Monday, February 28, 2011
Thanks to my mom and one bitchin’ sale-plus-coupons trip to Macy’s, I scored both a nice food processor and cast-iron Dutch oven for my birthday. Then I promptly got food poisoning and didn’t care if I ever saw them again, since food could just go to hell as far as I was concerned. (Even online [...]
Friday, February 25, 2011
When Jenn showed me the hat she’d made for one of her friends, I think my reaction was something along the lines of, “I want to make that exact hat in that yarn in that color.” And then a few weeks later, she published the pattern as a free Ravelry download and gave me a [...]
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
I’m firmly ensconced on the couch right now, dealing with the lingering effects of food poisoning. Tea, applesauce, netflixed episodes of Bones and the easiest knitting I have going are pretty much all I can handle right now. I am really ready for this to be over.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
I haven’t taken a lot of time to go through photos from the F/W shows, and the ones I have looked at haven’t had much in the way of knitterly inspiration. A couple of things caught my eye as starting points for future designs though, which is a lot more interesting (and ethically sound) than [...]
Friday, February 18, 2011
The unfortunate thing about this sweater is that it’s a little too scratchy to wear next to the skin, but having anything more than a tank top under it makes it a little too tight through the armholes or pull strangely. Which is too bad, because I really like the way it fits and I [...]
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Last night, I had a birthday drink at one of my favorite swanky cocktail places, Clover Club. I had spent some time looking at the menu online before heading over and had one picked out (The Wanderer), but when I got there, they’d swapped out a new menu for the one on their site. I [...]
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Every year without fail, the first barely perceptible stirrings of spring make me think about sewing, to the point where sometimes I haven’t even noticed anything spring-like in the air until I feel the urge to look at fabric and patterns and trace it back to not having had to wear gloves the day before. [...]
Monday, February 14, 2011
Since this tends to be the last thing I see before going to sleep. (She’s sitting on my chest here.) It’s fine, you guys. I’m sure she’s just stealing my soul to keep it safe.
It’s a little tiresome not being able to share details of upcoming patterns while I’m working on them, but at least I can tease ‘em a little. I’d like to make this available in time for people to knit it for spring, so I’ve been knitting my wrists into hamburger meat all weekend. One nice [...]
Thursday, February 3, 2011
I did a guest post over at my friend Rose’s cocktail blog yesterday or so, in which I wax nostalgic about growing up in NYS’s apple country and share some wisdom Young Stephanie gleaned from a loony, sad old man. Also, I share the formula for my current favorite hot toddy.