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My sister came in from Florida last night. Because I’m evil (and I have my childrens with me) I claimed the guest bedroom and both of the beds, Sister sleeps on the couch. Yes, this is probably another sign that I have unresolved issues stemming from sibling rivalry during my early childhood. I bought some [...]

I might be at my mother’s house for a few days, which means leaving the laptop here with Matt and accessing the outside world via dial up– oh joy. I will keep up with my NaBloPoMo pledge though but I’m not promising pictures. There’s something deeply disturbing about my step-father’s computer (oh yeah, it’s Win [...]

Here’s the second stitch pattern that I started on the circle cloth. It’s a nice tessellating pattern, and in my colors (so far white, cranberry and sparkly teal) has a kind of holiday-ish-ness to it. Note that row 27 is the same as row 1 and that’s how the pattern restarts, the stitches don’t have [...]

Actually one of the childrens knits. The older one, and today he asked if I’d show him how to knit a tube. Yup, that’s right my baby boy now has green sparkly yarn and is armed with dpns. Let’s just have a quiet moment of pure maternal pride. Ah, I bask in my own glory [...]

No, not me, I don’t eat yarn. But the Brooke’s Column of Leaves pattern does, admittedly I have about 1/2 of the scarf finished but ala Rober Frost I have “miles to go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep”. Sure I was planning on spinning more camel anyway but I was [...]

I almost forgot to post today, which would totally ruin my NaBloPoMo street cred. And I’ve been so good, even on the times I didn’t have access to the camera I managed to write something. Brooke’s Column of Leaves is a more challenging project than I originally anticipated. Although I’m used to working from written [...]

Oh you beautiful yarn. I took the last of the camel out of the shopping cart, I’ll spin more up and replace it soon but these scarves just beg for it and I cannot abide a begging scarf. I said that I might rant a little about males that knit, and that isn’t quite true, [...]

Exhibit A: The Branching Out scarf from Knitty is clearly awesome, despite being knitted by a total lace n00b. Exhibit B: I do too use that yoga mat! (Just because it’s for blocking knitting projects and not yoga should not be held against me.) I frogged the mohair sequel. Although I’m considering trying in another [...]

True it’s not quite over because I have to boil, brush and block the Branching Out scarf, but it’s finished in knitting, weaving in the ends, and being admired in it’s raw state. I have already started production on the sequel and cast on in mohair. The mohair one is likely to be destined as [...]

I’m a greedy selfish person, I love this scarf. I was thinking I’d send it to my sister as part of her Christmas swag but– I love it. When faced with this dilemma the bad voice in my head told me to keep it and knit something else for my sister. Maybe I could knit [...]