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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Monday, April 2, 2012
Seems like it's been a while....
So as a lot of you probably know, things have been pretty busy for me (Rowan) lately... I have been working on finishing my doctoral dissertation (a 350+ page document of all my research from the last 5 years of my life), finding a postdoctoral research position (success!), and just in general trying to stay sane.
So far, my sanity has been preserved by distractions from work. Jason has been fabulous and we recently had a visit from the Vissers, which was a nice mental break. But still, one needs a daily relaxing ritual to soothe the soul... for me this took the form of simple knitting.... nothing too fancy, straight, plain, oatmeal-in-a-plain-bowl-type knitting, and for some reason my brain decided we needed some exciting colour in there to counted the pages and pages of text and PhD results.
And so.... over the last month or so I have produced two very large shawls that I think are lovely... and huge.... and colourful... but really, apart from the whole rainbow thing... quite plain. No lace, no sewing, no buttons, just straight knit and purl. And they are delicious!
The first I call my Swaley Cross Stratification Shawl (NERD!). The genius of this is a lovely pattern by Veera Välimäki called Color Affection, and in my braindeadness, I followed the pattern (almost) word for word.
The second I call Stained Glass and is based off of the lovely Daybreak shawl by Stephen West. I made this using some awesome rainbow mini-skeins from Thee Irish Girls, a great group of Indie Dyers and designers!
And now for something completely different....
Well ok, it's still crazy colourful but at least it's socks instead of another shawl!
P.S. Photos are from my great new Nikon AW100 which I love! So far this little guy is amazing!
So far, my sanity has been preserved by distractions from work. Jason has been fabulous and we recently had a visit from the Vissers, which was a nice mental break. But still, one needs a daily relaxing ritual to soothe the soul... for me this took the form of simple knitting.... nothing too fancy, straight, plain, oatmeal-in-a-plain-bowl-type knitting, and for some reason my brain decided we needed some exciting colour in there to counted the pages and pages of text and PhD results.
And so.... over the last month or so I have produced two very large shawls that I think are lovely... and huge.... and colourful... but really, apart from the whole rainbow thing... quite plain. No lace, no sewing, no buttons, just straight knit and purl. And they are delicious!
The first I call my Swaley Cross Stratification Shawl (NERD!). The genius of this is a lovely pattern by Veera Välimäki called Color Affection, and in my braindeadness, I followed the pattern (almost) word for word.
The second I call Stained Glass and is based off of the lovely Daybreak shawl by Stephen West. I made this using some awesome rainbow mini-skeins from Thee Irish Girls, a great group of Indie Dyers and designers!
And now for something completely different....
Well ok, it's still crazy colourful but at least it's socks instead of another shawl!
P.S. Photos are from my great new Nikon AW100 which I love! So far this little guy is amazing!
Monday, May 30, 2011
Life imitating Art
So as Jason and I were trekking around Joshua Tree, I was knitting on my Margarita socks, (lime green socks with a Saguaro cactus, lime slices, and a salty rim. Well, as we were enjoying the weekend, life began imitating art!
Photos of the Joshua Tree trip coming soon!
Photos of the Joshua Tree trip coming soon!
Friday, May 27, 2011
Skwish da belly!
Scimi likes to squish Jason's belly... it's funny... I took photos!
But she still loves him
Whitie just loves to snuggle himself
Also my socks have limes on 'em :D Frozen Margarita socks designed by the Tsarina of Tsocks
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