Category Archives: knitting

small favor

Posted on August 2, 2009 by dichroic

ETA: Please disregard request below; people have commented with some extremely useful links: http://www.yarnstandards.com/babysize.html (clothing measurements for knitters) http://www.yarnstandards.com/childsize.html http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/growthcharts/charts.htm (gov’t standards including head circumference) Thanks! Hey, for future knitting purposes, could those of you who have kids (or who … Continue reading →

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Little Sprout hat

Posted on August 2, 2009 by dichroic

It always feels like an accomplished sort of weekend when you publish something – not a poem this time, but a knitting pattern. Five of my coworkers have babies now (well, four do and one is working on it); the … Continue reading →

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the usual topics

Posted on July 28, 2009 by dichroic

In the past few days I’ve been friended by quite a few new people on LiveJournal (I write entries to my own site, whence they are reflected to both LJ and Dreamwidth.) I warn you, the following long post is … Continue reading →

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an open letter to Cat Bordhi

Posted on July 26, 2009 by dichroic

Dear Cat, First things first: you design cool socks, the Mobius scarf I knit a while back was great fun (and my MIL the science teacher liked it) and I rarely knit socks or other small tubes on anything but … Continue reading →

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checking off prep

Posted on July 17, 2009 by dichroic

Done so far this evening: brownie pan bought; Outback dinner had (Ted had a dentist appointment – got his braces off!!! and we tend to combine those with Outback because it’s right down the street); some tidying done; brownies baked … Continue reading →

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feeling better; a request for ideas

Posted on July 8, 2009 by dichroic

Yay! I finally feel better today. No idea what that was all about, but I started feeling better late yesterday afternoon and was able to eat a decent dinner (one chicken filet and a baked potato0, which helped. The leftover … Continue reading →

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Minor oops

Posted on July 4, 2009 by dichroic

To those of you who have access to product labels and/or commercials that are not in Chinese: Pert is a conditioning shampoo, isn’t it? [Pause. Here Dichroic remembers how much of the internet is in fact *not* in Chinese and … Continue reading →

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tiptoeing through the primroses

Posted on June 28, 2009 by dichroic

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 … Continue reading →

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introducing Icarus

Posted on June 26, 2009 by dichroic

Photos!

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now with bonus pics

Posted on June 22, 2009 by dichroic

The earrings and the shawl mentioned in the previous post:

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