progress: small p.

Did you know that Nashville is one of the largest cities in the US, in terms of square miles (533)?  That’s bigger than L.A. (498).  Or that Nashville is home to the world’s only full-sized reproduction of an ancient Greek temple (the Parthenon, built 1895-97 for the state’s Centennial Exposition)?  Which also houses the largest [...]

back on track

So the sock is back on track.  The frogging and reknitting were completely painless; it was only a heel, after all.  So much better than just finishing a sock that I knew would only lead to disappointment every time I put it on.  And this yarn is way too pretty for such an unsatisfactory sock.

I [...]

red vines!

You know how some people have strong opinions about, oh, politics, religion, the environment, philosophy?  That’s how I feel about the whole Red Vines vs. Twizzlers debate.
There is only one right answer.  And that answer is Red Vines.
And not just because one brand and one brand alone comes in a 4-pound bucket.  Which is now [...]

before + after

Look at that heel turn.  Poetry in motion.  Or, um, wool.  No holes at the join (thank you picked-up and twisted stitches!), short-rows neat and tidy, perfect width for the heel cup.
But then, I tried the sock on.
Too short.
Argh.  I shake my fist at you, gauge.

See, I like the Gentleman’s Plain Winter Sock because it [...]

ultimate friday giveaway bonanza = awesome.

Who’s the luckiest girl in Nashville?  That would be me.

Just look at all of the goodies that the wonderful people behind loumms (emmms and lou) sent all the way from what I feel certain Professor Welch would insist on calling “Merrie England.”  The project bag the perfect size for small projects — not to mention [...]

Photo 24

Photo 24, originally uploaded by katie:m.

Fall has arrived in Nashville. And I celebrated by wrapping myself up in wooly goodness: the Ishbel of much largeness. It’s perfect!
It’s also my last day of class for a week: hooray for strangely scheduled Thanksgiving holidays! I’ve got a paper to finish and another [...]

owls under review

I’ve been putting this off, but I just can’t ignore the obvious any longer.  My o-w-l-s is too big.  Way too big.
See how Alice doesn’t want to look?

It’s such a disappointment: I love this pattern, love the yarn, love how it all came together.  Except that it all came together a couple sizes large.

Part of [...]

it’s that time of year …

you’re not helping, originally uploaded by katie:m.

… and I don’t think I’m the only one who could benefit from a little Lucky Jim (1954) therapy.
“It was a perfect title, in that it crystallized the article’s niggling mindlessness, its funereal parade of yawn-enforcing facts, the pseudo-light it threw upon non-problems. Dixon had read, or begun [...]

boring sock progress.

I’ve got nothing.  Just some boring sock progress.  After a full day of indexing — (1/3 of the way done!!  We’ve hit quadruple-digit page numbers!  Only … 1500 more pages to go.  On a related note: have I mentioned how much I hate 1) royal houses, 2) their issue, 3) their complicated marriage alliances, 4) [...]

11.11

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 [...]