moment of truth

I've knit quite a bit on the Bog Jacket in the last few days. I knit on it while watching two hours of Doctor Who, followed by the end of the Tour de Suisse on Sunday (I'm gearing up for the Tour de France!), and in the evenings while we watched Countdown all week. I've…

Syncopated Ribs neckline modifications

First off, I never took a picture of the finished sweater without me in it, so here's that: So, the neckline. The pattern (which is knit from the bottom of the front, over the top of the shoulders to the bottom of the back; I don't want to give too many more details out of…

Syncopated Ribs!

Well, the weather did not oblige me, and decided to be stormy today despite my desire to go up to the beach to take pictures of my newest handknit sweater. Oh well. I made the best of things, and settled on our still-pretty (if crazily overgrown) backyard for the purpose of photographing myself wearing it:…

better

I am feeling slightly less like death-on-a-stick than I was the last time I posted, thanks to spending most of this week in bed. Not the most exciting thing I've ever done, but it was worth it for the sake of not getting even sicker. And hey, I did some knitting, while I was at…

back home

I made it home in one rather bedraggled piece a couple of days ago, and found some new roses had bloomed for me. Isn't that one lovely? Thanks to the disaster that was my return trip (which I feel sort of horrible for complaining about, since the whole reason it was a disaster was because…

enjoying myself

I successfully made it to my gorgeous hometown, where the weather is being shockingly well-behaved (though the nasty storms are supposed to start for real tomorrow). I'm thoroughly enjoying myself, though I've overdone it a bit with my bluff-climbing antics and am pretty worn out today. It's just hard not to want to be outside…

in which I complain about the weather

This is making me rather unhappy right now: That's the forecast for my trip up to Winona. My first trip up to my hometown during the non-winter months in years. If it actually does rain and storm every single day I'm up, I'll cry. Please, weather, it is so expensive and difficult for me to…

not an FO post

There are no finished pictures of Syncopated Ribs. There are two reasons for this. The first is because, well, I haven't exactly finished it. But that was mostly because of this: The weather this weekend was threatening in a frustratingly on-and-off manner, and I just knew we wouldn't be making a trip up to the…