tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306669382011-09-30T08:03:18.181-04:00kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.comBlogger1861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-30952126212987731872011-09-18T16:46:00.000-04:002011-09-18T16:46:54.986-04:00

Well, I could pretend that I was traveling all summer and couldn't update. Or, I could say that I was working my ass off at work, and was so tired I couldn't update. That's closer to the truth, but the truth of it is that I hit a low point this summer where I just couldn't make myself do anything. I was just barely getting through the days, and the way I did it was to just ignore everything. I

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Today after work, I went to see the documentary !Women Art Revolution at the IFC Center. This is a really amazing piece of history, which is how I ended up there, really. From the postcard I picked up at the theater: "For more than 40 years, filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has collected a plethora of interviews with her contemporaries--and shaped them into an intimate portrayal of their fight to

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I'm still around. We have a house guest crashing on our aerobed right now, which has thrown all our routines and plans into a muddle. He's just moved to JC from Dallas, and had to start his job before his apartment was available on June 1. And he's a great guy, but it's hard having a third person taking up space. We only have two rooms in our house! But that's ok. I'm glad we are here to support

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Well, it's not early anymore, but I've got the second of three loads of laundry in, and in ten minutes, I'll go down and switch out the first and second in the dryer. Need to vacuum, finish reading a chapter of a late, late, LATE manuscript, practice the drums, and perhaps later, knit a bit while watching a movie. I've just found another list I want to try to run down--50 essential Gay & Lesbian

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So I'm going to celebrate by finally unloading FO #11: Pattern: Citron Yarn: Malabrigo Sock, 1 skein, almost all of it used. Needles: US 6 straights Notes: I found this tedious to knit, and really annoying. I don't know why, exactly, as it is just stockinette, but I just didn't enjoy the knitting of this project at all. I initially started it when I did as a break from knitting socks, but

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Where the hell have I been? Well, my little peanut shells, I've been **clap clap clap clap** deep in the heart of Texas! I had a two week long business trip that I will tell you ALL ABOUT once I've also written it up for my employer, who I'm sure, is waiting with baited breath for my giant report. However, lest my two faithful followers think I feel off the face of the earth, I thought it

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Jesus. Poor Chantal. She's gonna be fine though. She's gorgeous, rich, and has a supportive family. Even if she's saddled with that ridiculous name. I still secretly liked her best. Well, Tracey, you were right! It was a foregone conclusion--he really DOES prefer little passive Emily, cute as a button, talking around her teeth, yet raising a daughter on her own. Crazy. I especially like how they

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-37625088572321448022011-03-13T22:04:00.000-04:002011-03-13T22:04:29.570-04:00

I'll tell you--I'm in the middle of hell month right now. I just got back from a week in England (for work, my friends, for work--totally different experience...), and after a week in the office in which I frantically cleaned and organized in preparation for our move to new office space April 1, I get to leave for a two-week campus tour of Texas on Tuesday. I'm hating life right now--it

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-70215579329235706932011-02-11T21:50:00.000-05:002011-02-11T21:50:40.105-05:00

Ok, well, only socks, socks. Because 'more socks' isn't finished. I've got a self-imposed sock club going on this year, and so far, two finished pairs of socks! I'm on the ribbing of the third pair too, but more on that in a second. FO #3: Pattern: Zokni Socks Yarn: Knit Picks Essential yarn (now Stroll), in a nice, woodsy green color Needles: US 2 (2.75mm) I love these socks. They're so

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-52360174369323604422011-01-29T16:32:00.000-05:002011-01-29T16:32:49.531-05:00

Oh goody. Another episode of THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY. I've gotten so many knitting books and magazines since Christmas (thanks, Salwa--call me, I've lost your number!), that I thought I'd take one post and just do a round up of all the mags for Winter 2010-2011. Then each book will most likely get a post of its own later. Plus, I also have January socks that are finished!!! SO excited

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-88182313601741220822011-01-24T19:07:00.000-05:002011-01-24T19:07:19.022-05:00

At this point, I'm averaging one update a week. Oh well. This has been a crazy week, with the start of Project 333 (for me), and then lots of plans over the weekend. I took a sick day today to recover from it all. I know, that's questionable behavior, but I was teetering on the edge of exhaustion, and was very foul tempered. Now, I've had extra time to sleep, to clean, and to do a few of the

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Am I crazy for trying this? I've been reading this blog for a while, and I've been watching her efforts over the last few months. I really wasn't interested at first. It seemed too hard, too many rules, too limiting... But lately, I've been looking at my closet with exasperation. I don't feel like I keep many clothes, but still, I don't seem to have any room in my closet at all. I have been

