useful knowledge

I’ve finally got my thoughts and self organized a bit, at least enough to post about last weekend’s Useful Knowledge seminar hosted by Little Barn in Huntsville, Alabama.  First off, the instructors were fabulous.  Stefania Isaacson taught a class on thrummed mittens on Friday which was interesting and I got this far on my mitten: [...]

A birthday sweater!

Yup, it’s my birthday! And I’m wearing my sweater! Believe me, you did not want to see the expression on my face!  It was even worse than this: Here are some detail shots: Button I got at SAFF.  I hadn’t planned on using this button (1 of 3 I bought), but our brand new Super WalMart, [...]

Seam me up, Scotty!

Yes, I hear the collective groan from here! Here’s an exciting shot of my sweater deep in the seaming process.  Why didn’t anyone tell me that seaming was so much work?  Good lard it’s taking me almost as long to seam this thing as it did to knit it!  Okay, not really, but still.  I’m about [...]

the two week sweater?

If anyone scrolled to the end of Monday’s post, you might remember that I mentioned knitting a sleeve over the weekend.  Well, now I have half a back… It’s the Notre Dame de Grace Pullover from the Summer IK, which some people might think is “dated” but I prefer to call “classic.”  :o)  Actually, it [...]

If I knit wool, Fall will come

This has been my mantra for the past few months.  Mother Nature finally got the message this weekend and we enjoyed cool breezes, the sound of leaves scritching across the deck and watching daredevil squirrels collect pecans from the very ends of branches.  I’d like to think of that as the sign of an impending long, cold winter, but I think [...]

The Isle of Sleeves

This is a new place for me.  Having never knit a sweater before, I’m not entirely sure, but I suspect I’ve landed on Sleeve Island.  It feels vaguely familiar – the scenery is a lot like that at Second Sock Syndrome.  I find myself doing things that are in no way related to getting off [...]

Greensleeves

I’m knitting my Rambling Rose sleeves in a race against time.  Otherwise known as knit faster so you don’t run out of yarn.  When I started this sleeve, I had eight balls of yarn left.  My goal/hope/wish/desire is that each sleeve will take no more than two balls of yarn, leaving four balls for the yoke, [...]

solitude

Until a couple of years ago, it wasn’t unusual for me to go an entire weekend without speaking face-to-face with another adult.  Unless you count the cashier at the grocery store, and I didn’t.  I hated it.  I called my friends, I called my sister, I called my mom.  I tried to fill my time, but [...]

I got the baby!

Which means I get to bring the next King Cake.  In honor of Mardi Gras, I’m resurrecting an old email I wrote after visiting New Orleans for Mardi Gras in 2001. Random Scenes From Mardi Gras A man sitting on the street corner having his wooden leg “tattooed” by a girl in a bathing suit…three mid-40s [...]

Starting off my Monday with a 16 oz. Diet Rockstar energy drink

That’s my excuse if this post is rambling.  I’m in a green phase, apparently. Exhibit A: Green is a dominant color?  Exhibit B:  Rambling Rose cardigan: Granted, I didn’t go to the store and purchase green yarn to knit this sweater, I shopped from the stash.  But it is green.  Sea foam, I think.  I’ve [...]

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