For some reason, I woke up absurdly early on Sunday (well, absurdly early for me -- before 8.) So, I got a decent start and arrived at MS&W not long after they opened at nine. The bad news: a check at the lost and found. The good news: Brooks Farm still had some yarn in the that colorway. So I at least still have 2 skeins, enough to make my ( Read more... )

So, I left Durham at about 4:20 pm, which turned out to be a good time to leave. It's not hard to get out of Durham on I-85, there's nothing much between Durham and Richmond, and rush hour was already pretty much over by the time I hit Richmond. I had an essentially traffic-free journey. Mapquest was probably right about the 5 hours of driving ( Read more... )

After sarakate explained a better way to accurately measure row gauge to me on knitting I realized that instead of getting 6 rows/inch as the pattern called for, I was getting 6.8 rows/inch on the Rogue sleeve. No wonder the sleeve seemed short and fat: that's because it was ( Read more... )

This post is about knitting. So everyone who reads my LJ who doesn't care about knitting (I think that's most of you) feel free to move along now ( Read more... )

Am I insane that I am semi-seriously contemplating driving to Virginia (~3 hr drive according to the IKEA website) to go to an IKEA because I want bits for my shelving system that are not for sale over the Internet ( Read more... )

Occasionally working for a medical center has its more interesting aspects. There was apparently an outbreak of norovirus at the VA hospital across the street. The result: at every entrance to Duke North and South hospitals there is a big sign warning of the presence of NOROVIRUS, warning people that have symptoms of NOROVIRUS not to vist the ( Read more... )

So I wandered into Borders to check out knitting books this evening. (You would think a book called "DomiKNITrix" would have interesting patterns in it, but you'd be wrong.) It turns out the advertising campaign for Harry Potter Book 7 is already in full swing. For the last book the big advertising phrase was, "Who is the Half Blood Prince?" ( Read more... )

Especially for noricum: my Habitat Hand-Me-Ups thrift store needle find ( Read more... )

Early this week I finished a felted purse and a few felted potholders I made as test swatches:
( Click to see the results of my labors )

I ate at Panera breads tonight (on the theory that I wanted to buy yarn and gorceries before heading home, and it was safer to eat before grocery shopping ( Read more... )