You melt my wings and call it fun

I taught my boyfriend to knit:

This is Alex knitting a cowl for himself last night. He used some of my leftover yarn to create a multi-colored (brown and cream) cowl. I only helped him by joining to knit it in the round and binding it off for him, he did most of the knitting himself.

We were at Purl Soho today and he came thisclose to buying some fancy-pants yarn to knit an infinity scarf for himself. In the end, he decided against it. I was in there to look for yarn for a shawl I want to knit for my mother… but I couldn’t find anything I liked. (Besides, the yarn is so expensive in that store!) So we both walked away empty-handed.

I got you in my sights

Motorcycle chained to the same pole to which I locked my bike:

Doesn’t it look ferocious with those teeth? My bike was glad to finally be freed.

Sigh. My poor bike could use a bath. It’s taken a lot of abuse these past few months, what with all the rain riding and wet cement eating.

WIP: Stockholm Scarf

Pattern: Stockholm Scarf by Julie Crawford
Yarn: LB Collection Organic Wool (100% Organic Wool) in “Avocado”
Needles: US 10½ / 6.5 mm
Started knitting: November 26, 2011
Modifications: Using worsted-weight yarn and knitting in the round

This scarf is so hard to photograph! Especially as a non-scarf (in-progress, that is) and indoors at night. I should be finished with it pretty soon and I’ll have the opportunity to take better photos before giving it away to its intended recipient. I’m making this infinity scarf for my sister, who asked me for leg- and arm-warmers last year but never got them. So I’m making her an infinity scarf this year, which will hopefully make up for my tardiness. It’s a soothingly repetitive pattern that’s great for TV knitting. I’ve managed to watch all 14 episodes of Firefly, the movie Serenity, and several episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer while knitting this weekend.

…Why, yes, I have been on a Joss Whedon kick. Why do you ask?

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AllieAllie is a 25-year-old librarian who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She's into books, knitting, bikes, cats, and other stereotypically librarian things. More?
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