tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80275793480136650252024-03-14T02:15:26.383-04:00Ambitious KnitsAdventures in knitting, feminism, and the law.JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.comBlogger238125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-83998122531341127172016-02-19T22:15:00.001-05:002016-02-19T22:17:12.430-05:00Teaching Knitting Classes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
OK, ignore the fact that I haven't posted in about a million years. Much knitting has been happening. I am teaching at <a href="http://www.fabricateatlanta.com/">Fabricate Studios Atlanta</a>.<br />
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Fabricate is is an educational classroom space in West Midtown Atlanta offering skills-based instruction for children and adults. A lot of sewing and quilting goes on there. And now a whole bunch of knitting as well. You can find a schedule of classes, knitting and otherwise, <a href="http://www.fabricateatlanta.com/classes/">HERE</a>.</div>
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Here are more projects I failed to write about contemporaneously. My mom's birthday is on Christmas day. It sucks having a birthday on a holiday. Woe to person who gives a joint birthday/Christmas present or wraps a birthday present in Christmas paper. So I knit two presents for my mom this year.<br />
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The first was <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/leftie">Leftie</a> by <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/designers/martina-behm">Martha Behm.</a><br />
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This is a cool one because you actually start with just three stitches and add more each row. It gives the shawl a slanted look.<br />
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Every tenth row, you make a leaf on the left edge.<br />
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I used fingering weight <a href="http://www.knitpicks.com/cfYarns/Yarn_Display.cfm?ID=5420203">KnitPicks Chroma</a>, which has a slow color shift. I'm not sure this color way exists anymore, but you can see it goes from a dark pink all the way to bright orange.<br />
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The other thing I knit for my mom was a pair of socks. The first pair I made was a little too small. This pair I knit from the toe up (no pattern), so I knew they were going to fit perfectly.<br />
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The yarn was something on the fancier side, a merino/nylon blend I believe. I can't for the life of me remember the brand.<br />
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Her feet seem happy, though.<br />
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-50975273430379436562015-03-26T16:06:00.002-04:002015-03-26T16:08:01.039-04:00Rainbow Shawl<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A while back, the<a href="http://www.yarnharlot.ca/2014/11/better-late-than-never/"> Yarn Harlot blogged</a> about a shelf-striping yarn made especially for triangle shawls. And I HAD. to. have. it!<br />
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The crazy-brilliant people at <a href="http://www.caterpillargreenyarns.com/">Caterpillar Green Yarns</a> have <a href="http://www.caterpillargreenyarns.com/collections/shawl-stripes">dyed a yarn specifically for triangular shawls</a>. When you make a top down shawl, you start in the middle and work your way out to the longest edge.<br />
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That means that rows get longer and longer as you go. You need more and more yarn to complete each row. A stripe at the start of the shawl would take much less yarn than a stripe at the end of the shawl. The stripes in typical self-striping yarn has equal length color repeats. The stripes would get narrower and narrower.<br />
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Caterpillar Green has done the math to make each of the stripes the same width.<br />
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The purple stripe is the same width as the blue one at the bottom even though the blue stripe takes a lot more yarn to knit. <br />
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The colorway is <a href="http://www.caterpillargreenyarns.com/collections/shawl-stripes/products/pre-order-mcn-shawl-stripes">Concrete and Tulips.</a> Pretty, right? And so soft....<br />
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The pattern isn't really a pattern at all.<br />
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Now if I can just figure out how to put it on.<br />
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-15662344541558303522015-03-25T13:56:00.000-04:002015-03-25T13:56:00.226-04:00Spring in Atlanta<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
With my month off between the bar exam and my new job, I am trying to only do things I enjoy. Much of that involves gardening and hanging out with the dogs in the sunny weather.<br />
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-78625632668708222382015-03-24T10:49:00.000-04:002015-03-24T10:49:00.232-04:00Knitted Wedding Dresses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As a knitter who is engaged, it was inevitable that I would have passing thoughts of knitting something for my wedding. Perhaps a veil? Flowers? The whole wedding dress?<br />
