stash, knit, repeat

Can I even express in words how FRUSTRATING it is that I’m writing this post over dial-up? I don’t think so. The DSL folks say that it might be another 3-4 business days before we get real network connectivity, here. No blog reading over morning coffee for me, and I’m totally going through withdrawal. Sigh. [...]

This weekend, Neil kindly wore the cable yoke sweater in rather warm San Jose weather so that I could snap a few shots. Pattern: Cable Yoke Sweater from Debbie Bliss’ “Wish You Were Here” collection Yarn: RYC Cotton Jeans, color “shingle”, 20 balls for the 38″ size (chest measurement 42″) Time Elapsed: Well under a [...]

We have had our little iMac since early 2002. Almost 6 years is a lot to ask of any computer, and it served us very well. It’s been flaky a lot lately, but we assumed it would just keep plugging until we were ready to give it up. Not so much. Earlier this week, it [...]

Planes, if nothing else, are good for knitting. (That is, assuming one is not traveling with a toddler. I’d almost forgotten what it was like!) The trip went well, the new tenants are pretty funny and seem like good folks, I got a ton and a half of knitting done, and upon my return I [...]

I’m beating it back to Boston again tonight, this time to spend one and a half crazy days changing our condo over from one tenant to another. You know what that means: More plane knitting time! The Cable Yoke sweater is coming along well, although working with such heavy cotton does wear on the hands [...]

Well, I can say one good thing about spending so much time on my tush in tin cans this weekend. It helps me bypass second sock/sleeve syndrome pretty easily. (Two sleeves for my friend Neil’s birthday sweater, one completed Sidewinder, one in-progress. Boo yah.) The Sidewinder pattern didn’t exactly make the STR behave. It still [...]

I’m headed to Maine for the funeral this weekend, and my travel itinerary (bus, plane, andtrain!) is a little nightmarish. Fortunately, I’ll have my knitting with me, and even more fortunately, this is no longer among my knitting: Blocking will have to wait until I return, but hooray! The darn shawl is done done done! [...]