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This project has been so frustrating. First of all, since usually even the smallest sizes are too big for me, I knitted it in the smallest size on a slightly smaller needle. It came out way too small, and I had to rip it all back to nothing. The silver lining was that I was able to correct 95% of the mistakes I had made the first time around: I had done the yoke incorrectly, it was too short, I

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Today, when the mail came, I had a package from Siga - some beautiful yarn, a card with her beautiful handwriting, and some chocolates. I couldn't take a picture of the yummy mini Ritter Sports, because... well you can probably figure out that they disappeared long before I got the camera out! Thank you, Siga! So, that was an absolutely lovely way to start the day.  Then we went to Islington

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Finished it just in time to wear out to the South Bank tonight!

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Our plum tree has had so many fruit this summer, and as R is in NYC for work for a few weeks, there is no way I could eat them all. And I've given pounds of them away to friends already. So I made jam.  4.5 cups pitted plums 3 cups sugarjuice of 1/4 lemon I'm still working on my mosaic yoke jacket, but I made it too small - usually the smallest size is still too big for me, but not this time.

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doesn't mean I haven't been knitting... (rav link and another link)

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Please promise me you will never use the slippery slope argument. It's just lazy and its only result can be maintaining the status quo. We don't live in the best of all possible worlds. Therefore, any issue of any importance will be a slippery slope. This doesn't mean people shouldn't take a stand. Say you're arguing that increasing surveillance, especially on people who have no criminal records

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I finally finished Beau.  R said something like, "well, now you can use these measurements for the next jumper you make me." I think that means success.   After re-knitting with the number of stitches called for by the pattern, I knit in the round, up to the base of the sleeve. Then I knit up the sleeves, and attached them so I could keep knitting in the round, because I am terrible at sewing

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I just got back from New York yesterday - it was the first time I'd been in about two years. I think I got a bit of culture shock. It really was like walking through a man-made canyon - it was so loud, and it smelled like grilled meat. I felt like I was the angel in Wings of Desire, I could hear everyone's thoughts, but really, it was just because people have to speak loudly to be heard above the

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It's been some time since I posted - August just flew by... I've been working away at Beau - I'm altering it. Did I tell you that despite swatching, my first attempt was too big - by about 6 inches!! And Rog doesn't go for teabaggy clothing. So I ripped it all out, and am now making it again with the number of stitches the pattern called for. I've knit it in the round (you know how I hate sewing

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Here is my newest project, Beau. It's a jumper for R's birthday. I know he likes things to be very fine, so I've used much finer yarn then the recipe called for - instead of casting on 90 stitches per side, I cast on 140. It'll take me forever, but that's why I started 2 months early! From our garden:

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Well, here is the new and improved amber: it fits! I'm pretty pleased with it; we're in the middle of a heatwave here in London, so I haven't really had an opportunity to wear it yet.  Seriously, we got off the plane from Sicily, and it felt like instead of landing in London, we had landed right back in Sicily. Luckily, the garden didn't suffer too much, though it was desperate to be watered. My

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I had to frog Amber, because even though I knit the smallest size, I was absolutely drowning in it. I've resized it, dropping the cast-on from 56 stitches per front and back, to 40 stitches per front and back. That's 32 stitches less than the pattern called for, in total! And it's just right, I think. Now all that's left is the cowl neck. Here's our mini-conservatory, where we have breakfast.

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Not that I ever tire of it! And here is amber, so far: I'm not sure what to think about it. It's soft.

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We've been spending any time we have in the garden. It's meant a lot less knitting, and a lot less being on the computer in general, which is really great. Those are some cut flowers from the garden. Here's some other things I've grown from seed. I know this isn't that exciting to most people, but I'm feeling pretty proud of myself that I've gotten things so far along. Some plants I didn't

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This is the wool my sister gave me for my birthday. It's actually a much warmer grey.         

