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Thank you all for your feedback on my dream. Slowly I’m making sketches, thinking about what I ’saw’ and what I can make from it. When it takes more shape, I’ll let you know.
In the meantime, I’m pushing along, trying to finish canal du midi #2 before the end of the month. Do you […]

or a long and [perhaps too] personal post in which jennie misses she who is gone and thinks of ways to knit her back
My best friend in high school died suddenly and unexpectedly about six weeks before graduation. It was my first experience with death and for months afterward I grappled with an extreme of […]

As expected, I finished the first Canal du Midi sock last night, with about a quarter’s worth of yarn left.
Some thoughts:
1. For the last time, Jennie, SWATCH YOUR SOCKS!!! This is the second time in practically as many days I have made a pair of socks that I realized mid-knit were too big. So I […]

Oooh! I got tagged, I got tagged! Leah tagged me for my first meme (and if she thought she was the last person to do this… well, she was wrong). Little Jennie’s all grown up.
I think everyone in the world has done this meme, but if you haven’t, consider yourself “it”.
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I’m a selfish person. Ask my parents. I like to do things for me and I like to get my way. My friends in college used to joke that I thought I was the center of the universe (I’m not quite that selfish) and once, in the lobby of a hotel, my […]

Four things made me very happy this morning. They are:
1. Sun. The sun is shining for the second day in a row, and although it is still pretty cold out, there is the hint of spring in the air.
2. Coffee.
Coffee always makes me happy (what does it say about me that sometimes, when I […]

So I finished my first Yukon sock. It became a good technique-learning sock and I’m really pleased with the results (except that it’s a little large…)
I was really careful in the construction of this sock and I think it is the first sock I’ve ever made where there are no mistakes (did I just jinx […]

Hmmm… did someone say it was supposed to be spring? Because Appalachia clearly didn’t get the message.
At least I got a chance to enjoy the outdoors this weekend, before the snow came in. I went hiking on Saturday with some folks from Appalshop and some folks visiting from NYU/Tisch out to a waterfall (the […]

So i finished that abstract last night, an hour before the deadline, and honestly i think i feel pretty good about it. i don’t expect it to be accepted — when you write about appalachian music and coal mining, it’s hard to feel good about getting accepted to a conference taking place in hawaii […]

I ask you, how long should it take to write 250 words? Half and hour? An hour? 250 words is not much. It’s one paragraph, half a page, maybe. It has taken me days, and still I have nothing to show for it. Hours of staring at my computer, thinking while driving, while showering, while […]