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 Knitting, Stash Acquisition, WIP on Nov 16th, 2009 3 Comments »
Rhinebeck, 2008. The one thing I didn’t buy (and there was one), was a Shetland 2000 kit from Yarns International. I thought about it for the better part of a year. So when Rhinebeck, 2009 rolled around, I was scouring their website, trying to select the kit of my dreams.
Mark chose Scotland as his sweater [...]
Posted in Finished Objects on Oct 23rd, 2009 1 Comment »
When we were in Syracuse last, Jessye found a hat that she wanted to make. The woman at Sheep Thrills gave her a pattern with her yarn purchase (based on a sample in the store). But as we read the pattern, we realized it was done with two yarns held together and giant needles.
Nevermind.
Jessye and [...]
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