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Tweets for September 1st to September 15th

* Instead of just Answer or Decline, my phone needs a "Mouthful of oatmeal, please call back in 2 minutes" button for incoming calls. * I love a little petrichor on a sunny evening in Creve Coeur. * Quietly knitting, / Background noise of kicks & yells, / At karate school. #TuesdaysAreForHaiku * I

Stashbusting projects

I have several projects lined up for knitting once I finish my Eris cardigan. I'm at the elbow on the second sleeve so it's close now. I like cardigans, I don't have enough of them, and I have yarn that has been malingering in

Full English Breakfast

Celebrating an American holiday with a Full English Breakfast: Egg, sausage, black pudding, bacon, Heinz Baked Beans, toast, tea (Twinings English Breakfast, milk, one sugar). The sausage, beans, and black pudding came from a trip to Global Foods to get the proper stuff from England, the bacon is a "

Unconscionable neglect

In May of 2008 I started knitting a cardigan with all the best intentions. I got enough yarn, then went back to get the last two skeins in my dyelot as backup. I got all the way to just above the hem and stopped. Didn't even touch it

Tweets for August 16th to August 31st

* Yarn dyers: someone needs to make a colour called "Rotting Zombie", shades of brown, dark red & a hint of green. * Spinning BFL/silk & watching vintage Doctor Who (7th Doctor in Survival) with a cat curled up next to me. * I wish I were a hibernating creature

A long-running project

I've been drawn into the vortex of the Beekeeper's Quilt from Tiny Owl Knits (Ravelry link). Some Ravelry friends are starting a Beekeeper KAL on September 1st, and we're planning to swap yarn and/or finished hexipuffs (honeycombs? hexes?). There's a grocery

"Retweet" enters the dictionary

Telegraph: Woot! Retweet and sexting enter the dictionary "Retweet", "sexting" and "cyberbullying" are officially words, according to the latest edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. Other new words in the centenary anniversary of the dictionary are "woot" (used in electronic communication

UFOs and good intentions

Socks do not last forever. The pair I gave to my karate instructor have come off worst in an encounter with the dryer. I intend to replace them because the fact they were washed means they were being worn, which is good. I don't have foot measurements like

Tweets for August 1st to August 15th

* The QA department will stop finding bugs in the application when the programmers stop putting them there. * Got my green belt in Chinese Kenpo from Tracy's Karate in Kirkwood, shared a meal with great friends, and beat a Porsche off the lights :) * Final ten seconds: / Spar my karate

FO: Secret Hedgehog

Finished a toy as a surprise for a friend who loves hedgehogs. This was a stealth knit until the package arrived at her house. Pattern: Smith (Ravelry link) Yarn: madelinetosh tosh dk, Jamieson's Shetland Spindrift, Brown Sheep Nature Spun Needles: US2.5, US6 Duration: 3rd August to 8th

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