Thanksgiving Sale
I've been told I should have a Thanksgiving sale. Since I'm nothing if not obliging, I thought I'd do just that. How about some details! From now through the end of the day on Tuesday, all my downloadable patterns are on sale. You can get 10% off 1 item, 15% off 2 items, or 20% off 3 or more items. It’s good for everything in my ravelry shop...individual patterns, small sets, and yes, even the books (Thanksgiving is the only time the e books are ever included in a sale). Here’s how it works: 1) Go to my Ravelry shop, [...]
Do the Shuffle
Yesterday afternoon, for no apparent reason, I got a total bug up my butt. I decided that I had...simply had to rearrange all the books in my office. I've got five tall bookshelves in there. Until yesterday, four of them had history books, and the knitting stuff was smushed into only one. This was a hold over from when I was a history grad student and thought this knitting thing was a side gig, something I did to keep me from roaming the streets in my spare time. Well, that's not quite how my life is working out, and it [...]
How Very Odd
Every now and then, I find myself strolling through the Library of Congress' webpage. These things happen, it's perfectly normal. (It's actually their flickr page you have to watch out for, it's easy to get sucked in and find you've lost an hour). Sometimes, on these little strolls, I come across the oddest things. The current holder of the coveted 'strangest thing to date' title is this picture. Twenty bonus points to whoever provides the best caption!
Nudge
I find myself completely unmotivated. I have 30 rows and a toe until I'm done with the second sock of the pair. That's two good stretches of knitting. It should be easy as pie. But I apparently do not want pie. Instead, all I want to do is swatch. I've got a bundle of yarns for the next book (Yes, the one after KCC3. Yes, the one that won't be out till the end of next year at the earliest. Yes, they really do take that long), and I've got a pile of new yarns from the trip, and all [...]
Field Trip, Yarn Store
Alrighty, last of the trip yarn. I promised we were just about done, and this should wrap it up. So, I told you we visited String Theory, and I told you we visited Swans Island. Those were the two big, intentional yarn stops. But sometimes it happens that, while you're going about your business on non-yarn related excursions, you come across a yarn store on the way. That happened twice. Once was Over the Rainbow Yarn in Rockland Maine. (Rockland is also home of Primo, our very favorite restaurant ever. If you're ever anywhere near there you simply must go. [...]
A House Divided
The Boy and I are lucky enough to agree about all the important things in life. We differ only on the small matters. Small matters such as how hot chocolate ought to be prepared. He feels it should be so dark as to be nearly bitter and so thick as to be flirting with the title of pudding. I feel it should be delicately sweet and deliciously creamy. He is, clearly, terribly misguided. But I, being the clever and accommodating (and apparently terribly modest) soul that I am, have devised a perfect solution. It's such a perfect solution to a [...]
Unabashedly Sparkly
I came home from the trip with ideas. Lots and lots and lots of ideas. I think that's half the fun of going away. You get out of your daily routine, and you suddenly have extra time and space to make plans. One of these plans involves disassembling a dock and finding a custom metal fabricator (that one will take a bit longer to come to fruition...it's a biggish plan). One involves yards and yards of beautiful wool felt, a handful of buttons, and my firm conviction that I can convince my sewing machine to do what I want (this [...]
Briny Deeps
When we weren't off sampling the local spirits and cuisine, we spent an awful lot of time clambering over rocks, collecting treasures, and seeing just how far up various conveniently-located precipitous crags we could shimmy (answer: alarmingly...question of the week: 'how in the name of self preservation did I get up here, and more importantly, how exactly do I get down'). All that exploration works up an appetite -- an appetite that can only be sated by briny marshmallows. Briny, ocean-dipped marshmallows. I mentioned this after last year's trip, and there were many questions. I felt an obligation to you [...]
Field Trip, String Theory
Ok, I really should wrap this up. I'm sure it's tacky to talk about a trip for longer than the trip lasted. But man, it was a long trip with lots of yarn-y bits, and I don't want to leave any of them out. Especially not String Theory, that would be a dreadful mistake. You (you, the collective blog reading/rav forum chatting folks) are actually to blame for my String Theory obsession. I kept seeing beautiful socks, going 'what is that yarn,' investigating, and finding String Theory. So naturally I went and used them for piles and piles and piles [...]
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