As some of you know, I’ve had some woes with the Titled Duster from this fall’s Interweave – I gauge swatched it, washed my gauge swatch, and yet when I made the darn thing, the body was way. too. big. I restarted it, got done with the body pieces pretty fast, and then started to [...]
Archive > January 2008
Pattern Woes
Has anyone tried the calyx handtote from the new Knitscene – I can’t seem to figure out the darn handle and its driving me crazy. I’d really like to make this guy, but at this point the project is a nonstarter thanks to the confusing instructions. Am I stupid or is something missing from the [...]
TamTastic!
Every once in a while – typically in wintertime – I get the bug to try stranded knitting. For those of you who aren’t knitters, stranded knitting is a little bit like learning a Romance language when all you’ve had exposure to is a Germanic language. Instead of one piece of yarn, you hold two [...]
It's like sticking your hands in a vat of cashmere.
After working on them for what seemed like weeks, I finished my gloves using this fabulous cashmere (which I got at Personal Threads, but can’t for the life of me remember what brand it is). I was originally going to use the pattern that came with the kit, but then I lost it. After the [...]
Words to Knit By, Part 1
I frequently find myself knitting to audiobooks, podcasts and other audio based works, so I’ve decided to start a monthly (ish) collumn called “Words to Knit By,” which focus on the works that I most like knitting to. These works inspire me, excite me, and sometimes (!) make me knit faster (or at least more [...]
First Day
It was my first day at work today (official day, I had two “meet everyone” days before the holidays). It was fun! Lots of work, but I enjoyed it. Now, based on my last job (the one I had for five weeks) I’m being relatively cautious about my thoughts, but I did enjoy it. Tasks [...]
Trios Couleurs: Music
I’m getting ready to start a new job tomorrow (I’m going to bed soon, promise). But before I did, I made a few cds for going to work and coming home, and wanted to download a little bit of classical for my ipod, because you can’t do computer music where I’m working, and I don’t [...]
Welcome, to the world of tomorrow
As I mentioned in “Is there a human doctor around?”, I got Bender’s Big Score for Christmas (though, when I wrote that post we were getting it through Netflix). Overall, its pretty good. I had kind of hoped that the main “villains” would have somehow tied into the series – like, I don’t know, Lrr, [...]
Do you really think people want to see pictures of us?
Probably not, but who cares? Recently, my dad gave me some pictures of the Omaha reception that I realized I hadn’t shared with anyone. And I have to because for one short day in my life, I had 1940s hair, and so I want to share it with my friends. This was at the beginning [...]
Glove-orama
A girl in my knitting group made some gloves and mentioned she wished she’d known how fun they were to make BEFORE she started her Christmas knitting. Me too! While the Broad Street were a pain in the tush, I just started these guys last night – the pattern is the simple glove pattern from [...]