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Welcome, everyone, to 2011. I don't know about you, but I was so glad to kick 2010 to the curb. This year can't possibly turn out like that one. I'm not going to let it. We had some good times (Berlin, I'm looking at you!), but it was overall a very rough year. I had to train a new assistant three times, my mom was in a car accident, and money's been pretty tight for everyone. I just always felt

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Well, the mittens for my assistant are done, and wrapped up at work for giving on Monday. I think they turned out spectacularly, if I do say so myself, and I really, really wanted to keep them. I finished the knitting of the second one at my knitting group last Tuesday, and when I got to the thumb, it turned out I'd not picked up the stitches correctly around the base of the thumb, where it meets

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-80033458921596580872010-12-05T15:49:00.000-05:002010-12-05T15:49:29.911-05:00

Oh, Christmas knitting. The bane of every knitter's existence. Do I like doing it? No. And normally I don't do it at all, except to knit something small for my assistant. For the last three years, that's been Matthew. He's gotten a scarf, hat, and mitts. Now, I have a new assistant to knit for. And on top of that, she's a crocheter! Big time, like knows Tunisian crochet and everything. So maybe

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I just spent a few hours shopping for toys. No, not these kind of toys or even these kind, although that is tempting... Um. What was I saying? Oh, yeah, kids. Kids are challenging. They're just one big mess of WANT and NEED, and there are a bazillion ways to satisfy those things, and unless you know the particular child, chances are, you'll choose wrong. But when Kevin came around the office with

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Right, so this year isn't going to hold a candle to last year in terms of sheer volume of FOs piling off the needles. In fact, I can't think of a year when I was busier or more crazed. But I guess we've been lucky--nothing terrible's happened. Everyone still has all their limbs, and jobs, and houses, and so forth. My mom did get into a terrible car accident, but SHE WALKED AWAY FINE. She just had

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I've been taking lessons on the drum set now since January, and I'm getting to the point where I'm starting to learn improvisation. I'll do these repetition exercises, but instead of just playing what's on the page like I have been, my teacher, David, has set up these areas where I have to plug in some of the other beat combinations that I've been practicing, without stopping to think about it.

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It has come to my attention that I may be numbering things incorrectly. Or maybe I've just missed out on a few projects I've done this year. I'm actually up to 15. 1. The Friday Scarf--I never wear this and I kind of hate it. It's just an awkward size and is not something that I ever reach for. I probably should take it out again though. The air conditioning in our office is just out of control.

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-51610913060870949432010-09-13T21:35:00.000-04:002010-09-13T21:35:16.038-04:00

I'm back! I have so many vacation posts to do. Europe is awesome. But before that, I feel like I'm losing track of my knitting progress. I never talked about this beautiful wrap, and I love it! I've worn it several times already, and I can see using it as a scarf as well, once it gets colder. FO: Clementine Shawlette This is one of the few times I've actually used the yarn called for in a

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-47420423995181069102010-08-21T22:49:00.000-04:002010-08-21T22:49:33.292-04:00

Where did that last month go? This summer has been flying by. Obviously my attempt to post every day in July fell by the wayside. I should know better than to give myself guidelines to follow. I just end up avoiding things like that. It's weird--I'm a Taurus, and we don't like to follow directions. Very stubborn... But I also crave structure, so it makes for a very schizophrenic personality.

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It's been great having Edward, Spanky's brother, and his daughter Gayle visiting. We've been hanging out a lot. I took Wednesday off to spend it with Edward and Gayle, then went back to work on Thursday to present three books, and then took Friday off to spend with Spanky and Gayle. Gayle's going back home to Florida with Spanky on Monday. Wednesday, we went to Ground Zero, and then took the E

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Spanky's brother Edward and her niece Gayle are here visiting! I'll have pictures later. Worked all day, then had to mingle for work, then met them for dinner, then came home (in the 102 degree heat, might I add) and practiced my drums, and now I'm finishing up some work work, and waiting for Gayle to get ready for bed so I can finally turn in. I'm so glad they're here! I took the day off

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One of the reasons that I haven't had as much knitting time lately is that I have a new hobby: I'm learning how to play the drum set!!! OMG. I love it so much. I've been taking lessons weekly since January. My teacher, David, is awesome. I feel so happy when I practice, and that's unusual for me, because I've never been able to learn an instrument before. I think it was reading music and

