These are my Buttony Mitts. I test-knitted them for Lilith of Old Maiden Aunt. Basically, she asked me one day if I wanted free handpainted yarn and I replied with my best teenage “dooooh” face.
The yarn is gorgeous. It is a soft alpaca-merino-bamboo blend and is handpainted in shades of forest green, khaki and [...]
Addendum
Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
— Oscar WildeKarie Bookish
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Books Read: 2009
Blogroll
- Aalerusen (Knitting)
- Viva! Wheylona! (friends)
- Feeling Listless (pop culture)
- The Thrifty Knitter (Knitting)
- Academia Nuts (friends)
This random selection from my daily reads changes each time the page is refreshed.Asides
- Welcome, welcome 2009
January 4, 2009If you like Elliott Smith, you'd like Winterpills. Here's A Benediction.
- Mellow Thursday
October 9, 2008Lovely: Wisely - Through Any Window
- Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Highway
September 19, 2008A gorgeous, gorgeous song. I can't believe I never watched the video before now.
- Patrick Wolf- Danzing
September 7, 2008Patrick Wolf does Eurovision! (the 2007 offering from Ukraine, worryingly enough)
- Bulgakov Goes Glasgow
August 26, 2008Franz Ferdinand - Love & Destroy - inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita (which you should absolutely read).
Archive for Asides »
- Welcome, welcome 2009
Twitters
- Ahhhh... paranoia! 13 hours ago
- We have our Xbox 360 back. OH cradled it in his manly arms and smiled. I kid you not. 15 hours ago
- @almostgold: sorry, no. It's the former co-founder of LJ commenting on MeFi. Gah, you're tech-challenged at the mo. Boo. 18 hours ago
- Guh. Spellcheck, Karie, spellcheck. 23 hours ago
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