The best laid plans …

result in a post without pictures.
Remember that plan I’d had for alternating days of posting to Ye Olde Knitblogge about my progress with the Ravelympics?  Smashed to bits.  Same with the one about photographing every two days.  At some point, doing more knitting just got more interesting than taking photos of YAS (yet another sock) [...]

Mid-project motivation… or lack thereof

I’d like to think of a clever title about doldrums and slumps or maybe just the proverbial Wall that marathon runners hit when they’re in the middle of a race. The point where it feels like you’ve come a long way but there’s so far to go that why not just give up.
I’m feeling [...]

four days in and a day behind

I had ambitions, at the outset of the Ravelympics to post updates every day with pictures of my progress. Then I realized that no one, including me, would want to see pictures of the days where I’d knit very very little on my sock… or even days where the only new progress was another inch [...]

Zen and the Art of Knitting in Public

“I admire you for being able to knit standing up” said the precocious 8-year old who’d started a conversation with me on Muni, “I have to go find somewhere calm and quiet.”
“I like knitting on trains,” I told her.  “It kind of creates a quiet place for me.”
And it really does.  Not all the time, [...]