Insaknity

Joy,

Joy

I left work early on Friday to make sure I was home for the big arrival.
(Our persnickety UPS driver refuses to leave packages without signatures. While I admire his desire to make sure all packages are received, it’s really inconvenient to have to make sure we’re home every time we’re expecting a delivery.)
Inconvenience pushed aside […]

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So I was teaching class Tuesday night when one of the women asked to show her how to spit-splice again. I had done it with someone else a few weeks before that, but she couldn’t remember exactly how I had done it.
I double checked that she was using 100% wool or some form of […]

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I always figured that pigs would fly if I ever touched it again. There aren’t that many things stranger than the fact that I am knitting with <gasp> Fun Fur, or that I have a (sizable) stash of Fun Fur-ry, novelty yarn sitting in a plastic tote under my bed.
But I can think of […]

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So I started Celtic Dreams last night. I’m just not so sure of the dream part quite yet.
The cables seem, I don’t know, flat or something.

See what I mean?
Don’t get me wrong, it’s lovely yarn (Rowan Yorkshire Tweed Aran), but I don’t think it’s the right yarn. Does this sweater simply require […]

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“I think I’m coming down with something…”
Said by me, on December 24th, 2006.
December 25th, 2006: the SOMETHING kicks me squarely in the teeth, knocking me flat on my ass for the next 7 days.
The symptoms of this demon bug from hell?

Sore throat (Really, it’s more of a fire in your throat. The word sore […]

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