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I forgot to title this one, and also there was a typo in the first line.
I have some green dk yarn, also. Its time has come. Last night I cast on for an “Accidentally On Purpose” vest from Stitch ‘N Bitch nation, but today, after converting the size and the gauge and making alterations and finishing something like 6?, I decided that this green yarn really wants to try being…
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Back From Georgia
The south is totally awesome and I’m lucky that I haven’t died of a heart attack from all of the deep-fried awesome that I consumed this weekend. I have a bit of a weird guilty love for the whole southern belle old money pageanty rednecky stereotype thing, even though my blue-state vegetarian grad studentness tends…
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Waiting For Spring
A couple of years ago Moderntales set out to publish quality webcomics that required a subscription. This would have been quite a task– webcomics typically have small audiences that are used to getting comics for free. I think Moderntales owed its initial success to its smart initial lineup, which included a few respectable indie print…
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Knitting Sightings
(Please pardon any errors in advance– I’m testing out some blogging from Flickr, and I have no idea what I’m doing.) The First: Wil Wheaton points our attention to the pictured sweater, which looks humorously like one that he wore as Wesley Crusher on The Next Generation. Back, and on clearance. Blame the nanites. (And…
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If There Was A Knitting Pulitzer
By coincidence, I read of Bush’s latest plan to expand the scope of the war and the Body Count Mittens in the same night. Lisa Anne Auerbach’s introductory post is here and the pattern is here (PDF). Most issues-conscious knitting seems to come from the Reese’s school of social movements (“Hey, you got knitting in…
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The End Of Yarn
I’m acquainted with a fair number of people who are sweating the death of “new” knitting, but I personally (and selfishly) don’t give a crap whether and how yarncraft goes back out of style. Knitting is hundreds of years old. The ebb of its pop-culture value isn’t going to make yarn disappear. And knowing how…
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The Completion of Another Invisible Sweater
In lieu of some pictures of holiday knitting, here’s my unfinished Stained Glass scarf from Handknit Holidays. The real holiday knitting has been grueling and unrelenting, but I’m not posting pictures of any pre-gifted goodies. Hell, I won’t be able to post a few of them even after they’ve been gifted. This has been the…