Tag: Icarus Shawl
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That’s Better
You know that moment, when you have a dozen pressing tasks to attend to, and suddenly the most minute issue, one that has been lingering at the very bottom of your list for months, suddenly becomes The Most Important Issue To Address? That was me today. I crocheted a loop onto a potholder I knitted…
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Six Months to the Day
That is how long it took me to complete my third Icarus. I am not sure how I managed to work Haruni–a pattern I’d never completed before–in a month, without a single setback, while this shawl–a pattern I know well–was one setback after the next. I will not ponder that one too deeply; I’m just…
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What else…
Little news on the knitting front here; after finally untangling the Gorgonian Knot and skipping through Chart 3 of the Icarus’ border, my skein decided to disintegrate & form another tangle. I hate the idea of breaking the yarn again to get this one out, so I’m trying to limp it along. It’s slow going,…
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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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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…
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Speeding Along
My poor little thumb (left) has been taking a beating at work, and after the beating it took over the semester (note-taking–how sad is that?), it’s very sensitive. To spare it, this will be a low text entry. The Icarus is speeding along, so much as anything that has 400+ stitches per row can speed.…
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It’s Good to Be Free
Hello Hello Hello School is out, and I am free!!!! Every time I think of it, I get excited all over again. After replenishing my soul with music (note title and intro are both Oasis references), I feel fully prepared to enjoy my time off. My first urge was to run to my LYS and…
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Total Denial Reigns
Is it really a week since I blogged last? It doesn’t seem like it was that long ago. Wait. It wasn’t–I know for absolute certian that I blogged on Tuesday. And today is Saturday. I don’t know how that works, if it works, but I can’t cudgel my poor brain into pondering it. Icarus (pictured…
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Inexplicable
Back at the end of March, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee sent out a call to knitters, asking them to engage in one day of inexplicable knitter behavior. Her readers responded exuberantly, and I can only imagine how perplexed the non-knitting denizens of their respective cities were. The day for inexplicable knitting fell on a Tuesday, a school…
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Happy Earth Day
My university surprised me: usually every day with a cause results in an onslaught of supporters and opposition on the campus, with everybody shouting, waving signs, and thrusting clipboards at you. There was none of that today–not even a bleak documentary scheduled to show on the big mall after sunset. I was rawther surprised, but…
Anti-Quotidian 