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I hope everyone got a chance to see some fireworks. They're really the best thing about the holiday, aside from the extra day off! We skipped the trek down to the Hudson this year and just watched the Macy's fireworks on TV along with the soundtrack. I've seen them up close back when they were off the West Side Highway FDR [edited to correct my late night stupidity--geez.], and they are

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I was in bed this morning waiting for my mother to call, as she does every Saturday, and it occurred to me that I'd forgotten to post yesterday! And I almost gave up altogether. But you know what? Fridays are hard! Spanky always wants to go out, so I either give in, and then have too many margaritas, or I fend off her pleas to eat out and go home, which means I inevitably end up working late and

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ha ha. I almost did! Already! The first of the month. Boy, I suck. But here I am, in Spanky's elephant t-shirt, tucked up in our bed, about to finish my book, and I have time to tap out a quick entry before collapsing. I have so many topics for this month! I'm excited to tell you about all of them. But a little at a time, or I'll never make it. Tonight, I have: FO #10:Travelling Woman This

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sigh. So I'm catching up again. But I'm going to try an experiment for July--I'm going to try to post once a day, every day, for the whole month, just to get back into the game, you know? FO #9: Little Pumpkins socks These socks were my work-on-at-work socks. They took a lot of time to finish because I only worked on them at lunch. I would get about 4-5 rounds done each day at lunch. Finally

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-17609898828740568362010-05-31T00:21:00.000-04:002010-05-31T00:21:13.515-04:00

It's getting really hot in the city. We went into town today--I have been having this issue with my eyes, and have been off the contacts for a month. During that time, I realized that if something happened to my current glasses, I'd be kind of screwed. So today, I decided the time had come to get another pair so that I have a backup, just in case. Turns out my eyes are ok now--I'd scratched them

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-32857020843338012492010-05-29T13:10:00.000-04:002010-05-29T13:10:21.440-04:00

Well, May was a bit of a wash, eh? I've finally hired a new assistant, but she doesn't even start until June 7, so right now, I'm on my own. This whole month I've felt a bit like a little boat bobbing along in a turbulent ocean, just trying to stay afloat but not really in control of the situation. I'm starting to come out of that a bit--some long days and nights of work saw to that, but I'm

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-58687946735470254422010-05-01T22:06:00.000-04:002010-05-01T22:06:38.333-04:00

I feel like I finished Veil a million years ago. My life has been moving at warp speed lately, and I have the ailments to prove it. Friday at the eye doctor, I was told that I definitely did NOT have pink eye, like I'd thought (the good news! I'm not contagious!), but instead, by wearing my contacts on the plane down to Florida and throughout that weekend, I have somehow dried out my eyes to the

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-2025666346654407832010-04-17T14:16:00.001-04:002010-04-17T14:21:51.961-04:00

Like many other people my age, I've grown up wearing Converse high and low top shoes. In fact, in 8th grade, I had a red pair of what my friend Travis refers to as "bobos"--fake Chucks--from Wal-Mart or Pick-n-Save, or wherever my single mother could afford to buy clothes for us kids. They were red high tops, and I think I wore them with everything. I remember feeling like the popular girls,

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-45044523154257511502010-04-03T20:28:00.000-04:002010-04-03T20:28:31.275-04:00

So, people are busy cranking out babies again. Which means I'm busy cranking out baby gifts. The following FO is completely confounding. I still have to talk about Veil, and I'm working on all this other stuff, but this particular project is tied to Totie's passing, and I just finished it, so it gets to be FO #4: Pattern: Sublime's Little Daisy Swing Cardi Yarn: Sirdar Snuggly DK Shade 0377

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-33034287152212281422010-03-15T15:44:00.000-04:002010-03-15T15:44:19.077-04:00

Hey, thanks for the comments about my dead cat, you guys. It means so much to me that you are all out there, feeling sad for me. What do you mean, there were no comments? That was such a heart-breaking post! No one commented? Really? Oh right, no one reads this. But thanks anyway, to the friends I know in real life who reached out and let me know they cared. That meant a lot. We still miss Totie

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-90837163304856308162010-03-07T17:39:00.002-05:002010-03-07T17:58:48.032-05:00

When Totie came to live with us, Spanky and I lived on Bright Street in Jersey City. We'd been there maybe a year when Spanky's childhood cat died, and after a few months, we thought we'd get another cat so that we'd each still have one. Stella was not with us yet. We looked off and on for a while, and back then, there was a bus that used to park along Union Square that housed cats for adoption

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-61795203939069192642010-02-25T22:15:00.000-05:002010-02-25T22:15:28.490-05:00

