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Still working my way through FOs. I know this can get a little old, and when I get back from touring with D, I’ll have some progress shots of what I’m actually working on. In the meantime…

Patterns: Razor Shell Neckwarmer (on Rav)
Yarn: Blue Sky Alpaca, Alpaca-Silk (2 skeins, held doubled)
Needles: US 7, 4.5 […]

I met my best friend Julie while I was living in the mountains. The first time I was introduced to her, I thought she was too cool for school. She has loooong red-auburn hair, and she wears shit-kicker cowboy boots pretty much every day (you can thank her for my final conversion to […]

 
A sign of things to come…

Happy [belated] New Year to you all.
It’s strange, I’ve been thinking so much about posting lately — constructing posts in my head during the brisk hour-long walk home from school, while in the shower, while making dinner — that I forget I haven’t actually posted them. It’s a shame; I’ve had a lot to […]

One of my bestest friends is getting married this spring and I offered to knit her a wedding shawl.  I’m in search of a pattern.
I’ve dug around a little on ravelry, but thought I would get some personal recommendations as well.  I’m looking for something lacy (and meant for a lace or fingering weight yarn […]

Sorry for the long absence.  There have been days of laziness, days of crankiness, and two days in a row where I wrote long posts that the computer subsequently ate.  I will not rewrite those posts today.  I’ll consider them stories for another time.
In the meanwhile, say good bye to this:

Remember T-SALP, which has been […]

Because too much confidence in my mojo leads to things like this:

Over one year and much agonizing later, all my worst nightmares have come true.  Orangina is too big.  Unmanageably, unfixably too big.  I can’t even look at it.  Right now, she is neatly folded and stashed in a box as far up in my […]

When I was in highschool, I was in a modern dance company.  The director of the company was this wonderful woman — very calm, very patient, wonderful choreographer.  When we were rehearsing and working up pieces, she would break each dance into sections and we would run through them one at a time.  When she […]

Remember this?

Sometimes, five inches of ribbing can take a long time.  This is my UFO-in-progress for May.  Deep in my gut, I’m convinced it’s too big.  In fact, this is partially why the project has laid dormant in the bottom of my knitting bag for ten months.  But a year is long enough for an […]

As if the nasty weather weren’t enough, I’ve been floored by a particularly aggressive cold.  I haven’t even felt much like knitting, although I cast on and knit a few inches of my mom’s new fingerless gloves (good lord, this particular shade of lorna’s is beautiful!  You would never have known it from the skein, […]