Category: Shop on the High Street
-
That’s my Picture!
Happy Things: 1. This photo of my skein of Twisted Sisters yarn bought on absolute sale and modeled in my lucky tooth mug (won at a guess-how-many-teeth-on-the-table contest in my Dental Anthropology course) was chosen as one of the Ravelry images for the Avarice. As an amateur photographer who has a hit to miss ratio…
-
It’s Fall!
Certainly took long enough. We’re in for a few freakishly high highs before Halloween, but the mornings are cool, and on days when the clouds are obliging, one can get up at a reasonable hour and bike to the park for lunch and a new-shawl photo shoot. Pattern: Shetland Triangle, by Evelyn Clark.Yarn: Mountain Colors…
-
The Decency of Snails
Well, summer is still hanging on for dear life here, but fall has reclaimed the early mornings. The end must be near… I have not given in to the wooly shawl yet. Instead, inspired by the a) amigurumi of a crocheting classmate on Ravelry and b) a long-abiding desire to use up the last of…
-
Overpreparedness
It’s that time of year again–while the rest of the country is savoring the last lingering days of their summer, I’m counting the hours until summer is over, done, and gone. School has started, and darkness is falling noticeably earlier, both of which are counts in fall’s favor. But our cold water is still running…
-
Crossing Paths
One of the many things I love about blogging is the way you can cross paths with other bloggers in another state or another country without even meaning to. This summer, I became intrigued by the flora of the UK. As my springtime forays indicate, I am reasonably familiar with the plants that grow here…
-
Resurfacing
Originally, I’d intended to do a proper summary of the rest of my month in the UK, but there was simply Too Much, all of which defies description. It was a month in another world entirely, and if it weren’t for the scads of pictures I took, I’d be tempted to say it was all…
-
Did the Vacation End?
Back in the Valley of the Sun. I was gone so long, I feel like a tourist gawking at the wide streets, low buildings, and skinny palm trees for the first time.
-
A knit tag, discovered en route to my beloved Konditor and Cook. We took some day trips over the last weekend, complete with handouts containing background info and thinking questions. You would not believe how hard it was to get a picture that would let me pretend I was alone in the middle of nowhere…
Anti-Quotidian 