Posted in kitchen, knitting, out of doors, tagged bond, chaco canyon, FO, home, mt taylor, one row handspun scarf, popcorn on February 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been adventuring this week, sharing my home with an old friend. We used to share a house on the other side of the world, and it has been incredibly fun to explore my current backyard together. Take a look:
Mt. Taylor in the distance, covered in snow.
Chaco Canyon — incredible ruins, history and landscape.
Overlooking Pueblo [...]
Posted in from my front door, knitting, tagged 2008, araucania nature wool chunky, boh, Bolero Jacket, debbie bliss, FO, mountains, seaming, snow, sweater on February 24, 2008 | 6 Comments »
but I am wearing a sweater!
(Boy, that mirror is dirty.) I can justify the sweater, though. Take a look at the mountains:
See? There’s snow up there! Also, I think there is some kind of rule that you have to wear your first sweater the second it is done. (Okay, not true. This isn’t exactly the [...]
Posted in from my front door, kitchen, tagged black bean salad, cilantro, friends, magic loop, spring, sunshine on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve begun sharing this space with dear friends from my “real” life, and their reactions are a lot of fun. (Hi, you guys! I’m glad you’re here.) One friend, whose lovely daughter was the recipient of the first baby bib I knit, wondered why it had taken me so long to tell him about my [...]
Posted in knitting, tagged araucania nature wool chunky, baby bib o'love, Bolero Jacket, debbie bliss, Mason-Dixon Knitting, pick up st on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thank you for all of the happy thoughts on my grad school news — it has been hard not to write about all the waiting over these last several months. I am so excited — and trying to transfer this energy into my UFOs — I cannot wait to actually have some of the sweaters [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged mountains, outside, pie, sunset on February 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been knitting quite a lot lately, as you can see. There are many reasons for this, but there is one big reason that I haven’t shared: I’ve been waiting. Anxiously. And not sleeping super well. This fall, I decided that I was ready to apply to graduate school. I completed each step, put everything [...]
Posted in knitting, tagged araucania nature wool chunky, blocking, bolero, debbie bliss, knitting on February 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Inspired by Mick at Much Adored — and by the arrival of a much needed weekend, I knit the last 5 rows (I know, I know, ridiculous that I left so little to complete) of the second sleeve of my Debbie Bliss Bolero Jacket, and began blocking.
The sleeves are looking a bit big to me [...]
Posted in from my front door, knitting, tagged cupcakes, knitting, nutkin, sock, sunrise, valentine on February 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I helped frost some Valentine’s Day confections last night — conversation cupcakes, if you will. My friend Sheri has the photo-documentation. If I can get them from her this week, I’ll share some of our creativity.
Onward to this morning’s valentine:
While listening to an episode of This American Life, I worked a few more pattern repeats [...]
Posted in knitting, tagged cat bordhi, morning, olive, sock yarn, sunshine yarns on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“What have we here?” asked Boh upon my return from our weekly knit-gathering. The answer is Sunshine Yarns sock yarn in Olive, a gorgeous, unexpected gift from Ramona, heretofore known as the yarn fairy. (Well, maybe I’ll still call her Ramona.) She also brought me Cat Bordhi’s New Pathways for Sock Knitters to borrow and [...]
Posted in knitting, tagged booty club, january, kalamata, merino, nutkin, yarn pirate on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The answer is Nutkin.
It is also the reason I did not post this morning. I have at least seven other projects on the needles, included a sock that I am making progress on, so I can’t really explain why I felt the need to cast on — except that I was procrastinating on Ravelry, and [...]
Posted in kitchen, knitting, tagged blueberry muffins, knitting, twisted tweed sock on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You know you’re a blogger when you bake blueberry muffins on Monday morning and debate over how to arrange them on the plate to take their picture BEFORE biting into one.
(They are delicious, by the way. I ate one while this photo was uploading.) The recipe is another of Mark Bittman’s, from the big yellow [...]
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