Archive for the 'Frustrations' Category

Think Pink

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

For a while, there was not much knitting, as I needed time for spinning, latch hooking, and a weaving workshop (yes, photos of these things to come eventually), but lately, there is knitting and the knitting is pink.

Embossed dishcloths are not the easiest things to photograph, but I guess you can get a good enough [...]

Exploring the Varieties of Pain

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

For all intents and purposes, I have finished knitting the Tangled Up in Blue Socks… but I can’t actually wear them until I weave those four ends in. The plan is to do that tomorrow morning, although I shouldn’t have said that, because as I’ve mentioned before, claiming on the Internet that I will do [...]

Pixie Dust

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

I am trying to think happy thoughts, but it is not easy. A soothing picture of the sock near a lighthouse might help. Luckily, I just happen to have one.

Know what is a very happy thought? Lots of yarn.

The only thing I like more than lots of yarn is lots of books.

Baby-sitters Club books are [...]

I Might Need to Knit an Ark

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

We interrupt this knitting blog (what, you mean there’s a knitting blog here? What?) to bring you pictures of flooding in Fredericton. If you have ever wanted to know what the parking lot of the library looks like when it is underwater, I don’t know what kind of weirdo you are, but boy howdy, have [...]

Green

Monday, March 17th, 2008

For a while, I was focusing on cross stitch, specifically this pony, which is not hard at all, but the browns can wear on you after a while, so I’m taking a break from it until I finish my hat.

I love this hat kit. Although maybe I shouldn’t be saying that before I’m finished, in [...]

In Which I Threaten Yarn

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Way back in October 2006, I knit a scarf. Three balls of Katia Mexico in a 2×2 rib. Upon finishing the knitting, instead of weaving in the ends (of which there were only six), I chose to ignore it for a billion years. I finally got around to weaving in the ends of the Rainbow [...]

There Has Not Been Much Knitting.

Friday, November 9th, 2007

There has not been much knitting lately, and I am sorry. I am busy with a few other things, namely my NaNoWriMo novel, and the fact that next weekend, I am moving to Fredericton for six months. (I’m not fitting the entire six months into the next weekend. They’re just going to start then.) If [...]

Secret Cool Points

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Recently, Cass and I decided that certain things earn you cool points, and certain things earn you geek points or nerd points. But what a lot of people don’t know is that most geek points are actually secret cool points in disguise! (Unfortunately, some things are actually too nerdy to give you secret cool points, [...]

Foot, Shopping, Fertilizer, Plungers, Etc.

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

It may seem like progress on the Road Potato Sock has been very slow (because it has), but this is as fast as I can knit it while also working a 55-hour week. I finished the heel a while ago and am now working on the foot.

Sunday is my only day off all week, and [...]

Groundhog Day

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Maybe Groundhog Day is supposed to be in February, but I don’t care. I had my own Groundhog Day in August. Yesterday my boyfriend and I went to Rockwood Park and I made friends with a groundhog. Isn’t he just the cutest thing ever? (This is the groundhog, not my boyfriend.)

Well, the cutest thing ever [...]