Monthly Archives: February 2008
Kitty kompanion
Dear Beatrice (also occasionally known as Beez or Miss Beatrice, or ‘snookums’, or sometimes ‘cutesy-woo’) Thanks for being such an awesome kitty and purr-iffic roomie the last six months. In a few days your regular humans will return and I … Continue reading
Filed under cats
When one fair isle project just isn’t enough.
So, yeah. I’m totally cheating on Venezia. I’ll return to you, Venezia, I’ll totally go back to you tomorrow night, I swear. It’s not my fault that ‘Glowing’ goes so fast on larger needles and is so bright it makes … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
Knitting is my therapy
It’s only Monday and I’m already having one of those weeks where I want to hide under the covers and whimper and hope some source of stress magically goes away while I’m under there. (Stupid thesis revisions that I stupid … Continue reading
I have questions
Does anyone have answers? 1. If you had 2 packages of cream cheese in your fridge, what would you make with them? (Besides cream cheese icing. My brain needs new suggestions.) [EDIT]: And would your suggestion change if whipping cream … Continue reading
Filed under random, real life miscellaney
Memememe
Lisa was ever so kind to tag me on a ‘Seven Things About You’ Meme, and by the laws of the internet, I must obey! However, I am breaking the rule about tagging specific people. Consider yourself tagged! Hah! Yes, … Continue reading
Weekend Report
The best weekends are when knitting friends come to visit. Rebecca (who generously hosted me for Rhinebeck last October) had to come up to Toronto last week for work, and then stuck around a couple of extra days to hang … Continue reading
Filed under knitting in public, knitting tourism, socks, venezia, yarn stores
Yarn is My Valentine
Happy Valentine’s Day! (Or, Happy Singleton Awareness Day, as one of my friends likes to say… ) Beatrice would like to register that, if at all possible, Valentine’s Day is best celebrated with a nap, a bath, and a nice … Continue reading
More, please
Korknisse notwithstanding, I had about 2 weeks of project monotony in the end of January and beginning of February. It was good for me, because I produced these: They might look like regular (albeit pretty) socks, but no. They are … Continue reading
Filed under fearless knitting, finished object: socks, free pattern, knee socks, socks
From the homefront
Through the aid of some anti-Trojan downlods (VundoFix and ComboFix, as it happens – my AdAware and SpyBot were darned useless), I have managed to negotiate a peace treaty with the computer viruses and have been virus-message free for a … Continue reading
Filed under knitting addiction, korknisse
What karma again?
Maybe the universe was trying to tell me something yesterday when I almost abandoned my laptop for good. Today the minor virus problems I was having lately have somehow exploded into a huge Trojan fiasco the likes of which my … Continue reading
Filed under real life miscellaney
