Category: Shop on the High Street
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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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In a Funk
And not the dance floor kind. This entry began as a bit of a mind dump, and more than a little bit of a downer, so I’m going to condense and hopefully not bring everyone down with my bad karma. 1. The Internet, I’ve discovered, is like an illustrated supplemental index. In addition to Adrian’s…
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Puzzle Conundrum Enigma
The GRE is over (everybody laud the heavens), I am in bed recuperating from ear surgery (see item two on this post), and I am faced with a new conundrum. What do I do with all this time? My convalescence is not such that I am in a continual haze. I’m awake most of the…
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Seeing Red
This weekend was a somewhat rocky one in project-dom. I attribute the trouble to my setting out to complete things. Why else would not one but two projects–in as many days–conspire against me? First there was a recycled t-shirt project that I’ve been working on, literally, for months. It began as a little seam-sewing exercise…
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Housekeeping
As the perspicacious among you will notice, I rearranged and tidied up my sidebars a bit. Nothing groundshaking. Just… A blogroll, containing the blogs I read regularly. Ooh. Aah. Note I said regularly; there are other blogs I read, all of which are quite good, but not regularly because the authors don’t post regularly. (Yes,…
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It’s a Bib! (boy version)
The Petal Bib pattern withstood the replicate test. Specs are identical to the girl version, with the exception of the color, Ice. I highly commend this pattern to anyone with a last-minute baby shower invitation and some fancy cotton hanging about. I consider myself a relatively slow knitter, but I did the petals while waiting…
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I Commit Another Crime Against Gauge
This time, the crime involves my string bag. Pattern: Elisa’s Nest Tote, long-handled versionYarn: Just over 1 skein of Plymouth’s Fantasy Naturale mercerized cotton color 9002 and one skein mercerized, cable-spun mystery cotton (worsted-ish weight) in green.Needles: size 8, but read on before you grab yoursAdditional note: See below for theoretical adaptation to worsted-weight yarn.…
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It’s a Bib!
Now all I need is a baby to put it on. A few years ago I was knitting a baby blanket in a café and the girl behind the counter–a slight acquaintance–asked if there was anything she should know. This rawther irked me, because a) I am not overly enamored with children (nor they me)…
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One Week in Santa Monica
That’s where I’ve been the past week, con las hermanitas. West LA being the delightfully surreal place that it was, I came back feeling ebullient but slightly shell-shocked–hence the dearth of posts. I’ll try to sum up the trip here, and add pictures (taken on real live film) when I get them back. Day OneAdjust…
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Icarus Indeed
From Wednesday to Friday, I toiled over the Icarus. I finished the second skein and dug into the third. Friday night, I went through an EP and a full-length mix CD on the bind off alone. But I was determined–I would finish that shawl before the weekend officially began, or bust. Well. I finished the…
Anti-Quotidian 