Category: Shop on the High Street
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Week Six: Slipping
While Mayas and King Henry (the fourth, part 1) and article reactions pile up around me, I’m feeling rawther like I’m slipping a bit. Por ejemplo: It didn’t occur to me until after I’d picked up all the stitches for the sleeve of my FBS that I would have to knit it in the round.…
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Week 5: Beetle-Headed Villains
Why is it so terribly difficult for people to create PDF files with pages all oriented the same direction? I hit print hoping to shortcut the painful slogging through of articles I have to complete this weekend and came out with two properly printed pages and 13 page middles. Augh. On the bright side, my…
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Week Four: the Amoeba Evolves
Four down, twelve to go. My trusty knitting bag has not failed me yet, and the Mystery Christmas project is moving along. My February Baby Sweater had been languishing in the basket for lack of time spent at home, but a moment of extreme duress brought on by the realization that I have a substantial…
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Pretend
I suppose my last entry would’ve been a good time to mention that school started and I won’t be able to blog as often as I’d (or you’d) like until mid-December. And I don’t have any pictures of my current project, because it is a top-secret Christmas gift for Hermanita, who actually reads here. But…
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Amoeba on a Stick!
Not really. It’s a February Baby Sweater, my first foray into the designs of Elizabeth Zimmerman. I’m hoping to create something unique but classic, along the lines of this or this rendition. Once again, we have the White Stripes-esque color scheme of my Baby Ull stash. Maybe something little Scarlett White would wear. And, once…
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Positively Mahvelous, Dahling
Project Specs– Pattern: Gigi, from the Summer ’08 KnittyYarn: Crystal Palace Panda Wool in color 4108 (Vine Green), not quite 5 skeinsNeedles: Size 2 and 4, as called for in the patternModifications: none intentionally. If you’ll notice, there are five buttons on mine. If you have proper row gauge on the ribbing, you’ll be able…
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Results
Whew. Olympic viewing has resulted in sleep deprivation of Olympic proportions. But for knitting time, it can’t be beat. Gigi is finished, not just the knitting but the neverending finishing too. More on that after I corner my photographer. My next focus is Christmas knitting (it feels too early, but I’m trying to avoid daylong…
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Day and a Half
This has been one of those days in which you just go go go… and it never gets any later. After getting out at the crack of dawn to trim back the poor sad tree in our backyard that got blown over in Thursday’s storm so we can actually lift the thing back up, Las…
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Missing: Two Weeks
My goodness–has it really been two weeks since I’ve blogged–or indeed, made any real presence on the blogosphere? I’m going to fall back on a classic and say there are quite simply not enough hours in the day. This isn’t the fault of school or work (for once). I’m trying to keep this summer as…
Anti-Quotidian 