Entries from April 2009

April 28, 2009

it’s only Tuesday …

… and it’s already been a long week.
I’m doing battle with my writing.  It’s not pretty.  But I ordered a new book on procrastination that I think might help.
Until I have more time to devote to knitting and blogging, here’s my latest hybrid shawl:

It’s plain old stockinette, with the usual triangular shawl cast on and [...]

April 19, 2009

so what have I been up to?

If I’m honest, sweet nothing.  But that’s not very nice.  Or strictly true: just nothing much of note.
I’m going through another existential writing crisis.  It’s gets boring after a while, really.  These have been going on at least since high school (freshman year, even) so I’ve got close to 15 years of experience under my [...]

April 8, 2009

hybridity

Why hybrid, you might ask.

Enamoured as I was of the Ishbel pattern, I wanted a bit of variety in my life.  (Very little, but still.  I hear every bit counts.)  So with my thinking cap in the vicinity, I started knitting away on the stockinette portion, changing things up by increasing only four stitches every [...]

April 1, 2009

c’mon*

Seriously.  This was a case of spontaneous necklace self-destruction.  Unless the cat sat on it.

I obviously cursed the necklace by praising its numerous charms: relatively cheap, relatively easy, relatively quick.  Now it is absolutely broken.  In a way that I don’t think can be fixed, as I don’t want to involve super glue in a [...]