I was finally able to spend some quality time working on my Sunset Quilt, one of the two projects I have planned for the Fire element for Project Spectrum. I had the idea for this quilt after seeing a picture of a stick silhouetted against a red and orange streaked sunset sky (it’s barely visible […]
I went on a bit a bender on Thursday night (coincidently while on a bender watching Michael Palin’s Full Circle), and finished the left Fetching mitt redux. I added five rows above the thumb before knitting the cable row, which added the length I needed to get it to hit my knuckles where I wanted
After a rather pathetic run of January reading (I can read three books in a week if I really get going), I felt the need to turn to some comfort reading, so out came my copy of Robin McKinley’s Sunshine. This book is one of the few relatively recent books I’ve bought (and I bought
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Monkey socks are done! I love this yarn. It’s lovely and lightweight, yet nice and toasty (despite the holes in the pattern even!). I’m not sure what I’ll work on next. I could start the Fetching mitts again, because they’re at least quick, but it’s been surprisingly warm at home lately (my freezing computer room
Read for the Mythopoeic Award and 2008 TBR Challenges. I admit to picking up this book after reading all the hype surrounding it when it first came out. I actually bought it as a gift for my boyfriend, and in the spirit of it being a gift, originally left it to him to read it
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One of my coworkers will become a father in about two month’s time, so in pondering what I wanted to do as a present for the baby, since I could tell it involve a yarn order, I also decided to set my Project Spectrum house in order. The yarn order is now in, and here’s
The latest installment of the Masterpiece Theatre Jane Austen-athon was Mansfield Park, featuring Billie Piper, late of Doctor Who fame. It was a lovely little production that I very much enjoyed. This production, more than any of the others so far, has made me want to reread the book. There was a certain haste to
Well, I thought I might have some pictures this weekend, but that didn’t pan out. We spent a lovely weekend hanging out with friends in Hudson MA. We had a great Indian dinner on Saturday, and then went into Woburn for dim sum brunch on Sunday (at a branch of a place in Chinatown that’s
Monkey socks are coming along nicely, mostly because my brain has been too fried after work all week for me to do much more than sit on the couch and do something relatively mindless. There will not be much progress made this weekend, as we’re actually going away to see friends, and I’m not bringing
I added this book to my to read list after seeing the author on the Daily Show. He was an interesting speaker, and highlighted some of the more interesting points to this book, which examines what would happen if the human race were to suddenly disappear from the planet. It’s an alternately fascinating and depressing
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