April 30, 2011
Vegan Chocolate Orange Ginger Cupcakes

rozma:

I’ve made these twice now. I don’t think I’ll ever make any other cupcake ever again.

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March 6, 2011
oldtobegin: pretty cunning, ain’t it? given infinite time it is inevitable that i will both rewatch all of firefly and make this hat.

oldtobegin:

pretty cunning, ain’t it?

given infinite time it is inevitable that i will both rewatch all of firefly and make this hat.

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March 1, 2011

most of a hat

I fell slightly off the thing-a-day bandwagon while traveling for work. I still worked on making something every day, though: this hat is a pattern called Wabbit Season on Ravelry, and it is for my friend Adrienne. I’m glad her favorite color is yellow: this bright golden yarn looks pretty darn cheerful. (It is Malabrigo Rios, for the curious yarn nerds.)

Another thing I sort of made is the redesign of my stupid website, now at least 50% less stupid! Check it out: http://www.torridly.org

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February 22, 2011

mix cd thing today

My very dear friend Kate has not listened to my favorite band Sleater-Kinney very much, so I spent the past week or so obsessing about a mix to make her about this. Then I packaged it nicely, I think (Kate do not look at this picture if you are reading this and want to be surprised by the mix CD you are getting): 

I made a little book about how I found out about Sleater-Kinney and why certain particular songs are important to me. The drawing on the front is a drawing of Corin (I think it’s Corin; I wrote in my liner notes how I did not know what Carrie or Corin looked like until I actually saw them liveand had a weird cognitive dissonance moment of which voice came from which person), which I drew based on the liner notes of Dig Me Out. It is on 3D paper that I had on my desk for some reason but it doesn’t look terribly 3D even with the silly glasses. Anyway, I’m pretty happy with it, and I hope Kate will be too, and if you need more Sleater-Kinney in your life (it is my wholly unprofessional opinion that you probably do), you can download the mix I made. 

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February 19, 2011

lovely gloves

here’s my thing-a-day for all week. these are elbow-length fingerless gloves, knit up from some awesome custom-dyed yarn I got from my birthday. I improvised the pattern: it’s a mock cable ribbing that stretches out nicely.

I wonder if there is a long German word for the satisfaction one feels upon completing a knitted item while away from home as it has gotten colder outside and also you have to bike down three miles of Fullerton later and that always sucks. If that word exists, that’s my night.

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