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I haven't written in a long time. Partially haven't had the time, partially haven't had the desire.  We've been spending a lot of time in our garden. I've planted lots of seeds. Aren't my beet seedlings pretty? And those are some broad beans in front of the beets. I had the beans outside, but the stupid squirrels kept digging them up, so I've started them indoors instead. Some more photos of

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Since I finished my last jumper, I haven't knit a thing.  So in lieu of knitting news, I'll just show you an image of a lovely bird I saw yesterday (image from www.rspb.org.uk). It looked so exotic, I was impressed to learn that it's a bog-standard British bird: the green woodpecker. I've been to Edinburgh twice in the past month for work. View of Stirling Yesterday morning, there was a

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Well, it's done, though not blocked. The colour is probably most true in this image: Just in time, too, as they're predicting more crap weather for the UK, maybe even more snow. Hey, did I mention? I passed my "Life in the UK" exam. I was really stressing out about it, because you have to learn a lot of data and stats, and then they only ask you 24 questions. It was fine, I walked out

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And our garden after some severe weather:And the green gable getting more and more done...

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Happy new year! Already January... I can't deny that I have a bit of January blues.I've been making decent headway on Green Gables:Everything I knit comes out a little bit too big for me, even though I always make the smallest size. And I'm a normal-sized person - maybe on the small side of medium, I'd say. So with this jumper, I'm making the xs size and using a size 9 needle rather than 10.5. I

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Just in time for the holidays!Merry Christmas, everyone! et Joyeux Noël!x

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After a decent period of not knitting very much, now I have started up again, with one project well on the way (the Leaf Yoke Top - rav link), and another waiting in the wings.Our kitchen is still not done.

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Well, okay, I haven't started yet, but I got some of this yarn:I know. I keep buying the same colour wool. I can't wait to start knitting, though!I'm doing a project at a school that's right next door to a farm and there's a farm cafe. The farm is beautiful and the cafe is very sweet. Here's a photo from around the cafe:Yesterday, I went to Paris to spend the day with my aunt. I was really lucky,

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We've been in the new flat for almost a month. It's finally starting to feel like home; hopefully the nightmare bit is over. Did I tell you that our estate agent deliberately misled us, and had a damp survey altered to hide the fact that the kitchen has a lot of damp? Yes, well, he did. Luckily, R caught him, and they're now paying for it, but they're not paying for all the upheaval and misery it

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Well, we've moved. It's not love at first sight; we'll have to get comfortable in this flat and this neighbourhood, and that takes time. It's taken up a lot of time and energy. Not quite so central as before, but we have more space (I can be in one room and have no idea in which other room R is), and we have a garden. We hung up a bird feeder, and we already have little birds coming by, which is

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My mother's birthday present. Happy birthday!

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A glimpse of one of my new holiday-knitting projects. It's sublime extra fine merino wool in a very warm, chocolate-y charcoal grey.When I'm worried about finding work, it's hard for me to do anything but worry. But, this past week my September work schedule started to really fill up and as the worry started to melt away, I actually felt like I could relax, and enjoy some hours of knitting. It

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This past Sunday was a gorgeous day, and so I went to the square to sit and knit. I ran into some friends, which was really nice. I love that kind of fortuitous encounter. Admittedly, they live around the corner so it's not blind coincidence, but it was still nice. Well, until P got stung by a wasp on his tongue. He didn't make a fuss, though I kept trying to tell him that if he's not going to

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I haven't felt much urge to knit all summer, but, as you know, I did start working on the pegboard lace tunic. It almost knit itself! I just did ten rounds a day, and before I knew it, the body was done:Now I just have to knit up the i-cords, so I can finish it up. It's a very clever idea. And knitting i-cords seems like an ideal knitnight activity.On Sunday, we went to see an exhibition at the

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We stayed just a little bit too long; and a little bit too long is just the right amount of time.We stayed long enough to enjoy ourselves, and long enough that we were ready to come back home.A lot of southwestern Sicily looks like this in summertime:Sometimes summer in Sicily is known as its winter due to the death of everything by heat; apparently spring and autumn are gorgeous. Also, since

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I have knit very, very little in the past three weeks! I've had a lot of work, which has been really good, and as a result, very little time for knitting and blogging. But now my schedule is lightening again.The coquette tube top is languishing, I just don't love that cotton yarn. So what have I been knitting? Well, the pegboard lace tunic:It's nice to be knitting again, though it was just a

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Here is the pattern. Now, what to do with the rest of my rennie wool??

