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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 […]

[Warning:  this post has very little to do with knitting.  In my post-orangina daze, I’m taking a break.  Not sure where to go next.  Feel free to skip along if you don’t want to hear about computers.  or beer.  or my dissertation.]

What a beautiful memorial day weekend!  In the past, I’ve spent memorial day weekend […]

I haven’t really had coffee yet this morning, so here are some random thoughts (and some really bad pictures… sorry about that!).

1. Today is a winter day as only Philly can do it — it’s both raining and sleeting.  Yum.  I forgot about the black-grey rainy grossness that is  Philadelphia in the winter.  And I […]

A few weeks ago, I kind of unwittingly entered a contest over at Through the Loops.  Lo and behold, while in Pittsburgh I checked my e-mail to find that I had won!  This is my first contest win and it definitely came at a good time, because yesterday I went into the department for the […]

What craziness! I always forget how much I hate moving until I’m in the middle of it, at which point I swear I’ll never move again. I think my dad made some kind of joke about childbirth when I told him that… In anycase, I packed up all of my stuff:

…and hauled it […]

Wow. That’s all I can say to the incredible response to my last post. Thank you all for your suggestions and advice. I decided to plug along and see if I liked the colors any better and if the southwestern feel of the mitten started to grow on me. And, well, it has. I’m still […]

Sometimes, there’s so much to say I don’t want to say anything at all. That pretty much sums up the month of January — posting irratically, going weeks without saying anything at all, not mentioning important things, missing anniversaries (my blogiversary was the 24th). But it’s a new month, and I’m tired of putting off […]