a sock!

What better way to both close out Project Spectrum (I almost typed "Project Runway", because that's what I'm watching on TV right now!), and welcome Socktoberfest, than with this: A sock! Namely, the sock I started while I was in Ohio, with WATER-themed yarn, for Project Spectrum. I've been knitting on it at my office,…

I’m back (sort of)

And I have some knitting progress to report: Yep, I used Syncopated Ribs as my Officially Permitted Distraction Knitting whilst finishing up a bunch of work at the end of this semester, and came very close to finishing off the knitting on the body. I've only got a few more inches left to knit down…

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…

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…

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…

I failed at fire

Hey, remember how I was going to knit (at least) a pair of socks for each element of Project Spectrum? Yeah, well, what you see up there is my whopping progress on my fiery sock. Not even one whole repeat! And it's not that I don't love the yarn or the pattern (they're both great,…

fire away

So, Project Spectrum started yesterday, and despite being focused on the shawl, I wanted to have something appropriately themed to work on. Alas, since fire colors are generally not terribly flattering on me or any of the loved ones for whom I knit, I don't own a lot of yarn in the colors for this…

a colorful walk

I have no knitting updates today. I'm in the midst of some medical testing that requires me to ingest stuff that is making me very, very sick, so I don't really feel up to it. But I'm on the laptop for a bit, trying to get a bit of human interaction via the internet, and…

browns, purples, and oranges

One of my favorite pictures with orange and brown. Before I launch into a post about the current Project Spectrum color triad, I want to expand on something I started to say in a comment on Nova's recent post. Prioritizing my crafting alongside my other pursuits is something I've always thought a lot about. I've…

new house, new month, new project(s)

For anyone who would like to see our house, I've put some photos up on flickr. There's obviously still a lot of unpacking to be done! But I haven't been feeling particularly up to doing much of it, so it will probably be quite awhile before we are truly settled in. So, it's a new…

Nordic Wednesday (hopefully the first of many)

When we moved up to MN from NC when I was 8 years old, everyone I met up there guessed I was Scandinavian. Not a bad guess, when presented with a pale girl with blond braids in the Scandinavian-laden land of MN, but I've not got an ounce of it in me. I'm really that…

and on to black and red

When I first saw the colors listed in the Project Spectrum for June and July, my only thought was "yuck!". First there's the issue with metallics that I talked about in my last post (but of course, even if I can't create anything with them, that can't stop me from appreciating the metallic things I…

me and metallics

I made a very difficult decision yesterday. I'd been putting it off because I didn't want to think about it, but I finally decided that going to the "Linguistics Summer Camp" that I've been looking forward to all year is just not going to be possible given my health. So I'm withdrawing, as sad as…

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…