Knitting, spinning, and all the rest
Sep 08 2009
I was a busy knitter this past holiday weekend! Saturday I finished the Secret Garden Shawl. Here it is pre-blocking, measuring 30 inches across.
Pre-blocking
Sunday, I washed and blocked it. It took about an hour to get all those pins in it and my fingers were rather sore after.
Blocking
It seemed pretty dry by the evening. I [...]
Sep 03 2009
Not a whole lot of interesting knitting going on here. I’ve been working on the shawl, which is very slow going considering how long each row takes.
See? Looks the same as last time, right?
I’m about halfway through the 1st chart repeat of Clue 5. Last night I decided I won’t do the second chart repeat [...]
Jul 31 2009
I fully intended to blog on Wednesday and Thursday, but ended up not having time. I wanted to blog yesterday evening and planned to… then I ended up helping Matt with his school’s website which took up most of the evening. Ah well, that’s how life goes sometimes!
On the house (garden) front, we had some [...]
Jul 27 2009
Wow, this weekend was a BUSY one. I feel like I didn’t get done anything that I’d planned to, but I suppose that’s the way things go sometimes. I’m planning on not doing anything this weekend except work on house stuff with Matt so we can stop feeling so dragged down by the things that [...]
Jul 24 2009
Aren’t Friday’s supposed to be “easy” days at work? Usually less stressful? For me they’ve almost always been the “easy” work day, but not today! It was one of those Murphy’s Law days where anything that could have gone wrong, did. Since I’m pretty wiped out this week (yet again it seems), I’ll keep this [...]
