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I’m still alive, I promise. Just spending the week at banjo camp. I’ve been getting home so late, and I have blisters the size of texas on the major typing fingers of my left hand. owie. Not condusive to blogging. But, there will be knitting updates. Just let me recover first…

FO’s of a different sort. Look what I did today:

The red is strawberry jam. The yellow is peach mango (with hint of lime — ran out of lemon juice).The real test will be tomorrow, once they’ve set.

At long last, the results of the mini-contest.
As I said earlier, part of my motivation for the mini-contest was selfish — I was curious to know how many, if any, people could identify Jean Ritchie by sight (yes, it was Jean Ritchie). This was not a very scientific process. Clearly, people who didn’t know didn’t […]

Pattern: My own (loosely based on the Conwy socks from Knitting on the Road)Yarn: Knit Picks Memories in “Yukon”Needles: metal dpns US 1Begun: March 20th (ish)Finished: June 19, 2006 (with a loooooong break in the middle!)
Thoughts: Well, if you remember back in March, when I finished sock 1, I was feeling frustrated with variegated yarn. […]

So tired, off to bed to read. But first…
For fun, and for my own self-indulgent reasons, I’m having a little no-occasion contest. I’ll send a prize to one person (drawn at random) who posts or e-mails to tell me what famous musician I giddily met last night. I am pictured with her (and her […]

Not in much of a mood to post. I’ve had an emotionally draining few days, and today just kicked my ass. But I thought you would all appreciate some steel-window pics, to back up yesterday’s post. And if not, at least my parents now know what I’ve been up to. Doesn’t the light look beautiful?
This […]

[before I get started, I’d like to mention that ‘miscellany’ is one of my favorite words. Really. Along with ‘marginalia’ — both for its meaning and for the way something so innocent can sound so dirty — and chaos. I have recently added, by suggestion, eleemosynary to this list. Now that’s a kick-ass word. […]

Back again, after what feels like a long absence. I started a post yesterday, but it was high energy and cranky and I’m still working on it. In the meantime…
I had a terrific, if exhausting time, and the Seedtime festival. Lots of good music, lots of good fun, and a watermelon eating/seedspitting/and hollering contest (I […]

It’s late. I need to get up early and have a BIG weekend ahead (for those of you in the SW Virginia/East Kentucky area — come to Seedtime on the Cumberland this weekend!), but I felt the need to post these insanely dark and senseless photos. A teaser of what is to come…

New England […]

Guess who’s gonna be sunning herself (and reading a paper about coal mining and music revivalism in Central Appalchia) in sunny, beautiful Honolulu in November? Oh yeah.
[And for those of you who don’t get the title, check out this John Prine song. The infamous Jellybean introduced me to it and I’ve had it going through […]