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Another day, another meme
'Cause, yet again, I have nothing new in life (unless you count laundry, dishes and packing for a trip as groundbreaking , LJ-worthy events). I think I might have completed this meme before, but here goes (via www.knottygirls.com/jenla.blog ( Read more... ) -
Knitting Meme -- 'cause I've got nuttin
Gacked from Jennie Sits and Knits via Rabbitch:
Bold for stuff you’ve done, italics for stuff you plan to do one day, and normal for stuff you’re not planning on doing.
Afghan/Blanket (baby)
I-cord
Garter stitch
Knitting with metal wire
Shawl I got the clap(potis)!
Stockinette stitch
Socks: top-down
Socks: toe-up Does all the way through a short- ( Read more... ) -
Who am I? (Why am I here?)
vatergrrl --
[adjective]:
Benevolent to a fault
'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com -
May Day and Blog Against Disablism Day
I'm traipsing back not the blogosphere feeling quite a bit as if I have more than a bit of mud in my eye. Namely, I only and accidentally found out through reading the groovy, hip and witty Mason-Dixon Knitting blog that today is (ta-da!) Blogging Against Disablism Day. Now, I do recall the event fro last year, and read quite a few blog entries ( Read more... ) -
RIP, Kenny-boy and WTF with Rush?
This afternoon, I found out that Kenneth Lay, the founder and chief rat scoundrel of Enron, died. My husband, upon hearing the news, said something to the effect of, "Gee, one more Bush cronie to die conveniently before he could reveal potentially incriminating evidence on our president-select." I'm not big on conspriacy theories, and neither is he ( Read more... ) -
Knitting Olympics: Shamefaced Wrap-Up
Alas, I did not manage to medal in the Knitting Olympics 2006, although if you define "sock" very generously to include one toe-up sock which made it to the end of the amazingly small short row heel before being frogged AND a cuff-down sock which made it to the start of the slipped-stitch heel flap, then I suppose I can claim victory for my initial ( Read more... ) -
Knitting Olympics: Day One Report
Announcer speaking in hushed golf-tournament tone: We're here at Chez VATERGrrl, where the curtain has fallen on the first day of the Knitting Olympics, and newly risen on the start of day two. You may recall that our Olympian had initially challenged herself to knit one sock during the next sixteen days, and had only half-ironically declared ( Read more... )
