There’s no more effective motivator for me than the end of something —-the end of a day, week, month or year. Having an even slightly cleaner slate for moving forward seems to make life suddenly full of new possibilities. This “completed UFO/end-of-the-month” project might be counted by purists as a “new” project. Since I’m into reducing [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Another UFO finished
Posted in Friends and family, Knitting, Project Gallery on April 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
April hasn’t been a cruel month…
Posted in Friends and family, Knitting, Life reflections on April 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Centuries ago Chaucer called April “the cruelest month”. Especially this April, with its special family time, has been wonderful rather than cruel, although I suspect that tomorrow’s newspaper will report that we broke a record for the most consecutive days of measureable precipitation. There could be worse things than having grey, rainy days, even though [...]
A proud mother’s dream
Posted in Books, Friends and family, Life reflections, Sock knitting on April 14, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Since I moved to the Northwest in 1984, Powell’s Bookstore on Burnside in Portland has been a favorite place where I could lose myself for hours. This Monday night life again became surreal, and I lived out a long held dream by attending a book reading there. The difference from other book readings was that [...]
Dealing with another UFO
Posted in Knitting, Life reflections on April 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In my last blog I didn’t pledge to “finish” every project I’d ever begun. Life is full of choices, and knitting should be, too. Making choices is about deciding what really matters—honing in on the essentials and leaving the rest. When I was an undergraduate English major, I wanted to read every book and learn [...]
Completion is a very splendid thing
Posted in Knitting on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As soon as I sent the blog yesterday, pledging to complete two nearly-finished Evelyn Clark patterns, I went into a busy beaver routine. It didn’t take long to finish the “Wildflower Lace Scarf.” I’d run out of yarn only inches from the end and the edging is “do-as-you-go,” rather than applied at the end. So, [...]
Meltdown in the electronic cottage.
Posted in Knitting, Life reflections, Sock knitting on April 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Yes, there’s been a lot of that happening here in our condo after 5+ years. Things have been going belly-up with mystifying regularity. Remembering words from a Robert Frost poem, “the best way out is always through,” I’ve been working through this, eager to finish so I can get back to my knitting and projects [...]