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But whenever I mention this to Fiance, she gets a panicked look on her face. I think she is worried I will end up looking like this on our wedding day.<br />
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Which I am totally not opposed to :-) But I was thinking something like <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/jofaliina/evenstar-shawl">The Gray Swan Dress</a><br />
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Or this <a href="http://blog.curlymonkey.com/2010/08/i-just-love-those-dresses-found-on-new.html">pink flamenco dress</a><br />
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If I could crochet, would have a lot more options. <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicaprobus/this-woman-made-an-amazing-wedding-dress-for-30#.gtBGMvjvnR">This woman crocheted her wedding dress</a> on her morning commute. Or there is <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/nixx/wedding-dress">this beauty from Nixx</a>:<br />
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It seems like it <strike>might</strike> will absolutely be too much work. But I did download t<a href="https://store.vogueknitting.com/p-325-lace-dress.aspx">his pattern from Vogue</a> Knitting.<br />
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Maybe I will swatch a little and the urge to make a dress will pass....<br />
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-31180029406621970442015-03-23T10:23:00.000-04:002015-03-23T10:23:00.296-04:00Sweater Surgery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When I was at the Goodwill picking up a sweater to make into <a href="http://sheepishlyambitious.blogspot.com/2015/03/swants.html">swants</a>, I found an amazing fair isle sweater. I wish I had taken a picture of it; it was a big, boxy 80's drop shoulder number made of some sort of hearty nordic wool.<br />
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Because it was a drop-sleeve sweater (and I have giant ape arms), I need to add a lot of length to the sleeves. I happened to have some yarn that matches the yellow and white yarn already in the sweater. I picked up the stitches where the sleeves were serged to the body of the sweater. Now I am knitting until they are long enough, adding the proper shaping in as I go.<br />
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I also had to change the body of the sweater from a big rectangle into a set-in shape. I mapped out the middle of the sweater and then how wide I wanted the shoulders and waist to be (in the neon thread you see) based on my measurements. <br />
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Then I cut the sleeve holes. Cutting knitting is nerve-wracking, but the yarn is sticky enough that it doesn't unravel too much.<br />
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-80564255451100838592015-03-20T09:33:00.003-04:002015-03-20T10:29:27.033-04:00From the Land of Sheep<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The in-laws went to New Zealand this spring and brought back a number of amazing things. While they won't let me practice the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didgeridoo">didgeridoo</a> or the giant hunting boomerang they bought back, I did get to keep this:<br />
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A sheep pelt, two balls of Ashford worsted weight yarn, and some spinning fiber.<br />
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Ashford is a New Zealand company...the wool is from New Zealand sheep (because there are so many of them there). My spinning wheel is an Ashford Kiwi (similar to <a href="http://www.ashford.co.nz/newsite/spinning-wheels/14/spinning/kiwi-2/moredetail.html">this one</a>). <br />
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-71904737713942602922015-03-19T14:22:00.000-04:002015-03-20T10:30:02.300-04:00Swants!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Swants = Sweater + Pants<br />
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I got a crazy 80's sweater from Goodwill, and my friend and I set out to make a pair of swants.</div>
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They look a lot better than I thought they would.</div>
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-48119097911042055762015-03-11T17:25:00.001-04:002015-03-11T17:26:36.611-04:00What I've Been Up To<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Georgia Bar Exam was at the end of February. And now I have a whole month of vacation before the next things begin. So what have I been up to.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Reading "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Life-Changing-Magic-Tidying-Decluttering/dp/1607747308">The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing</a>." This woman is a little bonkers (she started studying the art of tidying at the age of 5). Also, there are a few things that don't translate well into American culture (I know very few people who collect tea ceremony sets). But I've become obsessed with cleaning the house in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/garden/home-organization-advice-from-marie-kondo.html?_r=0">this 2-step process</a>. First, you get rid of anything that doesn't bring you happiness. Then you organize everything. My house is in no way cluttered or full of stuff, and yet I've gotten rid of soooooo much stuff. Bags of clothing off to the consignment shop or <a href="http://www.dressforsuccessatlanta.org/">Dress for Success</a>!</span><br />
