I jumped on the bandwagon.
My very own Dolores Park Cowl. Keeping with the quickie aesthetic, I used a crappy Photobooth picture. (Hello, shiny!)
needles: US15 circs
yarn: Garnstudio eskimo, 2.25 skeins (army)
started: April 29, 2008; 7:39 p.m.
finished: April 29, 2008; 10:42 p.m.
Not bad. A good knit to work on while reading; an even better knit [...]
… and I just might rock you like a hurricane. Depending on how you feel about socks.
For I give you:
finished madder ribbed socks [ravelry].
Here are the details:
pattern: Madder Ribbed socks from Knitting Vintage Socks by Nancy Bush
yarn: Kaffe Fassett sock, Landscape Earth (about 33g/sock)
needles: 3.00mm circs
started: April 12, 2008
finished: April 27, 2008
I love the [...]
A sad, tragic, apparently pointless something happened to a friend and her family this weekend. It’s not mine to talk about publicly, but I has left me feeling a bit disjointed. So I’m all the more thankful for the fibery blogs that have been keeping me distracted, entertained, and thinking happy, creative thoughts.
I’m also thankful [...]
So, my bathroom is still clean. That’s the good news. As for knitting, well, not so much to say. I’ve been working on the madder ribbed mate: so far, so good.
ribbed heel
This shows the heel detail a bit more clearly: no purled seam stitch, worked over 30 stitches, instead of 31, with ribbing. Perhaps not [...]
Procrastination has reached new heights here at chez dissertation terror. I cleaned the bathtub this morning. I would classify this as dissertation terror alert: yellow.
image from wikipedia
Seems quite low, you say? Well, things can escalate quickly. One minute you’re cleaning the bathtub, the next you’re quitting grad school. Trust me.
But [...]
So I got up 2 hours later than planned. Then I thought, “oh, coffee!” and “look: it’s teh intarweb!” and here we are, still sipping coffee and sitting on the couch. The cat’s mad at me because I’m sitting in her place, but I should be at the library anyway, so it doesn’t really count. [...]
Socks!
I finished up the Gentleman’s Shooting Stockings last night; now they’re just drying out before being shipped off to my dad.
Maybe sock blockers wouldn’t be such a bad idea.
pattern: Gentleman’s Shooting Stockings with Fluted Pattern [ravelry] by Nacy Bush, in Knitting Vintage Socks
yarn: Lana Grossa Meilenweit Mega Boots Stretch Softcolor (507), about 1 1/4 skeins [...]
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The West
Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you’re a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big [...]
The closer the deadline for my prospectus draft looms, the more knitting I seem to do. Not an ideal state of affairs, to be sure. At least in seeking wooly comfort I’m accomplishing *something* — although not necessarily something that my advisers would accept as dissertation research. Sigh.
Earlier in the week, I [...]
Not much going on here, knitting-wise that is. I’m spending my time trying to get fired up about my dissertation and worrying about various meetings with advisors. Oh, the inadequacy.
Here’s what I finished last night when I should have been asleep:
square nr. 10
Another step in my leisurely stroll toward half way done with [...]
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