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Lace, you vex me.

I have picked up a hibernating project in the past couple of days, after becoming frustrated that the Interlocking Leaves sock I finished was bound-off too tightly (I am undoing it and will re-do it using a sewn  bind-off). And … Continue reading

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Hello, Monday!

Not bad, as these things go. The weekend was so incredibly full that today felt like a tiny break. Today I went to work and then afterward mowed the lawn with a manual mower, which gave me a great sense … Continue reading

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Stuff this week, condensed version.

I have been rather busy. So here’s what has gone on lately: 1. Finished the Rivendell socks! Ends not woven in. But still finished. 2. Made progress on the Interlocking Leaves socks. This is also an accomplishment. I hardly recognize … Continue reading

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Why I knit, #29

[Funnily enough, this is a line for exactly the same sort of thing I’m talking about, only in a different location, and taken by cafemama, who I do not know, but feel camraderie with, as she and I  have obviously … Continue reading

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Dude.

Things are going pretty much better than usual. I have: ♦ Entertained friends for the weekend. ♦ Taken said friends to the drive-in for a double feature of GI Joe and Transformers 2 (GI Joe is superior to Transformers 2, … Continue reading

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That’s a lot of knitting.

Guerilla Knitting in Australia. Yep. That’s a whole public toilet. Kinda makes you want to finish all those UFOs, not?

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Hello, Monday

Oh, you are such a Monday. But I have a working laptop, so that’s good. The new hard drive is in, and I only appear to have lost all my fonts (this is a bigger deal than it sounds) and … Continue reading

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Not much.

Which is what I got done last night. So. I came home Wednesday and the husband said, “Your computer won’t turn on.” Well, crap. I tried it and lo and behold, he was right (not that I doubted him at … Continue reading

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Real fiber news!

So. I did much fiber stuff this weekend, although I had planned to do more. Yesterday was blissfully unproductive. I sort of sat around all day in my pajamas, and got nothing real accomplished. But Saturday? Saturday was quite productive. … Continue reading

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I know

Why I don’t save more money: I am impulsive. Like today, for example – on a whim, I went online and checked to see if there was a copy of Social Life in Medieval Rajasthan available, and lo and behold … Continue reading

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