hehehe  let’s see if i can write and post this in 9 minutes and then it will be posted at 11:30 on 11/30.  heh.
um, so i’m half-way through repeat 8 of what we’ve decided needs to be 9 repeats of the shawl pattern, then the edging and then done.    could be as soon [...]

so tomorrow ends november, and consequently national blog posting month (nablopomo – which i still think sounds a little dirty).  i won’t be dropping off the face of the earth, but it might not be a daily thing for me, all the time.
i will say i did better than i said i’d do…  i said [...]

marked more gifts off list
started one more Christmas knit
i heart this season
did some shopping online, yesterday, in a store or two, today and started yet another gift knit as i was headed out this evening with mom and my sister (so i couldn’t knit on their gifts, nor that shawl from yesterday’s post, ’cause it’s [...]

here’s the start of another Christmas giftie treat:

it’s the Flower Basket Shawl, which was offered for a while as a free online pattern from Interweave, previously printed, some years ago (Fall 2004), in their Interweave Knits mag.
the yarn is berocco comfort.  easy to care for and soft soft soft!  it’s really lovely.  this should go [...]

my grandpa used to pronounce “schedule” as skuh-doo-lie.  hehehe
i wrote down what i really want to get knitted for Christmas, with generous estimates per project. if i stay focused and really knit on gift knits when i’ve got any time to knit, i’ll be fine, but if i slack, i’ll be whining when it gets [...]

one more Christmas gift is finished!  wooohoooo

so, in the pic there were ends to tuck, but i did so between taking the pic and posting it. 
it also needs some blocking, but that’ll happen tomorrow, or something. 

here’s the hat, some lucky recipient on my Christmas gift list better love it or i’m stealing it back.  hee hee!

and just for good measure…  one of the many reasons i missed blogging, yesterday…  i was at the zoo for the ‘lights before Christmas’ with my mom and nephews…  here’s z-man and myself with a [...]

happy thanksgiving. 

hee hee

the koolhaas is done, but i’ll wait to get a pic of it in the daylight, tomorrow.
also made some headway on the last sock of my 5-pair-sock-yarn-buying hiatus. 
also made a little progress on Christmas shopping.
also revived my love of haiku in that last post.
also probably got mail, but i haven’t been home since [...]

ah, lovely peanuts
spicy sauce, tender chicken
atop the snow white rice
ok, so i was a haiku and not an ode, but whatever.
my fortune wasn’t a fortune.
it said, “you constantly struggle for self improvement — and it shows.”
  (…in bed)  hee hee!  i believe it was my own father who announced to me, first, that’s [...]