Category: Unfinished Object
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Knitting Weather
Well, I survived week one of my crazy crazy new schedule and am now giving week two a try. You may begin putting in bets for which week devolves from crazy to straitjacket insane at any time. We had clouds all weekend and it was glorious: perfect knitting weather. I have been lugging the Ground…
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Selfie
When did selfies become verboten? Sure, I know they’re generally of terrible quality, but was that the only thing that pushed them out the door? When I first started blogging, it seemed that the only knit bloggers who featured pictures taken by someone else were the knit bloggers lucky enough to have knitting friends. Everyone…
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Not Quite as Planned
The movie blanket keeps coming, slowly, but I am also trying to work on other things. You know, for those occasional times when you don’t want to carry two utility-size skeins’ worth of work on the light rail. One of the projects I have been attempting to get started up for transit knitting is my…
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Ready to Romp
The romper is thisclose to being done, and I can’t wait for it to get off the needles and into my wardrobe. This late into a hot summer, the effort of picking out a top and bottoms to wear is simply too much effort.
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The Perils of Startitis
(You are looking at some Random Oleanders because I have not had the time to style Random Yet Artful Knitting-in-Progress. My apologies.) I am in need of some travel knitting here. Normally, the fun of rooting through my yarn and pattern stash to find a project that meets the narrowly defined requirements of travel knitting…
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Knitting with Eyeballs
Huzzah–tonight is knit night, and I have a new project, complete with little stitch markers that look like eyeballs.
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Red
A weekend home sick is conducive to getting lots of reading an knitting done. The book I am reading while knitting this intensely red sweater is, appropriately enough, A Perfect Red. It is nonfiction that promises to engage like fiction. Sometimes this works, and sometimes it doesn’t, and the latter always leaves me wishing I’d…
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas (or winter holiday of choice) everyone! I did, in fact, survive the madness of finals. Las hermanitas y yo even had time to help with Christmas baking, too. The gingerbread chalet is the most photogenic of our efforts: Monita decorated the front, and I decorated the sides. Hermanita forbade both of us from…
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Houston, We Have a Problem
True to my word, I worked away on the Icarus/Firebird like my life depended on it (my sanity certainly did). I got all the way to the middle of the last chart–things had gotten easy–it was looking great (don’t you agree?)– Then disaster struck. I swear: I read the pattern, I figured out the yardage.…
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UFO Invasion!
Aaaaaahhhh! AAAAaaaahhhhh! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! My UFOs are closing in on me. #1, Suss’s Fitted Ribbed Turtleneck–the cover project from Hollywood Knits –has been in progress for at least a year now. #2 is a very sad little hat waiting to be finished. This project has a long story attached. My original plan was to make a…
Anti-Quotidian 