absurdity
This pattern is just not my Clapotis….
After months–months, I tell you!–of hemming and hawing over what I would do with the fabulous, beautiful skein of hand-dyed merino/bamboo Celebration (from Briar Rose Fibers), which I bought at the Greencastle Fiber Event in early April, I have at long last cast on for a project. At least a project that I didn’t immediately [...]
The increasingly inaccurately named Thrice-Knit Hat
This is the story of a hat. A very bad hat. In fact, it might very well be the horror-knitting-story hat-oriented version of that new movie that’s coming out about the teenage girl being haunted by the ghost of her unborn twin brother.
The first version of this hat, now frogged, has come back to haunt [...]
Dropped stitch or dropped brain?
I am a total moron. I dropped the wrong stitch in this drop-stitch pattern during the three-needle bind-off process. In my own stupid pattern. You’d think I’d have seen it when I did it, but nooooooooo. It’s fixed now, but I’m soured on the project and have moved on to something more soul sucking: grading.
The Life Academic with Steve Zissou
Does it ever strike you that the academic world is really more like a Wes Anderson movie than the other way around? Although I do have to admit that Bill Murray and Angelica Houston very rarely appear in my day-to-day life….
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