So I'm back. Sort of. The huge wave of optimism I had right after the New Year crested about mid-January and is basically gone. I'm wiped. Things have tanked pretty early. I'm still hoping to turn it around. How could it be so bad for the rest of the entire year? But that explains why I haven't been blogging. I'm tired, it's still freaking cold and snowy, my job is just soul-sucking right now,

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-62272733811522781842010-01-17T17:39:00.000-05:002010-01-17T17:39:59.750-05:00

The New Year always begins for me after I get back from AHA, the biggest history conference of the year. It is usually right after New Year's, and I'm always frantically making travel plans and contacting authors and potential authors for meetings, and that sort of thing, so I don't get a break until that's over. This year it was in San Diego, and while attendance and therefore sales were down,

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-83453879325170325182010-01-03T17:18:00.000-05:002010-01-03T17:18:52.350-05:00

I couldn't resist. This finishes out the FOs for 2009, giving me an (almost) fresh start for 2010. I only have two outstanding WIPs, and one new project that I just cast on. Pattern: Beginner's Lightweight Socks #216 by Fibertrends. I got this pattern a few years ago in Kansas while I was on a business trip, in order to try my first pair of socks. I basically just used it this time as a

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-13025784572260102702010-01-01T20:42:00.000-05:002010-01-01T20:42:00.081-05:00

Wow, what a lot of FOs this year! It is really freaky when you see the all put together like this. That's not even all of it. Look: Shew. Now that's all of it, I think, except my mom's socks, the elusive FO #40. I can't BELIEVE I made forty things. FORTY THINGS! Many of them were fairly small, but still... OMG. A couple of things I can see right off--my hair looks MUCH better short. Right?

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-7421427215578141042009-12-31T22:48:00.000-05:002009-12-31T22:48:43.859-05:00

If I can get the toe of my mom's second sock done tonight that will make an even 40, but I'm not sure I'll get there...Right now, I'm losing pretty badly in my family's signature card game, Aggravation. My grandma used to play it all the time with my cousins and I at countless family gatherings, and we taught Spanky, and now she's kicking my ass! Damn. How 2009...but that will all shortly change!

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-36789750047567550082009-12-27T15:37:00.000-05:002009-12-27T15:37:09.787-05:00

The second book that S sent me is called Chic Knits for Stylish Babies: 65 Charming Patterns for the First Year by Patricia Wagner, who is apparently the Editor in Chief of Modes & Travaux. Modes & Travaux appears to be a type of lifestyle magazine, like a wacky Martha Stewart-esque publication, in which you get not only beauty advice, but also crafts and home decor. Weird. Anyway, this book was

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-18770653944099105762009-12-26T16:24:00.000-05:002009-12-26T16:24:18.605-05:00

My good friend S (hi, S!) works at Random House, and she's gifted me recently with a couple of really interesting titles from their vast, vast offerings. I told her I would blog about each of them, and things have gotten in the way every time. Namely, exhaustion. But now that I've had a few days off, and am feeling close to normal again (thanks, Christmas!), I think it is time to give it a go.

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-91745948694665623062009-12-25T21:48:00.000-05:002009-12-25T21:48:01.370-05:00

1. Fairy Tale of New York by The Pogues 2. Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses 3. A Christmas Duel by The Hives and Cyndi Lauper (this one is my new favorite...I can't stop singing it!) Merry Christmas, everyone. May there be some peace with you, wherever you are, and may you carry it forward into 2010, which I know will be a better year! Just you wait.

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-32366795116876810762009-12-20T15:21:00.000-05:002009-12-20T15:21:18.307-05:00

The last two weeks have been a haze of either work related hoo-ha (my assistant got promoted and I've been frantically interviewing to fill his spot before the new year) or running errands after work (one each night) to get ready for Christmas. I've had absolutely no energy for anything. Not exercise, knitting, movies, blogging, or anything. Spanky and I have been basically watching episodes of

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December 3rd's entry was delayed due to going straight to Adam's house after work for our annual book club holiday party. It was lightly attended this year, but the holiday salad was roundly praised, and they ate it all the way down to the bottom of the cheap foil pan I brought it in. Warms the cockles of my heart, that does. holiday salad in the top left! Joel, Adam's partner, makes

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My friend and coworker Sarah is currently delivering her baby (or has already)! She called someone at work to let them know she wouldn't be in after her doctor's appointment because they were going to induce her!!! Yikes. I hope everything went ok. She was due in December, sure, but December TWENTIETH. I'm not done with the blanket! Argh. But on the plus side, I'm making this awesome Fiber Trends

