Penguin GirlUntil the end of October, I suspect posting will diminish to two per week, Monday and Wednesday.. I’ll try to get more out, but will not stress about it. Enjoy the Penguin Girl break .. and shanah tovah v’gmar chatima tovah!
This past week I read a bit and then read a bit more. The [...]
Beech Wood
by Ilga Leja
swell yarns fingering
4.25mm needles
Yes, the cowl craze continues. I am surprised to write that as of right now (4pm Wednesday) I don’t have #5 on the needles yet. It’s been over 24 hours now. I have some other stuff I’m working on and I can’t quite decide what the fifth should be. [...]
I have a paper and presentation due tomorrow which is in a field outside my normal comfort zone. To say I’ve been stressing over it would be the understatement of the past week. As such all I’ve really been doing is reading and rereading the article on which the paper is based. I’ve been skim [...]
Due to a loss of lease and the always changing dynamic of NYC, Strand will close their Annex on Fulton Street. Strand is completely different in all ways from Powells, but I love it anyway. Powells is organized which makes my librarian-brain happy. Strand is random and well worn around the edges (both at Annex [...]
I’m exhausted. The stressors of the past week are catching up on me. But! last week I finished another cowl. I picked up some new needles today (5.5mm and 6mm in 16″ circs) to finish the current cowl-on-the-needles. It’s not often that I venture past the 3mm needle size …
Chickadee Cowl
by Kirsten Kapur
Yarn: Berroco [...]
Music is created by silence—the space, the “rests”—between notes. Lace is more profound in the negative “space” (the yarn overs) between the stitches than in the knit fabric itself. Is the same true of words? Is meaning found in what is unsaid? What if the words are not known and silence is unintentional? What if [...]
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