Posted in finished object: sweater, poppy on April 30, 2007 | 14 Comments »
And on the occasion of my 100th post, how else to celebrate but with a Finished Object?
Inexplicably, I am suddenly fretful, now that I’ve finished. (My sister keeps telling me “it’s FINE. Shut UP.”) Should i not have added length? Is it too big? Are the colours all wrong for me? Did I make too [...]
Posted in poppy on April 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
…for Poppy:
My grand total knitting progress for the last two nights has consisted of seaming the body (transforming the long black rectangle into a tube), picking up stitches for the shoulders, and beginning the back section. It’s so close and yet so far…I was all nice and rested after my trip and then yesterday and [...]
Posted in knitting tourism, stash, yarn stores on April 23, 2007 | 10 Comments »
I wish I’d started this whole LYS-as-tourism thing sooner, it would have helped me out this time last year when I was in Chicago! All told, though, I feel that searching for yarn stores got me out to different parts of San Francisco and is a perfectly bonafide method of reading a map.
My first foray [...]
Posted in knitting tourism on April 21, 2007 | 6 Comments »
San Francisco beautiful STOP
Saw 4 yarn stores STOP
May have bought one skein but only one STOP
Saw wineries STOP
Gorgeous trip STOP
Now ready to come home STOP
Send bubblebaths and chocolate STOP
Full report upon return STOP
Oh but wait one more thing
STOP
Posted in poppy on April 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I’m sure eventually I’ll join the ranks of people complaining about what a cold spring we’ve been having so far, but at the moment I’m doin’ just fine. Summers in southern Ontario can border on sauna-like, and I’m in no hurry to experience that. Besides, it lengthens my sweater-wearing time.
After several days off [...]
Posted in stash on April 13, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Thank you so much for the elbow sympathies! (Rebecca, when you had this problem, were you able to knit while it healed? How much time off did you take?)
Yeah, the whole thing about not knitting is that it’s not nearly as fun as actually knitting. But on the other hand, it does give me more [...]
Posted in injury on April 11, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Tennis elbow. Although apparently few people actually get this from tennis, so calling it ‘knitter’s elbow’ would seem just as appropriate.
I caved and saw a doctor this afternoon (after waiting an hour after my appointment time, awesome) who diagnosed me after a few questions and much poking and prodding of the elbow (ow, ow, yes [...]
Posted in injury, knitting addiction on April 11, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Le sigh. The left arm is doing better than it was, but it ain’t back to normal. I may have to take another few days off knitting entirely, once again, and it just makes me want to weep since I have soooooo many projects that I want to cast on for, many of them socks [...]
Posted in stash, sweaters on April 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Presenting my friend D, who just finished a fantabulous all-in-one-piece garter stitch sweater (with attached i-cord trim, yum), in Naturally Vero (I think it is a Fiber Trends pattern?):
She wore it this weekend on our White Easter, and said that even though she was ready to throw it out the window of a moving car [...]
Posted in chocolate, poppy on April 7, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Did you know that Hershey has a Special Dark flavour of Hershey’s Kisses? And that they have 3g of dietary fibre per serving? I did not know this. I think I am going to have to go looking for some Hershey’s Kisses. (I am still mourning the fact that the Cherry Cordial ones were only [...]
