Posts from ‘December, 2009’

Boxing Day

I’m just lazing about in a post-Christmas haze, watching it snow, listening to Wolcum Yule, with some hot coffee and Christmas cranberry bread, wondering why Americans don’t celebrate Boxing Day. What is up with that?

Merry Christmas…

….or Happy Holiday of Your Choice.

Sweater hiatus

I’m taking a break from knitting the sweater because it’s a lot of work and I’m a whiner. Instead, I’m knitting a sock! A 2-needle sock. I found a pattern to knit a sock flat, take that knitting in the round. Knitting flat did make it easier for me to grasp turning the heel which [...]

I made cookies

I feel better.

Blurg

What a strange month, so far. It’s only about half-way through but it seems like it should’ve been over two months ago. I think it’s because everybody and their uncle has some end of the decade list out now. It makes me feel like it’s already 2010 and then I realize it hasn’t even been [...]

November…

it’s over and what do I have to show for it? – 7,000 words of a novel so bad it could be used as a torture device. – About 1/2 of a handknit sweater. Who needs arms on a sweater? Not me. – Ummm…. that’s it. That is all I have to show for last [...]