Monthly Archives: January 2010
Awesome.
I am pleased to announce that thanks to your energetic response to my call a couple of weeks ago, I will be sending a big fat donation to Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres, in the amount of… $1,006. … Continue reading
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Gadgety
While the internet is all a-flutter over the iPad this week (which, seriously, Apple? The iPad? Hire a few women and see if your naming skills improve, there), I am just as a-flutter over a new gadget which cost me … Continue reading
Filed under coveting, knitting addiction
As if they could keep the knitters inside anyway
I am having one of those weeks where even though it doesn’t seem like I am doing anything terribly hectic, the knitting is slow to progress. I put in some knitting time every day, but still, it’s one of those … Continue reading
Filed under knitting in public, socks
Such a charade
So, a while back (well, OK, December), I got a lovely and generous gift from Tanis. She’s started to break out into variegated colourways and asked me if I’d like to try out one of these new sock skeins. I … Continue reading
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Knitting Detritus
A while back – I mean, four or five years ago – I remember reading about how if you save all of your yarn labels you could do super fun things with them like collages or decoupaged dress forms or … Continue reading
Filed under stash
More or Less
Thanks to you fine folks, it looks as though I am going to be sending well over $350 to the even finer folks at Doctors Without Borders. Just as a reminder, 100% of cash from my pattern sales from now … Continue reading
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I can do more than that
I made a moderately sized individual donation yesterday to Doctors Without Borders (in addition to the Knitters Without Borders trend, I’ve been a fan of them pretty much ever since James Orbinski came to speak at my undergraduate University convocation. … Continue reading
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The last of the knits
(At least, the last knit from 2009, that is. Heh.) Over the holidays I was staying at the House of the Kitty Cats (a short walk away from the homestead), along with my aunt who was visiting as well as … Continue reading
Filed under finished object: accessories
Now to find a place to wear it
As it turns out, I finished my Tibetan Dreams stole at the end of December, one of the last finished objects of 2009. And then I realized that a lace stole is probably the least optimal knitted object to finish … Continue reading
Filed under beads, fearless knitting, finished object: shawl, lace
Just get back up
If you’re not at all interested in slightly obnoxious yet still awesome earworms last year’s pop music hits, I won’t be offended if you keep on walking and come back tomorrow. This is one of those YouTube selections that I’ve … Continue reading
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