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Monthly Archives: June 2011

Current projects

Friday, June 24, 2011

I’ve been doing pretty well at plowing through some projects that have been hanging around for altogether too long. It gets to the point where I just want them DONE. The time I spent doing production knitting for the fashion industry comes in handy here; I can really churn out product if I put my [...]

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Here be stripes.

Monday, June 20, 2011

I’ve recently picked up a project that I’d been neglecting, a simple striped pullover in a very plain, basic sportweight yarn (Elann Highland Sport, which doesn’t seem to exist on their site anymore). I managed to get a few more stripes on the body after taking this picture, so should be able to join the [...]

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New York day trip: Dead Horse Bay

Monday, June 13, 2011

I remember hearing about Dead Horse Bay ages ago and thinking it sounded interesting. Then this past Friday I followed a link from somewhere and ended up here, at which point I said to myself, Self, you should go there and see what that’s all about. So I did. Dead Horse Bay is out on [...]

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Finished Buttercup

Friday, June 10, 2011

Someone is not having fun with the self-timer. Someone is also wicked over-exposed so all y’all can see the details of the top. I finally finished my Buttercup. Next up in Stephanie’s Summer of Stunt Crafts: a Dread Pirate Roberts skirt to go with it.* I took this off immediately after I got a reasonably [...]

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In which I crave vegetables and then eat them

Friday, June 3, 2011

A few dishes I can recommend when you too have those days when vegetables are pretty much all you want to eat, and you want them to be exciting and filling and varied and delicious. 1. Soba Salad With Spinach, Edamame, and Miso Dressing What I changed: I doubled all of the vegetables except the [...]

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This line just slays me.

Friday, June 3, 2011

“The two fall in love the way most of us do and movie couples don’t: stroking each other while recounting family traumas.” —from here

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