Category Archives: Knitting

Can anyone help Ellen?

I receive this e-mail this morning: Dear Mim, I am casting off the Seraphim now, just passed the centerpoint, and, uh-oh, no more yarn! Do you or any readers maybe have about 10 yards (just to make sure) of natural-color KnitPicks Bare Merino fingering (440yds/100g) maybe even in “dye”lot #66688 (or is that 88999?), and […]

Gifties and a wee peek

Isela tagged me, so here is the New Years Meme: What is the first thing you did in the New Year… Kissed C long and hard and then danced. What is the first thing you ate in the New Year…. A sandwich? Not sure… it was probably consumed at 4 in the am, so I’m […]

Year in Review

This may be terribly boring to you guys, so if it gets boring, go ahead and skip it.  It’s mostly just a place for me to mark my goals so I can keep track of them and my progress toward them. 2006 Revisited  I was looking back at my blog archives and seeing what my […]

Hidcote Garden Shawl KAL

I thought you all might like to know that Birdsong and Knitnana have started a Knitalong for my Hidcote Garden Shawl pattern. You can view the KAL here (the instructions on joining are there) and the pattern can be found here. M

HA!!

What Classic Movie Are You? personality tests by similarminds.com Why am I not surprised? Something dark and brooding with a morbid sense of humor. Quizlet ganked from Terri. In knitting news, the clogs are done and waiting to be felted, I have a new lovely wooden swift that I want to wind and wind and […]

Heaven all wrapped up in a hank!

So my plans to start Ariann were thwarted by the arrival of the yarn for BP1…. but how could I be upset when the yarn is THIS. This yarn is handdyed Bamboo Laceweight in the Mulberry colorway from PureKnits. I have not worked with bamboo in the past, so while it will take some research […]

Christmas of Socks

This is my widdul brover Daniel (and me… I’m the one with the wierd face on the left). Daniel liked his socks 🙂 It was good to spend some time with him again as he’s been busy with school and working 2 jobs all the previous times I was there to visit. We used to […]

Blargh!

I had a whole post written, and then the internets tubes ate it. So here’s the quick and dirty summary in bullets because I like them so: The cool chicks at Purlescence in Sunnyvale, CA are now carrying MimKnits patterns! I’ll add them to the temporary shops page when I get a chance. Yesterday was […]

*contented sigh*

It’s 8 in the morning and when I normally would have been up for 2 hours, trudged through bitter cold, been on 2 trains and a bus and be now sitting at a desk in a drafty office, instead I woke up about 30 min. ago and I’m still in my pajamas, and I’m curled […]

I may start counting hours…

I am SO ready for longer days! I’m bored and humorless and utterly exhausted (and have only a vague idea why). I want to be at home sleeping rather than sitting at a desk next to a phone that’s just NOT ringing in an office that has almost no one in it. I feel like […]