Rhinebeck, Critter Style
I'm home. I'm home, and I have a nearly ridiculous list of things I want to tell you about the trip. I fear you'll grow rather sick of it by the time we're done. There was yarn, of course, and blankets. There was unexpected fibery goodness in unlikely spots, completely unplanned knitting (knitting in support of a wildly unlikely project that will, itself, feature largely here over the next few months), planned knitting, surprise knitting (plus bonus kitten), treasure hunting, immolation, and quite a few other things as well. As usual, I make no guarantee of chronological integrity. I will [...]
The Knitting Police
Every now and then, I get a very nice email from a very kind knitter asking if I'd mind terribly if she or he made some little tweak to a pattern. Perhaps knit a sock toe up instead of cuff down or used a different cast on or did the math to make a hat different size. And while I find it very touching that folks take the time to ask, I want to take a moment and say something very important. Stop it. No, I don't mean stop experimenting. I mean stop asking. It's ok, you don't need my [...]
Piles and piles and piles
What was that? Not enough yarn around here lately? Well, I was just at Rhinebeck, and I do have every intention of bombarding you with just a wee bit of yarn from that little adventure. But Rhinebeck is being followed by an honest-to-goodness vacation (the sort where I'm trying not to get on the computer every day and write blog posts), so said bombardment is going to have to wait till I'm back from that. In the meantime though, rest assured there is yarn in my life. This, is the pile of yarn for the current super-duper-secret project. More specifically, [...]
I’ll Take It
I'm not the craigslist type. The lack of apostrophe bugs the ever-living crap out of me. More importantly, I am working hard to pare down what I own (someday I will have a tiny house), and shopping for new things doesn't quite fit with that plan. So it was rather out of character when I found myself there early this month. I'd seen some mention of someone finding something nifty on there and wondered it it ever really happened. I headed over, and what did I see, shining out from among the slag heap of 70s particleboard atrocities, but a [...]
Let Them Eat Cake
This is the recipe from the towels shown in the post from last week. I'm not typing it up all proper and presentable, because that would rather go against the spirit of the thing now wouldn't it. The handwriting (oh and that monkey) are half the fun. Now to be honest, I don't ever use crisco (because I never actually have it on hand) and instead use all butter. I also tend to use cake flour and not bother with sifting. Oh, and I've been known to make it with buttermilk instead of regular milk and to up the coco [...]
Slow Going
This is the current sock. Well, actually, this is the current sock as photographed yesterday. I dearly hope that it is now somewhat longer and more sock like in appearance. Life has not been providing me the recommended amounts of knitting time over the last few weeks, and progress on the sock has been slower than one might like. But, the next few days have a bit of road tripping, and with any luck, that means a bit of knitting time (though I seem to have an off switch in my butt, so sometimes road trips mean lots of naps). [...]
Printing…not on paper
I don't know if you've noticed, but there's a very good chance that most everyone in your life has a birthday more or less every year. I, personally, find this super irritating. I've decided I'm just about as old as I need to be, and most folks I know (at least most over the age of 25 or so) feel the same. Alas, it's not in my power to change. So given that pesky reality, I occasionally find myself in need of birthday presents. I ran out of ideas for these things long long ago, so I've taken to blatantly [...]
Well and Truly Scattered
I have so many things to tell you, enough that I've actually made a list! Like a long list on paper in bright colors of ink with special doodles on it to indicate the urgency of various topics. I need to tell you all about the photo shoot (short version so so so good), I need to show you some knitting I've done, I need to show you some knitting other people have done, I need to show you some stuff I made that's not knitting, and I need to give a way a bunch of yarn (you guys don't [...]
Shrub, Part III
If you've been following along for the last few weeks, you might remember I started a shrub a little while ago. I reported on step one (in which we chop and sugar), and step two (in which much vinegar is used). Step three was waiting. Days and days and days of waiting. Patient waiting while our friendly microbes do their magic. You can guess how much fun that is. I didn't feel that required much of an update. But now, now we're on step four. Step four is putting the delicious syrup into some sort of long term storage vessel [...]
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