Not that you can tell much from the poorly-lighted middle-of-the-night photo, but this is more or less exactly what I was going for. So, that’s a first.
What I’m trying to do here is take a handpainted sock yarn that has a (somewhat arbitrarily-decided) main color and contrast color, and force that contrast color to pop [...]
As in, I expected my timid, fragile little idea to be either a great success or a grand failure. Instead, I got something decidedly middling.
It’s kinda what I had in mind, but not quite. It always amazes me that I’ve been knitting for…what, almost nine years now?…and I still get surprised by how knitting behaves [...]
Like so many of my failed knitting projects, this one too will start out with those hopeful and terrifying words:
I have an idea.
I don’t want to say too much about it yet, because ideas are fragile and skittish things, but I think it’s clever and I’m looking forward to seeing it blossom into brilliance…or fail [...]
So, do you remember me talking about that job that I interviewed for, that sounded really, really perfect and that I really, really wanted?
After three interviews, three computer literacy tests, and a lot of fretting, I got a call this afternoon.
I got the job!
Huzzah!
I still say “do not blog about work,” but I will tell [...]
Sorry, no coherent blog post tonight. I had to go listen to some nerdy guys sing some songs.
(That would be Jonathan Coulton, flanked by Paul and Storm, in case you don’t know. And you should.)
It was a good time. I won a pack of Pop Tarts, then managed to knock over my drink into my [...]
(Because there’s nothing more interesting than hearing about other people’s dreams, right?)
This morning I dreamt that I was at a flea market (or something of that ilk) and had stumbled across a booth that was selling yarn – huge put-ups of a tweedy-looking yarn. The colors were not my favorites, but it was massive amounts [...]
I have crested the halfway point!
There it is, half a scarf, being all curly and twisty as stockinette is wont to do, even with a garter stitch border. Sigh. No, no, I’m not surprised, though I must admit that there is a part of me that hopes, every time, that this will be the time [...]
Sure, it was a flippant remark, but there’s some truth behind it, too. I’ve been knitting for about as long as I’ve been dating Bradon – maybe a little longer. In all that time (just shy of seven years at this point) I have knit six things for him, only four of which made it [...]
I ripped it. I’m not sure I would have been able to find more of the yarn, and I’m pretty certain I wouldn’t have been able to afford it even if I had. There was sighing, and perhaps a bit of teeth gnashing, but in the end it was the only thing to do.
This, of [...]
Several years ago, Bradon picked out some lovely Silk Twist from The Great Adirondack Yarn Company. He wanted a scarf.
I know it will come as a shock to you, since this never happens to me (ahem,) but this yarn has been marinating in the stash for a long time. Every once in a while I’d [...]
