http://knitkitten.net The blog of a girl who is obsessed with knitting and cross stitch, among other things. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:12:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sometimes — admittedly, not often, but sometimes — everything turns out just the way you hoped it would. If you had asked me what I wanted to see in the men's Olympic gold medal hockey game, I swear I would have said, "I want Canada to play the U.S., I want ... http://knitkitten.net/2010/02/28/golden/ The 2010 Knitting Olympics kick off in just over an hour, and I'm competing this year. I intended to take part in the first Knitting Olympics in 2006, but I wound up in the hospital when the Olympics began and was not allowed to bring sharpthings with me. Oops. In 17 days, ... http://knitkitten.net/2010/02/12/flame-on/ Since I've been keeping some of you in suspense about why I spent Christmas in a hotel (and by "some of you," I mean "Heather"), I guess it's only fair to finally explain that it was because my parents had a flood at their house and had to live at ... http://knitkitten.net/2010/01/31/just-phoning-this-one-in/ I only knit one Christmas present this year. It was a shawl. The Fleece Artist Goldielocks Triangle Shawl, to be exact. You know, the one that I've been calling the Shawl of Doom. It's 56% Kid Mohair, 24% Silk, 20% Nylon, and 100% infuriating. The colours go very well with my ... http://knitkitten.net/2009/12/28/there-is-a-shawl/ The end of November means the end of National Novel Writing Month, which means that once again I can rejoin the world of the living. I actually hit 50,000 words on November 28, and yesterday I went to knitting night for the first time all month, did some cross stitching ... http://knitkitten.net/2009/11/30/30-days-of-alcatraz/ You may notice that the date of this post is a HORRIBLE LIE, since I am posting it well after Halloween. But these are the two pictures I meant to post on Halloween, and then I didn't do it for some reason (i.e., laziness, forgetfulness). They are Halloween-themed, though, so ... http://knitkitten.net/2009/10/31/spooky/ No, I didn't entirely forget that I had a blog. Yes, I did entirely forget to update it. I've been thinking lately that this site seriously needs a design makeover, which will take some time to do. Every time I think about posting, I just feel bad that I haven't ... http://knitkitten.net/2009/09/30/hey-i-have-a-blog/ I had a partially written blog post a while ago, but I scrapped it. It was supposed to be a funny post detailing the suckiness of my life lately. My fridge was broken, then all my electricity stopped working and I couldn't even plug in my fan in the middle ... http://knitkitten.net/2009/08/31/there-was-supposed-to-be-a-funny-post/ The sock had a fabulous time at ALA 2009 in Chicago. As I mentioned before, my boyfriend brought my sock-in-progress with him and asked various people to hold the sock for photos. Because I am insane, and he is indulgent and unflappable. We learned that some of my favourite young ... http://knitkitten.net/2009/07/23/are-you-there-god-its-me-sock/ My boyfriend is in Chicago for the American Library Association's Annual Conference, and since I couldn't go, I did the next best thing. I sent the sock. There's not much sock yet, only the toe and six pattern repeats, but I obviously had to take a break from working on it in ... http://knitkitten.net/2009/07/12/sock-in-the-windy-city/