April 2011
1 post
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.
dang, with that endorsement, I can’t wait to try these.
March 2011
1 post
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...
February 2011
6 posts
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...
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...
a pinboard and some writing
Today’s thing-a-day was inspired by my friend Leigh, who makes way nicer-looking versions of it. She has an etsy that is pretty rad for you to check out, and is an all-around excellent lady. <img src=”http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5292/5422634193_3d4cbf8db9.jpg” width=”333” height=”500” /> This is my pinboard for displaying all the pins that I no...
sewing and drinking, but not at once
Today I actually made two things, one of which was rather involved. I made a skirt out of two old t-shirts from my massive stash of old t-shirts that need to get turned into things. The sleeves of one shirt became pockets for the skirt, although they’re not deep enough to be terribly excellent pockets. It’s possible that the next thing I make will be a tutorial for making this thing: ...
knitting in the thundersnow
Day 1 of my thing-a-day commitment is a bit less of a thrill than it maybe could be. I took the gentleman friend out for a birthday dinner and then worked on one of my ongoing knit projects, a brioche stitch scarf to replace the first scarf I ever made for myself which I left on an airplane two weeks ago. I like to think that a flight attendant or cleaning crew member or someone is currently well...
Write one leaf about wearing a hat.
(via writeoneleaf)
Oh, all right, I’ll finally do one of these writing prompts. I made a new hat over the past couple of weeks. It is purple with a strip of teal (which I only realized later means it’s in Charlotte Hornets colors, so I am accidentally propping a defunct sports team that was on its slow decline during the time I lived in its city). It is supposed to look like a turban...
January 2010
2 posts
serendipitous peas
Split pea soup! It warms me while also reminding me of the Claymation Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special where the little elf and Yukon Cornelius argue about whether the fog is as thick as peanut butter or pea soup. Also it is pretty easy to do it up right proper in the slow cooker, and I was pretty pleased that I was able to wing it more or less completely and have it turn out so well....
December 2009
3 posts
San Francisco – Pictory →
me3dia:
Naz designed a beautiful slideshow.
I have a photo in it! Props to some internet, a very small part of which I made.
favorite things →
Knitting and poetry! I particularly enjoy the block-quoted analogy: knitting is like writing, and maybe this is a path towards being less writer’s-blocked than I’ve felt the past few months. (It’s hard to hold a pencil and needles at the same time, though.)
finished objects
Oh my god what I have a blog or two (or three), maybe I should say some things! Hello! I have been knitting up a storm, and I’m getting to a point in my knit-knowledge where I’m consistently satisfied with the results. For a while there it was sort of all “ehhh this has a couple weird problems but I guess I’ll wear it anyway, sometimes, who cares” but now I have...
October 2009
1 post
a breakfast and a costume
Yeah, so I guess I made a ton of knitted things during that whole time that I forgot to knit-blog for the past like two months. I am not going to write about them just yet. Instead, I am going to tell you the two things I made this evening:
Thing the First: Erin’s Super Fun Times Delicious Granola A+++
I’ve been refining this recipe for a time. It’s based on the one in the...
August 2009
3 posts
in case you were wondering what I am baking right... →
Stoutcakes! But with Rogue Chocolate Stout instead of Guinness, because clearly I needed to cram in more chocolate in the cupcakes and more alcohol in the beer, which is currently going in my face. I’m also using yogurt instead of sour cream, because I only buy ingredients that I will actually use before the un-baked-with portion rots in my fridge.
I’m pretty sure that a nice dark...
thank you for being the font of all knowledge,... →
bestofwikipedia:
Knitters use the term Sweater Curse to describe a situation in which a knitter gives a hand-knit sweater to a significant other, who quickly breaks up with the knitter. Despite its name, the Sweater Curse is treated in knitting literature not as a superstition governed by paranormal forces, but rather as a real-world pitfall of knitting that has real-world explanations and...
July 2009
2 posts
internet what I made
The relevant ballads is what I made today for yelling about music in particular, because I’d like an alter-tumblr-ego for reblogging/responding when people I follow write about things I’d like to respond to which don’t fit the self-enforced stuff-making theme herein, since it can never accurately be said that I “make music” unless you consider atonal griping to be...
June 2009
5 posts
grrrr tumblr I am going to slay you
I know the secret that it’s supposed to let me allow people to answer a question if I end a text post with a question mark. Why does this work every time I test it except when I tried to use it in the last post? Do I need to punch someone in the dick for this? I would prefer not to punch Marco Arment in the dick. He makes such useful software.
And uh, do you have an answer to my last post?
summer dress sewing
Yeah so I should probably write up some notes on my last stuff-making endeavor before I totally forget all about it. I’d had this tutorial on how to convert a men’s buttondown shirt into a dress bookmarked on delicious for ages, like from before I learned how not to break the sewing machine and make it make a burning smell every time I used it. Now that I do know how not to break the sewing...
serendipitous dessert interlude
Ugh yes I just cooked something using entirely leftovers and spices and it is delicious. We made ma po tofu for dinner and we made too much rice. (Nick mostly made the dinner and I made the rice, by which I mean “I rode my bike two miles to the Korean market and carried a 25 pound bag of rice home in my bike crate, thus entitling myself to have dinner cooked for me.”) We also have some...
May 2009
4 posts
sweater finality
Hell yes that thing is in my closet and I made it. I’m terrible about finishing things in other areas of life (like cleaning, or reading only one book at a time, or writing things on tumblr when I say I am going to), but I am so far pretty good at finishing things I knit. It helps that I tend to choose patterns that don’t require much of the dreaded finishing work (sewing, weaving in...
a knitted village →
These old British ladies are more hardcore about knitting than anyone. They worked on this for 23 years! Here is what I have worked on for 23 years: BEING ALIVE.
food is a kind of stuff to make
Food is, in fact, the most delicious kind of stuff to make. I hit on a pretty good recipe last night so I am going to put it here for posterity. It is based on this recipe for baked tofu with the following changes:
Three cloves of garlic is the amount for suckers who do not love garlic as much as me. Five or six cloves will do.
There was no white wine in the house; I substituted mirin (rice...
here is my freaking sweater pattern. →
I am knitting my first sweater. I have been working on it for just over a month and slogged through like 3/4 of the final sleeve over the past couple days. You can see the basic pattern there, but I made everything longer because what is the point of a sweater if it doesn’t even go down to your waist, other than it’s way quicker to knit that way. I’m hoping to finish it this...
March 2009
1 post