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This is the <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/wavy-moss-hats-and-headband">Wavy Moss Hat </a>by <a href="http://cedarboxknits.com/index.html">Cedar Box Knits</a>. It's a cool pattern because you knit the first part in one direction and then pick up stitches along the edge of the cables for the rest of it. <br />
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The yarn in this first one is Misti Alpaca Hand Paint Chunky in color Pico. The alpaca yarn got really drapey after I washed and blocked it.<br />
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It's 100% wool...you can see it doesn't have the drape. And I knitted all of these on much bigger needles than the pattern called for. That means I had to cast on fewer stitches and do fewer of the cable repeats.<br />
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-21664090364104905752015-02-22T12:33:00.002-05:002015-02-22T12:33:44.260-05:00THE BAR EXAM IS TUESDAY!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've been studying for the Georgia Bar Exam for a couple months now. The Georgia Essay portion is Tuesday and the 200-question multiple choice is on Wednesday. <br />
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-29451103916050631842015-02-19T11:47:00.004-05:002015-03-20T10:30:46.589-04:00Backdated Knitting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Looking at the blog archives, I realize I didn't post a single thing in 2013. I was knitting that whole time, I just never updated you all.<br />
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One of the things I made was <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/funchal-moebius">Funchal Moebius</a> by Kate Davies. Go ahead and click that link. You will notice that it is a long, double-sided, two-color fair isle moebius scarf. You can wrap it twice around your neck.<br />
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I did a few repeats of the pattern, said, "well that was fun" and decided it was a cowl.<br />
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-5356764169002708892015-02-17T10:31:00.000-05:002015-02-17T10:31:00.067-05:00The Orchid Thief Shawl<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
What happens when you let a girl who is bad at taking pictures use a nice camera? She still takes bad pictures.<br />
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This is <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/orchid-thief">Orchid Thief</a> by Ysolda Teague in a mystery hand-dyed yarn from Austin, Texas (I lost the ball band immediately after I got it). Super well-written pattern like everything by Ysolda.<br />
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It was supposed to be a Christmas present for one of the mother-in-laws (yes, I am about to have two mother-in-laws), but I clearly didn't finish it in time. Then she was out of town so I procrastinated until last night, when we were picking her up at the airport to finish it up and weave in the ends.<br />
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It is not nearly as long as I thought it would be. But I still love the leaf motif (heh, that rhymes). The edges ruffle. <br />
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They would probably ruffle more, but I ran out of yarn half way through my bind off (yikes!). Because it was mystery yarn, had no idea what yardage I was working with. I had to unpick my bound off stitches and do a <a href="http://youtu.be/tqBZdwOwyr0">yarnless bindoff</a> instead. It isn't a very stretchy edge, but I still think it makes for a pretty little scarf all the same....<br />
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-72761403866839711142015-02-16T11:15:00.000-05:002015-02-16T22:34:25.041-05:00“Lesbian” As a Wedding Theme<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wup2S27nm1U/VOIWRBvyyGI/AAAAAAAADqI/OcIxm5XNrks/s1600/Getting%2BGroomed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wup2S27nm1U/VOIWRBvyyGI/AAAAAAAADqI/OcIxm5XNrks/s1600/Getting%2BGroomed.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></a><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Everyone has been super amazing
about my partner and I getting married.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I’ve
been thrilled at how even my more conservative or religious friends and
family have taken it in stride (e.g. both my great aunt and Fiance’s grandma, awesome ladies in their
80s, said the exact same thing, “Well, if that’s what they
want to do, that sounds nice”).</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">But w</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">ith the
amazingness and the well-meaning support has come a realization that
people think my wedding will be somehow totally different from a "regular" wedding because it’s “gay.”</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">People have sent me links to <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jemimaskelley/two-brides-are-better-than-one">how to plan the perfect lesbian wedding</a>.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">They
have commented that they would love to help me plan, but that I would have to
tell them what to do because I am the expert on gay marriage.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">There are books in the bookstore for planning
