Look what I made: I was a crafty Secret Santa for work this year, making this bicolored version of the Chilly Podsters by Glenna C of Knitting to Stay Sane. They are in the recipient’s favorite color (blue) with the natural contrast color (orange) for this particular shade of blue… well, the natural contract color [...]
Archive for December, 2011
FO: one more for 2011
Posted in Knitting on December 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Yay for an Honorable Mention!
Posted in Knitting, Writing on December 14, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Fantasy author Nicole Peeler celebrated an author friend of hers, Juliet Blackwell, on December 2nd. The cause for the celebration: Juliet had a book (Dead Bolt) coming out and Nicole wanted to let us all know about it. Juliet writes “cozies,” those mysteries with the sometimes painfully punny titles that let you know the book [...]
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- Neologisms I stole
- 2012 Books Read
- 1. Land of the Burning Sands
- 2. Law of the Broken Earth
- 3. Night of the Living Trekkies
- 4. Moonlight and Vines
- 5. Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
- 6. The Walls of Jericho
- 7. Forests of the Heart
- 8. Learning to Swim
- 9. Bossypants
- 10. Eve of All Hallows
- 11. Tapping the Dream Tree
- 12. Master of My Surrender
- 13. Federations
- 14. This Brilliant Darkness
- 15. The Hunger Games
- 16. Catching Fire
- 17. Mockingjay
- 18. Spirits in the Wires
- 19. Dark Future
- 20. Shotgun Gravy
- 21. Medicine Road
- 22. The Blue Girl
- 23. The Alchemist of Souls
- 24. The Demon’s Bargain
- 25. The Iron Duke
- 26. Sleep with Me
- 27. Soulless
- 28. Flash and Bones
- 29. Shades of Grey
- 30. Kiss Me, I’m Irish
- 31. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- 32. Rush Home Road
- 33. Pale Demon
- 34. Blackbirds
- 35. Setting Fires
- 36. A Thousand Splendid Suns
- 37. Incorporeal
- 38. Past Twilight
- 39. Homicide in Hardcover
- 2012 Finished Objects
- 1. Mmmalabrigo seaweed cowl
- 2. Computer drawing-pad cover
- 3. BC15′s grey med-faire pants
- 4. Red-trimmed chemise
- 5. Red feather-n-fan cowl
- 6. White-trimmed chemise
- 7. Jacob’s hat
- 8. Cupcake’s gold chemise
- 9. Cupcake’s taffeta overskirt
- 10. BC15′s black and blue doublet
- 11. Blue velour pouch
- 12. Tira’s k1p1 fingerless mitts
- 13. Jacob’s neckwarmer
- 14. Megan’s Osmena hat
- 15. Green-blue Fetching Mitts
- 16. Spring autumn leaves cardi
- 17. Spring baby janes
- 18. Spring peapod hat
- Yarn usage 2012
- *Helpful resources
- 2011 Finished objects
- 1. K1P1 fingerless mitts
- 2. K1P1 fingerless mitts
- 3. K1P1 fingerless mitts
- 4. Hub’s med-faire pants
- 5. Cupcake’s purple underdress
- 6. Killian’s long K2P2 mitts
- 7. Blue k2p2 fingerless mitts
- 8. Blue k2p2 fingerless mitts again
- 9. Adult beret in pink
- 10. Pink k2p2 fingerless mitts
- 11. Arianna’s first halter
- 12. Toddler twisted pumpkin hat
- 13. Helena sweater
- 14. K1P1 fingerless mitts for Thomas
- 15. Blue K1P1 fingerless mitts
- 16. Black-n-royal K1P1 fingerless mitts
- 17. FO 16 redux-ish
- 18. Arianna’s Katja sundress
- 19. Green K1P1 fingerless mitts
- 20. Green cowl with 3 buttons
- 21. Green HP7 preemie cap
- 22. Pink Arcadia knitting baby sweater
- 23. Green/pink K1P1 preemie cap
- 24. O&B hat-n-booties set
- 25. White, green and purple cap
- 26. Shay’s Aeolian shawl
- 27. Lilac & white baby cap
- 28. Purple & grey baby cap
- 29. FIL double-layer hat
- 30. Orange-n-blue chilly podsters
- Charity “squares”: 52
- Yarn usage 2011
- 2011: words of wisdom
- About the author
- Books Read 2008
- Books Read 2009
- Books Read 2010
- Books Read 2011
- 1. Heart-Shaped Box
- 2. Horns
- 3. Mistress of the Art of Death
- 4. The Serpent’s Tale
- 5. Grave Goods
- 6. Under the Dome
- 7. The Mermaid Chair
- 8. 20th Century Ghosts
- 9. Very Valentine
- 10. Black Magic Sanction
- 11. Karma Girl
- 12. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- 13. The Autograph Man
- 14. A Killer Stitch
- 15. Dyer Consequences
- 16. Fleece Navidad
- 17. Dropped Dead Stitch
- 18. Skein of the Crime
- 19. Indulgence in Death
- 20. Wicked Appetite
