of Lett-Lopi yarn for knitting it (I didn't buy the ( Read more... )

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... is knitting while watching television, which has always doubled as dinnertime with the Spousal Unit. Now it's triply efficient! I might even have my Backbay sweater in a few more months at this rate. Next in my queue is the Mother of Pearl sweater for Bean, whose birthday is conveniently enough in the fall.

In theory I have always liked the ( Read more... )

Slowly wrapping up all my knitting projects (in preparation for a bigger knitting project, not because I'm quitting knitting - ha ha ha). Here is my favorite so far, a scarf I made for myself!

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I've been having a productive knitting month!  The last weeks I've finished a scarf (for me), almost finished a hat (for a friend), and I've also finished this beauty for a friend:


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I wrote down a lot of job whining, both specific to this job and in general, and then I deleted it.

Instead! I think I am going to very slowly work on this knit hat (pdf). It is based on this hat. Hopefully even my slow ass can have it done by late fall/winter ( Read more... )