Entries from December 2007

December 31, 2007

Happy Holidays!

Back again from the Grand Holiday Tour, and hoping everyone had as happy holidays as I! Apart from being internet-free for the better part of a week (and none too active before that) many things have been happening!
I survived my pre-holiday bake-a-thon, including Icing Night (a new tradition of mine), and all [...]

December 12, 2007

Drumroll please…

What was I doing here?….
Oh, that’s right — my contest!
(I really hadn’t forgotten about it. Really! I’m just caught in the throes of pre-holiday work and cookie-baking insanity.)
Huh? What was that? Oh, right! Contest.
…Drumroll please…
And the winners are: Lady O and Deb!!!
Congratulations you two! I’ll be [...]

December 7, 2007

Mitten Maddness

It all started with the Bird in the Hand Mittens. I know, they’re popping up everywhere. They’re this season’s Anemoi mittens. Uber-popular. Must-Have Mittens.
Yes, I love this pattern too. Unfortunately my “e-money” budget this holiday season doesn’t allow for impulse purchases of trendy patterns, even when I do need to [...]

December 5, 2007

Knitty: Winter 2007

Have you seen it yet?
Well, go on! (I’ll wait for you.)
Pretty awesome, eh? This is the issue full of patterns that I look at and think, “My gods! Why didn’t I think about that? Of course you can do this with that!” Like the slipped-stitch cables in these Slippery socks, [...]

December 4, 2007

Just My Week

This is just my week.
I’m overtired, working overtime, and still have a very long work-week ahead of me…
I have in no way finished knitting, shopping, or baking for the holidays…
It is cold and icy and snowy and I am wearing impractical boots…
And yet…
I have fibery gifties in the mail for me, which will arrive like [...]

December 1, 2007

Crafts and Cocoa

EDIT: This post has been stolen by some sort of horrible blog-bot and appears in full at “sewing.unix-fu.org/sewing-talk” THIS IS NOT ME, and I am really upset that my words and photos have been stolen whole-hog. Anyone know how to make this stop?
Dru’s off on a Boy’s Day Out (read: all-day video game-a-thon), [...]