Category: Travel
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Hidden Treasures
When I am trawling Ravelry, searching for just the right pattern, the pattern that will fit all my hopes for a particular yarn, the pattern that everyone loves, I will occasionally come across a pattern that hardly anyone has knitted. I always stop to wonder why–are none of the people who knit this one on…
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Half a Librarian
Thank you, everyone, for hanging in there through me grumping–and then disappearing. I was out of town for a few days, and now I am back. My inbox has been gathering enough e-mails in my absence to start pulling objects with low mass into its gravitational field, but before I go there I wanted to…
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Volcanoes and High Seas
Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments on the blanket! After the dazedness that comes right after finishing a big project, I am feeling very pleased. I have another FO too, and I am absolutely dying to show you, but I can’t…because it’s a Christmas gift. I know–Christmas is eons away. It certainly feels like…
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Mousie Goes to Washington
Hello there! I am sorry to say that I do not have a good segue from silence to vacation, so let’s just drop in. Vacation!!!!!! I am not quite sure what to say about Washington DC. This is my first time, so I am still in staggering around in tourist mode. It is nowhere near…
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All My Wool Socks Are in Phoenix
And my feet are in Philadelphia attending the American Library Association’s Midwinter conference. Thank gawd I have my mittens.
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Here Comes the Future
(title thanks to the Handsome Furs) The apartment is clean, and I think I am ready for the new year. 2013 was ram-packed full of *stuff* Four library conferences. Three sweaters (you’ll see the other two in a teensy bit). One ginormous blanket. My first Coachella. KITTENS More time with Melba, the best puppy in…
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On Holiday
The new Holla Knits is out, and darn are the new patterns cute. I guess this means that I need to finish all my projects from last year’s patterns! Thankfully, we are road-tripping this weekend, and I am in the passenger’s seat. It’s amazing how much knitting I can get done when I just sit…
Anti-Quotidian 