quiet time

It's the end of the semester, which means it's time for me to hunker down and get a bunch of stuff finished. Normally this wouldn't be so bad, but given that I'm also dealing with a lot of pain and am having a bunch of my time eaten up by physical therapy, I need all…

making plans

I don't have any knitting-related photos to share, so for now, I will regale y'all with photos from our garden. I have the above picture as the background on my laptop now, that's how much I love it! We're in the final weeks of the semester here, so I've been a bit busy with all…

from scratch

This banana bread has been my mid-morning snack the past few days. I thought other people might like to enjoy it, too, so here is my recipe (invented by me, on the basis of a few other recipes, using my usually-successful "throw stuff in until it looks like the sort of dough it's supposed to…

squares and circles

Squares first. I turned 25 this Saturday, and hence am officially a square (though some might argue that I've been one for a good long while!). And that square you see up above is one of the delicious brownies we made to celebrate. We used the American Heart Association Cookbook recipe, which is the one…

earthy sweaters

This particular period of Project Spectrum is so up my alley. I'm an earth-tones sort of girl, I've been an environmentalist since before I even knew the word, and now I've even got a garden where I can literally play in the dirt. There's no way on earth I could knit all of the potential…

As promised, an FO post

I finished the Sienna Cardigan (a very Project Spectrum-appropriate knit!) earlier today (after a marathon session of seaming and end-weaving...oy, now I remember why I love knitting sweaters in the round!), and we decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and walk up to Highland Park (which is essentially in our neighborhood, lucky us!).…

playing in the dirt

One of the many wonderful things about our little house is the fact that it came with a beautiful (if a wee bit overgrown) backyard garden. Prior to this year, we've lived in apartments where we didn't have the opportunity to do anything with whatever yard there was, so we're very excited to be able…

for real, this time

Does this look familiar? Y'all might remember how I was going to finish my Golden Dragon socks during the phase of Project Spectrum that included "metallics" last year. And yet, here we are, many months later..."metallics" have rolled around again, and those socks are still in the exact same state as they were: But this…

first signs of spring

I've totally made up for my failure with FIRE, since it's day 2 of EARTH and I already have a finished project! I was suddenly taken by an urge to knit a pair of Saartje's Bootees, and had the perfect spring-green yarn leftover from a pair of socks, so I cast on last night and…