Tag Archives: knitting life

Gray matter

If I don’t cast on for something soon, or finishing knitting my Bacchus or Charade socks ASAP, I think my brain will explode and my poor boyfriend will have to clean the gray matter off of my iMac.
I’ve been so busy moving and starting school that I haven’t picked up the needles in (gasp) a […]

Halloween! (I refuse to believe this post is immature when people are already knitting holiday gifts.)

Some people are big holiday people. I’m not a big holiday person. The only two holidays I go all out for are Halloween and birthdays. I guess birthdays don’t really count as holidays, but for me they are. Maybe it is me grasping at straws, but those are my holidays. That’s it, that’s all I […]

Too fucking many WIPs

I don’t know what has gotten into me lately, I just keep casting on for stuff. Before this week’s rash of new projects, I was fairly content with having two projects on the needles: one pair of socks and one other item. I liked my system, I got things turned around pretty quickly so I […]

Curbing the addiction

Like many knitters out there, I love knitting socks. The kind of love where you’re totally obsessed with it and you can’t think about anything else and you dream of ways to invent new and amazing socks while you’re at work.
I also suffer from Too Many Projects on the Needles syndrome, also known as Starteritis.
These […]

Commuter questions

How ethically questionable would it be for me to poke someone with my knitting needles on the bus because they are sitting too close to me? It would be an accident, of course.
(In my defense, he was totally past the line that divided our seats)