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HI! didja miss me?

Aug 16

Posted by TessM in Classes, It's All About Me, Not Knitting | 4 Comments

Wowsers, it's been an eventful couple of months at my house.  At my NEW house, of course — where I'd say we are about 2/3 unpacked by now.

I'm estimating it will take until December to get the rest unpacked and put away, donated, recycled, or thrown away.  Way back in the beginning, I said this was going to be a year-long project.  We first went out househunting with the realtor on December 29th, so at this point I'm still sticking with my original estimate.  (Although I keep hearing from people about how they have boxes still to unpack from moves that were three years ago.)

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A Distinct Lack of Blogging

Apr 13

Posted by TessM in It's All About Me, Not Knitting | 1 Comment

What can I say?  It's been 2.5 weeks since I last posted anything.  What kind of far-fetched excuse reason can I come up with this time?

view from new house How about this one?  it's because we're moving!

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Fun with M***c Balls

Mar 21

Posted by TessM in Design, yarn | No Comments

pink magic yarn ballOK, so you know I don't like to use the "m" word when it comes to knitting, because KNITTING is not actually MAGIC.

But a few weeks ago, in my "what-I-want-to-knit-this-year" list, I mentioned a yarn-usage technique that is often known as the "magic ball".  Because this isn't actually a knitting technique so much as it is a clever way to use yarn, I decided I can more-or-less live with the "m" word in this case.

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Knitting Resolutions (2009 Redux Edition)

Jan 8

Posted by TessM in Classes, Project Management | 2 Comments

On about.com's knitting section, I found a poll for "What are Your Knitting Resolutions for 2009?"

OK, so it's a year out of date, but I figure things can't have changed all that much in a year.

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Knitting Jargon on the Interwebs

Dec 12

Posted by TessM in Books, Sites, Mags, FO Files | 5 Comments

Yesterday at the LYS, I took part in a discussion about SABLE.ufo theater marquee from morguefile.com

What, you never heard of SABLE?  You might even be a member of SABLE!

SABLE stands for "Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy".  A person becomes a member of this group when she owns more yarn than she can reasonably expect to knit in her years remaining on this mortal coil.*

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Oh No, Not Another Sock Summit Blog Post

Aug 11

Posted by TessM in Events | 2 Comments

Well, unless you’ve very recently come out of a coma, you’re aware that this past weekend heralded the Most Awesomely Amazing Knitting Event Ever in the History of the Universe, right here in PDX.

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Let It Snow

Dec 17

Posted by TessM in Fashion, Style & Fit, It's All About Me, Not Knitting | 3 Comments

Here is what it looks like from my office window and my backyard these days:

 

red tree in snowyard in snow

feet in snow

And here is the yoke to my top-down raglan sweater so far.

sweater yoke so far

With all this snow, and everything being cancelled, you might think I’d have gotten a bit more knitting done, wouldn’t you?

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Nothing to Say?

Sep 9

Posted by TessM in Books, Sites, Mags, Events | 1 Comment

Ya know, it’s hard to blog when the things you are doing are (a) things that you can’t write about or (b) boring.

In the second category lately are many administrative things, like setting up fall class schedules and working on websites.  The good news is, the Polar Bear Patterns site is coming along nicely — well, at least it’s functional.  There are still a few things to work out — mainly I’ve been having issues figuring out just how to glom everything I do into one place.  It’s harder than it sounds:  patterns, classes, general knitting, etc.  At least, it’s harder for me than it sounds like it ought to be.  I’ve been doing everything myself up to now, but I’m thinking I may soon need some professional help.  (And I’ll need someone to work on my websites too — ba-dum bump!)

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Sock What?

Dec 21

Posted by TessM in Events, Project Management, Sox Therapy | 5 Comments

Both my sister and a college friend recently sent me copies of this Wall Street Journal article about knitting.

More specifically, it’s about "Sock Wars", where the idea is that everyone playing the game is an "assassin" and has an assigned  "target".  You are supposed to "assassinate" that person by knitting them a pair of socks, and then you send them to your target before your assassin sends a pair of finished socks to you.

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