Category: Shop on the High Street
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Highly Unlikely
Which of the following is the most unlikely? 1. Worldwide peace starting tomorrow 2. My university will complete all of its construction projects 3. I will drop my nascent sock obsession like a lead balloon to begin a sweater Had you asked me that last Monday, I would’ve been hard pressed to tell you which…
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The Zen of the Scantron
This morning I had a novel test-taking experience. For one thing, all the stuff I studied for was on the exam. No we-downplayed-this-in-class-because-we-planned-on-devoting-an-entire-test-section-to-it questions. All the answers were on the paper, to be matched, chosen, or true-falsed. The answers did not have to be hand-written; we bubbled our answers in on a scantron. I think…
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I Think Uncharitable Thoughts
I am blogging now, fifteen minutes before I’m supposed to get myself together for class, as an alternative to throwing myself on the floor and tearing off my epidermis. Exegesis: I am very allergic to perfume. Nasty allergic. Last semester, someone used a Guess perfume sample–one of those little cards the women at the perfume…
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Two Mittens
A week to the day after I completed my mittens, I’ve finally got my blog back on. Here are the stats:Pattern: Norwegian Snail Mittens out of Book of Yarn, designed by Adrian BiziliaYarn: Dalegarn’s Baby Ull, just under one skein each 3718 (maraschino) and 0007 (grey), plus a small amount of 0090 (black). The latter…
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Ultimate Recycling
Newest in our line of Miss Marple chic accessories is… The Sampler Bag Displayed here on a filing cabinet, this entirely unstructured bag is recycled from a pillowcase knitted from Lion Kitchen Cotton (circa 2000) as an experiment in the newly-learned techniques of cabling and entrelac. Cable mis-crossings add to the wonky charm of this…
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Switching Gears
Knittyness is on hold momentarily while I switch from summer to summer school. Bear with me here… For all shall be revealed in due time.
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It’s the Heat
The other night, just as it was beginning to get dusky, Monita came in from taking out the garbage and remarked that it was pretty nice out. Our thermometer, parked deep in the shade of the back patio, read 100 degrees Fahrenheit. That might explain why I chose now to do that scarf I wanted…
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Lean/Miren/Escuchen
Knitting has taken a turn for the dull here (not for long) so in the meantime, here’s a short list of my favorite summer diversions so far: Lean (Read)To Kill a Mockingbird topped my list of Books That I Ought to Read list, partially because it won a Pulitzer and partly because I’d seen the…
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Knock Me Over With a Feather
Some of you may be wondering whatever happened to the Icarus I kicked up such a ruckus over. It never did get immolated, or reknitted. In the end–my grandmother’s birthday being around the corner–I decided to make the best of a bad situation and block the beast. Thinking of albatrosses as a very fitting metaphor,…
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Dos Caracoles
(Two Snails) I have hit my stride with the Norwegian Snail Mittens, and I’m totally obsessed. I never would’ve thought I could get this into a pattern involving Fair Isle–the epitome of fiddly knits. But there’s something addictive about doing just one more row to see the pattern progress. Then another, and another… I’ve even…
Anti-Quotidian 