Twinknit

I did it!  And I’m only a little embarrassed to admit a) how long it took me to figure out and accomplish a simple crochet chain (and the sweater is only 10 inches long!) and b) how proud of myself I was when I finished (I may have done a little dance.  Maybe).
And you know […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about tradition lately (yep, this is the point when my dissertation and the knitting start to bleed together) — what makes something a tradition, the ways in which we practice traditional arts, and why we continue them when there are other (newer?) things we could be doing. Part of […]

… I seem to have dropped off the face of you!
I’ve been struggling with technology  lately.  I don’t know if it is because I spend a lot of time in front of the computer for “work,” or because I’ve been at conferences and having meetings and travelling and generally experiencing life, but — for some […]

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 […]

For all of us, there are times when we experience exponential growth — when we sleep in our own rooms for the first time as kids; when we learn to drive and have sudden freedom; leaving for college and gaining independence; first apartments, first jobs, first loves, first heartbreaks, marriages, kids, you get the point. […]

It’s not that I haven’t been knitting, or even having some FOs. It’s just that I’m not excited about the quality of my knitting. My mojo? It’s gone. For example, my Koigu Monkey socks. Gauge off, recently frogged. Or these:
Fingerless gloves for a friend. I ran out of […]