I have declared today a no-knitting day. I knit for probably 5 or 6 hours total yesterday and my arms are feeling it now. Tiger balm and Advil Liqui-Gels, here I come ( Read more... )

Damn you, Diana. Looks like I'll be scheduling a trip to Portland sometime in the near future.

One of my Christmas presents from my mother was a copy of Free Range Knitter, by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (aka, The Yarn Harlot). Aside from her blog, I'd never read anything of hers before, but I had been intrigued enough by her published books to add them to my Amazon Wish List. (Strangely enough, I don't think Free Range Knitter was among those ( Read more... )

Pff, like I even need to state a reason.


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So I read this web comic called Garfield Minus Garfield where some poor soul...well, let me just quote directly from their website: "Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an ( Read more... )

Some of you may remember on my birthday last year I was contacted on Ravelry to have my photo of the beach bag I knit for my mom to be shown on the project page. Well! I got another couple of messages asking about the same thing for the little dog sweater I knit a couple years ago. This way to the braggy screencap.

Hee!

Well, I'm all holed up in Virginia while my Californian cohorts are enjoying this month's reminder of global warming. It's been good knitting weather out here, though, and my spirits are lifted with reruns of 30Rock and The Office and Law and Order whenever I want thanks to Netflix's Watch Instantly feature ( Read more... )

I didn't get to load out the Nutcracker this evening so instead I ran to the fabric store and got what I needed to rock the sewing machine.

Remember my Cable Hook Pouch?


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I have to stop staring at sweaters people are wearing in an effort to analyze how I might knit a replica. I'm going to get my ass kicked if I don't keep it down to a dull roar. Hm.