a gay marriage.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><a href="http://equallywed.com/">Separate websites for the gays</a>.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">A w<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/wedding-industrial-complex/">hole wedding industrial complex</a> just for “us.”</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I’ve also gotten
links to “<a href="http://offbeatbride.com/">The Offbeat Bride</a>” and other “different” wedding sites, partly
because I am just a different kinda lady, but I think also because it is
assumed my wedding will be innately different because of the whole two-girl
thing.</span></div>
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<b><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">If you have sent me these links and
resources or offered to help me out: <u>THANK YOU!</u></span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I have no idea what I’m doing, and every bit of assistance is beautiful
and appreciated!</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I love you and your
good heart!</span></b></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">But all this has got me to thinking
about a few things.</span></div>
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<i><u><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I'm Not Actually an Expert
on Gay Marriage</span></u></i></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I wanna be a family law attorney, so I know a
little gay marriage law, which in Georgia currently consists of, “May I help
you write a domestic partnership agreement until you can go somewhere else to
get legalized?”</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Other than that, I’ve
never actually been to a wedding between two people of the same sex or
gender.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I only know one or two couples who have been “gay married.”</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Most
importantly, I’ve never planned a wedding before, gay or otherwise.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Not an expert.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><i><u>I'm Not Really a Lesbian*</u></i></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">While I have many of the stereotypical cultural indicators of
being a lesbian (e.g. I like the Indigo Girls, am a feminist, drive a Subaru,
and have a girlfriend), I have dated and lived with and loved far too many men
to feel comfortable identifying as one myself.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">So, I guess I’m not really having a lesbian wedding....</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><u><i>Family Dynamics are Important to Me</i></u></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Like I said above, everyone
has been super amazing about my partner and I getting married.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">They are going to come to our wedding and be
so happy for us because they love us.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">But that doesn’t make the idea of two women getting married any less
weird for people who grew up with a different conception of what marriage looks
like.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I want my religious or
conservative or just surprised family members and friends to have as good a
time at my wedding as my atheist or liberal or gay guests.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">For that reason, I probably wouldn’t have a
<a href="http://www.wetv.com/shows/my-fair-wedding/episodes/season-5/burlesque-bride">burlesque-themed wedding with pole dancers in the corner</a></span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">They would still come
because they love me, but they would be super-uncomfortable.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">In the same way, since I’m already
asking some of my people to reset their brains and get on board with something
new to them, I’m not going to purposely throw up other roadblocks.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Fiancé and I are going to do things that are
really important to us (e.g. she wouldn't be caught dead in a dress, there
will be two girls kissing at the end of the ceremony, and both sides of the
aisle will be “the bride’s side”) that might freak some people out because they
have never seen it before.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I know that, and they know that coming in, and we will all make it through together.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">But I probably won’t have a rainbow theme
or vagina-pops for favors (yum!!!) because why push the envelope on a day that,
even in traditional, straight, church weddings, is already full of stressful
family drama and politicking (WHAT?!?!</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">You didn’t wear the veil that every woman in your family has gotten
married in in the last 200 years?!?!!</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">DRAMA!!!!)?</span></div>
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<o:p><i><u>I'm Not Trying to Make a Political Statement With my Marriage</u></i></o:p><br />
Weddings are too complicated and stressful without the added pressure of representing a political movement. Gay marriage has become
a political rallying point, but I don’t actually see my wedding as a political act. </div>
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Or maybe I do, but differently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kind
