feather and fan comfort shawl

My willing assistant was thrilled to model my latest FO – can’t you tell by the pout on his face?  Ha!  I cast on for this Monday afternoon, after I emerged from a Nyquil stupor.  I wanted something simple enough to wrap my brain around, but pretty enough to show off the yarn.

I am in love [...]

third time’s a charm

I finally knit a sweater that fits!  After my last two failed attempts, I thought I’d try a different approach.  Top downs are famous for their try-as-you-go approach and I am now a convert.  I’m already planning my next sweater.
I made a couple of gauge swatches and plugged the numbers into the top down sweater [...]

No matter how bad you’ve got it

someone else always has it worse.
I rode up in the elevator, 30 minutes late to work, with an attorney from another firm.  Small talk commenced, she said it would’ve been a perfect day to call in sick (it’s gray and raining) and I said yes, particularly since I have a sore throat, but I’d been [...]

winter canoeing

We went canoeing on Saturday.  The forecast called for a high in the 70s, but it was overcast (until we got off the water, then the sun dared to show its face) and felt quite a bit cooler. 
The river is unremarkable in the wintertime.  We hoped to have a decent water level, but the prolonged [...]

yarn as a metaphor

When we were hiking the other week, I started thinking about fiber and how it relates to our lives.  How it is so similar to our lives, our very essence.

We humans are a lot like fiber.  When we’re born, we’re soft bits of fluff.  We have a lot of potential, but we’re not very strong.  We rely on [...]

Thank you Cassie!

Did you know that Cassie made it snow in Brooklyn yesterday?  Well, she did.  Naturally, I asked her to send some to me.  And look what was on my windshield this morning!

Thanks girl! 
BTW – I am fully aware that only in Alabama does this qualify as snow.  It wasn’t that long ago that I would [...]

oh and two

Thus far in 2008, I have knit two sweaters. 

Two sweaters that are too big.

Perhaps I should stick to socks.
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status post

I’m on the collar of the Drops cardigan!  Sorry for the crappy picture, there’s no good way to photograph the sweater at this point.  I’m plowing ahead despite grave doubts.  First, this sweater is big.  Really really big.  I’m hoping it won’t be as big once it’s completely seamed.  It’s meant to be more of [...]

rejuvenation

I feel like a new person today.  I always do after spending the weekend in the woods, but it’s been so long since we went backpacking that I am feeling doubly refreshed today.

Darlene told me to take lots of pictures, but the colors of wintertime are a combination of brown and gray, with an occasional shock of moss [...]

waiting room knitting

Thank you – everyone – for all your kind words!  My daughter is doing great and we’re so relieved.  She’s a quick healer, always has been – when she was little she stepped on a piece of glass at a babysitter’s house and had to have stitches in her big toe.  I could hardly look [...]