It is really warm here. Kind of weird coming from a rather frigid New Jersey.
In true vacation mode, I’m sitting in a pleasant coffee shop knitting up some scrumptious yarny goodness:
Just a basic toe-up sock in the loveliest of lovely Sock Hop yarn. It’s the “Lucky in the Sky” colorway and it is just gorgeous [...]
mystery!, originally uploaded by katie:m.
An evening spent on the couch resulted in quite a bit of progress on my mystery sock — closing in on the toe. Which is good because there are a thousand other things I’d like to get started …
I’ll be heading out to California for the next couple of weeks, [...]
Farmhouse Yarns, originally uploaded by katie:m.
Not only is this yarn awesome. But: I would like to mark today as truly wonderful. For the first time in a very long time I was happy. Simply happy. Too long have I been satisfied with a mealymouthed contentment, a resigned acceptance of my lot, [...]
I started another kitty pi blanket for my sister’s cat.
And why? Because that way I can knit and watch MST3k episodes on youtube. (Thanks Specs, whom I don’t even know but yet am compelled to use as my inspiration for movie-watching dorkiness.) And maybe just drink a fruity beer while I do it. (N.B. that [...]
Or, another kitty pi blanket. This one for my sister’s cat, as requested.
Again, a straightforward knit, not too exciting, but very soothing. Holding the Multicolor together with the Cascade 220 adds a nice bit of variegated color and a lovely fuzzy mohair halo to the blanket.
pattern: Pi Shawl by Elizabeth Zimmermann [ravel it]
yarn: 2 skeins [...]
I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute [...]
Not only perfect, but fast! This one-day wonder, it turns out, is perfect for the chilly-but-not-cold fall weather we’ve been having here in central NJ — and Malabrigo is never wrong.
pattern: Stella’s Hat [here] or {ravel it} by Melissa, the knitting school dropout
yarn: Malabrigo in mineral red (605) about half a skein
needles: US10.5/6.5mm
started: November 7, [...]
I love my squirrely cube and my very pink sock.
I had lots of deep stuff to say about second chances and how they’re kind of great and kind of scary and how I can’t believe I’m lucky enough to be given one and how happy I am about maybe probably moving to Tennessee in pursuit [...]
I bound off the Pi Shawl last night while watching “The Black Cat” — an evil genius throwdown not too concerned with making sense. But full of Awesome.
I used up every last bit of three skeins of Kureyon. My packrat tendencies paid off, as I had to forrage in the depths of the stash for [...]
Seeing that my Socktoberfest plans went bust and I completed zero socks; recognizing that I was in the throws of a very unproductive fit of startitis; acknowledging my rather frazzled nerves and knitting attention span; knowing that I had some awesome B-movies ready for viewing …
… Elizabeth Zimmermann and Noro were really the only answers. [...]
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