Posts Tagged ‘Sweater’

We live about 2 miles from campus, and I’ve been walking to class a lot. It would be a lie to say that I walk all the time, but I end up hoofing it a good deal of the time. This week, we’ve had about five consecutive days of rain so after walking to class [...]


I achieved a new personal best over the weekend in the form of pie. Apple pie, to be specific.

The picture doesn’t really do justice to this pie’s awesomeness. You just have to trust me. (Actually, six other people partook of this pie, so if you really don’t trust me I’m sure I can provide you [...]


Here I go, giving this whole blog thing another whirl . . .
Aidan and I have been in Syracuse for about a month now. And although we’re still feeling some of the residual stress that inevitably comes with significant life changes, we’re both enjoying the city, our new apartment, the cats, each other, etc. Over [...]


Last week at our knit night, Abby and I cast on for the Whisper Cardi (Rav link) together.

I’m using Knitpicks Shadow in Snorkel, and I really like the way the yarn is knitting up. It’s a heathered blue with green undertones so the color has a lot of dimension. It’s also insanely soft. Unfortunately, the [...]


Well, I’ve been traveling, so I’ve been a couple of places. But mostly, I think I’ve been pulled into a time suck where I keep meaning to do various things (like blog) but keep forgetting or running out of time and meanwhile time just keeps passing so quickly that I think I’m developing some anxiety [...]


New Things

12Jan09

I have three finished items that I still need to post about, but I haven’t got around to taking pictures of them yet due to a combination of gloomy weather, forgetfulness, and a recently discovered need for some pretty serious cat hair removal. I strongly warn anyone against leaving anything black laying out too long [...]


This past June (or was it May?), I decided to take advantage of my extra summer knitting time to take on Thermal, a sweater I’ve wanted to knit since the pattern came out but felt intimidated by the skinny yarn and tiny needles. I ended up finishing most of the knitting in about six weeks, [...]