Archives for February 2008
My Lady
When I made my Shetland Triangle Shawl, I was planning to let it replace starting Lady Eleanor in my February goals. But then I wore the shawl at work a couple of days, which led me to wish I had a warmer wrap to wear in my particularly cold office. Last Saturday night [...]
Shetland Triangle Shawl
Despite beautiful weather in Seattle, I didn’t manage to take a picture of the shawl in natural light. Instead, you get a shot at LAX at the start of our journey:
And a quick shot of me on the dance floor:
Soon after, the shawl became too warm for my shoulders and was moved down to [...]
Wine
This week I received my very first wine club shipment, which had an amusing UPS label:
Helping to cover my personal information is my big project of the week — a Shetland Triangle Shawl using Dream in Color Smooshy (In Vino Veritas). On Monday I decided to postpone the Lady Eleanor I was planning to [...]
Chinese New Year
I have yet to master the mirror self-portrait (I tend to tend to make strange faces), but here’s a quick shot of my finished Simple Knitted Bodice (aka Chinese New Year Sweater).
Happy New Year!
Late Poem
I can’t believe I missed the Third Annual Bloggers (Silent) Poetry Reading! But because of the delay, you get a brand new impromptu one:
orange
the sun explodes
in the rear view window
just as i exit the
slow fast slow fast slow fast
freeway
a small zin
starts the meal
dancing on the palate
amidst linguistic words
in the chilling wind
shortened noodles
soak up unanticipated [...]
Larry
Early Christmas morning a little over three years ago, my friend Larry passed away. We weren’t friends in the typical sense — he was someone I saw only once a year at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and only exchanged an occasional email (or small stack of CDs) with, not someone I knew very [...]