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Archive for September, 2008

Pattern Surfing

Posted in Cats, Knitting, Sweaters, tagged , on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My local HEB grocery store has a wall of lettuce. There is lettuce in bags, boxes, and heads. It’s mixed with other stuff like croutons, or on its own. Some is organic, some is pre-washed, some needs washing (to get rid of that organic material that we don’t want to eat). Some is identified as [...]

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Stealth Knitting

Posted in Knitting, Projects, tagged on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It is mid-September. If you’re in school, you should be worried about those first tests, or maybe about that dissertation research that’s not quite finished. If you’re a runner, you are thinking about cooler and shorter days to go the distance. If you’re a worker bee, you’re dreaming about your next holiday.
If you’re a knitter [...]

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Journal Entries

Posted in Knitting, Observations, tagged on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook,” in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 1968.
Over the years I’ve tried to keep a journal. I shopped for [...]

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First Thursday

Posted in Handmade Pledge, Knitting, Projects, Sweaters, tagged , , on September 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On the first Thursday of every month, our local yarn shop, Hill Country Weavers, has a sale. Every sale has a theme. One time it was any 100% animal fiber. Another time, it was any yarn that had a seven in the price. One time it was all pink yarn. Some may call it quirky. [...]

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In a previous life …

Posted in Cookbooks, tagged , on September 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »

An old friend of mine used to claim that in a previous life she was a laundress for a French aristocrat. I believed her. Every time I went over to her house, she was doing laundry. And she changed her clothes every chance she had, just to make more laundry.
To extend her theory, in a [...]

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