We went camping at Assateague this past weekend. Didn’t take any photos, but had a relaxing time none the less. It was a good trip, with one exception… The rental car and the douchebag* at the local Enterprise Car Rental Agency. First, we got there and he had us sit down at his desk, which [...]

I am cautiously optimistic about so many things today. The future of our Nation. Actually finishing a knit sock. The future of bear tanking in Warcraft. And in this post I plan to talk about the first, show pictures of the second, and remain silent about the third. There will be a rant today. This [...]

This is a rant. As such, I have put it behind the more tag. There is strong language, but no nudity.

My grrr, he has no face. And while that really fits the mood I’ve been in lately, it’s not the reason he is without. He’s without because he’s already had his first bath and I am waiting on him to dry before filling him in. My thoughts on the pattern? I’m so glad you asked. [...]

First, the rant update. Remember when I bitched about the Knitty/Suss issue? Well I stumbled across someone else’s post regarding the same thing, that expresses why I felt that way far more eloquently. And as I still pretty much feel this way, I thought I’d share it. Second, the spinning (the part with photos for [...]

So, after posting Sunday, I decided to go ahead and finish up my scarf. I figured it was just stockinette in the round, I should be able to knock it out quickly and have a fabulous scarf for knitting group on Monday night. I was so very very wrong. I finished the scarf, and then [...]

Rant incoming. It’s great that a new knitty is out. It’s great that it has more and more patterns all the time. It’s great that it’s free and accessible to innumerable knitters out there. But this post, it’s about what’s not great. Knitty is becoming more and more……”snotty”. It seems that it is so hung [...]

This is one of my rants. You’ve been warned. I am tired tired tired of the phrases “not your grandmother’s knitting” and “…think knitting/circles is/are for grannies?” TIRED. It is for grannies dammit. Grannies are the ones that kept it alive when women’s lib came along made all homemaking crafts taboo. It angers me that [...]

I was looking forward to July 1st with great anticipation. Not only are we going to a cookout this weekend to celebrate the 4th, but it should have been a good knitting day. Knitty was scheduled to have a new issue out today. It doesn’t. I would complain more, but it’s free, and you get [...]

Today on the craftster forums, I stumbled across some chick “tagging” things with her knitting and taking pictures of it. She was leaving a Knittaplease tag on it as well. Now she had no affiliation with this group, she’s just using their name on the tags, instead of hers, and encouraging others to do the [...]