Tuesday January 31, 2006
Here is Erin, with the blue bit. In fact, this is the section of the blue bit with the error in it. It is three rows down — or at least the beginning is. Three rows before this I made an error. […]
Monday January 30, 2006
Seduced by their extremely cool button, I am joining Team Wales for the Knitting Olympics. I am not in Wales, but being of Welsh ancestry, I am eligible. Actually, being partial to daffodils and crying over Cym Rhonda will do […]
Sunday January 29, 2006
I love The Wall Street Journal on fashion. For example, they say that pastels and beige are the coming thing for spring. Then they helpfully explain that this is because the sales of clothes are so poor that the fashionistas […]
Saturday January 28, 2006
Emboldened by your comments, I have bravely begun knitting with the blue. Craftymomma asked if this sweater is hard. As with so many things, the answer is a firm, “It depends.” If you are accustomed to color knitting and comfortable […]
Friday January 27, 2006
Okay, I am going to whine. So you can go read someone else’s blog today. I will not be hurt. I do not know this dog here — this is a picture Pokey sent me — but this is how […]
Thursday January 26, 2006
Here’s Erin, coming along at a very slow rate. I’ve been busy, that’s all. Here is Junieann’s Erin, and Nyl’s, and one from Tricotfolk. Elizabeth H. is planning to make this entire sweater in 16 days for the Knitting Olympics. […]
Wednesday January 25, 2006
The encyclopedia article is finished and mailed. I even found an event in that uneventful town. During the Civil War, nine prisoners of war were shot in the town I was writing about. Shot, mind you. Not suffocated, tortured to […]
Tuesday January 24, 2006
This is the fabric of the 1912 nightgown — I’m sorry for not giving details before. It is a woven check, all cotton. It doesn’t show to best advantage in this squashed-against-the-scanner shot, but it is a wonderfully soft fabric […]
Monday January 23, 2006
I am not sure that it is possible to see the details of my 1912 nightgown. The front is on the left and the back is on the right. It may be for the best that the pictures are not […]
Sunday January 22, 2006
“The best-laid plans of mice and men aft gang agley,” as the poet Burns said — though I can now never hear those words without thinking of Eddie Izzard. (It’s #14 if you scroll down the page, where it says […]