Tuesday, November 30, 2010
I finally finished the collar and sleeves on my Twenty Ten cardigan this weekend. I had thought I’d end up having to buy buttons for it since there are 13 buttonholes and I knew I didn’t have nearly enough of anything in the right size. But I found a few mismatched options when I started [...]
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
This happened because one of my last CSA distributions included four pounds of Golden Delicious apples, which are pretty much my least favorite kind of apples, so they’ve been lurking in my fridge, bland and mealy, for more than a month. And because it’s fresh cranberry season and I still had a couple of bags [...]
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Kim tagged me in one of these Facebook memes that turn up every couple of months. It’s kind of an odd list (separate entries for The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe and the Chronicles of Narnia as a whole?), but it’s always fun to check myself against some random list that someone possibly at [...]
Monday, November 22, 2010
I was experimenting with the WordPress app on my phone with the last two posts and I like it pretty well (especially since I don’t have the photo-stretching issue that I often do with regular updates). It’s definitely handy, though for me it lends itself more to a quick photo update than much text (I [...]
Sunday, November 21, 2010
I just finished spinning singles from about 28 ounces of wool/silk tweed that I got at Rhinebeck last year. I’m going to do a real three-ply with them, mixing singles I spun at different points in the year in hope of getting the most consistent final product possible. There are twelve bobbins of singles and [...]
Friday, November 19, 2010
…I’m turning these antique chandelier pieces into jewelry.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Last weekend, I took advantage of the gorgeous weather/late fall light combination and took a long walk around Green-Wood. I love the dramatic shadows you get when the sun is this low in the sky. The picture below was taken right around noon. I hadn’t posted a good grave-marker-reclaimed-by-the-earth photo in a while. That bizarre [...]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
This is the sweater that I reknit when I made Herkimer. I made it out of some wool/mohair handspun last spring and was really happy with how it turned out, but when I polled some knitting friends about how people would react to a pattern made in handspun, even with a standard gauge, they all [...]
Monday, November 15, 2010
I’m delighted to announce that my first downloadable knitting pattern, Herkimer, is live on Ravelry. It’s a seamless cabled cardigan knit in Ultra Alpaca and sized from 32″ to 53 1/4″. I did the actual knitting a while ago, so I’ve really been enjoying getting to show it off. And the fact that I’m in [...]
Friday, November 12, 2010
It’s been the kind of week where a series of minor frustrations and aggravations and other people’s snits and phlegm and egos have combined to leave me a quivering mass of raw, exposed nerves. I’m sensitive and snappish and paying too much attention to what Sarah Wilson calls “the vile, judgey voice” in my head. [...]