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Yes, I went to Paris. For the day. I know, I know! It sounds decadent and like I have oodles of cash. And while the former may be true, the latter isn't. It's only £59 return by eurostar!!! So I went down for my aunt's birthday, and I'm really glad I did. It was an absolutely gorgeous day. As soon as we got off the train, we made our way to Montmartre, where climbed up to the sacre coeur because

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We went to Edinburgh for a few days last week - it already seems like a dream and so long ago. It was so sunny and warm that I - unusually unprepared for this - got a nasty sunburn on my face. I sunburned my eyelids - a first for me! Ouch. They're just about healed now, almost a week later. Here's some proof of the hot and sunny:Neither of us had a lot on in the way of work, and I was definitely

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Today, we went out to look at the back wall, because we suspected that it would make an excellent suntrap, where we could go to drink our tea on lovely sunny mornings. And around back, we saw an amazing sight: one of the trees covered in many dozens of butterflies! This picture doesn't do it justice. Also a little bird has made its home in a hole in the wall and we can hear the babies

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I frogged the spidery tank. I had started it with a bit of trepidation - it was the only pattern in the new interweave knits that I even kind of liked - but I knew I wouldn't really like it, and I wasn't enjoying knitting it. Instead, I'm now knitting the coquette tube top (rav link) from fitted knits. I'm thinking of extending it so it's more of a tunic, so I can use it at the beach. If not the

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I'm going to make this spidery tank, but with an extra repeat on the lace pattern, so I can wear it to the beach. Which beach that is remains to be seen. Yesterday, I interviewed an artist for a profile I'm writing on him. He's about 86 and it was a many-layered conversation. It left me feeling deeply happy but also deeply sad. Happy because it's always good to speak with amazing people and have

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As Rog has been in NY this week, and I have been putting off doing work, I was able to finish Bliss in record time. I basically knit every night from 9pm - 12am, and I am really pleased with how it turned out! Just in time to go to a dinner party tonight, en plus.I'll spend this week coming catching up on the work I should have been doing this past week. That'll also give me some time to think

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It was another lovely weekend. I've even got a bit of a sunburn from sitting in / walking through parks yesterday and today!After I finished Paloma, I had a few days off, because I wasn't sure what to knit. By the way, it turns out that though I used the same size needles as the pattern called for, I used much thicker wool than prescribed; hence mine isn't quite as lacey, and the pattern stands

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Well, before I get to Bath, here's Paloma. I did rip it all out and start over again, this time without mistakes, and I'm really happy I did so. Not least because I figured out that many of my problems the first time around stemmed from the fact that I missed an all-important increase round very early on. So I'm pretty pleased with how this turned out; now I'll just need some warm days, please...

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Knitting:Well, I ripped it all out. I've now re-knit and am well close to the half-way mark! I'm up to the part where there are waves, which is fun to knit - seeing them start to appear. I'll post some pictures soon. Rant:Today we went to this event at PRS, sort of a response to what's happening with them and Google. I have to say, it's hard for me to understand Google's position. One of the guys

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Yesterday I met a few Hoxton Knitnight people at the V&A, where we drank tea in the beautiful cafe. Here's a picture of the ceiling. I know. Kind of random, but there you have it; it gives you an idea of the museum's ambience.Larissa had brought her copy of A Stitch in Time with her for us to ooooh and ahhhh over. And ooooooh and ahhhhh we did. I had already favourited some patterns on ravelry,

