Just paid actual money for an online knitting pattern for the first time I think EVER. I expect it to be worth it, though: Myrtle cardigan. Bought the yarn for this one back when Palette was still $2/skein... it should look really nice in Verdant (medium loden green heather). Yay, $14 sweater! Based on some other people's project notes, I think I' ( Read more... )

Fancy new jobplace is fancy. They have a workout room, and a game room complete with arcade machine, and wi-fi hotspots, and showers, and sustainably crafted sunflower seed hull cabinetry. (Though not a proper cafeteria.) They could use a few "you are here" maps on the walls, but I'm only getting lost on the way to the breakroom half the time now ( Read more... )

Um. So it's been two months? Really? Well, at least there's something new to write about!

Point 1: Changed jobs. I actually found a decent office job with a later shift (2-11 PM)! It starts June 1, provided nothing unexpected happens. Which brings us to -

Point 1a: Finally conceded that this ridiculous persistent fatigue thing is NOT a symptom of  ( Read more... )

Public libraries are easily my favorite use for tax money. Well, aside from the fact that tax money also pays my salary. I tend to forget about that part. Anyway. I've read some extraordinarily good debut novels in the last month or two, and thought I'd share.

( cut for MASSIVE tl;dr )

I made a lace thing. It took nine days. It was a fun learning experience, but next time I'll pick a yarn color that doesn't look so 1970s.

(Yes, my sheets are printed with frogs wearing hats.)

Kind of want to knit Annis in Knit Picks' new silk mohair. Looks like it'd be snuzzly and warm and knit up quickly. But I can't place an order until I know whether I'll need more Shimmer... cast on for Haruni Sunday morning with my one skein of Spice and expect to start the edging chart tomorrow, but the pattern calls for 460 yards of fingering, ( Read more... )

The city water company has an annoying habit of suspending water service without sending a cutoff notice first. Which, yes, is my fault for not paying the bill promptly, because I sometimes forget these things... but if they sent a notice, I would remember and go pay it, and it would save them the trouble of getting people out to turn off the water ( Read more... )

AGH FRAKKIN' WOOL MOTHS. Just picked up a half-finished sweater project from 2009 and discovered it was FULL OF HOLES AND SHED COCOONS. *wail* This after discovering chew damage in the in-use ball of Zephyr wool-silk and an unused ball of cobweb wool last week, discarding large chunks of them, and rewinding, ziplocking, and freezing all my ( Read more... )

Am putting together a Knit Picks order because I need some Jacquard dyes for the cashmerino yarn that arrived last week from Wool2Dye4.com and could use a few more Harmony wood needles, and because they have Cookie A's Sock Innovation book on sale through Monday. Seriously fighting the temptation to throw in half a dozen skeins of lace-weight yarn ( Read more... )