Between pregnancy sleepies, work stress, vacation not-stress-but-busy.ness, I’m way behind on blogging! Here are the SP12 QotWs, but I *promise* I’ll post again soon with something knitting or my exciting baby news!
QotW#3:
What would you consider the perfect amount of stash?
The “perfect” amount of stash would be small enough that it fits into [...]
As a kid, what did you look forward to most about summer vacation/break/holiday?
This is a tough one — I don’t know what was my “favourite” part of summer vacation. I think I just loved that I’d get to spend even more time playing outdoors. I have many memories of lemonade stands with my [...]
Question of the Week: What is your favorite summertime drink??
Iced Chai! (tea, milk, sugar/honey, and ice… mmm)
In general, I’m a big fan of iced teas in summer (must be my Virginian heritage coming through!). And while “sangria” would also be high up on the list, this summer it’s off-limits for me; so, [...]
Whatever is a knitter to do when she cannot find the energy to knit? Why, buy yarn for the future, of course! (A positive attitude always helps, right?)
This Indigo Moon sock yarn in “Aubergine” was the one and only in the basket, and just cried out to me to someday be knit into [...]
I am so tired of being tired.
Most evenings I come home from work and am like some sort of zombie, shambling around between napping and complaining that I don’t want to eat/go out/go to bed… But they say this should pass soon, and it’s all for a good cause:
My first baby photo! [...]
It’s not something that I discuss often here, or even that frequently with my (highly socially-conscious and terribly opinionated) friends, but I spend a lot of time mulling over social and environmental issues. (And probably even more time being guilty about ‘not doing enough’.)
I’ve been trying to implement changes in our daily life for [...]
You know what rocks? Seeing other people’s blog posts about a pattern that you designed, and not being able to read a word of them! (without translation)
Icewine Mittens: approved by Nordic knitters!
It’s also awesome that since Amy’s and Lime & Violet’s signal-boosts, the Eye-of-Partridge Shawl is getting some pretty far-reaching distribution!
I am [...]
One this quadrennial day, I release into the wide world the Icewine Mittens pattern!
Icewine Mittens (.pfd)
You can read all about this pattern’s development in this post, and as always my patterns are listed together on my Patterns page.
Winter’s not over yet, so enjoy knitting these cozy colourwork mittens!
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I’m not [...]
Remember the Gatsby Girl?
That great pattern published in IK Fall 2006 by my talented knitter/artist friend Jodi Green?
That sweater I had to reknit the sleeves about 75 times (or so)?
That little feminine number that looked oh-so good when I first tried it on?
Appearances can be deceptive…
That sweater, which upon washing, grew [...]
A sign I just might be a little bit preoccupied with this whole fibre thing:
I was writing an email to my department’s business manager today, and instead of typing “please let me know… ” I wrote “please let me knit…”. Obsessed? Me? Never.
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I think I’ve come [...]
