Well, it’s certainly still winter in the Northland. It’s been blizzarding here all day. We’ve got a lot of heavy snow and high winds. I got the morning off from work and the evening off from night class, so I only had to go to my two afternoon classes today. Which is a good thing [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 30, 2009
100th Post & Pop Up Paws
This is my 100th post. Isn’t that neat? It’s taken me over two years to get to 100 posts since I’ve posted very sporadically at some points, but I’m happy that I’ve kept this blog up and running. Hopefully the 200th post won’t take quite as long to arrive.
Leave me a comment, will you? I’ll [...]
March 29, 2009
Sock Innovation
Cookie A’s new book, Sock Innovation, just came out. If you haven’t seen it yet, go look. I’ll wait.
Amazing, right?
I’ve been looking for a third class to teach this summer and decided that this book would be just the thing. Lucky for me, my LYSO agreed. It will be a choose-your-own kind of class, where [...]
March 27, 2009
My Happy Bag
It seems to happen every spring. The snow starts to melt and I get into some kind of slump. My moods go up and down and I don’t feel like doing much. Especially classwork.
I hit one of those slumps this week. I normally live for social dancing, but at salsa on Wednesday night I didn’t [...]
March 25, 2009
Spiraluscious
We managed to get in a few photos today between the periods of rainsnow that we’ve been having. There’s not much for sunlight, but at least we weren’t too wet.
I’ll be teaching a class on Spiraluscious this summer and this is the shop sample for it. It’s a shame this one belongs to the LYS, [...]
March 24, 2009
Gray
I was hoping to show you some cheery pictures of my finished Spiraluscious cowl today, but it was much too dreary outside to take photos. Hopefully tomorrow the rain will stop and the sun might even peep out. Sweetie has the day off tomorrow too, so we’ll have to figure out some way to get [...]
March 23, 2009
15 Year Plan
I’m a big fan of NBC’s show Life. I’m rarely home to watch actual television, so I normally watch it online shortly after it’s aired. The latest episode introduced a new detective. She’s always prepared: she’s gone to law school, competed in the Olympics, and speed reads. She also has a 15-year plan: law school, [...]
March 16, 2009
Spring Break?
I’m officially on spring break, but it isn’t much of a break. I’m not travelling to anywhere exotic, and I’m going to try to get a lot of work done. Not that I’m complaining–it may not be a vacation, but it is a break in classes that allows me to get a few other things [...]
March 13, 2009
Am I an Idiot?
Sometime last year, I saw some legwarmers in Interweave Knits. They were perfect for a friend of mine. Perfect.
Except that they’re sized for someone that doesn’t have tap dancing, rock climbing calves.
That meant that a prototype was in order. A prototype knit to pattern specifications (besides a minor difference in gauge) that would determine if [...]
March 9, 2009
Finished Lillie Sweater
Pattern: Little Lillie Sweater by Carol Anderson of Cottage Creations
Yarn: 1.7 skeins of Plymouth Dreambaby DK Prints #0303
Needles: US 4 Brittany straights
Made for: The little one my boss is expecting
Timeline: February 9-March 8 2009
Modifications: Used smaller yarn and needles and only knit body and sleeves to 4″ for a newborn size.
Worst Part: Not having the [...]