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So, I missed a lot the last month. I've been traveling, knitting, frantically working, thinking and worrying, and that brings us to now. I guess I'm not going to try to recap it all. I'm just going to move on from here. There are finished knits to document, big things going on in my life, and lots to talk about, so three things for today, and then I'm going to sleep: 1. My assistant just got a

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What a difference a few weeks make... 1. Earlier this month, I was in Denver for work. I saw my friend Jon, who is really Spanky's friend from HS, but I've known him a good long time now too. He's a really great guy, and he made what was otherwise an unbearable situation fun, and distracted me from my problems for a bit. Also, it snowed. 2. You see, the Wednesday of the week I was there, my

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Once a year, I spend a week in the UK to meet with my manager, and get caught up in our company's version of the employee review. It's tedious, sure, but these things are never fun, and at least I get to actually travel over and meet with her in person, rather than over the video conference thingie. I also got to see my friend Eve, who lives in a house built during the Civil War. The English

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So I've been to England and back again, but I'll talk about that next time. This time I want to just register something that was finished and gifted before I left. In my last entry, I mistakenly had two #31s, so now, I present FO #33: Sadly, I can't find the hat pattern I used for this project. I think I found it by searching a very specific chain of search terms on Ravelry, and I just tried a

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Well, where the hell have I been anyway? Oh, around. No, I've just been living life. Every second filled with some commitment, or in between projects, or just missing some pictures. This coming Tuesday, I leave for London again, and then two days after I get back, I'm off to Denver for a week, and then two weeks after that, I'm off to Louisville. I am also going up to West Point for a day in

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Oh, I love babies. They give you so many opportunities to knit cute, small things. I finally finished the blankie, and she. is. LOVELY. Presenting FO #26 Pattern: Cot Blanket by Louisa Harding, from Natural Knits for Babies and Moms This may be the last pattern I make from this book. I'm sooooo tired of it. The book, I mean. I've made at least five things from it already. Maybe more. I'm

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Again with the summer days! I swear, taking Friday off from work is (to borrow an old phrase from the kids) the BOMB. You can get over whatever your problems were from the week on Friday, a day when otherwise you'd be sitting at the desk stewing in them, so you're free to really enjoy Saturday and Sunday, instead of using Saturday to get over the week (and do chores) and Sunday to finish up

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Newsflash--summer is hot. OMG. I about had a melt down at one point today where if I hadn't been able to get a bottle of water, I would have really lost my shit. Thankfully, Spanky was there, and I didn't embarrass myself too much. We got up with the intention of getting in on the last day of Summer Streets, but Spanky couldn't get her act together in time for us to make it down there. It was

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I've been busy this week. Work has been one. long. slog. I am busy gearing up for fall, wrapping up summer, and generally stressing out about the upcoming four months. I have a target every freaking year to meet, and it keeps going up. On the one hand, that's because I keep meeting it, but on the other, it makes for a few nail-biting weeks on the run up to Christmas. I really hate this aspect of

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Generally, I don't consider myself a seasonal knitter. I don't worry about using wool during the hot months, because I'm not actually going to be working on it outside. But there is something about the fall knitting magazines that revs you up, you know? It is like a new beginning, a chance to start squirreling away for the colder months. I subscribe to both IK and Vogue Knitting, and I was

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I don't know what they're putting in the water at work. Everyone's pregnant again. This jacket is for Catherine's second son. I never was really interested in this pattern, until I saw this one by Pam of Flintknits fame. Her jacket manages to be sophisticated, which is not something one says often about baby clothes. Mine, however, is not sophisticated. I blame the limited color pallette of

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Wow. This has been a busy few weeks! I've been having a pretty good summer, actually. It hasn't been too hot, and work has been bearable--I've had a few adventures, and I'm still running (3.5 miles with hills now!), so life's pretty good. The downside is that I haven't had time to really blog, although I have been taking pictures, so this post is going to be a bit long, I think. You've been

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Well, this was a bit of an impulse CO. I don't even remember why I started this scarf, except that I was itching to try the yarn, and probably in the middle of a project I was getting bored with for one reason or another. This would have been a very quick knit, if I hadn't had lots of other things going at the same time. I used to work on this a bit at a time when I needed to take the edge off

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I wonder if the production of FO's will continue at this pace for the rest of the year. It's amazing how many FOs I've come out with so far, and we're only at July! And I have one more past this one that is finished for tomorrow's post. Anyway, onward!FO: Ruffled-Bottom Onesie by Mari Lynn Patrick, from Crochet Today, March/April 2009Yarn: Bernat Softee Baby in colors 202 and 02001 (baby blue and

