Pensive Frog

My camera has re-emerged, so here’s a pic of the finished Coronet hat. The color is wildly inaccurate - it’s actually a dark teal color. The pattern worked ok, but I had to do three fewer repeats on the cabled band to get the required length. That meant fewer available stitches to [...]

Well, still looking for my camera, so no new pix. I know it made it back from vacation, because we scavenged its batteries to use in the TV remote just the other day. So we’ll have to make do with some verbal artistry. Cough. Anyway, I tried to get a start [...]

I’m back from vacation, and I ended up abandoning my plans to tackle Clapotis on the road. I’m not very good at working complicated patterns while carrying on conversations, and that’s what visiting family for the holidays is all about. I did complete the cashmerino Coronet, photos to be posted as soon as [...]

Now that I’m finally done with finals week, I’m taking a few days off blogging as I travel to the nether regions of America for Christmas, also known as the land of very few LYSs. I leave you with a photo of what will be my holiday travel project, a version of Clapotis worked in [...]

It seems like most of my TV-based posts are about the Amazing Race, but it’s so darn amazing, I can’t help myself. It was quite amazing, for example, that Bolo could have thought it was a good idea to nosh on some of the raw pork he was making into sausages. Perhaps pro [...]

Okay, Super Eggplant has a new tutorial on making fancy drawstring bags, so I thought I’d post my simplified instructions as well. The downside to my pattern is that you get raw fabric edges where the drawstring comes out. If you want all your edges hemmed, trot on over to SE. Step [...]

For the past few years, I have made some sort of crafty stocking stuffer for family members at Christmas. Last year it was holiday marble magnets, a la Not Martha. The year before, we made a blend of mulling spices for apple cider. This year, it’s hot cocoa mix in little holiday [...]

Here’s the Cuzco poncho, all laid out and blocked on Friday. Recall that I started knitting on this thing Wednesday morning. Now it’s all dry and ready to be seamed, but I don’t know if I can concentrate enough during the Survivor finale (and obligate reunion special). Who will it be? [...]

Cuzco poncho, or something Elvis pulled out of his shower drain?

If anyone has need of a quick holiday gift project, I can highly recommend the Cuzco poncho, free pattern available from Elann. I’ve worked on it for about 4 hours (watching TV, on the bus), and I’m almost a third of the way done. I think it will look very nice, the yarn is wonderfully [...]

I didn’t get home until late last night because I was out knitting, but there’s always time to queue up Amazing Race on the TiVo. Jonathan and Victoria were especially well-behaved in Senegal, perhaps it was the calming effect of Jonathan’s furry blue Gilligan hat, kinda like this, but leopard print. I feel [...]

Last night as I was trying to go to sleep, I was hit with the realization that there will probably never be another season of Average Joe. The producers did a really good job of filming Average Joe 1 and 2 simultaneously so as not to give away the premise, but darn it, why [...]

Hooray, the new winter knitty is out and boy, there are lots of good projects in there! I am a huge fan of small projects, due to their portability and (theoretical) quick finishing time. Just the other day I put in an Elann order for 6 balls of Peruvian Collection Cuzco to make [...]

I made this little pouch with some Noro Kureyon I had leftover from making a Booga Bag. I just knitted a long rectangle, then sewed it together into a long pouch. Into the washer for some felting, then I sewed in a fabric liner and added a zipper! I had never done linings or zippers [...]

Goody bag

I utterly forgot to mention one hideous and hilarous detail of Thanksgiving. So I ordered my turkey from the aforementioned Larry’s Market. I had the choice of a free-range, hormone and antibiotic-free turkey, the same from California (la di da) OR - the Northwest Natural, a turkey without all the hype. All [...]