crafting, dogs, coffee
This past Thursday I drove up to Oklahoma to visit my parents. Despite a hailstorm and a cracked windshield, it was a pretty nice trip. Last time I visited my parents, I dragged them to a couple of different yarn shops for a mini LYS crawl. This time my mom beat me to it. She […]
This Sunday, the Dallas SnB had a yarn swap. This is what I came home with– I got rid of the cursed red Debbie Bliss and some overly bright Knit Picks Palette. A bunch of old acrylic went to a women’s prison charity. The trading was fast and furious, but I managed to score 3 […]
Why can’t I figure out a way to knit and grade essay finals at the same time? Maybe I could use my feet to grade. I can flip papers over with my big toe and my pinky toe can type the grades into the computer. Anyone know why I decided to give an essay as […]
Oops. I forgot to pay attention to my fingers for a couple of hours and look what they did– They cast on the Sheep Shawl. Only four days early. That has to count for something, right? Originally, I had planned to cast this on the first day of summer vacation to celebrate being student-free for […]
I stopped by the Woolie Ewe just to see if they happened to have the Jaggerspun Zephyr that I need for the Peacock Feathers shawl. They were out of plum, but even if they did have it, I of course wouldn’t have bought it yet since there’s 3 more weeks of school left, and I […]
The Sheep Shawl haunts me; it calls to me. It needs to be knit. Now. The only reason that I haven’t succumbed to temptation and cast on is that I don’t have the right needle for it. Whoo. Dodged that. Is the fact that I’m also looking at yarn for the Peacock Feathers shawl a […]
Behold! I have started Matt’s socks. Hmm, kinda looks a little like a brown, wooly bra? But what is this? No DPNs? That is correct. I am attempting to magic loop socks. Not that I’ve ever magic looped socks before. And I think I may have jumped into the deep end of the pool without […]
Instead of a swift, I usually have Matt my husband or the other Matt hold my yarn. But today, my husband was using his hands to play video games, so I had to improvise. Here’s the swift in action- It doesn’t spin, so I have to hold the yarn above Bedtime Bear’s head […]
Finished the Simon Tam. Had to knit it sneaky like, on my planning period. I had no papers to grade and no lessons to plan, so what else was I to do? Looks purty darn good too. This is the hat still blocked over a dinner plate. Once I got the hang of the […]
Went to the DFW Fiber Fest this weekend. Lots and lots of eye candy there. Bought myself some purty new stitch markers and a new pattern that will most likely end up as my sister’s Christmas present. I didn’t buy any new yarn though. Hardcore stashers are now clutching their chests and reeling, I know, […]