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YAY. I can finally talk about these. Last week was my vacation, and I spent a lot of time with my niece in New York. We went:on the train!to the office for a coffee/cocoa break!to Toys R Us to ride the interior ferris wheel! (by the way, just so you know, that ferris wheel is only $4 per person and we stayed on for like 15 minutes. It was a really long ride and totally worth the money. I didn't

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Got back from FL just in time to dash into NYC for the March today. I love going, but Spanky's not a fan. Sometimes it is more fun than others. This year is the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, so it seemed to be more of a political march and less of a parade. Some years, it is the opposite. Frankly, I appreciate the march more this way. There were more ladies, and less naked men in body

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I'm one half a ruffle away from finishing the onesie, and I still have to document my mom's socks, but in the midst of all of this, I balled up a skein of yarn and knit a bulky cowl for my friend Scott. I don't know if he's ever going to wear it. After I started it, I remembered that he does get hot easily, but Spanky pointed out that he does have a motorcycle, so hopefully he can still use it

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This crochet stuff is HARD. I have to start all over with the romper. I held it up today and looked at my hours of painful work, and realized I could wear the romper. WITH A DIAPER ON. So... I am back to where I join the legs together. Sigh. I think the way to do this is just to count the stitches every round. All 116 stitches. Every round. Because I don't know what the hell else I'm doing wrong!

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Mom's present is finished, and mighty fine, if I do say so myself. I'll be flying down to spend her birthday with her at the end of June, and she'll get the Jaywalkers then, and I'll be able to take some finished pictures, but I don't want them to be leaked. I think I also have enough sock yarn left to make either some anklets or socks for Bella. YAY! If I can ever stand to look at that yarn

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I had a job interview this past week. The opportunity was much appreciated, because it spurred me to think about what I really want. You get fed so much bullshit from all sources about what is the right way to live, that sometimes it is hard to know what is best for you. Just because someone else is a stay at home mom who makes all her child's clothes and bakes fresh cookies every day, does that

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Finally got some shots of the shrugs! Spanky's not a fan of shrugs. She says that it looks like the rest of the sweater is missing. But I like the fact that they aren't as warm as regular sweaters--they're transitional pieces. But, some of them work out better than others. Pattern: Two-Tone Ribbed Shrug by Stephanie Japel, from the book Fitted Knits. This pattern was really easy, although the

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OK, so these aren't in exactly the right order, because I finished the shrug before the blankie, but I haven't got any good pictures of the shrug yet, so you get the blankie first. And what a blankie it is! Of course my camera focused on Stella, not the blanket, but you get an idea of how big it is, right? You can see where the sides bulge a bit, which is where I accidentally kept increasing,

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So it's been a while since I updated about the book project--reading down the EW list of new classics in literature. Here's the link again. I think I left off with #4: The Liar's Club by Mary Karr. This is a memoir originally published in in 1995, and issued now in a ten year anniversary edition. It is the memoir of Mary Karr growing up in small town Texas with some crazy parents. In the

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Just in time for summer, Spanky has a new pair of wool socks. These socks were mostly knit on planes going back and forth on my various trips. I finished them the week after I got home. They are just plain stockinette socks, using up stash yarn I bought a million years ago in a big box craft store in Florida because I had just learned to knit socks, and I thought Spanky would like these colors. I

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Boy, the FOs are just stacking up around here! It's pretty exciting, because I'll have stuff to post about all week, and by the end of the week, maybe I'll be finished with my WIP, which I started on one of my trips, and have been putting off, since you have to sew up the arms before you actually knit the collar, and I'm not used to that. Normally I don't sew up until I block (so the sleeves lay

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So, I don't have much to say about my experience in Tennessee. Luckily my flight and subsequent SuperShuttle ride were over before the tornadoes started hitting. I was sitting snugly in my hotel room watching the destruction on the news. A few of the conference attendees had some stories though, of seeing semis tipped over on the freeways, and so forth. I wish I'd rented a car, instead of relying

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I was in Seattle a looonnnggg time. Well, it was 9 days, but I only had one day between the Pittsburgh trip and this one. I think I was out there right as spring was springing, because there were robins everywhere, and everything was moist and green. I expect it is always moist and green there, but to me, it felt like spring. It was still cold, but sunny and bright, and there were huge trees:

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I'm back! I survived! It was rough going there for a while though... 1. The first trip was to Pittsburgh with my assistant. We went on a fact-finding mission to Carnegie-Mellon, but also did some campus visiting at Pitt. In my line of work, I spend a lot of time on various campuses talking to professors and trying to get a sense of how the history department functions--what they think is

