Pumpkins! On! Fire!
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Tanith in Pumpkin Spice Pattern: Flamethrower Socks by Chrissy Gardiner Started: 08/30/12 Completed: 10/12/12 Notes: crazy yarn is crazy!
Month: June 2013
Under the Dome
Oh! I just realized in my updating Goodreads this morning I forgot to review this one. Not relevant to this post, though, which is really more about my confusion with the show. I started this off as an email to Sharon, and decided just to make it a blog post …
Nine Princes in Amber
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny My rating: 5 of 5 stars One of my favorites that I reread every five years or so, and when I found out it was – finally – out in audio I had to snap it up. I’m having a hard time with …
Good clean fun
I’ve spent the last three days… two days? This is day three, and I’ve already started this morning before writing this up…. so almost three days up to my armpits in soap. Here’s where I was: “I have a lot of soap fragrances. Some I use a lot. Some it …
Don’t ask me for Tim’s Crackaroni and Cheese recipe
Because I’m not 100% sure. It may be this one, with no shallots and about six times as much bacon. Seriously, when is only three pieces of bacon good for a whole casserole?! Pff. ANYWAY. I made some stoneware casserole dishes, and Tim claimed one before I even had them …
Last week was yarn week….
… and this…. … became this…. (Technically there was also a “before” stage wherein all that yarn was white, and in bags from my supplier, but who needs a photo of that?!) Which means that I’m getting the kinks worked out of my “new” schedule, the one I’ve been working …
Spinny spin spin
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of this, which is great; not only do I have a backlog of fiber, but it’s all been social spinning so I’ve been seeing a lot of my friends as well. I may actually have some handspun to list and sell soon – how …
Ship on the Ocean
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Tiptree in Serentiy Pattern: Waves and Piers Socks by Charlene Schurch and Beth Parrott Started: 08/30/12 Completed: 09/22/12 Notes: none
It’s getting better all the tiiii-iiiii-iiiime
Well, we had that one big barking squealing going-for-the-neck episode wherein I had to pull Corwin (“Dog”) off Lindy (“Other Dog”) by her tail, and since then we’ve had two small yip/squeak episodes that ended when I yelled “HAIGH!” (Southern accent included for your amusement) louder than they were barking…. …
Conwy, take three
Yarn: Zen Garden Serenity Sock Pattern: Conwy by Nancy Bush Started: 07/25/12 Completed: 08/30/12 Notes: I keep knitting this pattern and then loving it so much I wear the socks out.
The one where Tim whips up a Moroccan dinner for nine people in six hours
Well. That title pretty much says the whole thing. We have a birthday trifecta; Uncle Joe’s birthday is on June 9th, my mom’s birthday is June 10th, and Tim’s mom’s birthday is June 11th. This year was Unca Joe’s 70th birthday, so we were doing something special on Sunday with …
Unexpectedly harder and cracked
I have this great idea for a series of mugs. Quotes about literature! And I could sell them in a local bookstore! I’ve been wanting to do these for a while. So why didn’t they come out fully-formed and perfect?! They almost did. I was so excited when I fired …
Tropical Storm Andrea
I thought it was a joke when someone mentioned a tropical storm coming our way last week. After all, didn’t hurricane season just start on the 1st? How could have have a TS already, by the 3rd? Go home, Mother Nature! You’re drunk! True enough, though, we did have one, …
Seven of Nine
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Tepper in Raspberry Beret Pattern: dogwood by tincanknits Started: 07/18/12 Completed: 08/21/12 Notes: I made the three purple squares. Co-knitted with Rhea, Laura De., Laura Da., and Sharon for our lovely friends Caitlin and Greg and their first little “finished object” together. (That’s not their baby modeling, that’s Lala’s …
The Tripod Conundrum
I’ve been trying to figure out how lonely Corwin might or might not be. I mean, she’s always enthusiastic when I walk into a room, she’s not … listless… but she does spend a lot of time looking out the window. It’s probably too human of me to think that …
I feel like the band is back together
I love Wild Iris Books, I truly do – but their future landlord is not exactly speedy on the construction, and you probably remember that after ICFA in March I was kind of like, “I need to spend more time with people before I become feral”. OK. More feral. And …