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I had a great time this weekend (as you can see — that’s Julie, me, and Shawn, a.k.a. Chippy, eating in what turned out to be the worst diner ever), and although I didn’t place in the flatfoot competition in Laurel Bloomery, Julie got third and our friend John got first, so all in all, […]

Remember last week, when I said that Fries was my last fiddler’s convention until my friends’ convention in October? Well… I lied. I knew I’d be going away this weekend — Julie and I are scheduled to dance on Sunday at the Clear Creek Festival in Berea Kentucky (scroll down to the bottom […]

The title is not, in any way, to imply that I think I’ve been doing any sort of black-and-white living, not daily nor in my knitting (actually, looking back over the last years-worth of knitting, I seem to gravitate toward wildly colorful yarn. So there!). Rather… if anyone other than Chris made it through the […]

So, despite the “chronic” fatigue, I went away this weekend to the Fiddler’s Convention in Fries (pronounced like “freeze”), Virginia. It’s my last fiddler’s convention of the season, until my friends’ convention in Morehead, Kentucky in October, so I felt like I couldn’t miss it. And despite torrential downpours and getting kicked out of the […]

I’ve got a question for any and all of you who spin. I’m acquiring some fleece from friends who have shorn their sheep. I’m interested in learning how to spin, but obviously this needs to be a low cost endeavor (given the whole dissertating-student-going-to-hawaii thing). So I’ve been thinking about drop spindle […]

A gauge of how much time I spent in the doctor’s office yesterday and today trying to figure out what’s wrong with me. I cast on yesterday afternoon when I arrived at the clinic. We still don’t know what’s wrong (extreme fatigue and tightness in my chest), but I’m an afternoon’s knit away from warm […]

Pattern: Fetching, from Knitty Summer ‘06Yarn: Knitpicks Swish Superwash, in “Red Pepper”Needles: Bryspun dpns, US 5Begun: 11 August 2006Finished: 13 August 2006
Notes: Well to start, I used this project as a test for one of the new Knitpicks Yarns, Swish. When I ordered my needles the other day, I decided that I would buy a […]

I just returned from the Galax Old Fiddler’s Convention (where I did not place in the dance competition — I dance so differently from the way they do down there, and like the Sparta convention, they seem to favor their own styles). I had a great time, though the weather was freakishly cold. After the […]

Thank you all for your guesses/responses to my “sneak peek” last night. Here they are, completed:
Pattern: Really? the infamous Jaywalkers (pair number 4 for me)Yarn: Socks that Rock, in a colorway they unfortunately no longer carry - Fire on the MountainNeedles: Those same Inox dpns, US size 1/2 (they fall kinda in between)Started: […]