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The Blanket Still Looks the Same
So here’s a video instead. In the course of searching for something entirely different, I stumbled across KEXP’s YouTube channel. It is vying with Daytrotter for my music affection, and is well on its way to becoming the object of a full-blown obsession. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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Knitting Weather
Well, I survived week one of my crazy crazy new schedule and am now giving week two a try. You may begin putting in bets for which week devolves from crazy to straitjacket insane at any time. We had clouds all weekend and it was glorious: perfect knitting weather. I have been lugging the Ground…
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Back to School, Ring the Bell
The White Stripes’ “We’re Going to Be Friends” has always been my soundtrack for the return to fall, and school, and (in my mind) cooler weather. The mornings are cool where I live, but the monsoon is not done yet (cross your fingers we get rain tonight), and to remind us summer’s not properly over…
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Selfie
When did selfies become verboten? Sure, I know they’re generally of terrible quality, but was that the only thing that pushed them out the door? When I first started blogging, it seemed that the only knit bloggers who featured pictures taken by someone else were the knit bloggers lucky enough to have knitting friends. Everyone…
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While You Wait
While you wait for me to muster up the courage and concentration to rip out my Holla Back tank, let me present you with a FO. Above you see a Nautie, whipped up fast out of stash yarn for a baby’s christening. Big batches of yarn stay in the stash forever, but single skeins of…
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Not Quite as Planned
The movie blanket keeps coming, slowly, but I am also trying to work on other things. You know, for those occasional times when you don’t want to carry two utility-size skeins’ worth of work on the light rail. One of the projects I have been attempting to get started up for transit knitting is my…
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The Movie Blanket
Summer is wearing thin. The euphoria of rediscovering its freedom is gone, the wonder of the length of the days is gone. There haven’t been any monsoons. Swimming–why bother? This is the time where we retreat inside, bury ourselves in distractions. I have found myself watching a lot of movies. Summer movies. To match the…
Anti-Quotidian 