of like the idea of having a traditional, white-dress, wedding-cake,
DJ-playing-YMCA, you-may-now-kiss-the-bride wedding, only the people getting
married are both girls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t have
to be a big deal because, well, it shouldn’t be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when it stops being “off-beat” or “a
political act” or “different” and when “gay married” gets to just be “married”
without the descriptor, then I guess we will have really won.</div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">*I'm totally happy to have this discussion with anyone who has polite questions to ask about it. Just might not do it online.</span></div>
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-58552492575449796472015-02-14T11:18:00.004-05:002015-02-16T22:35:39.400-05:00Happy Valentine's Day!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Happy Valentine's Day! <br />
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I've <a href="http://sheepishlyambitious.blogspot.com/2011/02/im-bananas-for-valentines-day.html">written before</a> about how much I love Valentine's Day. Better than Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving combined. Knowing this, Fiance made me this amazing V-Day "Advent" calendar. So I've been celebrating all week!<br />
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It started with the traditional "Red Dinner" (No relation to the <a href="http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Wedding">Game of Thrones Red Wedding</a>...that scene has made explaining my tradition a lot weirder). It was a potluck again, and people went all-out this year!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jello shots, chocolate covered strawberries, heart shaped cornbread.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cheese ball. Pink wine.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ndIolpDSH40/VN9yh41-FzI/AAAAAAAADnU/mcdria4X_gk/s1600/2015-02-08%2B15.32.08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ndIolpDSH40/VN9yh41-FzI/AAAAAAAADnU/mcdria4X_gk/s1600/2015-02-08%2B15.32.08.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Pasta and yummy dessert.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yup, that's red sushi in the shape of hearts!!!<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Homemade, heart-shaped crackers and salsa!</td></tr>
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The week got even better with heart breakfasts.<br />
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The most intense blanket fort you've ever seen in the living room:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look how spacious it is in there! Held up by a camera tripod, of course.</td></tr>
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And shrinky-dink art like you make in elementary school.<br />
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I heart it all.</div>
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-3567602124677409282015-02-02T12:21:00.001-05:002015-02-16T22:36:08.624-05:00Knitting Inspiration: Home Decor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I wrote about decorating my law school apartment <a href="http://www.ambitiousknits.com/2011/08/knitting-inspiration-decorating-my-new.html">here</a>. Now that I am out of law school and living in a new place, I am back to looking at knitting-related home decor. And it's gotten easier to find, as knitting has wheedled its way into the mainstream and into more than just afghan throws.<br />
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For example, Crate and Barrel has it in all sorts of things.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.crateandbarrel.com/sweater-knit-planter/s252608">Sweater Knit Planter</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2i.c-b.co/is/image/CB2/KnittedPoufYellowS14/&$web_zoom$&/1310081550/knitted-yellow-pouf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2i.c-b.co/is/image/CB2/KnittedPoufYellowS14/&$web_zoom$&/1310081550/knitted-yellow-pouf.jpg" height="320" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cb2.com/knitted-yellow-pouf/s657866">Knitted Pouf</a></td></tr>
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I'm kind of into giant knit rugs and blankets the most, though. Look at this rug:<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://nummynims.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/giant-knit-rug-02.jpg?w=450" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="207" src="https://nummynims.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/giant-knit-rug-02.jpg?w=450" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see it being knit <a href="https://nummynims.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/giant-knitted-rug_christien-meindertsma/giant-knit-rug-02/">here</a>.</td></tr>
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Or this one, made from t-shirt yarn!<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VvULz3pFNTQ/UBVHsNqm-GI/AAAAAAAAAkU/z4I8gMsBXmE/s640/inspiration&realisation_diy_giant_knitted_rug_diamonds_cables.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VvULz3pFNTQ/UBVHsNqm-GI/AAAAAAAAAkU/z4I8gMsBXmE/s640/inspiration&realisation_diy_giant_knitted_rug_diamonds_cables.jpg" height="228" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From <a href="http://www.inspirationrealisation.com/2012/07/diy-giant-knitted-rug.html">Inspiration & Realisation</a></td></tr>
