Entries from March 2008

March 30, 2008

quiet Sunday

Well, it’s better than a gloomy one.
Although I have managed to get the WIP situation under control (i.e., ignoring the projects I’m not interested in working on right now), I still don’t have much progress to show.

I finally finished up the back of the CPH and started the second Charade. [...]

March 28, 2008

p.s.

This dominated the conversation at the knitting group last night.  Wha??

March 28, 2008

WIP parade

I like to think that I’m a monogamous knitter, one project at a time, very neat and orderly. This morning — in a fit of organizational fury — I dove into my knitting basket. A bit like Pandora’s box.
Needless to say, it turns out that I am a faithless hussy.
In order of appearance:
1. [...]

March 27, 2008

premature cat blogging

It’s not Friday, but Alice wasn’t going to let that stop her.  As soon as I got out the camera to record a little boring cardigan progress, she swung in to action.

What?  You didn’t make this for me?
Central Park Hoodies are obviously improved by cat hair.  So far, the knitting has been the right combination [...]

March 26, 2008

personal best

Four handknits at once.  If only I would knit a pair of socks for myself, I could go big time.

March 22, 2008

grr

The good news: I found a good compromise project that looks like it will shape up to be both a little bit more complicated than straight ahead stockinette, yet easy enough (and bulky-gauged enough) to be pretty fast: the Central Park Hoodie [ravelry]. Given the whopping 1081 projects on Ravelry, I’m obviously not the [...]

March 21, 2008

just another Drops 103-1

I’m a little low on exciting knitting right now, although dreams of a gentleman’s cycling aran do dance through my head. I’ll have to wait until I can afford the admittedly modest amount of Scottish Tweed chunky required. Right now, in sugarplum fairy land, it’s between lewis grey or peat — the gentleman [...]

March 18, 2008

well hello there.

Here I am. Hope you’re all well.  My computer died, I went skiing for the first time, had a mini graduate school meltdown. You know, just the usual.

Alps!
Despite skiing — for a couple of days anyway, until my arthritic hip started acting up — I even managed to finish up [...]