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In my last post, I mentioned that I received French Girl Knits for my birthday, and Andrea asked for a review. Here it is!I had seen several patterns I really liked from the book, which is why I wanted it. That said, I have to say I'm not crazy about the conceit behind the book. I know that Griffin-Grimes' editor was probably saying "there's got to be a theme uniting everything!" but I don't need

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I've been feeling singularly unemployed this past week. Mind you, I'm not actually less employed, it's just the nature of being freelance - sometimes I have busy weeks, sometimes I don't. This week of unemployment lined up rather nicely with a beautiful week weather-wise. I've been running three times this past week, and out for a long walk somewhere lovely every single day.We went to Kew Gardens

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As predicted, this chunky lace scarf was a quick knit; and, thankfully, I really love it! I've worn it every chance I've had, since I finished it.I met up with Larissa at the photographer's gallery over the weekend, and she helped me with a little photo shoot:I was really glad to finally have some pictures of my knitting that were not taken in my kitchen! Spring is in full swing here, and the

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Finally, here's the gothlet, finished and blocked. I'm still not sure how I feel about it. See that little bit around the belly that's kind of sticking out? I don't like that. I also don't like how heavy the cotton fabric is. It's a bit like wearing chainlink armour (I imagine). But I'll give it some wearings and see how it goes. I did really enjoy the process of making it, and how complicated it

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Our neighbourhood is springing into bloom. Crocuses! Daffodils! Cherries (or maybe pears, I'm not sure)!I know it's not that surprising, but I am full of appreciation for the fact that I don't need to slog through another month of winter, as I would in the states...I haven't been blogging much, but don't let that fool you. I've been industriously working away on the gothlet. It's full of

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Or actually, maybe friendsick. I don't miss NYC, and I still really love London, and I think I'm officially over the honeymoon phase now. But I do really miss my friends and family from back home. I'm not sure why they are all so stubborn and refuse to all move here.But, my mother is coming over from NYC and my aunt is coming up from paris to see me for a few days next month for my birthday! So

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Want to try it yourself? Here you go!

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Sometimes, procrastinating is a boon. I took another look at the gothlet, which I'd not yet frogged, and now - with a decent amount of time since I last looked - the join looks fine to me. The sweater still has to go. Maybe I should start calling my procrastination "being patient." Last night, we went to the Macbeth to see nonclassical, which seems to me to be what you'd expect from experimental

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They're done!I have a little wool left, so I'm attempting a matching cowl.Tomorrow, we'll have been in London for one whole year.

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A lot of the things I started knitting at the end of last year, before the Christmas marathon, and at the beginning of this year need to be frogged. I don't know why, but nothing I started seemed to be going very well. My phildar pull came out like a teabag. The gothlet - well, I made a mess of a seam and the gauge wasn't perfect, which means I have to rip the whole thing. Back to square one. I

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It's a lovely blustery wintery day outside - bouts of rain from darkened skies - made all the more enjoyable because I'm working from home today and can just see it out my window, while I sit cozily inside.I loved this Phildar jumper when I saw it, even though I knew straight away that it wouldn't flatter me (i.e. it doesn't have a waist!). But I decided to try it out anyway. And it's not

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Today, I finally got my Christmas present from my sister.I am so happy! I got a lovely little red bag, and when I opened the bag, there were even more presents inside, including beautiful stripey pink and brown socks - my sister knows me so well - I LOVE pink and brown together! And some other goodies as well, and for Rog too.It was worth the wait! And as I guessed, even better to receive gifts

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There is a whole street devoted to haberdashery shops - rua da conceiçao - or conception street as I like to call it. Nothing very exciting there for me, though if you like buttons, you're in the right place. On Rua dos Fanqueiros, though, there is a lovely shop with ceiling to floor and wall to wall yarn, their own brand - Brancal. A lot of it was partially acrylic, and I didn't see a colour in

