These are a few of my favorite things….

The 2008 cycle of Olympic gymnastics has begun, and it started on a high note, both as a couch potato and as a spectator (the two activities having subtly different emphases).
In couch-potato terms, I finished one of my 2 big summer writing projects and printed out a draft of the other to read for sentences [...]

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There is no knitting. There is no writing. Not that both aren’t being done, just not documented pictorially. There has, however, been crafting. The crafting itself was undertaken weeks ago, but the fruits of the crafting have only recently come to, um… To fruition.

Behold, Lime-cello! There’s limoncello and grapefruit-cello where that came from too. Because [...]

Home is…wait where is home supposed to be again?

It’s been a while since I felt the kind of displacement that comes from spending a few weeks on someone else’s floor and hunting down guest Internet connections in a city that’s theoretically home. In what I’m finding is a fairly regular alignment of the stages of various things in different parts of my life, [...]

Une bière avec les tricoteurs? Mais oui!

The Oregon Brewers Festival is usually unpredictable, owing to the flammable combination of copious amounts of beer, an even greater assortment of people and the heat of an Oregon summer afternoon.

This year, BrewFest exceeded even my expectations–which are admittedly high–thanks to the sprightly combination of knitters and the open vibes inspired by Portland’s friendly atmosphere. [...]

Drink more

The last 10 rows of Icarus are slow going, partly because of the repetitive stitch pattern, partly because of the length of the rows and partly because I keep working on it while I taste beer.
BrewFest has been amazing so far. If you’re going, Dragon’s Milk is a definite must-try as is the Scurvy Coffee [...]

Did Icarus look at his feet when he was upside down?

Today has been a confusing day. To wit: I drove around the Indy 500 racetrack (in a bus), rode on 2 planes (for a total 7 hours), knit 8 rows on my nearly-done Icarus shawl (more than 2.5 hours of knitting, or over 20 minutes a row), took a fantastic photograph with 3 major Cascade [...]

How not to steek….

Steeking requires a very specific set of tools. Usually, that tool set requires scissors, a crochet hook, a ruler or a gauge tool, swatches, a tapestry needle here or there, and maybe a spare DPN in case of serious emergency…. The tool set that is on my floor tonight is altogether different, because the steeking [...]

Melting pot or just melting plastic?

The Fourth of July is an odd holiday. You eat and drink goodies generally invented and perfected in other countries–the hamburger providing the lone exception to a list which included guacamole, salsa, tortilla chips, bratwurst, sauerkraut, tabouleh, rice, beer, sangria, rum, vodka, chocolate and cake–while peacefully celebrating the birth of your country by blowing up [...]

“His roar is long and loud….”

By which the movie producers mean, “He died a badly planned death in an inevitable battle and his warriors were equally grateful that he sent them into a hopeless fight to die similarly gruesome deaths.” Aren’t those warriors swell?
So I’ve just finished watching 300. I knew it was likely to be thin on plot, but [...]

World-Wide Knitting Proselytization Day!

Wait, does the “P” in WWKP stand for something else? Right, “Public.” Still, there certainly was proselytizing–complete with print collateral–at the All-Bloomington-all-the-time World-Wide Knit in Public Day.

Nicole at allbuttonedup and Katie at historyweaver put together flyers and business cards in anticipation of the hordes (see photographic evidence above, which also includes photos of Anna and [...]