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November 30, 2007

Worth two in the bush, or four even

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November 28, 2007

Already 730 days old

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November 26, 2007

Wintergreen

Upddated to add you'll need 100g per color of worsted weight yarn and your gauge depends on the size you want. For a 8 (8 1/4, 8 1/2, 9) in (20.3 [21, 21.6, 22.9] cm) mitten you'll want a stitch gauge of 29 (28, 27, 26)=4 in/10cm

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November 16, 2007

"The Leafy Thing"

The leafy thing is a mitten. I'm going to have the pattern available here pretty soon. Look.

I'm also working on another mitten. It has no cuff yet. I just started it above the cuff. And there are surprises on the other side, but I want to fix them up a little bit before showing you. I was messing around with embroidering a little but I'm not nuts about it. It actually looks nicer in person though.

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November 14, 2007

Random

1. Jenny and Nicole of Stash and Burn are what I listen to every Friday morning while I am knitting and working. They interviewed me and it's up. I didn't have any alcohol in the house but I still managed to listen to it. Just barely.

2. Spinning you haven't seen yet

3. Knitting you haven't seen yet

4. I took a class with Fiona Ellis a couple of weeks ago. She was awesome and I had a blast.

5. If anyone calls me again to make an appointment with Doctor Schlepchick? Slapstick? Flapjack? Stepkickballchange? I am going to go ballistic. And no, Michael doesn't live here.

6. Tadpole is asleep and it's very very quiet in the house right now. I LOVE IT! I am going to close my computer, turn off the phone and finish a mitten. See ya.

Posted by kate at 02:05 PM | Comments (18)

November 08, 2007

Eyes on the prize

I'm out of control. Check out the numbers.

Patterns I'm writing:
1. gray sweater
2. mitten
3. raglan
4. a project I've been working on alternately redoing and avoiding for literally years

Projects I'm actively knitting:
5. the gray sweater
6. handspun socks
7. socks for Tadpole

Projects I haven't touched recently:
8. cashmere socks that I started at Rhinebeck and want to redo
9. pinwheel blanket
10. knee highs
11. orange Marina Piccolas
12. a bunny
13. trekking socks
14. fair isle socks
15, 16. I have 2 baby gifts I have to knit and think about constantly but don't get anywhere with.
... I have maybe 2 other pairs of socks that were started but need to be ripped so I'm not counting them

17-39. And I have 23 projects that I want to design and work on and I think about them a lot because they're always more appealing than what I'm doing... and that number's only so low because I haven't gone through my sketchbooks lately.

And this doesn't count spinning. I have 2 spinning projects going.

I'm not getting anything done. I'm making up some rules so I can start to.

• I'm not allowed to start any new projects no matter how fun or brilliant or interesting or appealing.


• The handspun socks are only to be knit on the bus or in other situations when I need mindless, quick knitting


• Friday mornings are strict working time (I pretty much do this already)


• Read my lips - no new spinning


• I must finish 2 of the patterns I'm writing before starting a new one


• I'm going to set a deadline and try to stick to it


• I can't touch the box of washed locks that Cheryl sent me before these two patterns are done

Now, what is a reasonable deadline and how am I going to stick to it? I suppose I should tell you my deadline so I'm risking public humiliation by missing it... help.

Posted by kate at 09:15 AM | Comments (23)

November 02, 2007

Photos brought to you by the letter L

I'm too lazy to write or take photos of what I'm working on today so I give you photos that only by chance have captions starting with L.

Posted by kate at 02:43 PM | Comments (25)