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We just got back from a week in Lisbon. You want the good news first? Or the bad?Well, since you ask, the bad news first - it's shorter. It was my first holiday where I couldn't wait to get home. To be fair, it wasn't entirely Lisbon's fault. It was a bad confluence of events that conspired against us: 1) we went for too long; 2) it was cold; 3) there is a limit to the number of meals you can eat

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I spend a good deal of time wishing things wouldn't be over. In summer, I wish that autumn wouldn't come, or in the months leading up to my next birthday, I wish my birthday wouldn't arrive too quickly, or during holidays away from home, I dread getting back on the plane or train. But, by the time the time for change arrives, I'm almost always ready to move on. Good thing too, as I really don't

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I can finally post these!!!Rog's cobblestone jumper:Marieke's Central Park Hoodie (modeled on me, til I get some pics from her!):Ysolda's garter mittens for Paul:Flora for my mother:

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I just want to direct you here, to hoxton handmade's blog, for a hilarious recap of our evening...

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I was originally just going to leave this as a photo essay as it's been a while since I last wrote, and I'm feeling a bit rusty. The cobblestone pull is coming along nicely, and I finished Rog's red scarf:We spent the weekend in Sussex with Rog's sister and family, and it was lovely. We went to a pantomime on Saturday evening - I'd never been to one, and had been led to believe that I would hate

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I have actually accomplished a lot this week - though I can't post photos of what I've accomplished until after Christmas! I sent off a box of goodies to NYC yesterday at the very last minute. Luckily the post office was completely empty for some reason. I also finally got the last draft of that article in. I felt wound up the whole day, but today I woke up feeling quite relaxed! I still have

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Yesterday, we went to see the Francis Bacon show at the Tate. There were two major distractions; first, they had lit the paintings really badly, and the glare on the glass was so bad that it was a struggle to see the images and not just the reflections of what was going on in the rest of the gallery. The other distraction was this: you know how in a lot of Bacon's paintings there is a kind of

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Today I went to Made in Clerkenwell, a lovely craft fair, with Hoxton Handmade and Travelknitter, and we briefly ran into Estieknits too. I brought my camera, and then I didn't take photos. It was a building full of great open studios, with lots of beautiful jewelry, sadly beyond my price range, some knitwear, and some housewares that were also quite tempting. There was a bookbinder, and I did

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But one Christmas present down...Off to finish (yes, it's half written!) my article. And can I just add how amazing the internet is? I was vaguely remembering a quote I might want to use as an intro, from one of my favourite books, The Interpretation of Cultures, by Clifford Geertz, which I of course left in NYC along with the rest of my books. So I just googled his name and what I could remember

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I am so stressed out right now. Here's what I have to do over the weekend:1) Write an article - the writing will be easy; the getting myself to sit down and actually do it will be hard. Actual work: 1 hour. Work including procrastination: roughly 10 hours.2) Work on a case study. Same issue as above. Actual work: 1/2 hour. With procrastination: 2 hours.3) Come up with two diagnostic tools. This

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I have a cold. Yuck.We went for a walk along the thames a few days ago. The light was absolutely beautiful - because we're so far north, and the sun was setting (at around 4pm!), it was very lateral, and it gave the buildings across the thames these amazing golden highlights.It was almost as if London were posing for a postcard:I ran out of wool for my druid mittens, and it's knitpicks wool, and

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All I can say is: what a relief it is that Obama won. What a relief.

