This sweater started in Boston and ended in San Francisco. It’s my first baby sweater and is for an expecting friend of mine in Colorado. The yarn is the Organic Simply Cotton yarn from KnitPicks. The pattern is free from f.pea
Thu 18 Jun 2009
30 is the bacon birthday
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This was the culinary marvel that emerged when we combined camping, beer-drinking, expertly whittled skewers, fire, bacon, cheese, hot dogs and turning thirty. We submitted it to thisiswhyyourefat.com, but it didn’t make the cut.
Sun 22 Feb 2009
First sweater
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I’m about halfway through my first sweater. This is a pattern by Zephyr Style. It’s a great pattern for a first sweater, because it’s fast and not too monotonous. The woman who sold it to me at Twisted in Portland, OR, told me that the sizes ran big, so I knit a size small. The measurements matched up, I even knit a swatch this time to make sure my gauge was right - all this and it looks like it will barely fit a petit 5-year-old. My other disappointment is with the change in yarn colors - I guess that’s a risk of working with hand-dyed yarn, but now there’s a big line running through the middle of my chest. I’m not giving up. Going to see it through to the end, maybe it’ll all work out. But I’m starting to worry that this will another one for the bottom of the knitting basket. Pillow filling?
Thu 12 Feb 2009
One $2 box of fudge brownies + 1/2 an apple from the bottom of the fridge = LOVE!
Sun 21 Dec 2008
Last minute mitts
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I love this yarn - so many shades of brown. This is from Blue Moon, hand-dyed 100% merino. I tried to get away with not having double-pointed needles in the size I needed and knit it flat on straight needles, which led to a messy seam up the outer edge. Need to learn how to do nicer seams.
Sun 21 Dec 2008
Hyper-color knit socks
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Wouldn’t it be cool if hyper-color yarn existed? Maybe it does. But this is not it. This yarn is from Koigu Wool Designs, 100% merino in Painter’s Palette Premium, a gift from MacGregor’s mom. She gave me this yarn last Christmas (2007) and I finally managed to whip up some socks (maybe ‘whip up’ is not quite the right expression there) in time for her visit to the Northeast this November. I think they’re very fun to look at, but I still haven’t figured out how to make wearable socks. So far ALL the socks I’ve knitted (2 pair) have had the elasticity of a tired rubber band.
Sun 19 Oct 2008
I just knit this cowl neck scarfy-thing (by f.pea) and have found that it’s very versatile. See picasa album:
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Mon 6 Oct 2008
I mused.
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I found a rainbow with a pot of gold at the end and sent my photo into the Boston Globe. Here’s what they wrote:
Melinda Swenson of Cambridge said she was walking along Memorial Drive when a rainbow came out over Boston and she took a shot. She noted that if you look at the picture closely, it appears one end of the rainbow comes down near the Federal Reserve Building.
“Perhaps a sign that this economic crisis is turning around?” she mused in an email.
Thu 28 Aug 2008
Hello, Boston
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Day 4 in Boston and we are feeling pretty settled in. Up on the 15th floor of MIT’s Eastgate family housing apartments, we lucked out with front row seats to the whole city. It’s really rough looking out at the river all day!