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This will probably be my last post for a while. I'm starting on three pretty intense weeks at work. I leave tomorrow for Pittsburgh, and won't be back until Wednesday. Thursday I have in the office, and then I leave Friday for a week in Seattle, which includes two campus visits and two conferences. Then I get back and there are three days in the office, and then I leave for a conference in

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Wow, so it's been a while. I'm finally finished with that damn baby sweater, and it took one less skein of yarn than I thought it would, leaving me extra yarn that I have no idea what to do with. I guess I'll put it with the Cotton-Ease that I'll be using to crochet little creatures with soon. But before I turn to that (will be in another post), I used the rest of the Malabrigo look-alike yarn

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I can't believe I finished all these pieces. This sweater took FOR. EVER. I'll blog about this more later, plus the other 3 FOs I've finished since the last post. I'm sorry, but I've just lost my mojo. I feel like I'm running in place, on a very slow-moving treadmill, and perhaps it is the never ending winter, or the calm before the storm at work (3 trips in 3 weeks, yo). Perhaps it is the

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Pretty! This was a really fast project. I made it as part of a knit-along for the dyke knitting group from Bluestockings in NYC. They meet once a month, so I can't go very often, but I do look forward to it. Pattern: birthday cowlI wasn't going to participate, but when I went through the stash and found this Malabrigo look-alike yarn, I decided to do it. Isn't this a pretty pattern? It strikes

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What a great scarf. I am actually getting into the color. The two balls of ZarOne made a very short scarf, but when I blocked it, it actually relaxed a lot. Pattern: Single Cable Scarf from One Skein by Leigh Radford. I'm surprised that I haven't consulted this book more often than I have. I've had it for a long time. I love a lot of these patterns! I'm going to have to remember it is there.

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I was really excited about the re-launch of knit.1. I always enjoyed it before--it was young, different, kind of kitschy. Now, it is a little more polished and more like everything else, but I'm glad to see they've kept up some of the silly things, like the amigurumi zodiac characters. There's a great article on natural dyeing by Shannon Oakey (not that I'm into that, but the pictures look very

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Oh boy! This year, some ladies from our excellent JC knitting group got together and went to the Super Bowl Sale at Knit-a-Bit, a pretty awesome yarn store in Westfield, NJ. I came away a little poorer, but with some great stash enhancement:Shepherd's Wool, in Lilac, meant for Vivian, but I love it so much, I may use it for something else. Either way, it's a sweater's worth of yarn. Also

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So, sometimes it just gets to me. The pregnant potential of all this freaking yarn. Why do I have so much yarn? I don't knit fast enough for it all! And I can feel it there. On the shelf in my closet, in the shelves in my closet, on the three or FOUR bags in the closet, in the hidden insides of the ottoman in my bedroom. It is just there. WAITING. I can't fit anything else in this house. So I'm

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These next FOs go together. I debated about whether to really count them as 4, or as 2 (2 versions of two things). However, they took up so much of my time, that I finally came down on the side of counting each thing separately. They are, of course, for a co-worker's baby shower. I'm counting them as done, but the bibs need to have buttons put on, as well as the cute little patches I'm going to

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Well, just a quick post to wrap up this unfortunately brief three day weekend. On Thursday, I was able to finally give my assistant his Christmas present. It usually takes me a while to finish his gift, since I'm usually rushing to get everything done by the end of the year for work, but thankfully, he doesn't mind too much, and it gives me a little extra time. Last year, I made him the

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Well, this weekend has been much needed. I've had a chance to finish up a couple of things that have been languishing through xmas break, since they were too far done to take to Florida. The first one is one I started right after I finished Spanky's sweater. Pattern: Ribbed Lace Bolero by Kelly Maher (rav link). I originally wanted to make the little silk shrug from Lace Style, but I didn't have

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Actually, this FO was one of the last I finished before the holidays, but I'm going to count it here since I'm the only one who really cares about this anyway. As I may have mentioned, I try to give all new babies at work a little hand-knit goodness. I love the people I work with (most of them, anyway!), and I love having an excuse to show them. I think it would be weird if I just started giving

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Have you had your black-eyed peas today? We did, much good it did. I can't say I'm sad to see the end of 2008. This past year was hard, for a lot of reasons. I reached a lot of goals, both professionally and personally, and I realized some hard truths about my life and my abilities. On the personal side, I did a lot of traveling--to Australia, most importantly. On the way back we got to see my

