Category: Finished Object
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Small Triumphs
One week in, most of the downstairs boxes are packed, but there are still clods of crumpled newspaper and stray sheets of bubble wrap everywhere, defying my attempts to keep unpacked packing material in the garage. For all the new space I find myself with, it is oddly inefficient. My wall calendar has yet to…
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And Suddenly–
I am packing. The shawl is done. Please, dear readers, don’t get all excited all at once: the best I can manage in the next few weeks will be pictures.
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Alien Baby
Here we have it, a second post in as many days! I may get back on track yet. We have talked about my thing for knitting weird toys for new babies before. If a president’s publicity stunt can make predators children’s toys, I see no reason why prehistoric and mythical creatures can’t be children’s toys…
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A Long Time Coming
Hello again, dear readers–I have resurfaced! Thanks for your patience as I knitted, sewed, and crocheted like a fiend. Objective: finish my longest-running UFO. Seven years ago, I made my mom the first squares for a patchwork blanket for Mummy. Why? I’m not sure. I don’t like seaming, and patchwork = seaming. But I had…
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I Fail Blocking
Happy Friday, people! In a rare moment of planetary alignment, this Friday actually comes with a FO! Behold my Leafy Green shawl. This represents the last of the stash yarn I acquired in Seattle three years ago, and the first time ever I have knitted through all the stash from a particular location. The pattern…
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Getting Things Done
Edited to add: I nearly forgot the blocking story on the tank! Scroll down for more Today is a getting things done sort of day. Lots and lots of things. I was going to guilt trip myself about taking the day off until I realized that I have basically spent the entire day on cleaning,…
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Arcadia Doors and Lemon Trees
There are times when everything is betwixt and between. This is one of them. The weather can’t quite make up its mind: should it stay spring or morph into raging summer? My regular schedule fell by the wayside somewhere along the line, and I have no idea where to even begin trying to find. Even…
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Of Course this is Interview Prep
Thank you all for your lovely comments on Mousie’s story! I have been knitting along over here since then, but the blogging has been on the back burner as I prepare for an interview. I really dislike interviews. A lot. So let’s take a brain break and talk about something happy: finished objects. When I…
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Going Gothic
Happy Tuesday, people! I am happy to report that I discovered two of the circular needle pouches that were MIA: one crammed in a corner of the notions shelf (understandable) and another in a pile of papers on my desk (just wrong). I may need to do a stash deep-clean soon: in addition to the…
Anti-Quotidian 