Archive for September, 2006

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Living with history

DH and I took a break this week and went for a drive on a day when the weather actually happened to be nice (after nearly 2 weeks of rain). Along the way, I took this photo:

It’s a fairly typical wooden building, but not quite what they call a Trønderlån. It may have actually started […]

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Sunday, September 17th, 2006

Oregon and enablers

Janice is a terrible enabler. Note that I mean that facetiously; she’s absolutely brilliant at it, and I’m convinced that she takes a totally wicked amount of glee in doing so. When she recommended the Oregon shawl because the pattern was easy to follow and remember but it wasn’t something you’d get bored with, I […]

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Sunday, September 17th, 2006

Swaps

The recent Whose Lace is It Anyway? Knitters Lace Swap was, as far as I’m concerned, an unqualified success. Donna and Ailsa ran the thing brilliantly. They were gracious, incredibly well organized, and handled all things Swap like pros. Seriously, I was so impressed that I’d sign up for a swap with them again […]

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Friday, September 8th, 2006

Yarny thoughts

One of the things which has come of the recent Lace Swap has been the opportunity to see yarns and knitting tools and gadgets from all over the world. As a relatively new knitter who only had access to—or knew about—the local Norwegian yarn stores (specifically Garnhuset, Jens Hoff, and Husfliden [the last of which […]

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Friday, September 8th, 2006

Semester start

This has been my Fall term kickoff week. I’ve had one lecture with the local university; other lectures, exams, and coursework are crowding the horizon but for now I have a couple weeks’ break with them. It was also the first week of the LIT 207 class with SNHU.
I’ve done a fair amount with the […]

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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

September 5

Yesterday was Janice’s birthday.
It was also my youngest brother’s birthday (pappa to new nephew Dane Aaron).
I celebrated by making a quick run to the LYS and getting myself some blue and white yarn for a pair of Selbu mittens.
It dawned on me that knitters should have their own version of Jeff Foxworthy. We may not […]

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