- 21. Spinning Forward
- 22. Casting About
- 23. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
- 24. A Murderous Procession
- 25. How to Knit a Heart Back Home
- 26. Relentless
- 27. Restoring Harmony
- 28. The Magicians
- 29. A Perfect Evil
- 30. Split Second
- 31. The Soul Catcher
- 32. At the Stroke of Madness
- 33. A Necessary Evil
- 34. Exposed
- 35. Black Friday
- 36. Damaged
- 37. In Human Form
- 38. Never Knowing
- 39. 24 Declassified: Head Shot
- 40. Time for Eternity
- 41. If I Stay
- 42. The Last Werewolf
- 43. Hush, Hush
- 44. Dead Reckoning
- 45. Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits
- 46. The Keeper
- 47. The Missing
- 48. Graveminder
- 49. Spider Bones
- 50. Fairy Tale Lust
- 51. White Ghost
- 52. Trader
- 53. The Outlaws of Sherwood
- 54. Greenmantle
- 55. The Little Country
- 56. Memory & Dream
- 57. Don’t Kill the Messenger
- 58. The Dreaming Place
- 59. Dead on Delivery
- 60. Dreams Underfoot
- 61. From a Whisper to a Scream
- 62. I’ll Be Watching You
- 63. The Ivory and the Horn
- 64. Such a Nice Guy
- 65. Dear Sun, I Am Real
- 66. Smokin’ Seventeen
- 67. Why We Suck
- 68. Tempest Rising
- 69. Someplace to Be Flying
- 70. Hot Mama
- 71. The Girls
- 72. Lord of the Changing Winds
- 73. Explosive Eighteen
- Finished Objects 2008
- 1. Hunter’s Fingerless Mitts
- 2. Matrix scarf
- 3. Freakishly Thin Mitts
- 4. Chunky cable scarf
- 5. Teal fingerless mitts
- 6. Yellow twisted pumpkin hat
- 7. k2p1 mitts
- 8. Red and black toddler hat
- 9. Hooded toddler sweater
- 10. Harvey Kimono
- 11. Fuzzy black non-chemo child’s cap
- 12. Fuzzy black chemo cap
- 13. Carol’s fingerless mittens
- 14. Toni’s purple fuzzy scarf
- 15. Rose ombre fingerless mitts
- 16. Purple and white extra-chunky scarf
- 17. Lynda’s mitts
- 18. Maresa’s Christmas cowl
- 19. Shane’s really long scarf
- 20. Just Enough Ruffles
- 21. Cranberry fingerless mitts
- 22. Sarah’s fingerless mitts
- 23. Not Sarah’s mitts
- 24. Potato chip scarf
- 25. Cupcake’s Ruffled Scarf
- 26. Kai
- Charity “squares”: 66
- Finished Objects 2009
- 1. Cupcake’s fetching mitts
- 2. Julie’s Ruffled Scarf
- 3. Ashley’s scarf
- 4. Ashley’s 4-cable mitts
- 5. Cupcake’s long fetching mitts
- 6. Cupcake’s socks
- 7. Blanket square for Zoom
- 7b. Another square for Zoom
- 8. Jules’ baby aran sweater
- 9. Bonnie’s Fetching mitts
- 10. Blankie squares for Carrie
- 11. Mark’s dashing mitts
- 12. Happy hearts and flowers socks
- 13. Mistake-rib scarf
- 14. MIL’s potato-chip scarf
- 15. Arianna’s Baby Einstein (Baby Albert?)
- 16. MIL’s fetching mitts
- 17. Olive helmet liner
- 18. Another olive helmet liner
- 19. Susie’s palindrome scarf
- Baby blanket squares: 15
- Finished Objects 2010
- 1. Toddler beret
- 2. Toddler beret the second
- 3. Waiting-room hat
- 4. Mini waiting-room hat
- 5. Toddler beret the third
- 6. Arcadia Knitting baby sweater
- 7. FIL convertible Dashing mitts
- 8. Arianna’s blue-green jacquard hat
- 9. Arianna’s blue-green booties
- 10. K1P1 Noro scarf
- 11. Jacquard baby albert (baby einstein?)
- 12. Smock with Sheep and Shoes
- 13. Blue baby albert (baby einstein?)
- 14. Newborn Twisted Pumpkin hat
- 15. Pink baby shrug
- 16. K2P2 knot beanie
- 17. Child’s K2P2 hat
- 18. Lilac child’s roll-brim hat
- 19. BC14′s K1P1 fingerless mitts
- 20. K7P1 hat
- 21. Tony’s mistake-rib scarf
- 22. Newborn mitts and booties
- 23. Jewel-tone fingerless mitts
- Charity “squares”: 15
- Yarn usage 2010
- Podcasts I like
- French review
- Knitting and crafts
- Brass Needles
- Cast-On
- Changelings Knit and Stitch
- CRAFTCAST
- CraftSanity
- Diva Knitting
- Doubleknit
- Electric Sheep
- Fiber Beat
- It’s a Purl, Man
- KIPing It Real
- Knaked Knits
- Knit Picks’
- Knit Sibs
- Knitajourney
- Knitmoregirls’s
- Knitting in the Round
- Knitty Nora’s Knitting Natter
- Let’s Knit 2gether
- Lime & Violet
- Moonlight Stitches
- Never Not Knitting
- Pastagalaine
- Purl Diving
- SassyPants Knitter
- Stash & Burn
- Sticks & String
- Stitch it!!
- Stitch Stud and His Bride
- The High Fiber Diet
- The Savvy Girls Knitting
- ThreadBanger
- Y Knit
- Yarn Thing
- Non-knitting, non-language
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