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Archive for February, 2009

New Digs

Posted in in progress, life, non-crafty, travel on February 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This morning, as I was working at my new dining room table, in my new living room, in my new flat, in my new city, I noticed something different. Out of the corner of my eye, something had changed. Over my shoulder, sun was streaming in. Sun, for the first time since I arrived. (Well, [...]

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FO: Curacao… (RSC 2009 Socks)

Posted in kal/swap, knit, life, recently finished on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As to take up a little room, so you can take note of the little spoiler logo and decide whether or not you want to see the pictures of my recently completed Blue Moon Fiber Arts Rockin Sock Club January 2009 socks, I will tell you a little story. And I call it…
Unlucky.
The day before [...]

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Traveling stitches

Posted in gifts, knit, life, recently finished, travel on February 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »

In the next week my stitches will be traveling quite a bit.
1) In August 2007 I was visiting my friend Smatt in Pittsburgh. He accompanied me to Knit One and picked out some sock yarn. In October we picked out a pattern and I started knitting him some socks. By December 2007 the first sock [...]

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On a Deadline (FO: Digitessalong!)

Posted in kal/swap, knit, life, recently finished on February 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »

What is it about deadlines?  Why is it that in the absence of deadlines I seem to drift off into unproductive distraction? But give me a date, real or imaginary, and I will focus, frantically working without sleep until the clock strikes twelve and the countdown hits 00:00:00.
Last week, “January 31 2009″ stood looming. Since [...]

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