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So, it's around 9am, Saturday morning. Rog is lying in bed with a pretty bad cold, and he says, "you know, what I could really use is hint hint a really warm woolly sweater to make me feel better."Just then, the doorbell rings, and there is a delivery. It's this:That's right, a huge bag of wool. It's wool I ordered over a month ago from New Lanark, that seemed to have gotten lost. And I had

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Ask me to create something in the kitchen that entails sticking precisely to a recipe, and I can’t help but improvise. I’m the kind of person who thinks a “pinch,” a “handful,” and “until it looks right” are actual measurements. So when I decided to make some biscuits a few days ago, I thought I would try this measuring thing. And I was going merrily along, as best I could - I knew I needed half

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This past week, at knitting group, Paris came up and I realised I couldn't remember the name of the métro stop near my grandmother's flat. This was the stop I emerged from every Friday afternoon to go to lunch with my grandparents and my aunt and the occasional other friend or family member, as well as for every holiday and every birthday for a whole year, and I couldn't remember the name! Quelle

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Here are my Bacchus socks:And I started a scarf in this lovely Lobster Pot bulky yarn - I've had it for a few years, and I have had no idea what to make with it. I'm not entirely sold on this scarf.I might like to make it into these slippers, but it seems too nice to just pad around the house in. I just don't know. I guess I'll keep knitting it into a scarf.Well, except that I think it's time to

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I just had a crazy week, but starting today, I get a little bit of breathing space.And what good timing, because look what I got today!It's the wool from the CSA I joined last year, Martha's Vineyard Fiber Farm. It's very soft, and I love the warm white color. I also got 6 skeins of worsted weight. The one pictured here is sport weight. Now I have to figure out how (or possibly if) I should dye

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I just listened to the whole interview again (the one I went to NYC for) and took notes, and I am having such trouble making it gel! Come on, brain, what's wrong with you?So here's some photos of the Luna Dress. Still not totally sure about the flouncy 3/4 sleeves, but I like the cowl neck. Also, I think it's already stretching. This is good in terms of the skirt, which was way too fitted,

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This past weekend was Open House London, a showcase for architecture and design throughout the city, and as my friend B, an architect, was here for the weekend visiting from Berlin, we went to see a lot of things. I wouldn't have known about it if she hadn't been here!First, in my neighborhood, we went to this building which I had always assumed was offices; but no, it's a gallery space:We also

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Amanda tagged me for the "six random things about me" meme. I'm always very interested to read other peoples' lists, but I struggle a lot with mine.Anyway, here are the rules:Link to the person who tagged you.Post the rules on your blog.Write six random things about yourself.Tag six people at the end of your post.Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their

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I have to say, the Luna Dress is knitting up very quickly, in great part due to the fact that I have a lot to do - like, for example, pack for my trip to New York. I have to write interview questions. The Secret Project has been blocked and is drying in the kitchen, hopefully it'll be dry in time for me to bring it with me. Well, before I get to all I have to do, I figure I can at least knit up

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My sister reminded me today that I hadn't posted in almost a month. We went to Devon for a weekend, and when I came back, I didn't feel like posting about the trip, even though there were lots of great things to write about: it was absolutely beautiful and I had a great time with my niece, Lily. We built sandcastles and went on long walks, and went beachcombing. We found lots of cool stuff. One

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First, I'd like to say that Amanda gave me a Brillante Weblog award - this is so sweet! Especially the part where she said why. And one day soon, I will come up with my 7 people to pass it on to. And can I say? I'd nominate Amanda right back :)It has been so chilly in London - I've been wearing boots, and sweaters. Today I went out and wished I had put a jacket on top of my sweater! So, this made

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I'm actually ahead of time on this piece. I hadn't expected to finish it for another two months, but it looks like it'll get done this month. Unless I run out of yarn, which I definitely will, I only have one skein left and more than one skein's worth of work to do.Part of the reason I've gotten so far ahead is that we finally have a knitting group in Shoreditch! It's really nice to sit around

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Today I went down the street to the library. Ostensibly, to get books on how to run my own business. As if there were a greater intelligence out there, the path to business books took me straight past... that's right, knitting books! And cookbooks! I only got one knitting book and one cookbook and three business books.The more I delve into this stuff, the more I realize how unnatural business is.

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I now realize that my little blue sweater was foreshadowing for the water we were to find in Sicily...

