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[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 […]

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. […]

First and foremost — I feel so terrible about my Ravelry outing yesterday.  Chris’s comment about being the last picked for kickball went straight to my heart.  I didn’t mean to rub it in (if I did)… I begged Veronique for that invite ’cause she had abn extra to give away (and you know I […]

I almost had another FO for you today, but unfortunately my own procrastination got the better of me, so instead of sitting in the park and knitting today, as I would rather be spending the day, I am glued to my desk chair, finishing up some writing that is due at midnight tonight.  Whole lovely […]

Today is extraordinarily beautiful.  I went for a long walk this morning and took some photos (this is gonna be a photo-heavy post, all in the name of spring and Project Spectrum, of course!)

Pattern: My own (based on Eunny’s Endpaper Mitts, but modified a lot)
Yarn: Lorna’s Laces in “Tuscany”
Needles: Knitpicks dpns, US 0
Thoughts: Fun, quick, […]

It’s funny to post with a title like that when the sun is shining as aggressively as it is today. But Lolly asked:
Do you have a little bit of luxury in your stash that you can’t wait to work with?
Why yes, yes I do.

This is Filatura di Crossi “Luxury” 100% silk in a beautiful […]

… or rather, while I wasn’t posting — there was a lot of knitting going on.

 [Pardon the photo… I took it last night in the bathroom mirror.  Still trying to figure out how to do self-portraits with knit-wear]
Pattern: Purl Beret (thanks to Melissa for turning me on to the project)
Yarn: Collinette Jitterbug in “Tuscany” courtesy […]

Lookie what I got! When Canon said they’d send me my new camera in two business days, they weren’t kidding. It came in the mail yesterday. So now I’ve got a regular FO-fest for you guys (with more to come… one of my new FOs now resides in Kentucky, where I’ll be headed this afternoon […]

That’s right. My camera bit it this morning. I don’t know what happened, it just wouldn’t turn on. I thought the batteries might have died, so I recharged them. No go. I called Canon and they confirmed what I suspected. With no trauma and little prolongment, my camera (at the […]