I’m babysitting today and in between games of Lego Indiana Jones and baking apple crisp, I have had zero time for things like pictures or knitting, or anything else, really. So, I lieu of actual content today, here’s a list of the books and things I’ve bought recently. All links go to Amazon.
Lego Indiana Jones [...]
This week has just been crazy. Between Christmas, babysitting, doing family things and shopping, I think I’m just ready to curl up in bed and never get out. Unfortunately, it’s not over yet, I still have one more week of babysitting and New Year’s to go.
I had a good haul for Christmas. What I mostly [...]
It happens every year. In October I tell all my family that if they want me to make any gifts that they need to tell me by mid-November. Then they wait until the week before Christmas. One day, I’ll say no. This year I only have one easy request, a scarf for my aunt, in [...]
Posted in Books, Knitting, Springtime Shawl on Aug 23rd, 2007
I had planned on writing about my sweater/vest today but I haven’t touched it except to knit one row yesterday, so we’ll talk about the new shawl instead. This is Springtime from The First Book of Modern Lace Knitting by Marianne Kinzel. The original pattern is square, so I’m knitting half of it [...]
In my last entry, I mentioned that I finally got my kumihimo book, Beginner’s Guide to Braiding: The craft of Kumihimo by Jacqui Carey, on Friday. I am really happy with it. The book is very easy to understand, the writing is great, there are lots of very clear pictures, and the instructions are easy [...]
