Molecular Knitting

Well, this sweater has been done for a while; I’ve worn it many times. However, it was hard to find a non-rainy-foggy day to take some photos. We finally got ONE sunny day, so in the morning I stood at the edge of the muddy field of winter wheat next to our building and Michael [...]

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The “little grey cells” have been letting me down lately. My counting skills have degenerated to those of ancient humans, which had only three numbers: one, two, and more than two. I got started with the giant ball of yarn from my last post, which is the Corvid species of BMFA Raven series in BFL [...]

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What do you do when the sun refuses to shine for the seventy bazillionith day in a row, it’s either foggy or raining outside all the time, and you can’t decide what large project you should start knitting? Why, teach yourself magic loop and knit yourself a cowl! At least that’s what I did, since [...]

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Well, after 2 weeks of overcast skies in California, M and I spent the holidays in Illinois and Wisconsin, dodging blizzards and arctic blasts. We came back to CA on New Year’s Eve, and for the next 48 hours I  despaired that we would never see the sun again. But late Sunday afternoon, the skies [...]

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