Knitting! Plus some gardening, cocktails, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
2006 was my most knittingest year so far. I completed 14 projects, including one sweater. However, not everything I started in 2006 I finished, and I am carrying some things over. As I have a lot of knitting I want to do this year, I …
First up, if you have always wanted a like-new copy of Alice Starmore’s Aran Knitting, I am selling my copy through my parents on ebay. They are mingmags37, and the auction ends Thursday at 10 pm PDT. I bought the book new, looked at it …
I took Cara up on her offer to assign letters for the new meme journeying around the blogosphere. She gave me R. So here are 10 things, ideas, themes, theories that pertain to me that start with R. 1. READING Compared to today’s children, I …
M and I returned yesterday to California from visting family in Illinois and Wisconsin. Today I wondered how to get back into the blog. Recap the vacation? Show the holiday knitting loot? Sum up the year in knitting? Look forward to 2007? What to do? …
Christmas Knitting. Check. Christmas Beading. Check. Christmas Shopping. Check. Christmas Laundry (we travel). Check. We fly Thursday! Must leave home by 5:30 a.m. to make flight! Ack! M cut out a few of my Christmas beading gifts as too much (they were for his relatives). …
First off, no one who I know reads this blog can accidentally see one of her gifts, so reading on cannot spoil any surprises. Second, today we had 9 hours, 29 minutes of daylight; I spent 10 hours at work. The photos are on my …
I have been complimented on my perseverance and dedication, which I have always associated with will power. Will power is great when one has to do enough replicates of a tedious, demanding experiment to get statistically significant results. But when it comes to sock yarn, …
The problem with knitting projects that are large triangles or rectangles is that progress shots aren’t exactly a thrill. So, although I will talk about one of my projects, lets get to it through a small tour of the knitting blogosphere. First, I am still …
It hasn’t been the best of autumns here at Molecular Knitting, but then again, it hasn’t been the worst of autumns either. I am having to review what I learned from cognitive behavioral therapy, because my brain thought it would be fun to go back …
Is it just me or is beta-blogger driving other people nuts? I think I am going to have to sit down with HTML, XHTML, & CSS and just figure out how to make my own template. I am not finding Beta-Blogger easier to use, and …