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…

coming to a realization…

Sit down for a moment (er, you're probably already doing that, really, since you're reading a blog and all, but play along with me here!), because I'm about to say something rather shocking: I think the primary reason I'm not knitting more on my soon-to-be sister-in-law's shawl is because I don't like the yarn. Don't…

bad stuff, good stuff, and a giveaway

The Tour de France is having a rest day today, and so am I (though they're doing hardcore training rides, while I'm sitting around being sick and miserable and not doing much of anything...I'll just claim I'm trying to remain truer to the meaning of "rest" than they are!). My man Rasmussen won yesterday's stage…

final stretch

Just a quick, "show-off" post: I finished Demi's sleeves yesterday afternoon, and plan to block the pieces tonight so that seaming and finishing can commence tomorrow. I had a little fun with our camera, taking artsy-fartsy pictures of the finished pieces, like this: In a couple of hours, I have my CT scan. The Waiting…

back to the pinks and greens

First off, thank you to everyone who has sent good wishes with respect to my health. I won't find out anything more until at least tomorrow (I had a bunch of tests last week), so for now I'm just sort of laying low, trying to get a few useful things done each day. Yesterday my…

nearing the end

As I mentioned in my last post, we're nearing the end of the semester here, which means that in less than a week, I will have completed the first year of my Ph.D. Wow, that sounds weird! I feel sort of old...I can remember when my dad was working on his Ph.D, and now here…

I have been knitting (and I have proof!)

First, as promised in my previous post, photographic evidence of the completion of Not-So-Aprikot's fronts: I put the remaining live stitches on scrap yarn instead of binding off, so that I can extend/shorten the bits that wrap around the neck as needed, and so that I can kitchener them together for a nice clean seam.…

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…

Pink, green, and yellow

When Lolly asks to see our pinks, greens, and yellows, I can't help but oblige. So this morning I took a bunch of pictures of the yarn I'm planning to use for upcoming projects for Project Spectrum. Before I begin, a little disclaimer: y'all might've noticed that I've stalled on the larger projects I've been…

Back from the West Coast

This is what 12+ hours on planes (6+ there, 6+ back) will get you: I finished the first one way too quickly, and had no entertainment left for the last two hours of the flight on the way there (since I couldn't kitchener the toe and start the new one, what with my scissors and…

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

Here's what I woke up to this fine morning: We got a few more inches as the day progressed, too. Some Spring Break, eh? Remember how I said it was warm (almost 70!) and sunny just a few days ago? Yeah, well, Winter's not done with us yet. So today was a perfect day for…

on to the fronts…

Oh, Spring Break, and the resultant opportunity to stay home from the office for an entire day with only a marginal amount of guilt, how I love thee! (She says, while typing from her office because she's stuck here today fighting with the code for her experiment and preparing for a lab meeting). Yesterday, I…

Back to back

After an extremely busy week that wound up pouring into the first half of the weekend, I decided I deserved to take yesterday afternoon completely OFF (it is Spring Break, after all, as little as that means for graduate students), and just relax on the couch and knit. This move payed off (well, not so…

I’m back, with backs

Sorry for the little hiatus; I'd hoped to be posting more regularly, but my parents' visit (which was wonderful) plus the resulting catch-up at work has kept me a bit too busy to be doing the whole blog thing. My mom loved her Rogue, and it fits her very, very nicely, but I don't have…

new and blue

I mentioned to Lolly in my reply to her comment that among my reasons for being happy to have finished my mom's sweater was the fact that I'm now free to play around more with the current Project Spectrum colors (of which that dark olive green is certainly not a member). While realistically, I probably…