Funny, I don’t feel anxious
So I had this dream . . . I’m sitting at one end of a playing field working on the Henna shawl. To my right is a warehouse-style building, and to the left is a road the winds back into the hills in the...
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That doesn’t look right . . .
Sometimes the only redeeming feature of a mistake is that you know exactly how it happened. I present exhibit A in my current effort to convince myself that I can live with ripping out 13 rows of the...
View ArticleNow, to recover from vacation
Ah… That was great. Not nearly long enough and not nearly well-funded enough, but I had a wonderful vacation. I would feel positively rested, but on the flight out I caught a cold which has been...
View ArticleForward with Fenna
So, as I said, I made a lot of progress on the Fenna this weekend. I’m currently four balls of Katia Marina into it and I’m about to join the fifth. But since it’s knit from the top down, it gets...
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See, I’ve been knitting
The Fenna at about five weeks: So what is the gestation period for a shawl? I guess we’ll find out. I did a couple of rows last night while watching The Fantastic Four, which met my expectations very...
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I have heard the mermaids singing, and they were rockin’ out
So, as I said, I spent the weekend in the company of some new friends, one of whom I can officially say is my new sweetie. She got me up one morning to go walk down by the beach and say hello to some...
View ArticleEverything old is still old again
So I picked up the Fenna shawl again this morning for some lunchtime knitting. Sweet creeping zombie Jesus, this thing is interminable. I thought when I’d put it down that I was something like halfway...
View ArticleClosure, DAMMIT
Today I am going to finish the Fenna shawl, I swear. Unless I get a call that there is a life-threatening emergeny involving a loved one, I’m not budging from this chair until I’ve bound off the last...
View ArticleThwarted!
I just couldn’t keep at it. My hands started hurting too much at around 11:30 last night so I packed it in. The shawl as it now stands has about seven rows of garter stitch left. I may have begun the...
View ArticleUnexpected Diversion
Well, I’d hoped to have posted pics of the finished Fenna shawl by this point, but a minor problem at work has kept me in the office. Pics later, I swear.
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