I’d planned to write this post last Sunday, but things have been sort of crazy so I’ve decided to lump everything together: Titled Duster – Most of my knitting energy has been devoted to the Tilted Duster this week. As I’ve written before, I was waiting to see if the fit was ok once I [...]
Archive > February 2008
Words to Knit By, Part 2
(Note to all: I’ve been cleaning out my “to post” files today….hopefully I can get more regular about getting rid of stuff that needs to be edited) I’ve been on a history kick lately, and so my podcast listening has reflected that. If you’re a history buff, these are the perfect podcasts to knit or [...]
Eggtown
Ohhhh. I was so spoiled for this (and evidently, my source for this one was point. by. point.). On one hand, I LOVED it – on the other, I was so sad to know everything. The nice thing was that there was a lot of stuff that the source missed, so it wasn’t like you [...]
The Economist
Disclaimer: I was totally, thoroughly spoiled for this episode of Lost. So spoiled in fact, I had a scene by scene breakdown of aforementioned spoilage. Even so, I totally enjoyed this episode. To wit: 1 – Sayid. In a suit. With flowing locks. That pretty much says it all. 2 – If they’d like to [...]
The Rise and Fall of the Pattern
I’ve been in training for about 3 days, so my lack of posting is more about the fact that I’ve been learning about finances than about me being in the big fiber hole of spinning. Let’s just say that me + financial math = “Math is Hard Barbie” (gone goth). At one point, someone asked [...]
Spinning Update & Sock Question
I’ve been spinning using my new wheel since Wednesday. Let’s just say its been a LOT of fun, but also a little bit frustrating. I started off trying to spin my white wool (which has since been spun) but it ended up looking like yarn barf, so I moved on to silk hankies – easy, [...]
…now *what* precludes you from buying yarn?
This! My new Ashford Kiwi. Wheeee! What makes you realize you might need a hecka lot of practice before you’re actually stopped from buying yarn — after Lent* of course? Why, its a badly spun thing of silk hankies! I bought my wheel tonight (um, at knit night while having a glass of wine), came [...]
Swatching in the Round (by a mouthbreather)
Since I’ve started reworking a hat pattern that I’ve promised at least three or four people that I’d put up on my blog (at least a year ago!), I’ve been very careful about going about my gauge, my pattern writing, etc. One of the things I realized that I do that not everyone does (at [...]
Hurl-tast-tic!
I don’t know if anyone who reads my blog watches Lost. (Besides three people I know who read my blog – I don’t know anyone besides them that do actually read my blog – and one of them is my husband (who, like your mother, doesn’t really count!) Tonight, I watched the first episode of [...]
