The seed stitch scarf I made in Patons SWS exists, that is. I used most of two balls of the Natural Earth colourway and it’s 15 stitches to a row on 9-mm needles. I didn’t measure it, but I’ll estimate it at approximately five-and-a-half feet long and five inches wide.

It’s ironic that it took forever [...]

I hate winter in general and January in particular. I’m not depressed, just unmotivated. The idea that tomorrow it won’t be January anymore is perking me right up, although I’m not extremely fond of February, either. I’m at least motivated enough to finally post some photos I took while visiting my parents over the holidays.
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Although I finished this purse many many weeks ago, today I came to the disturbing realization that it didn’t feel like a finished object until I had taken pictures of it for the blog. This probably has less to do with exhibitionist tendencies than it does with the fact that I refused to use the [...]

I know that one is supposed to take pictures in natural light whenever possible, but it hasn’t been so possible lately. Even when it isn’t actually raining, the sky seems to be thinking about it. So my photos don’t have the most accurate colour possible, and also feature my shadow looming over the scarf like [...]

On Saturday, I went to the library in Dartmouth, which I never do, because they have a really good children’s reference section there, which I needed to use to work on assignments for my Services and Resources for Children course. The Dartmouth trip also had another purpose besides schoolwork. See, the library is very close [...]

I finished The Scarf That Time Forgot. Finished it for really. Bought some new yarn needles and wove in the ends. After the weather was so nice on Monday, I was worried that I might not get the chance to wear it, which just shows how completely divorced from reality I can be sometimes. I [...]

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 [...]