something blue.

Before I get to the knitting, I just want to make note of the fact that Friday was our fourth wedding anniversary, in addition to being the Equinox, and our cats' birthday (the coincidence of those three events is not an accident!). What a four years it has been, full of changes both good and…

a pattern/tutorial?

Holy cow, Stripes! is popular...every time I check on Ravelry, even more people have made it a favorite and more people have commented. I totally didn't expect that! Thanks, everyone, for your lovely comments on my last post...I'm trying to respond to each of them, but have been crushingly busy this week. Several people have…

stripes!!

Two days ago, I finally used up the first skein of Cascade Eco Wool, only inches shy of finishing the yoke on Stripes!, and had to ball up a new skein. The yardage is insane! By yesterday, I was furiously finishing Stripes!, ripping and reknitting the collar three times until I was happy with the…

a most wonderful trip, in photos.

We flew to New Mexico on Saturday, to visit my grandparents: I got to hang out with cactus in cool, sunny weather: We hiked at Tent Rocks, which is one of my favorite places in all the world: Being at Tent Rocks is like being on another planet. It's amazing: (More Tent Rocks photos can…

wishing…

...I could just be knitting and knitting on Stripes!. But alas, this has been one heck of a busy week, and I've got a full day of work to do today, and then packing, and then we leave before the crack of dawn tomorrow morning to fly down to Albuquerque. So the knitting is not…

busy bee.

Oy, this semester has been rather exhausting so far! I spent all of last weekend (literally: about 18 hours) grading that huge stack of exams in my last post, and then most of last week meeting with students about said exams. In a class of 108, even having only 10% of the class show up…