Archives » August 2008

  • Knitting, a thing of beauty. Or not.

    I found this blog dlittlegarden that had a funny tagline: “Ugly things: all made by hand.” I’m like, hah! That should be the name of my blog.  Recently I’ve been thinking of knitting a dickey, and I realized that I may have totally lost my mind. I wish that I, like Brooklyn Tweed, only knitted beautiful and elegant [...]

    Sunday 24th August 2008 - 10:43:04 PM | Comments (4)

  • Patterns and pricing

    I’m watching the Olympics and knitting, but not joining Ravelrympics. Since knitting is a hobby, I try not to get all deadline-ish about it, because I would probably get stressed out (and not finish anything). I’m also trying to only knit from stash, but not go on an Absolute Stash Diet, because things like that [...]

    Sunday 10th August 2008 - 6:27:12 PM | Comments (2)

  • The knitting goes on vacation

    We went to the Jersey Shore for a week, and I did a little knitting.

    Here is Zoltar, the magical fortune teller who transformed Tom Hanks into Big. Well, or one of the Zoltar’s kind. He is skeptical about the sock. “But how can I grant your wish, sock?!?”

    The sock appreciates the view down to the [...]

    Saturday 2nd August 2008 - 5:23:00 PM | Comments (3)