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What’s cooking

Since I’m, uh, one hour away from being THREE DAYS OVERDUE with this kiddo currently residing in my innards, I thought I’d take the opportunity to update Ye Olde Sparsely Updated Knitting Blog before it descends into several months of sleep-deprived radio silence in which there is milk splattered everywhere and little knitting to speak [...]

Utilitarian knitting: mittens and soaker in Lamb’s Pride Bulky

As part of ongoing new baby prep, my parents-in-law came down a couple weekends ago to help me empty out the wool room and get things ready to paint in there. As a result, I had a good opportunity to go through a bunch of stash and I’m working through some old yarns for [...]

fourth-quarter 2009 recap

So, I apparently only have time to update my blog every, um, several months.   The shame, it burns me.  So much has happened since I last posted I’m resorting to sub headers to keep everything straight(-ish).
Butt Knits
In my last entry I mentioned being thisclose to done on my Ecological Wool soaker.   I’ve long since finished [...]

recent events: webs, rhinebeck and not much knitting

First up, my meager soaker progress:

It only took me, uh, two weeks to get that right cuff taken care of. I hope to finish the left cuff before the kiddo’s out of diapers altogether.
What else have I been up to? After apparently missing Fiber Twist again this year, Eve and I [...]

finished liesl! also, i’m not dead!

Hello, Intertubes. It’s been a while. What’s been going on, you ask?
The knitting front hasn’t been nearly as productive as I’d like. Babywrangling has kept me very busy this summer. However, I managed to not fall asleep immediately upon getting the kiddo to bed enough times to finish my [...]

the ultimate FO:

The Lamb was born on October 23, at 9:04 pm, weighing in at 7lbs 12.5oz, and measuring 19 inches long.
She’s utterly perfect. We are completely agog.
In baby knitting news, we realized when we got her home that all her hats were too small for her wee newborn head, so we made her [...]

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