Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Back over Christmas break, the family and I took a day trip to Philadelphia. After spending a good part of the morning running around the grimy, decaying Chinatown, which interested no one in particular besides my mother, my good-natured brother-in-law was kind enough to take me to a yarn store (which, of course, interested no one save yours truly), and purchase some yarn for me as a gift! The store had a collection of hand-dyed yarns named after female authors and other icons. It was a tough choice for me between the Louisa May Alcott yarn, which more closely suited my color palette, and Edith Piaf, because, well, it’s effin’ Edith Piaf. In the end, practicality won:
Thursday, February 1, 2007
I spent the entire month of December knitting as quickly as possible. Afterwards, my hands were so cramped I didn’t even want to look at knitting, let alone take carefully posed photographs of it to share on the internet. I gifted several items neglecting to document them first, but here are a couple that I managed to catch on their way out. Thanks, in part, to my awesome photographer sister (bet you’ll never guess which two she took!), here are some of the crafty things I’ve made:
[Now featuring a panda and a Daisy!]
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
I haven’t been blogging much lately, but one thing I have been doing a lot is knitting. It seems as though I knit all the time, during every bit of free time I get in fact, but I will still never manage to get everything done by the holidays. Despite having a head start of [...]
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Nothing much has happened of note lately; I feel like I have knitted quite a bit, without actually having finished much. The sweater is an endless source of frustration and ripping back, for no good reason – it’s just ribbing, for chrissakes! I have a pattern and a template sweater to work from, but I [...]
