Archives for December 2005
finished gifts
Yesterday afternoon, my hands got a nice long break while playing mah jong with my family (one of the conveniences of having a family of four). Afterwards, I bound off my grandpa’s scarf!
Pictured with two of the other three gifts I finished here, Stuporhero hats – my standard men’s cable and ribbing hat on [...]
lessons
Lessons learned in Chelan, Washington.
1a. It’s cold here. (Today was the first day in a month that temperatures were above freezing.)
1b. Living in Los Angeles for five years has really impacted my tolerance for cold.
2a. It’s hard to teach someone who can’t read patterns (and doesn’t use the terms knit and [...]
belated thanks
A belated thank you post to my Secret Pal 6 for the last two! packages she sent. Here are all the goodies:
A skein of Trekking XXL (a sock yarn new to my growing sock stash!), two skeins of Feza Kid Mohair in an elegant silver/grey/black colorway, three cute stitchmarkers she made, an Etch A [...]
bag sale: part 2
As promised, I have pictures and details of the Yarn Lady haul. First, all the bags plus the one bagless (and non-sale) purchase:
And a little closer – one each of the four full bags. In the back are two colors of Baruffa Maratona (merino), and in the front are Baruffa 7 Settembre (superwash [...]
bag sale: part 1
The Yarn Lady’s big bag sale was on Saturday, and Sara, Jen, and I all headed down together and arrived shortly before the sale’s official start time of 8:00. I didn’t get any pictures that captured the full extent of the yarn available, but here’s one stretch:
and here’s a closer look at a section [...]
sad pairs
I don’t get very personal in this blog, despite the fact that some of my favorite knitting blogs are ones that are very personal. But for this post, that’s going to change (at least a little).
I’ve recently experienced some sad pairs of events, with such close timing and strong ties of similarity that it’s [...]