Archive for June, 2009
tiptoeing through the primroses
Other than two trips to pick up the dress in previous photo (on Saturday we decided to take it in a little more under the bust, so I went back to get it Sunday), I spent a lot of the weekend knitting. I finished the sock I was working on, grafted the toe and wove […]
Harriet Vane rides again
I took the following photo yesterday to show the dress I had made here (I am so emphatically *not* hour-glass-shaped that it’s normally hard for me, even in the US, to find a fit in this style, so this is a very nice change). But it has occurred to me that with my hair at […]
introducing Icarus
Photos!
five words and a bookstore reprieve
Not-so-bad news: a friend who can read Chinese (and is also a Reader) checked into it: the bookstore I love is not closing. I can’t call it good news, because they are closing another branch (that I’ve never visited) and bookstores closing are never good news. But I’m not bereft. I’m figuring on a jaunt […]
restless
What I want right now is a good rowdy bar to hang out in. Or conversely, to go out in a desert night and watch the stars. However, I suppose I will settle for finishing a sock toe and stir-frying some vegetables. Not quite the same. Maybe if I pop up a batch of popcorn, […]
crap
My favorite local bookstore is having what they’re referring to as a “Bye-Bye Sale”. Here’s hoping it’s just a bad translation, but I am not sanguine. (Please, no laments for the wonders of indie bookstores. This is Page One, an international chain that I think is based in Singapore.) Otherwise, the good news is that […]
plans
Tonight’s plan: weave in ends on shawl, set it to soak, walk over to nearby hypermarket, buy pins (if they have them) and some veggies. Go home, stirfry veggies, block shawl, take pictures (of shawl, not veggies). The boy left today for another @#$#$* business trip; it’s good to at least have something gratifying to […]
waiting for news
I have an awful lot of friends and relations in DC. I can think of reasons why most of them were unlikely to be on the trains that crashed, but still…. And even at best, it just means that, as Jo Walton wrote, “the dead were someone else’s friends, not mine.
now with bonus pics
The earrings and the shawl mentioned in the previous post:
finally done Icarus
Yay! I’m finally done my Icarus Aflame shawl [Ravelry link]. I finished binding off in the car here this morning. Of course at the moment it looks like a mass of lumpy fluff; I can’t wait to block it, though that could be tricky because I probably don’t have enough pins and don’t know where […]