tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54693710838073745382011-07-08T03:25:10.214-05:00What sort of diary should I like mine to be? <br>Something loose knit and yet not slovenly, <br>so elastic that it will embrace anything, <br>solemn, slight or beautiful that comes into my mind. <br> - Virginia Woolf, <i>A Writer's Diary</i>xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-61986179825025417742011-06-14T12:30:00.002-05:002011-06-14T12:32:43.193-05:00

I think, yes -- it's time to come back to this notebook of mine. I have some words and ideas to share. Hello there again, blogosphere. xx A

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-70781516026752780772009-02-14T09:58:00.004-06:002009-02-14T10:37:41.711-06:00

Two beautiful glimpses into the complexity of a favorite subject in honor of this Day of Love. Wishing you a happy St. Valentine's Day.I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between the shadow and the soul.I love you as the plant that never bloomsbut carries in itself the

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-15384937376545803562009-02-07T13:27:00.007-06:002009-02-07T14:25:06.484-06:00

A man who keeps a diary, pays Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful--then His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.- William AllinghamThis certainly holds for me re: this blog... and every other bit of writing I could be working on instead of dealing with the ins and outs of this life. :) I'm still mourning the loss of so

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-81886711546842822652009-01-31T08:15:00.004-06:002009-01-31T08:56:04.809-06:00

I don't think it's much of a secret to anyone who knows me even in passing that I'm almost always up for some Ani DiFranco tuneage. I particularly haven't been able to get this "song"/poem out of my head after a notably difficult week of co-occurring illness and the worst ice-storm to hit my area in recent memory. Our electricity and heat were out for days on end, and in the end we have a fridge

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-36828231823351618702008-11-04T13:37:00.003-06:002008-11-04T14:23:45.208-06:00

"Knit on with confidence and hope, through all crises." - Elizabeth ZimmermannToday is the day that I've been waiting for, that so many of us have been waiting for. Election day here in the States. A chance for a new start. A desperately-needed change in the direction of our country -- bettering its relations with the rest of the world and resolving the war in Iraq; tackling the strangling debt

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-28402112172701084322008-05-14T19:52:00.015-05:002008-05-15T00:06:53.867-05:00

That's it, I'm clearing the cobwebs. After nine months without update, I'm suddenly and strongly compelled to knit-blog on this rainy, relaxed evening. (I wonder, can "knit-blog" be used as a verb? Well, I suppose I just did.) What was it I said I wanted this blog to be? With due credit to Ms. Woolf, of course: "...So elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful that comes

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-40934791730573808542007-08-02T21:11:00.000-05:002007-08-02T23:28:10.027-05:00

It's a first: I'm knitting a pair of socks for myself. The lovely Wildflower Socks in some gorgeous Koigu KPPPM. I really love this pattern but alas, the pooling of color that I thought might get better after the cuff seems to be worsening. So it's decision time. Would you keep knitting, or frog? I can't quite decide...Exhibit A:Exhibit B:In non-knitting news, work has been very, very busy the

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-91626817006014019982007-07-24T15:38:00.000-05:002007-08-02T23:29:33.024-05:00

Long time since I blogged last. Way, way too long. I won't even pretend to offer an excuse aside from generally being very busy. Busy vacationing (fun!)... celebrating my birthday (not bad on the whole, actually)... busy transitioning to my new job (exciting!)... busy reading (relaxing)... busy cooking (necessary ;) but fun too)... busy actually knitting (bliss). But I'm still around here

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-62036935223420954492007-06-10T13:42:00.000-05:002007-06-10T15:23:23.578-05:00

Just a quick photoless blog for me today. I leave for my vacation in the morning and thought I'd put up a little something before I went. I haven't been knitting very much lately -- too busy with other things. When I have picked up the needles recently, it's been to work at finishing up my sister's Broadripple socks. I just finished the heel flap and picked up stitches for the gusset of sock #2,

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-85873440523941245932007-05-28T05:22:00.000-05:002007-05-28T06:57:36.706-05:00

