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If I’m there for a longer trip, I’d likely go back to some of my favorite places to eat. However, even for a short weekend, I’ll always end up sometime at Kramer’s Books and Afterwards. It’s ridiculously busy during [...]

2008.03.28: Added photo.
Getting a haircut today meant I got to stop by Romni, and yes, they have the new Noro Kureyon Sock yarn in stock. Loads of it. I came home with a love colour-way. Actual photos tomorrow, it’s too dark now.

Yes, the shipment that was delayed supposedly due to the container being hit by [...]

Yes, I spent all last night working out how to do a provincial cast on for the new shawl I planned to cast on. I wound up all the Silk Thread II into a cake without any issues. The colours look even better than in the skein. I timed it, it took 10 minutes.
Here I [...]

I’ve just put down my needles on my most recent lace project. Once again, the bind off was the most tedious boring part of the project. I’m so glad it’s done. It’s a triangular shawl which ends on the wide side, so, once again, the piece just grew and grew as I went along.
It’ll [...]

Went to Lettuce Knit yesterday to pick up the silk thread that was put aside for me earlier in the week.

It wasn’t until I got home that I realized that it’s not Silk Thread but Silk Thread II! It’s got a little less yardage so now I’m not sure if I’ve enough for Simurgh.
I went [...]

Pattern:
Blue Sky Alpaca’s Bobbi Bear by Bobbi Intveld
Yarn:
Lion Brand Nature’s Choice Organic Cotton in Pecan
Needles:
US 9, 5.5mm Bryspun dpns
Date Started:
Feb 2nd, 2008
Date Finished:
Feb 22nd, 2008
Modifications:
None. But I did stuff as I went along.
Will I make it again?
Yup. It was almost too cute to give away. I’m sure I’ll make another one. It was fun to [...]

In software programming, there’s a particular experience that is bug reporting.
There are many forms of this experience. One example: you’ve downloaded a feature package, a library of code, to (re)use. You use it, and some thing is wrong. The behaviour isn’t what you expected nor documented. But you can pinpoint the problem. You start to [...]

See this?

It’s a pile of knits.
Technically, it’s 1 front, 1 back, 2 sleeves, 2 cuffs that will one day be a sweater that can be worn.
This was a really quick knit, started it while I was sick on New Years Eve/Day, and 80% of the knitting was done by end of January. The cuffs was [...]

It’s been ages, but my languishing unfinished cabled sweater needed to be ripped.

I do feel better. It needed to be done. I was this close to ripping out the body and trying again with a different pattern. But I think I’ll give it one more go this year.