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I also like the idea of huge, fluffy blankets all over the house.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdn.honestlywtf.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/KnittingNoodles_9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://cdn.honestlywtf.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/KnittingNoodles_9.jpg" height="319" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This <a href="http://honestlywtf.com/home/knitting-noodles/">website</a> has info about the giant yarn used to knit this blanket, as well as baskets, rugs, pillows, etc.</td></tr>
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OK, now ish gets real. This is a chair. With a BUILT IN BLANKET!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My only question about <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2269623/The-ultimate-winter-chair-The-designer-seat-really-curl-inside.html">this chair</a> is: how do you wash it?</td></tr>
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This is my favorite. <br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.womansday.com/cm/womansday/images/VJ/07-Piano-Dentelle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://www.womansday.com/cm/womansday/images/VJ/07-Piano-Dentelle.jpg" height="189" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Technically, I think <a href="http://www.womansday.com/life/extreme-knitting-crochet-art-118438">that's crochet,</a> but we will let it slide this time.</td></tr>
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Finally, how about some outdoor knitting?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How does the dirt not fall out of <a href="https://limoncellodituscany.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/knitting/">this basket</a>?</td></tr>
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Hmm, lots of options....</div>
JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-47887506357806193712015-01-28T10:24:00.003-05:002015-02-16T22:38:12.890-05:00Shawls<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I haven't shown a lot of finished items on here lately, but I swear they have been happening. I've been thinking a lot about shawls the last couple weeks because I like to knit them for other people's special events.</div>
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For my Bestie's wedding a couple years ago, I made her a <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/euphrosyne">Euphrosyne</a> shawl by Kirsten Kapur for her rehearsal dinner. She had told me she was going to carry lilies for her wedding. I thought if she was going to wear a white dress that a green shawl, the color of the stems, would be pretty.</div>
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I started with a skein of lace weight from A Verb For Keeping Warm. It's silk and merino, so light and squishy but a little bit shiny and very warm. They hand-dye their yarn with natural ingredients, so the color really was "stem colored."<br />
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After about eighty million hours of knitting (and watching Bones on Netflix), I ended up with this.<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o1CBSwadY9k/UIBZ6jgq_nI/AAAAAAAADCQ/RDaxN3WHpfQ/s1600/pre+block+shawl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o1CBSwadY9k/UIBZ6jgq_nI/AAAAAAAADCQ/RDaxN3WHpfQ/s320/pre+block+shawl.jpg" height="191" width="320" /></a><br />
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I allowed it to block. And I ended up with this:<br />
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So, now I am thinking about what kind of shawl I should make myself. And should I make it in white or in a pretty color? What weight of yarn? What type of fiber? Oh, the choices!</div>
JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-50998923739590943072015-01-21T16:08:00.001-05:002015-02-16T22:37:45.381-05:00Yarn Bribery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am studying for the Bar on Friday night.<br />
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I have been studying for hours. Days. Weeks. I like to shut myself into what Fiance lovely calls my Fortress of Solitude (a.k.a. The Wood Office; a.k.a. The Room of Requirement), so that the dogs won't come in and state at me, making me feel guilty for working instead of walking them (Fiance works from home, and claims that if you are by yourself long enough, the dogs will actually start talking to you).<br />
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All of the sudden, there is a knock on the door. "Come in," I say. Silence. "COME IN, YOU WEIRDO!" I holler, because Fiance is the only other human in the house and is not opening the door. More silence.<br />
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Annoyed that I have to get up from my comfy chair where I have holed myself up under my "Pussies Unite" quilt with a <a href="https://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/web0118-starbuckstrenta.jpg">Trenta-sized mug</a> of Irish breakfast tea, I grumble, push my feet into my <a href="http://www.rei.com/product/838832/cordillera-down-mule-slippers-womens-special-buy">foot sleeping bags</a>, and shuffle to the door. There is no one there except Breck, who gives me this look:<br />
