Monsters!
Sunday, March 29th, 2009Please to meet Boris (L) and Bela (R), my SCARY MONSTER SLIPPERS! Boris is affable enough, but Bela would bite you as soon as look at you. Just ask the cat. Bwa ha ha ha!
Input, Output
Monday, December 22nd, 2008I’ve been motivated much more by knitting than by reading lately–perhaps it’s the winter nesting instinct, perhaps it’s just that I’ve been using lunch hours for knitting with a co-worker. I finished Neal Stephenson’s Anathem back in November, and found I had little to say about it once it was over. I enjoyed it very [...]
Treasure Trove
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Although I didn’t learn knitting from any of my grandmas who did fiberwork, I do come by it honestly, and on my visit to the family homestead in April, Mom let me pick out some samples of my great-grandma Delphia’s needlework to keep. I’ve yet to branch out from knitting, but if anything is going [...]
Punkins-n-Purl
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Just a bit of fall for those of you needing it: here’s a look this year’s crop of ‘home-grown’ punkins. Didn’t they turn out great? It was a super-easy project–much easier than last year’s, which involved seeds and dirt and watering, and yielded half as many punkins! Thursday night, Portland was graced with a visit [...]
What are the Odds?
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007So Kai, remember our awesome conversation about that book we were thinking of writing based on knitted items from the AoGG books? Well, it prompted me to do some googling to see if anyone else had a similar (or identical) brilliant idea. So far, not that I can tell. However, look what I found: link. [...]
Lookit I Did!
Sunday, February 18th, 2007Reading, schmeading! There’ll be time to read when carpal tunnel syndrome pries the needles from my cold, cramped hands! I have achieved a personal milestone in my knitting career. When I first started knitting, I also started frequenting knitting blogs, and at that time (December 2004) there was a craze on for making “˜fuzzy feet’””a [...]
Bookish Summit
Monday, February 5th, 2007After years of discussion, planning and almost-meetings, we madcap ladies of the Bookishdark are finally getting the much dreamt of vacation we deserve. And the best part? It is just one short month away. Well, the best part might be that it is in San Francisco. Or the best part of it may be that [...]
Not Reading, Knitting
Friday, January 26th, 2007Hi, sorry! Sorry! I know we’ve been terribly neglectful of this blog and you, our faithful readers. The good news is, we’ve tracked down the problem: it turns out that CountessZ and I have both undergone a renewed obsession with our other favorite pastime, knitting, and neither of us have read a darned thing lately””or [...]