Live music just does it for me. The only thing better than seeing one of your favorite acts playing an all-stops-out show is seeing one of your favorite acts playing an all-stops-out show with great friends. I've made some of my most favorite memories in just such circumstances and got a chance to wax nostalgic about a few of them this past weekend with a friend I hardly see anymore. During this

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-81446180523505182172007-05-27T23:52:00.000-05:002007-05-28T05:20:43.185-05:00

Well, it's been a busy start of summer, and here again, I find myself in a state of not having blogged in ages. There's been knitting, of course, in the last few weeks, but I've spent a fair bit of my free time playing my guitar, Stella. Stella is a G-series Takamine which I was gifted for my birthday last July. She's a beautiful instrument with a lovely warm sound and great sustain, but after

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-15762431268270054542007-05-06T21:30:00.000-05:002007-05-23T02:56:18.183-05:00

Preface: I should have realized this blog had no prayer of staying "just a knitblog." My sleep has been a trainwreck the last week and a half or so -- partly because of the 71 page monstrosity and partly because of a fight and partly because of a string of really vivid, distressing dreams. I won't dissect the dreams here (In truth, it always amazes me when people talk about their dreams openly on

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-17239662956157748712007-05-03T19:26:00.000-05:002007-05-03T20:59:34.231-05:00

It's finally here! The yarn order I've been waiting on for over two weeks. I'm normally a very patient person, but I've been itching to get this stuff in my hands since the moment I placed the order. You see, I could not begin my beautiful Icarus shawl until I received this package. And since it's a KnitAlong, I'm way behind! Oh well, it's probably for the best... a larger plan at work since I've

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-20725905515426445872007-05-02T21:25:00.000-05:002007-05-02T21:54:19.039-05:00

It's Lost night! I'm taking a break, curled up on the sofa with what I've come to call a Pomcranodka, recipe courtesy of Kathy, and writing this entry during commercials. Kath will be pleased to know that I even mixed my drink up with a wistful longing in my heart and a flippant devil-may-care attitude.Today was boring and yet, productive. It was rainy and cool, so I opened a few strategic

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-25901944123923650982007-05-01T23:46:00.001-05:002010-12-27T13:32:56.530-06:00

Bleurgh. Miz DiFranco has nailed it again. Over two weeks since my last blog post = unintentional radio silence. Radio? Well something. It's late. I've been wanting to post a new entry at least a half dozen times, but Blogger has been a pill -- I could log in, even leave comments, but not post a new entry. So hi, hey there, hello! How are you?My little angry bunny toy thing up there just about

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-59086358378748940442007-04-14T09:03:00.000-05:002007-04-14T09:16:41.723-05:00

Just a quick, happy note to excitedly share a bit of beautiful news. (Wow, that's a lotta adjectives...)My fourth nephew was born yesterday morning. Cooper Eric is happy and healthy, and I simply can't wait to meet him! You can expect pictures and more gushitude very soon.So... I think I'll knit up an EZ Baby Surprise Sweater in a nice green colorway. Or, does anybody have a great baby boy

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-38859754274457993212007-04-11T15:27:00.000-05:002007-04-12T20:37:00.000-05:00

Don't call in the professionals with the little white coats on me, gentle readers, but sometimes, I imagine my knitting speaking to me. In the oh-so-inimitable words of Alex Kapranos, it sings from my lovely gray pinstriped Ann Taylor purse-cum-knitting bag: "I say don't you know, you say you don't know... I say, TAKE ME OUT!!" Just to take this anthropomorphic thing entirely over the top, I

xx Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798592020341773441noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469371083807374538.post-22955770213023473332007-04-09T16:44:00.000-05:002007-04-11T15:04:54.660-05:00

Hello there. So I finally got with it, at the urging of a growing number of persuasive people who made compelling arguments: this is my new little bloggythingmeebob. I'm not new to weblogging, but this space out amidst the ether shall be my entrée to the knitblogiverse. I'm not entirely sure that I can sustain a blog of just knitting-related content, so I hope the other bits I share here are of

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