need to insult someone? here you go!
you’re welcome.
flowers and yarn, pure simple joy
madelinetosh - tosh merino light, in northumbria. THREE glorious skeins!
flowers from a very dear author and friend, and Crumbs(!) cupcakes from a very dear colleague and friend
the rebirth of my wowie zowie sock! YAY for following patterns and friendly assistance!
is there anything more beautiful than a peony?
wow, has it been a year since i went to ireland with katie?
even death is beautiful in Ireland
Just around this time last year, my darling daughter Katie (who was born Katherine Kennedy Galloway, such a pretty green-eyed Irish girl) and I went to Ireland together. It was her first trip out of the country, and she’d always wanted to see Ireland so I felt incredibly lucky to have the chance to take her. I was attending an academic conference in Dublin, so we went several days early, and stayed in a gorgeously wonderful little B&B in Lough Gur, under the eagle-eye care of a marvelous woman named Bridget. After traveling around for those pre-conference days, Katie explored Dublin while I conferenced at Trinity University.
Ireland is even more beautiful than people say it is. I think it must be one of the most beautiful places on earth. Thanks to Pip for her comment in the previous post, mentioning Galway. It caused me to look back at my flickr set:
me and numbers, we just agree to disagree.
So remember a couple of posts ago, when I said “it’s a good thing I swatched” etc etc etc? Yeah. I knit that first swatch on 3.5mm needles, and got a couple too many stitches per row. Excellent! So I needed to swatch again on a different sized needle, right? Well, I didn’t have the right size needles so I dutifully trotted to the neighborhood knitting store and bought the size next to 3.5mm, and one more size in that direction, just to be safe. Such a good knitter.
I cast on, knitted a new swatch, blocked it, and just finished counting stitches and rows.
I’d gone the wrong direction in needle sizes! I ended up with even more stitches per inch. I’ve never been good at that kind of thing – some kind of mental conceptual ability with numbers. I never know where the decimal goes if I’m multiplying or dividing by 10s or 100s or 1000s. I just don’t have the abstract number sense, like, at ALL. I have a graduate minor in statistics and adore stats! But agility with stats does not equal abstract number sense.
So swatch again I must ….. with a larger needle than 3.5mm, Lori! To lift my spirits, I’ll watch this over and over while I knit:
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