Archive for February, 2008
out and about
I have been soooo good this week! Sunday was Stitches and I remembered to clip on my cheapo $5 pedometer and logged about 9,500 steps. Dh and I used to compete with our mampo-keis (pedometers) when we lived in Japan. He always seemed to beat me even though I walked everywhere and worked at a [...]
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rant
Anti-vaccine rant ahead, stop reading if you don’t want to get seriously steamed.
http://insidevaccines.com/wordpress/?p=86
39 vaccines by the time a child is 2 years old? Fuck that. Adults my age got 10. 10! I think all the drug companies want the next generation to be even sicker than the current one. Just the sheer number of shots [...]
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Tags: vaccines
stitches west 2008
I finally made it to Stitches!!! I have been looking forward to this event since last year, when I found out that Santa Clara is really really close to where I live. I decided to go on Sunday, which worked out great because K could come along to watch dd while I went shopping. I’m [...]
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shirt band
I really want one of these but I feel stupid spending $25 on a tube so I decided to make one myself. All my shirts are officially too short, my back is cold and exposed, and my pants don’t button all the way. Now I can cover it all up! I didn’t have any extra [...]
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Tags: belly band, sewing, shirt band
knitted farmyard
I saw a post at mothering.com about a knitted farmyard. After a few google searches I am now thoroughly obsessed with the idea of making a farmyard rug! Jan Messent’s Knit a Fantasy Story has a pattern for a latch hook/knit/crochet rug. I’ve never seen the appeal of those latch hook things, they are sooo [...]
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Tags: farmyard, knitted
censored
IMG_6871, originally uploaded by spacestitch.
Hey look! I figured out how to cover the faces in my pictures. It’s probably silly to do that, but it makes me feel just a little safer. I fixed all my Ravelry photos too! I’m blogging from flickr, just to see how it works.
Eh, for some reason weird code things [...]
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WIP: feather and fan
I started a feather and fan shawl and I’m not so sure about the yarn. I ordered this a million years ago online. The picture online sure did not match the actual yarn. It has these buttons that are kind of annoying to knit with and sort of look like little bugs. It’s wool with [...]
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embroidery?
I have finally been able to look at the stuff I bought in Japan last November. I think it was the lingering foreign country smell that made me feel sick every time I took the packages out, but probably mostly the emotional trauma of getting so sick immediately after getting home from the trip. You’ll [...]
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Tags: baby quilt embroidery
FO: Superman Tights
I finished these a while ago, but of course my darling daughter refused to put them on for a week or so. But today after lunch she was fine? I don’t get toddlers. I guess you have to feed them chicken noodle soup out of a can in order for them to cooperate. She even [...]
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Tags: superman tights FO intarsia longies
never take a taxi
GOOD LORD I got stiffed this morning. I am still pissed about it so I came here to complain. I don’t know much about taxis since I never use them. Did you know they are ridiculously expensive? One of the crappy things about living far away from your parents is that you can’t get an [...]
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