Archive for July, 2006
Friday, July 28th, 2006
Out of town
I’ll be out of town for a few days, returning next week. I’ll post then.
In the meantime, thanks to some excellent guidance about knitting lace I received via e-mail from Janice, I haven’t taken up residence at the nearest mental institution. The shawl is back on track with the right number of stitches and […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Correction . . .
There are now roughly 70 rows to go.
Thou shalt not laugh when I tell you that I spent 8 hours last night ripping out 32 rows of Idena Mohair Lux (translation: 8 hours of frogging roughly the equivalent of ripping out Kid Mohair). I just couldn’t let it go; there was one entire section that […]
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
Some observations about knitting lace
I’m 32 rows from finishing the Seraphim shawl, and I’ve definitely learned a few things. The biggest of those realizations is that my mind tends to wander to other things when I knit (which I knew, really I did), and that I have to force myself to pay attention to pattern repeats.
I’ve also realized that […]
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Oven doors and the dolts who make them
Yesterday I tackled some of my “I hate” jobs around the house. Specifically, washing the kitchen curtains, crawling around on hands and knees to scrub out the corners, mopping, and the biggest dragon of all: cleaning the oven. Admittedly a self-cleaning oven makes things easier, but this is a weird sucker which is not necessarily […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Stripes?
I have to admit that I’m confused. I’ve only worked with solid color or heathered yarns thus far (barring the crocheted exception), but I found this mohair and loved the color and feel of the thing, and thought it would be perfect for a shawl. So, that’s what I’m using for Miriam’s Seraphim Shawl. As […]
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Dogs and life
Janice had to say goodby to one of her dogs today, and I can only wish her peace.
Not long ago, a professor commented that he’d visited my website and seen the information I have posted about dogs, including the photos of our beasts. He asked how they were doing and how many we had now. […]
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Dane
I know it’s not particularly politic to say that newborn babies always look like a cross between Yoda and Buddha, but . . .
And having said that, I still think it’s a pretty cool blend of life.
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
Edith Wharton Resources
I’ve added a new permanent page to the site: an annotated bibliography of Edith Wharton resources. As the note at the top will tell you, it lists only a fraction of the mass of resources currently available to Edith Wharton scholars, and is only a partial listing of the materials I have used in my […]
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Monday, July 10th, 2006
Shoots and Ladders
I’ve learned a new trick. Check that. It’s not a new trick; it’s just one I’d never had to learn. I learned how to fix a mistake in my knitting by laddering down.
Why did I need to ladder in the first place? That Kiri shawl I had been working on? I frogged it. More times […]
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Thursday, July 6th, 2006
A name, a name!
AHA! We have a name.
The baby’s name is Dane Aaron [Robbins].
I rather like it. I remember having a few Danes in junior high and high school, but I’ve not seen that name for a while. Of course, if you want to know what inspired this one, you’d have to ask my […]
