Posted in Essentials, NaKniSweMo, Paint, scotland on Nov 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
In case you haven’t left your house in the last month, let me tell you that every kid out there needs a tissue. What that means to me, is late evenings at work, making sure that every exhausted parent of every coughing kid has seen the doctor.
My point here is that there’s not much time [...]
Posted in Everything Else, NaKniSweMo, Pets, scotland on Nov 23rd, 2009 4 Comments »
Yes, it looks like someone’s been to Ikea a few times. But that’s not what this post is about.
I’m using this as a way of explaining why so little knitting got done.
We’ve lived in our house for about 4 years. When we moved in, we had our Select Comfort mattress already, but no bed. This [...]
Posted in Essentials, Knitting, MVFF, NaKniSweMo on Nov 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
In May, 2009, I designed several patterns for the Martha’s Vineyard Fiber Farm and the Hudson Valley Fiber Farm. A lot of things happened in the intervening months resulting in these patterns not being formally released.
I designed these patterns for several reasons, one of which is I believe that Consumer Supported Agriculture is a wonderful [...]
Posted in WIP, scotland on Nov 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Netflix was kind enough to send us the first disk of Lord Peter Whimsey, The Nine Tailors. So despite the fact that my children have taken to giving the dust bunnies names, I spent two hours after work to watch and knit.
I knit 7 rows (of 406 stitches) for a total of 2842 stitches. At [...]
Posted in scotland on Nov 17th, 2009 2 Comments »
First order of business: As Bezzie pointed out, there is actually a “Knit a Sweater in the Month of November” movement. The acronym is NaKniSweMo and its home is over at KnitGrrl’s blog. Apparently, this thing has been going on every November since 2007. Did I say I’m not online much?
According to Shannon Okey of [...]
