Archives for February 2005
packages!
I just received three packages, two containing knitting things. They’ll be much more exciting once I post pictures, but I just couldn’t wait to post about them….
1. A foofbag for my new computer.
2. A bag of Knitpicks yarn.
3. A box from my Secret Pal, who handspun and handdyed yarn and made [...]
Erte, here I come!
So… my next project was going to be newsie #2, right? That was true until this morning, when I learned that Marnie’s cloche pattern was available and bought it. It’s a wool hat with a brim – another good rain hat candidate. So after a not-so-great day at work, I decided I [...]
news update
My newsboy hat was a big success in its brief moments in the snow over the weekend. (And my little Subaru was a big success in its not-at-all-brief moments in the snow over the weekend.) Today when I left the office for my car (which I have to park a fair distance away [...]
newsie news
I pulled out my mostly finished cabled newsboy hat, thanks to Miri as well as this latest storm. (I’ve been wearing my Hermione hat a lot as protection from the rain, and realized it would be nice to have a wool hat with a brim – and this fit the bill!) It turns [...]
shiny!
I just upgraded to WordPress 1.5, and I *think* everything is working ok (except for this big messy jumble of letters at the top of my WordPress screen, but I’m the only one who has to see that). If you notice that something is off, please let me know!
I feel like it’s been ages [...]
Noro consolation
I almost went to Stitches West. I was in the Bay Area and had convinced a friend to go… but then I realized that the few hour window we had on Saturday afternoon before I had to catch my flight home probably wasn’t enough time (or the right time) to have my first Stitches [...]