My friends and I took the long weekend as a chance to get out of the city. We headed to Port Townsend, about two hours away including a decent ferry ride. The weather on Saturday was beautiful, though cold. It was an amazing two days, filled with good food, adorable shops, antique malls, fireball spices … Continue reading »
Today I got to attend a talk by William Foege, “Bill” as we were told to call him, at my university. If you do not know who he is check out the wikipedia article on him. It was a really inspiring talk, he seemed really personable, not at all like Richard Dawkins. Don’t get me … Continue reading »
I got a little over excited with Halloween this year, and ended up only getting to go out once in this costume. My bioengineering professor decided that as 21 year old college students we really needed to have a midterm the day after Halloween (makes a lot of sense). So I didn’t get to enjoy … Continue reading »
Hello beautiful blog readers! I am coming to you, yet again, with a new headband pattern! This one did not turn out as good as I would have liked, I probably should’ve tested the pattern as a swatch first, but I made it up as I went. So here is my first attempt: I … Continue reading »
I’ve witnessed some quite amazing crochet in Italy. Things I would love to be able to make and do. Crochet still bewilders me and I am barely able to do a basic stitch. Physically I understand the idea of how the fabric is made, with one continuous loop instead of many (as in knitting). I … Continue reading »
But I couldn’t help myself. I knit this last night as I caught up on some American television (clearly taken advantage of my last few days in Italy). This is an extremely easy pattern, and my first on circular needles woo! Get ready for some webcam fashion shoot! I’ll try and take high quality photos … Continue reading »
Actually it’s not really exciting, but if you want to hear a little bit about my knitting while traveling, then read on! I was originally trying to knit something slightly complicated. It was going to be another knitted bathing suit, black this time, and more geometrically inspired. A few days into Paris though I realized I wasn’t … Continue reading »
This still has a lot of finishing details to fix, the biggest of which is that the crochet border was too tight around the edges of the bum area so it fits strangely. I’ll need to undo/redo that part of it, and possibly the whole bottom so I can make it looser so it can … Continue reading »
I’m currently knitting and designing a bathing suit. The middle middriff part is going to be lace. This is the most unique piece I have tried to design so far, and I decided to go all out and create my own charted lace. This is the first time I’ve created my own chart and tried … Continue reading »