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So, there's been knitting for babies, including a frantic, still-blocking-it-on-my-desk, sorry-its-still-wet dress for poor ole Michael's first born. But I'll get to those probably (possibly?) tomorrow. See, people, I'm beat. I'm mentally and physically exhausted. This year has broken me down. I did get all my contracts in though, which means that in this time of financial strife, I'm still going

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Ok, this is a moment to remember. Today was a blustery, cold day, and I made Spanky take pictures with me on the front stoop so I could do an FO post about her sweater. I'm happy to report that she was thrilled by how it fit, and is already putting in a request for another one. Pattern: Crew-neck pull-over from Ann Budd's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns. Yarn: Cascade 220. I don't remember how

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I had a minor fit of startitis right before the holiday weekend, so the time this weekend helped me finish a couple of smaller projects, and I finished sewing up and blocking Spanky's sweater. I'll get to the sweater when I can get some pictures of Spanky in the sweater, so that I can make sure it fits, but the others are blocking now too...1. Toe-Up Sockspattern: Moving On Socks (rav link)yarn:

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I'm coming off one of the hardest weeks I've had in a while. And let me tell you, this grand jury duty stuff is not for the faint of heart, especially if you, like me, are lucky enough to pull the SVU division of cases. I come out of the courthouse every week thankful that I have Spanky and not some rapist, child-molesting man at home, and thanking god that I've not run into one of the many

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1. SO. I have grand jury duty. Not just regular jury duty. GRAND jury duty. And do you know how they differ? By about ten weeks! I have to go to the courthouse one day a week for the next 8 weeks! I am actually lucky--it can be up to 11 weeks, but because of the holidays, I'm on an 8 week panel. We have the awesome responsibility of indicting people for their crimes so they can face a trial (or

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I almost didn't post tonight! It's election night (sooo exciting!), and I had my knitting group, so I've been a little preoccupied, but Spanky and I are in bed right now watching MSNBC on her computer (streaming--we don't have cable--shocking, I know...), and I realized I could be posting while we're listening to Rachel Maddow, et al. Not that I have anything to show you. Just working on the

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Sometimes, I feel like I don't control anything in my life. My job is cajoling other people to turn in work they don't want to do and/or doing it faster, better, and cheaper than is probably prudent. And, well, you all know how family life is. It isn't easy, and it never goes the way you think and wish it would because your own wants and needs are not always the priority. I think that's why I

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When I was in New Orleans, I found this really sweet little yarn store in the French Quarter called The Quarter Stitch. It is both a needlepoint store and a knitting store. They had the most elaborate needlepoint canvases hung up on the walls--so beautiful, in fact, that I was reeeeallly tempted to actually investigate buying one. I didn't, but I was close! I probably would have been closer, but

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Well, I'm back, and I think I'm almost caught up. I took a 'sick day' during the week to get some much needed sleep and to get some laundry done, but there is still grocery shopping to do, and some extraneous cleaning. Today, Spanky and I went to a party to call voters to vote for Obama. It was an interesting experience--I was calling people in Virginia, and I talked to some really interesting

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October is my favorite month. It is when the weather starts cooling down, the leaves turn bright colors, people start wearing scarves, if not coats, and everything is right with the world. Except not this year. My October has been an insane mess of preparing to travel, traveling, coming back to follow up, preparing to travel again, traveling again, and coming back to follow up. It is like an

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So now that the red sweater is done, I'm down to two active projects. (I ripped the anklet socks I was making, so that I could use the yarn for another pattern, but I haven't started that yet, and probably won't for a while...) First, here's a shot of my current WIP:Doesn't look like much now, but the biggest knitting patches have been done. Now I just have to do the edging and sewing up, which I

kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631702344055824226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30666938.post-51115891905874878272008-09-14T14:41:00.002-04:002008-09-14T15:19:35.269-04:00

OMG, I'm finally finished with this one! I'm sure you're all tired of hearing about it as well, so I'm glad we can all finally move on. PATTERN: Downtown Cap-Sleeved Cardigan from Webs, designed by Jen RonningI had a few issues with this pattern, as I've detailed elsewhere. Mainly, there was no schematic, and there were no finished measurements for each size either. That was really the biggest

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Friday night, I had dinner with my good friend Salwa. She used to work with me, and now works at a travel book publisher. She brought me a copy of Twinkle's Weekend Knits for my birthday (long past-that's how long it's been since I've seen her!). I'm always glad to get knitting books, especially books like this, that I never would have picked out for myself. I am not a huge fan of Twinkle's

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