In Other News

I don’t have much new knitting to show you, partially because I don’t want to show pictures of Matt’s scarf until it’s done & in his hands, and partially because I haven’t had much time for knitting lately — the start of the school year is, as always, a monstrous timesuck. But I do have [...]

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Hamsa Scarf, and the Start of Fall Knitting

I loooooove this scarf. Love love love. It may be my favorite FO ever. I had fun knitting those shawls this summer, and they are much more technically complicated than this, but that’s exactly the problem — they’re a little too fancy to bust out for everyday wear, whereas this is something I forsee myself [...]

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Terra Shrug

And now back to your regularly-scheduled knitting content. Talk about instant gratification! I started this shrug maybe a week ago, and voila! That’s what knitting aran-weight yarn on size 13 needles will do for you. Also, it’s pretty small; I used maybe 220 yards total. But since I only had 300 yards on hand, that’s [...]

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My Heart on Cassette

Warning: this will not be a knitting post. I wanted to put it somewhere public, but not as connected to my professional self as my academic blog, so here it is. Originally I’d planned that this blog would have non-knitting personal content, but this is the first time I’ve really gotten around to doing that. [...]

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Hold Everything

The only permanent casualty of my car troubles over Labor Day weekend was my car stereo, which got permanently fried. Pat & I bought $20 iPod speakers at the Ft. Bragg Radio Shack before leaving town, and spent the 10-hour drive home listening to tinny, static-y music, which was better than no music at all. [...]

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Brokedown and Beautiful

I finished my Aeolian shawl, as you can see. I had to stay up until three in the morning the night before we left on our trip up to northern California for the wedding, but I finished it. This shot was taken at the Pacific Star Winery, where our friends’ wedding was held, and it [...]

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