Lessons in enforced breaks.

I always feel completely and utterly betrayed when I get sick. Like my body’s failed me on some level or another. Mind you, my body probably feels exactly the same way about my slave-driving ways and this is something along the lines of a showdown at high noon. Clearly, I haven’t left my days of … Continue reading »

The Yarn Hamlet

I will post more later, but I’m exhausted. It’s been a long few days. I just wanted to blog for posterity something that started innocently enough on FB, but due to sheer geekiness and not a little bastardisation of The Bard, became a little bit of what the exceptionally brilliant GidgetKnits and I have deemed The … Continue reading »

In which the heroine lives a little.

So I don’t drink. Not if I can possibly help it. I haven’t since 2004. Yes, it is a long time ago, and yes, that does still surprise people. Okay, so I have the odd something here and there, but the moon has to turn blue first, really, for me to consider it. I like … Continue reading »

I was writing, thinking with my longhand…

….and back! You didn’t think I’d disappeared again, did you? Yes? I’m sorry. I need to do something about that. Let’s just say I’ve been busy. There has been knitting! Tomas #1 was on and off the needles in record time (3 days, I think), and despite the candy-cane striping of the Needlefood “Eat your … Continue reading »

Sock it to the dragon…

2011 began with a perfect evening and fireworks across the bay. It topped off a lovely BBQ with some old friends and making some new ones. Great! It was followed by (new-ish) neighbours of ours drunkenly singing until about 4 in the morning. Not so great. That was followed by a trip to the famous-in-the-Bay … Continue reading »

And then there were ten…

Shawl #10 had very definite ideas about what it wanted to be. 5 different patterns were frogged before the yarn and I had a long, hard talk about what exactly it was looking for in a pattern before we agreed on the Traveling Woman shawl. I didn’t think it’d take that long to knit, but … Continue reading »

The Silly Season.

I’m home! And feeling very geeky. My knitting is sharing my lap with my laptop, my iPad has my pattern on it, and there’s fruitcake and tea in easy reach. The doors are all open, and there are people having light conversation on the deck. It’s been a lazy day (although my lie-in was rudely … Continue reading »

Double Rainbow (apologies NF)

So I’m watching 186 cyclists struggle up the Col des Aravis. I’m going to get up and watch them do the Col de la Madeleine later. I’ve really missed le Tour. It’s almost funny to say that over the past three years I’ve lived from July to July. It’s been quite a year for me, … Continue reading »

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I’ve not vanished off the face of the planet, I promise. It’s just been a little busy finishing up a chapter over here. My wrists decided it would be funny to start acting up about a week ago and I had to stop everything – knitting, typing, editing – for four or five days. Not … Continue reading »

Yep. It’s that time of year.

I cast on Myrtle the other day. My word, that Glenora silk-alpacky is amazing – ladies, yarn-cake it, and knit with it – you NEED to. I can see this shawl taking a good deal of time. And another order of addi turbo lace needles. I’ll post a photo as soon as it’s long enough … Continue reading »