Rhinebeck, Critter Style
I'm home. I'm home, and I have a nearly ridiculous list of things I want to tell you about the trip. I fear you'll grow rather sick of it by the time we're done. There was yarn, of course, and blankets. There was unexpected fibery goodness in unlikely spots, completely unplanned knitting (knitting in support of a wildly unlikely project that will, itself, feature largely here over the next few months), planned knitting, surprise knitting (plus bonus kitten), treasure hunting, immolation, and quite a few other things as well. As usual, I make no guarantee of chronological integrity. I will [...]
Ornamental
Everything looks better on the beach. Rocks are shinier and more colorful when they're wet. Shells are too, and they don't have nearly the same risk of funny smells when they're still by the shore (that only develops after you've forgotten them in your trunk for a week). This shameless deception leads me to pocket no end of beach-y treasures. They're always less charming when I get them home. You'd think I'd know better by now, but I still fall prey to the shiny every single time. This most recent trip to Maine was no different. I came home with [...]
Closure
Oh, I almost forgot. While I've already detailed my yarny acquisitions from the Maine trip, I haven't yet shown you my nifty new buttons. I know they're not strictly knitting related, but they will almost certainly get used in some sort of knitterly pursuit, so I'm pretending they're fair game. Aren't they pretty? Now alas, I don't have a website where you can buy them directly. I got them at KnitWit yarn shop in Portland. They're pewter, they're handmade by some sort of super genius in the area, and they were all of $2.00 each. This is a shockingly low [...]
I Shall Refrain From the Obvious Pun
So I must be honest. This this was not the sort of vacation that makes good blog fodder. It might actually be the sort of vacation that looks boring to outside observers. When we left the story last, we were headed out to Maine. We'd arranged to stay at a perfect little cabin, and we had an ridiculous amount of fun playing house for a week (why is it that things that seem like chores at my actual house seem unreasonably entertaining when I'm playing house on vacation). The Boy and I had both been just the wee tiniest bit [...]
Look, Stitches
Because it's been an alarmingly long time since I showed you new knitting, I thought I'd just pop in here and throw up a pic of some upcoming socks. These have been finished for an age (so I suppose they're only sort of new knitting), but I hadn't had time to write the pattern or get a photo. So I popped them in the suitcase and took them with us to Maine. I'm sort of loving them, even if I do look frightfully pale. As soon as I have a few consecutive free hours, I'll get the pattern written and [...]
Scattered
Hi all, you'll have to pardon me if things are a bit scattered for a day or two. We're back from our trip. We went up to Rhinebeck, and then on to Maine for a bit of a vacation. We had planned to wind our way back slowly and arrive home Wednesday evening, but there's a bit of a storm at the moment. We made the executive decision that all the places we'd be seeing on our way home were likely to be a bit damp and windy, so we opted to dash home instead. After two very long, very [...]
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