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Oh, it’s early. But Oh, I’m off to Memphis today. There are no words for the excitement that bubbles deep down inside me. My best friend from grad school is doing her fieldwork in Memphis (where she grew up) and I’m off to spend a few days living her field experience (she spent almost two […]

Finishing, finishing, finishing…
Pattern: Elfine SocksYarn: Knitpicks Sock Garden in “Zinnia”Needles: ? metal 40″ circulars, US 2Started: 24 January 2006Finished: 18 February 2006
Notes: Not much to say… I am completely sold on the benefits of knitting two socks at once… I also really like knitting toe- up. I’m still not sure about the garter stitch at […]

my friend (amazing as he is) managed to find a picture of the scene in which lolita is wearing this sweater. It’s kinda hard to tell, but you get the basic idea (sort of)…
It’s still not easy to tell how it’s really constructed. I’ve been playing the scene over and over in slow-mo to […]

The square dance was fun — not the wild dancing extravaganza I had planned, but fun nonetheless. This square dance was a benefit for the Pick and Bow program at Appalshop, an afterschool traditional music program for kids. So there were A LOT of kids there. The calling was less dance and more dance-related games […]

Much to report on, but in the meantime, look what I finished while snowed up at home:
This picture is hopelessly dark, but I just couldn’t wait until tomorrow. More pictures (and info) to come tomorrow, as well as more info on the Valentines Square Dance and the (absolutely amazing) pie that I bid on and […]

i have, inside me somewhere, a long and sensitive post about why i started knitting. it’s important to me to write this, because i don’t talk about it much, and the act of knitting is something that carries great meaning and connection. but… now is not that time. i’ve not been knitting in the last […]

i had so much to say today, but waited until it is so late i’m falling asleep over my keyboard. no photos to speak of today, but tons of progress. while watching supersize me (i may never eat food again — any kind of food!) and running back and forth from couch to window to […]

It’s been a while… But I didn’t want to post with out significant progress, so I worked hard and made some significant progress (it didn’t help that I couldn’t find the battery charger for my camera).
I finally made it, with some difficulty and ripping out, up and over the heel of the elfines, and I […]

The best place to take pictures chez jennie is on one of my two porches. The weathered wood backdrop really offsets the colors of the knit and it’s really the only place I get good light. So today, I bundled up against the wind and cold and dragged my knitting onto the porch to examine […]

i’m in love… with Knitpicks Andean Silk, that is. I got the yarn for melissa’s hourglass sweater in the mail today. I’ll admit - at first, I was really disappointed. The yarn on the skein had the stickiness of acrylic and I wanted to cry. But when I knit up my gauge swatch, the yarn […]