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

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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

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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

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Filed under baking, venezia

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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