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1. Thank you all for your needle suggestions. I fear the Knitpicks needles… I’ve heard such mixed things about them. I’m going home for a visit tomorrow (my grandmother will be in town — she’s 90. I like to see her when a get a chance). I think I’ll pop into […]

Feeling inspired, I sat down to do some work on T-SALP. I’ve been using addi naturas, US 2 with a silk lace yarn. Tonight I almost threw the whole thing down in frustration because it took me 20 minutes (TWENTY!) to pull the yarn-over row over both joins (from cord to metal and […]

Another birthday come and gone… I spent the day in Lexington, Kentucky eating good food, shopping at Wild Oates (what does it say about me that I was just so excited to go grocery shopping on my birthday? But I got organic meat! And Annie’s Mac and Cheese! And Braggs!), browsing in a book store, […]

I’m also crazy. Today, which might be one of the hottest days I’ve experienced here in the mountains (and in my house… I think my AC is broken!), I did a crazy thing. I knit a winter hat. I think I’ve been feeling a little over-socked recently, and wanted a project I could finish […]

I’ve never been much of a shoe person. Don’t get me wrong, I like shoes. But I’m not easily swayed by style or what I see in the stores. I usually envision a pair of shoes that I want — a particular style or idea — and then spend months shopping until I find […]

… that make me happy today:
Second prize in the flatfoot competition at the Tazewell Fiddler’s Convention (Julie, my “teacher” got first!)
Beautiful Ebony Lantern Moon needles, which I ordered months ago, before the moratorium on all purchases having to do with yarn. They were backordered and just got here today — good timing. I needed a […]

Guess what I found? My battery charger!
Pattern: Jaywalkers, of course — though I call these the “Batman socks”Yarn: Knit Picks Sock Garden in “Pansy”Needles: Metal dpns, size 1Begun: (this is embarassing…) 7 February 2006Completed: 10 July 2006Thoughts: These took me long enough! But… I’m really happy with them. For some reason, the pooling in […]

I still can’t find the damn charger for my camera. This is very annoying. I have pretty FOs to show you!
Tonight was the second week some friends of mine and I have gotten together to have a little impromptu knitting circle. More specifically, for the second night, I have tried to teach two […]

I swear. I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. There’s just been a lot going on. Some of it is work-related, which is only moderately interesting to post about (it’s not been festival or star-sighting related work, otherwise I would). Some of it has been personal, which means I won’t really post about […]

I’m having a bad knitting week. Bad. Last night, plugging away on a pair of socks, I realized that ten rows back, I had flipped the lace pattern and done a repeat backwards (don’t ask). So now I have to rip it back (size 0 needles!) and reknit.
A few days before, I […]