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Before we left, I quickly knit up this little capelet with my new wool, thinking it might be useful for cool nights in Sicily (had there been any, it would have been!):I emailed my friend Gabi the day before we were leaving on our trip, since we were staying with her, and I didn't have her mobile number. I didn't hear from her all day. When we left at 6am the next morning, I still hadn't heard

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... I thought about it every day for three weeks, and looked around on Ravelry til I figured out what I would make with it, even though my love for it was definitely impulsive. Right?I went back to Loop, and got my misti chunky alpaca:The baby sweater for Marieke's new niece or nephew (no lamb yet, sorry!!!) The Secret Project, or Marieke's birthday present, which she received today (though it's

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So, I'd say 98% of today was really excellent. But it's amazing how that 2% can really sour things. We had a lovely morning at the Columbia Road flower market, got tons of nice plants for our courtyard. The caretaker of our building had asked Rog to get more, because he liked what he'd done so far a lot. As Rog was planting, everyone who passed by thanked him, and said how much nicer the

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Yesterday, while wandering around in Highgate:As we were walking along, we saw this little wooded entrance:And decided to check it out. When we got through, we were in this big, open field:It was pretty amazing. It turned out to be Hampstead Heath, a gigantic park in north London. I think it'd be a great place for a picnic, if I can ever find it again.We walked for a while and came to a road, and

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My sis asked me to make a baby box (lamb & sweater) for her new niece or nephew, who is due in the next month, so I had to go to Loop today. As some of you know, this shop (my favorite so far in London) is right near where I work, and it has taken a lot of self-control to not spend my every lunch hour there. This is what I got:This is what I did not buy, but was so sorely tempted:It's Misti

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I can't put pictures up of my new secret project til Birthday girl receives it, which might take a while as I haven't finished it yet, let alone sent it...So instead, here is a picture of a fossil I found, while we were in our little courtyard planting flowers:Also some pictures of Brighton, from our recent day trip:

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The jury's still out on this one.

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Well, I can't take a picture of the camera, but it's cute. MK, if you're reading this, I really like it so far! But I've only had it a few hours.Here's a pic of the Back to School Vest:Cute, no?And I'm also starting one more project from fitted knits, then I'll make something else. It's that sleeveless turtleneck thing.And, Hoxton Square, earlier this afternoon, where I was knitting. It was such

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It almost seems like I didn't go to NYC at all! The time really flew by, and it was a very good trip, no miseries like the last time I was there. I saw all my friends, which was great, and all in the space of little over a week. Now if only every week could be so friend-filled...! While I was at the airport, and then while I was waiting for take-off, I started knitting my Back to School vest. I

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here's the mini Back to School vest:

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Yesterday, my friend Heidi came over to keep me company while I finished up the "last" bits of packing. Last in quotes because I'm still not done packing. I mean, I'm almost done, but I still feel like there's a million little details to take care of.Anyhoo, afterwards, I went back uptown with her, where she introduced me to her LYS, Yarntopia. So cute! So much nice wool! Why wasn't it there when

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Finally, we've had a nice day in NYC. I spent the afternoon having a lovely potluck, with my good friends Miss Mildred, Marieke & Paul, TK, MK, and PB. And, they all took lots of my stuff (books, yarn, kitchenware), so I don't have to trash it, give it to strangers (not that that's a bad thing), and especially so I don't have to figure out how to get it to London. This was a really nice ending to

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Finally found something to do with my Habu yarn:Here's a close up: Rog has been hard at work making a window garden in the kitchen. When I get back from NYC I'm going to put together a herb box too.

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So last week I went to see the Peter Doig show at the Tate. It was an amazing show, I think because it had this quietness to it, but also a lot going on. Every time I looked at a painting and thought I didn't like it, the second time or third time I walked by it, I would notice some squibble of paint, or a shadow, and it would make me suddenly realize that I really did like it. It shut down the

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The last of the photos from Edinburgh. Oh, did I mention I went to k1yarns while I was there? I did.Anyhoo,

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