Building the stash

After my early sucesses with KnitPicks and Kate Gilbert’s Shining Star hat, I made a few impulse online yarn purchases.  Friends and family started giving me gifts of yarn in one and two ball increments.  Hopefully soon I will be one of the cool kids with a Ravelry account so I can share my whole [...]

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Turning the tide

In the past few weeks I’ve been agonizing over the seemingly endless Frost Flowers & Leaves shawl that I’m working for my sister glamorous. In fact, I think the ladies of Stitch ‘n Bitch are starting to know me by the shawl. Last night I checked out the Westwood SnB meeting at Borders books — [...]

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Early Knitting Adventures, Part 3: Discovering Knit Picks

And now, back to the early days of my knitting . . . when I left off, I’d finished a scarf and hat for mom and half of a garter stitch mystery scarf, all out of homespun, and I’d worked a fun-fur scarf for adorable.  Baby, if you’re reading this, don’t worry, I’m not offended [...]

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Cwurse you, Werdpress Speelcheck!

I’ve just discovered that my spelling is not, as the WordPress spellchecker seems to indicate, perfect.  Instead, the stupid spellcheck button isn’t working!
Now the world will know the truth . . . I can’t spell for shit . . .

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Is it wrong?

Summer means stretching weekends from Thursday to Monday — following this principle, last night The Baron and I finished off the weekend by going with some friends to a laser light show called Laserium: The Dark Side of Zeppelin — a part of the LA Film Festival.  It was two laser shows back-to-back . . . [...]

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Monday morning goodies

Last Friday was an exceptionally painful slow workday, so I spent some time poking around the knitting district of webville and trying to come out of my shy-shell.  I found a few goodies I wanted to share, including these two beautiful lace pieces to add to my want-to-knit list:
Pink Lemon Twist’s Hanami Stole (scroll down to [...]

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A few things to celebrate

Life is good — there is lots to celebrate.
Let’s start with the most pressing thing: I am celebrating that today is Friday.  This was one of those evil, interminable weeks, not because it was so busy but because it was sooooooooo slow.  Every day, from my half of a shared cubicle, I look out at [...]

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Isn’t Friday here yet? No? Well hurry up already!

Now, I’m sure all you out there in webville just can’t wait to learn more about my transformation into a yarn snob and knitter extraordinaire after my sad experiences with Homespun, but part three of my ongoing chronicle of Early Knitting Adventures will just have to wait.
I know it’s only Thursday morning, but I am way [...]

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Early Knitting Adventures, Part 2: Learning from the master

The continuing tale of my introduction to knitting . . .
After I finished set aside the counted cross-stitch cat sampler (see Part 1), I had to find something else to do with my hands.  It was the Fall of 2005 and I was working just around the corner from a Michael’s, so I headed over and picked myself out [...]

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Early Knitting Adventures, Part 1: Not much knitting

Since I’m not going to be able to make it to any Stitch n Bitch meetings this week, and I doubt I’ll be able to match last weekend’s super-duper exciting knitting progress, I thought I’d share a bit of my knitting history.  Just how did I come to be knitting in the first place?  To [...]

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