stop and smell the lilacs

It's lilac season here, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. The air around my neighborhood (home of the Lilac Festival) is just thick with their scent. I went for a walk through the park the other day (avoiding the main part of the festival, as I'm just not a festival sort of gal) and came home…

things that are not socks

Yeah, it's Socktoberfest, but there's more than just socks on my needles. My poor non-sock projects just haven't gotten much blog-love lately! The picture up top is my progress on my dad's Escheresque mittens...about 1 inch of cuff. It doesn't look like much, but remember, it's 104 stitches on 00 dpns, so it's rather slow…

thank goodness it’s friday

(or, um, it was when I started this post. But then I got tired and went to bed. And now it's Saturday. Amazing!) First of all, thanks SO MUCH to everyone who's commented on Cobblestone and Demi. I'm doing my best to reply to comments, but thanks to classes, I'm sort of at my limit,…

Escheresque Mittens: Charting

Thanks, everyone, for all of the kind and insightful comments y'all left on my last post. I have some more thoughts on those issues that I feel like putting down, but that will have to wait for another day. Yesterday, a letter arrived containing my dad's trace of his hand. You know what that means,…

Escheresque Mittens: Conception

Y'all probably remember my musings about creating an M. C. Escher- inspired piece of knitwear for my dad. What you see above is the print I settled on as my inspiration, and the yarns I chose in order to turn it into a pair of mittens for my dad. The print is the one that…

For Dad

I'm trying to get this post written quickly, because in a couple of hours I will begin preparations for this procedure, which I'm scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. Oh, my life is so full of medical adventure right now. In any case, I highly doubt I will feel up to doing much of anything, much less…

plotting and scheming

That's what I'm up to these days. I'm pretty busy with the end-of-semester crunch, plus the research stuff that never ends (not that I mind, I enjoy it quite a lot, which is a good thing seeing as I'll be doing it for the rest of my life, most likely!), so I don't have a…

planning a new project

What's that? Yes, I know I have several projects in the works, and several more in the wings. But I am, in fact, planning yet another. I've been wanting to knit something for my dad for awhile, and while he was here visiting, I hit upon the idea that the tessellation-style prints of M.C. Escher…