February « 2008 « YarnGeek

This Is How It Starts

You get on a bloggy roll, post nearly every day for a whole week! Then the weather gets crappy and your stash of photos taken on the last good light day is depleted.

Then you go on a startitis binge and have nothing really to show except MORE Lizard Ridge squares (boring), the rolled-edge [...]

Ice, Ice, Baby

Choose the musical version wisely, lest your earworm become an 80′s has-been rather than a 70′s rock deity. (ETA: Evidently Wendy and I shared the same sentiments towards weather. )

Outside, the trees, bushes, roads and walkways are encased in a fairly icky ice storm. I discovered that it was perhaps a bit more [...]

The first finished…I can’t say square, because it isn’t, it’s a rectangle. Unit? Anyway, it’s the first one-of-those I’ve completed for this project, so it feels as though it ought to be a finished object, even though technically it’s not.

This is the last time [...]

A Study in Contrasts

I am totally cheating with this photo, because I didn’t want to give you all the blather to follow without SOMEthing to look at, even if it’s only an obligatory Lizard Ridge image. (but here’s a hint — that square? DONE.)

So here’s what’s good: WordPress has upgrades to fix some security holes, [...]

YarnGeek’s Neighborhood

I wish the camera had not been scattered in all its parts to the four winds prior to the deconstruction of my last thrift store sweater purchase.

We have a very large thrift store down Route 1 South from where I live in Alexandria, Virginia. I believe it goes by the inspired name of [...]

The Frog Pond That Consumed Albuquerque

This is Max:

Max would like it to stop raining now, please, so that he can chitter at the birdies some more. Max also is in the window that overlooks the pool in our backyard, shuttered for mechanical problems and the winter, which resembles the frog pond my knitting is about to become. [...]

Knitting in the Blood

But first, this is how much sock there was pre-stupidbowl:

And this is how much knitting happens from 30-minutes of pre-game show on through to the end of the crazy upset last night:

Lest you think it’s not that much, consider that there are two socks on the one needle. This is [...]

Juxtaposition

There are upsets –WAY TO GO ELI! — and there is serenity:

Some really lovely black, red, and white fiber that’s spinning up with a considerably greyer/more purple cast — Valkyrie from Flawful Fibers, and I think it’s Falkland wool. I’ll have to check the blog archives to be sure.

A basket [...]

Out On a Limb

To get this out of the way, there’s still open comments on my last post, in which I am comment whoring soliciting input and offering free yarn to a randomly chosen commenter, so you know, go see and comment, please?

I awoke this morning to actual sunlight! Given the weather of late in these [...]