Archive for December, 2005

The Scarf That Time Forgot

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

The Scarf That Time Forgot is named The Scarf That Time Forgot for an obvious reason: time marches on, and on, and on, and yet the scarf remains unchanged. It is untouched by the passage of time (and, for the most part, also untouched by me). I have been “working on” said scarf for over [...]

Knitted Gir

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

This is the best thing ever. TChemGrrl, who is clearly awesome not only due to her knitting ability, but also because she is married to a library school boy, which proves she has great taste in guys, has knitted Gir from Invader Zim. Scroll about halfway down this page to see him. This is definitely [...]

Purl, Too: I Am Not Dumber Than Yarn

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

A while ago I bought the Klutz knitting kit because I figured I could possibly understand knitting instructions geared toward children. I am ignoring their beginning “how to make a knit stitch” stuff, since it doesn’t show steps for knitting Continental, which is what I’m trying to do. The patterns, however, are spelled out r-e-a-l-l-y [...]

The Ugliest Swatch in the World

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

This is the site of a girl who can’t knit, which doesn’t make it any different from any of the other sites she’s made over the past eight years. What does make it different is that she’s now trying to learn how to knit, and in this blog, she’s going to document her knitting failures [...]