process.

Wednesday is the day I get to stay home. I have no obligations calling me to campus, but I tend to have the most important book of the week to read — often for a meeting Thursday morning one-on-one with my advisor. These are the books that tend to speak to me, and these meetings, [...]

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one down.

Or should it be up? I am thrilled with the way this turned out. I haven’t done any of the regular tidying — weaving in ends, closing up small gaps near picked up stitches, etc. and it looks terrific! I’ll try to self-edit as I post, as I may have done some rather excessive photo-documentation [...]

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Progress.

This week, I’ve been reading a lot about Progress (with a capital P) and modernization in the 19th century. Something about all the language of improvement, advancement, expansion, etc. made me pick up my toe up sock project again (despite the fact that I think I most enjoyed reading things that explored the uneasiness with [...]

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FO: ribbed baby sweater.

Hooray! The seaming is finished. And it wasn’t even that bad. (Note to self: Remember this the next time I let a sweater languish because it needs to be seamed.) Baby sweater seams go super quickly.
Details:
Mission Falls 1824 Cotton, 3.5 (?) balls. (might have been 4.5)
US 7 needles
3-6 mo size.
I would definitely make this again.
The [...]

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“feeling” productive.

The keyword there is “feeling,” folks. Yesterday was such a day: only a few hours of academic work was completed, but I managed to go grocery shopping, make all sorts of deliciousness in the kitchen, teach someone to knit, and attend reading group.

Smashed chickpea salad, adapted from Smitten Kitchen. (Shocking, I know.) My version lacked [...]

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about 5 bank accounts, 3 oz and 2 vehicles*

This is more like 2 oz.
Of fiber from the January Spunky Club.
Not anything illicit. I’m just saying.
I’m realizing that 2 oz is about all I can fit on the spindle at one time. Despite what this picture seems to reveal, I’m really happy with the evenness of this yarn. the last 10 yards or so [...]

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first handspun FO.

I wasn’t sure how this was going to turn out, as my first plied handspun is definitely a thick-thin yarn. After perusing a bunch of cowl patterns on Ravelry, I settled on something similar to the malabrigo cowl I made a few months ago. I was aiming for a drapey fabric, and figured I’d knit [...]

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fad classic in action.

This morning, in need of a little more warmth, I dug deep into one of the drawers under my bed and retrieved my Fad Classic. It seemed like just the thing, and the slight variegation and bumpy, round stitch pattern made me smile. I slipped it on under my cozy navy blue cardigan and looked [...]

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lobsters.

It all started innocently. A dear friend came over to bake and decompress. She is far more talented in the land of dough, so she did the honors:

In my desperate search for a heart cookie cutter, I came across a few other shapes that I simply could not bear to abandon mere days before the [...]

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sweater on dog.

I realize that the title of this post may inadvertently direct those looking for actual pictures of sweaters on dogs to my blog, and for that, I apologize. As you can see from Boh’s reaction, this is as close as we’re ever going to get to “sweater on dog”. I would, actually, consider knitting him [...]

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