Knitting and occasional cooking and gardening adventures!
Jun 29 2008
After some contemplation, I’ve decided to not continue to upload my garden photos to my TypePad album. I already upload them to Flickr and the quality doesn’t seem as good when I upload them to my TypePad album. That said, I’ve uploaded a bunch of pictures to Flickr of the garden today.
My favorite of the [...]
Jun 27 2008
Here’s a photo of the Trekking XXL socks I’ve been knitting:
I am making up the pattern as I go along. I created a chart for the cable and I finally realized something: designing isn’t easy! Okay, I don’t know that I ever thought it was easy, but there were times that I would think “OMG [...]
Jun 24 2008
I keep meaning to update, but I'm lacking pictures of the garden at the moment. I'll post the photos later and just give you an update for now.
The plants are doing really well except for the gnats that I'm still trying to figure out how to get rid of. They don't seem to be harming [...]
Jun 13 2008
Pattern: Alix's Prayer ShawlStarted: March 7, 2008Completed: April 6, 2008Yarn:Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool, blueish-gray, 3 skeins (about 570 yards)Needles: US 8 bamboo circularNotes: This was a pretty simple pattnern to follow and memorize. I got done pretty quickly, but it did take me a long time to block it (didn't do that until June). My [...]
Jun 12 2008
I was just reading this NY Times article about blogging and it made me revisit my thoughts on blogging here, more specifically about how personal to get. I rarely talk much about my personal life here and if you don't know me in real life, you don't know a whole lot about me other than [...]
