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…

As promised, an FO post

I finished the Sienna Cardigan (a very Project Spectrum-appropriate knit!) earlier today (after a marathon session of seaming and end-weaving...oy, now I remember why I love knitting sweaters in the round!), and we decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and walk up to Highland Park (which is essentially in our neighborhood, lucky us!).…

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…

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…