Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I’d like to follow Venezia’s lead and have a bubble bath too, but I’m just too zonked. (Lemme tell you about seaming up the neckline while on a bus from Toronto back to Hamilton. Hoo boy.)
A bit of blocking and some underarm seaming and she’ll be good to go.
Now I just need to put in [...]
Posted in fair isle, stash, sweaters, venezia, weather on March 29, 2008 | 18 Comments »
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the crazy 4.75 years I’ve been working on this stinking miserable anxiety-inducing PhD, it’s that knitting has helped me out a lot. It gives me a sense of accomplishment at times when almost nothing else seems to, and that’s sure as heck worth something.
And then there are some [...]
Posted in fearless knitting, knitting in public, knitting tourism on March 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
So yo, my knitting peeps, have I mentioned how ultimately bummed I am that I can’t go to the April 1st launch of the new Yarn Harlot book and get to congregate with more fun knitters? I mean, even with all books and Harlot aside, the Toronto launch last year was so fun and I [...]
Posted in real life miscellaney on March 25, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I missed saying both ‘Happy Easter’ and ‘Happy Spring’ (HAH! Hilarious. They say it’s spring. Apparently the outside temperature hasn’t gotten the memo), so my vicarious cupcake is belated:
Basic white cake recipe, vanilla buttercream, with shredded coconut and jelly beans to look like a nest on top. Good for diabetic comas.
In other news…well, finishing [...]
Posted in real life miscellaney, venezia on March 18, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I’m afraid there’s not much knitting news to be had ’round these parts this week…I’ve got these stupid revisions that need finishing and need finishing right about now-ish, a couple more lectures to write, two blog book reviews to get on top of, not to mention the sudden experience of waking up this morning with [...]
Posted in venezia, tagged venezia on March 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Just a heads up for anyone who’s planning a Venezia in their future using Knit Picks Palette yarn – Mystery alerted me on Ravelry that two of the colours I’m using here (Tan and Twig, both in the very pale brown area and highly covetable for a variety of Venezia colour schemes), are now on [...]
Posted in 12 of 12, tagged 12 of 12 on March 14, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I participated in the 12 of 12 three times at the end of last year and then have neglected it the past couple of months – but this time I remembered! I just didn’t manage to get the post up sooner than this morning. These kind of posts always take me longer than I expect.
This [...]
We have them.
Steekage has begun.
I was feeling all confident yesterday thinking that “hey, I’m at the armholes now, the v-neck steek is set, I can just do gradual decreases now and every row will go faster, this will be a piece of cake to be done by April 2.” And then another voice reminded me, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2008 | 21 Comments »
Dear random knitting blog (if that is in fact what you are)
I’d really REALLY appreciate it if you would stop re-posting my own blog posts on your site. Somehow it does not surprise me that your domain has been suspended.
No love,
Me.
EDIT: BAH. The site is still up, it’s just that hotlinks to it are [...]
Posted in fair isle, tagged fair isle, knitting tourism, sweaters, venezia on March 7, 2008 | 21 Comments »
When I blithely decided earlier this week to have all 3 of my Works In Progress be sweaters and thus to cast on for the Urban Aran, clearly I was either being very well prepared for the weather, or daring the fates to openly mock me. Either way, around these parts we are going to [...]
