I walked home from the movies one day mostly so I could get a picture of this Obama Lincoln mural…
…and took the opportunity to get pictures of a few other signs too, including these two:
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More February after the jump. Continue Reading
27Dec
[Snowpocalypse Knitting]
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With all that time off & no bus service, what’s a girl to do but knit? On our first quite chilly day I decided that seriously, I needed mittens that actually covered my fingers. Crazy business. I had two skeins of Shibui Sock in my stash & a copy of Not Just More Socks, which resulted in these Snowpocalypse Mitts:
More, including another sweater, after the jump. Continue Reading
08Dec
[Always playing catch-up: Northwest Knockdown, with a side of knitting]
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In mid-November, friends came out & we drove down to Portland for WFTDA Nationals, which was basically awesome. We got to see scads of fantastic roller derby (even if my hometown ladies got creamed right out of the gate), and a bit of Portland as well (including Powell’s & yarn shops) all after the jump.
03Nov
[Today I...]
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…am wearing these shoes
…am already this far on my February Lady sweater
…cast this vote for President
…and am on my way to Ballard, where I saw this last week on the new release whiteboard at Sonic Boom
07Oct
[FinishedObject-O-Rama]
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Have I really not posted knitting pictures here since March? That is flat-out ridiculous.
Since then I’ve finished three (nearly four) sweaters that I haven’t managed to photograph, but there is still plenty of knitting spam after the jump. Continue Reading
24Mar
[Somewhere there's a single streak of green inside it]
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This weekend I went to the Rat City bout, which was enough social action to get me through the rest of the weekend.
Rat Bastard, at halftime:
For actual bout photos, watch Adam’s Flickr page, because I am sure it’s just a matter of time before he has some up. And his will actually be good, whereas mine suck.
The good change from last season was that the food was provided by Skillet. I’ve been hearing about them for ages, but I’ve never been able to get to a location. All that changed this weekend and I got to have POUTINE and ROLLER DERBY both. *Awesome*.
The bad change is that the bout was at Hangar 30, which some of you might know as the location of the library book sale. It’s fine for that purpose, but for derby? WAY TOO SMALL. They used to bout at Hangar 27, but the city wants to turn that into a private facility, basically, screwing over all the community groups who use it. RCRG did a fantastic job maximizing the space in Hangar 30, but it’s really horribly small, and the loss in particular of the majority of the floor seating is tragic. It also means that the bout sold out wicked fast, and that the league lost a lot of money on the missing seats. It totally blows.
So, I did that, and then I spent the rest of the weekend knitting. I was supposed to go to Honk Fest on Sunday, but it rained. Boo. Anyway. Knitting & general yarn porn after the jump.
07Mar
[Winter's delivering summer's forgiving]
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I haven’t posted about knitting since December! Can you believe it? Ridiculous.
Part of that is because December and half of January were taken up with finishing a crocheted afghan. You don’t get to see that, though, because there is no sunlight in Seattle in January, and so the few pictures I remembered to take were terrible. Seriously.
I do have pictures of a lot of other stuff, though, and they live after the jump. Continue Reading
27Dec
[We travel without seatbelts on]
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(Why, there you are, blog!)
I got eaten by the holidays. This is my busiest time at work, so much so that I can’t take the time to visit family for Christmas. I suspect they had a better time that way anyway, particularly as at this point in December I am super-cranky from being tired.
I took a break from working mid-month to attend our first Posada celebration. The families had been working hard in the weeks leading up to it, making decorations, like these angel centerpieces…
…and some pretty amazing pinatas, including Dora the Explorer.
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Then it was back to holiday business. We run an adopt-a-family program as well as a gift closet. This year we served 200 children between the two programs.
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After the jump, more holidays, a little Seattle, and a side of knitting.
09Nov
[But I know there's so much more to find]
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Oh man, it’s been ages. I finally uploaded a whole whack of pictures, though, so let’s get started. I’m going to do this in two parts, knitting & everything else. As usual, click through to Flickr to embiggen.
Knitting first! I’ve been spending WAY TOO MUCH MONEY on yarn these days. I am now not allowed to buy any more sock yarn in particular. Why, you might ask? I provide for you visual aids.
First up, three skeins of Socks that Rock, from Blue Moon Fiber Arts. Aw, man, now that I clicked through that page I see that their Raven series is up. I hope they still have Pallas Athena at Madrona in February.
Then last weekend there was a sale at Weaving Works. I scored some Jitterbug & some Claudia Handpainted. (I had expected to come back from that shelf with Koigu and surprised myself.)
Plus I joined the Yarn Sale group on Ravelry. BAD IDEA. Now I also have all of this Cherry Tree Hill. But it is pretty and lovely to knit with and was on sale! Ah well.
(More — including actual knitted items — after the jump)
08Oct
[And they're all made out of ticky-tacky]
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…I don’t have pictures for this stuff yet, but I can’t resist posting. Pictures will come later this week.
So! This weekend I finished Samus! Huzzah! I have been working on it since January (!!!) but the bulk of that was the tedium of the cable. The stockinette & finishing flew by, and the finished cardigan is so cozy!
Sunday night I reknitted Ron’s Animal Crackers hat (from the third Harry Potter movie). I had wanted to make it for some time, and then I had a skein of green leftover from the Irish Hiking Scarf. Perfect! The first time it knitted up beautifully, but a bit too small, so I frogged it and added another repeat, and now it is awesome.
Then I took the leftover dark red and cast on Rose’s Wristwarmers (from the “Doomsday” episode of “Doctor Who”). If I have enough yarn & they turn out well and everything, I will have a sweet little winter set, with the bonus that it’ll be fannish without being obviously so.
If I wasn’t hoarding all my vacation for silly little things like trips to England, I would be sorely tempted to take some time off to plow through some crafts. I have a big crochet project I’m working on, plus I need to add the buttons to the three sweatshirt pillows, plus I want to redecorate/finish decorating my bedroom, including riffing on this crocheted headboard idea & getting some prints off of Etsy, plus I need to generally reorganize so I can spread out a t-shirt quilt (which includes taking a trip to Ikea to get shelving for my craft area), and then I saw this on ikeahacker and thought it would be super fun to do that with the shelves, as the ones I’m planning to get are not exactly beautiful.
*falls over*
Speaking of England, that’s where I was a year ago, so if you feel like looking at pictures, you can look at those. Click through to the Flickr set.
In blog news, I installed the plugin for threaded comments, which appears to be working quite well. I also (a while back) installed the one for comment reply notification, but as far as I can tell it’s not working. Woe.
Peace out.