Category: Knitting
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Week 16: Such Great Heights
I liked that song when it was a radio song, but I came to absolutely love it when my Pandora started playing it and I learned the lyrics. The freckles in our eyes are mirror images… *sigh* That song has nothing to do with Week 16 of this or any semester, except for the title.…
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Week 15: There’s Madness and then There’s Madness, or Why I Knit Christmas Gifts
Luckily, I have not had so abominable a Monday (or any day) since last posting. That’s not to say all’s roses and kittens in baskets, but definitely less abominable. As finals and the Christmas season barrel down on me simultaneously, I have had an epiphany about Christmas knitting. There are lots of divergent opinions out…
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Week One: Pulling the Plug
First week of grad school proper over, and I’m still here with what sanity I had to begin with. Such as it is. Whoo hoo! I like it, although this whole online classroom thing really weirds me out. Yes, I know, it’s sort of like blogging. But still. One thing I’ve learned is that there…
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Betwixt and Between
Happy Holidays to all–Christmas blew past me, but we’ve still got New Year’s to help us get down off the holiday buzz. Thanks to everyone in blogland for sharing their celebrations! Here’s a quick Christmas recap:I made~Monkey (a pair of Monkeys?) for Hermanita~Hedera for Mum~Gretel for Monita (as chronicled last post) Plus a lace sachet…
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Reason Prevails–Eventually
This year, Monita’s gift was the troublesome one. First, I had a heck of a time figuring out what to give her. Finally, I settled on a hat, and because I developed an obsession with Ysolda Teague’s designs over the course of this semester, I settled on her Gretel hat. So, no biggy, I stopped…
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Week 10: Socktoberfest Spoils
No, it’s not a whole sock. Yes, it is 1 of 2. But it’s rawther trellisy, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Mayas or Hohokam, which I appreciate.
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Week 8: Like Frogged Bamboo
A glorious cold snap and the arrival of Socktoberfest inspired me to finally act upon my simmering sock obsession. These two skeins topped my list: Rio de la Plata Sock Solid in Seaweed and Panda Wool in Strawberry Pink. The Panda Wool got precedence because it’s destined for giftiness, and I began a pair of…
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Happy Thoughts
I’ve got my happy thoughts: 1. The new Knitty is up. Yes, it’s been up for like a week now. Humor me. 2. I have a cool bag to carry my knitting out and about in. Technically, it hasn’t been out and about yet, but it will be. Right now, I’m using it to keep…
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Inexplicable
Back at the end of March, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee sent out a call to knitters, asking them to engage in one day of inexplicable knitter behavior. Her readers responded exuberantly, and I can only imagine how perplexed the non-knitting denizens of their respective cities were. The day for inexplicable knitting fell on a Tuesday, a school…
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Little Things
The minute, the curtailed, the packable seem to be taking over my life. Lunch fits in a box. My working memory is about the same capacity as a floppy. And any knitting larger than a washcloth seems an insurmountable task of Hurculean proportions. Why? Because it’s back-to-school time. Not the rejuvenated-by-summer, won’t-this-be-fun, brand-new-clothes fall back…
Anti-Quotidian 