Chart or Knit?

No, not the eternal debate of charts v written out instructions. The other eternal debate – should I work or can I knit? We all know the correct answer, even if we don’t live the correct way. Interpret at will.
I’m so close to finishing my grey alpaca shawl! My son encouraged me last night (at [...]

What about this weather, huh?

Crazy beautiful weekend, for middle November.  I would like some rain.  I’d rather not have another droughty winter and more water restrictions.  Nevertheless, Sunday was a beautiful day to go to the Zoo!  (after a very lazy Saturday afternoon in the backyard watching kids run through the wind and around clothes on the line)  Though I [...]

I read a book the other day

Or two or three, and plenty of other days.
Or would you rather hear about the orange snakes sweater? I finished the body today, knit one saddle shoulder, ripped it out, and now I’m halfway done with it again. Sick kid today, but not messy sick.
I finished Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce yesterday. [...]

a lazy brain

I’m not sure I’d call it writer’s block, more of a lazy brain. I think of things to share, to pontificate, to celebrate. And then I’m in front of the computer and it all drifts into the further recesses of my brain. Which isn’t willing to do the work to dig it [...]

Oh, I’m here

somewhere around.
Photos are on the computer, but not in FlickR yet.  And the busy continues. 
I finished the lovely blue cardigan socks!  Wore them immediately.  Hope to get a picture of them on the clothesline tomorrow.
Started mittens for the Kid for our very short trip to find snow.
I read a pretty good book the other day.  [...]

Stalled Knitting, but reading strong

Woops!  Nothing knit since Monday.  I need to decide how to do the decreases on the beret…
Tuesday evening wasted in reading instead of cooking or playing or knitting or cleaning.  Not a problem, but I stayed up to late to finish a book – Sex as a Second Language which is pretty good.  Maybe chick [...]

Tiding over

I spent a lot of my computer time Sunday adding another cubby of yarns to Ravelry. I’m excruciatingly honest – even the remnants are going in! But if it’s on the needles, even hibernating, it’s not. Probably because I can’t see it and I don’t know where it is.
I had a blast [...]

The Library!

Such a cool place. I can read books without paying for them! I knew this before. We were great library users growing up, but I’m addicted to having my own books, so it was easy to forget.
I can reserve books online! They’ll email me when they come in to whichever branch [...]

Almost there…

The green sweater is almost done.  I can almost touch it!  A finished sweater!  Maybe by the end of October, I’ll be able to wear it.  Thanksgiving, almost definitely.
Both sleeves are knit and hemmed.
I’m knitting down the body, and increased a little to accomodate, ah, the hips (or my butts as the Kid says), because [...]

Emily Dickinson

said it so well.
A thought went up my mind to-day
That I have had before,
But did not finish,- some way back,
I could not fix the year.
Nor where it went, nor why it came
The second time to me,
Nor definitely what it was,
Have I the art to say.
But somewhere in my soul, I know
I’ve met the thing before;
It [...]