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I also see a piece of cardboard which says, "Follow Me." The cardboard is wrapped in beautiful blue and purple and turquoise yarn and leads downstairs, wrapped around the banister. I roll the yarn around the card, following it down the stairs, into the living room. There is dinner on the table, a fire in the fireplace, and Fiance in the living room wrapped in yarn. I laugh and head over to thank her for being adorable and for making dinner for me.<br />
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Trying to untangle her from the yarn, I notice that she is shaking uncontrollably.<br />
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"What on earth is wrong with you?" I asked sensitively.<br />
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Fiance then gives a beautiful speech ending with, "And if you say yes, I will knit you a hat out of this yarn. The colors made me think of you."<br />
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I said yes.<br />
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Moral of the story: Bribery works.</div>
JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-72729900446061537922015-01-20T15:41:00.000-05:002015-02-16T22:36:37.119-05:00Two Girl Brides<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For those of you who are not stalking me on Facebook, you
may not have heard the news: I’m engaged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For those of you who REALLY have been out of the loop on my life, I’m
engaged to the woman I’ve been dating for a year, have graduated from my
JD/MPH, decided to stay in Georgia, and am currently studying for the Georgia
Bar Exam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now you are all caught up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But I wanted to talk about the whole marriage to a woman in
Georgia while studying for the Bar Exam thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I got engaged last Friday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
was yarn involved in the proposal (more on that later).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fiancé made me promise not to
do any wedding planning until after the Bar Exam (February 24 and 25...if
anyone else is counting, that is less than 5 weeks away).<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, of course, I immediately started googling
wedding-related things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I noticed
right off the bat is that there are a lot of guides for brides: traditional,
practical, DIY, fancy, laid-back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But no
one has really put together a guide-book for “How to Hold a Wedding Where There
are Two Brides, Three Sets of Parents, In a Conservative State That May Or May
Not Be Forced By the Supreme Court to Recognize Your Marriage By the Time You
Get Hitched.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“The Knot” is downright infuriating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It allows me to choose
“Bride Marrying a Bride” and "Same-Sex" as the theme (ha!) in the settings, and then proceeds to still call my
Bride a “Groom” in the budget, schedule, registry, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As far as I can tell, Ms. Manners has yet to
answer the question of whether both brides attend the bridal shower (and do the
senior ladies still explain to the blushing brides what happens on your wedding
night?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do they even know?).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And why do all the Bride-And-Bride cake
toppers seem to have both brides wearing dresses?<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are some things out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>TwoBrides.com and GayWeddings.com are the most comprehensive but they
just aren’t calming/helpful/comprehensive in the way I would like. And they are kind of old school. And OMG weddings with two men have a lot of different issues than weddings with two women.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I haven’t been good at keeping up the blog in the last
couple years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I can’t promise that I
will now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I think I might start
using this space to figure out how this whole two-bride thing works in the age
of Supreme Court decisions, Pride, and the wedding industrial complex.<o:p></o:p></div>
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-14832483195568480802014-06-28T20:05:00.001-04:002014-06-28T20:06:08.983-04:00Much Delayed Hello<p dir="ltr">Hello! A full year and a half later! Knitting at the jazz festival in D.C.</p>
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Happy Holidays from Washington, D.C.! <br />
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That's my Holiday Fair Isle Gangsta Face if you couldn't tell (mittens made by <a href="http://porpoiseknits.blogspot.com/">Porpoise</a>).<br />
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-47174183155707495462012-11-15T10:49:00.001-05:002012-11-15T14:11:50.411-05:00Class Knitting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yup, I've been AWOL. Health Economics and Biostatistics are trying to best me in the academic joust that is grad school. Add to that a new job, keeping up with law school extra curriculars and doing secret knitting projects for Christmas, I haven't had a lot to share. But... <br />
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Here's what I'm knitting in class right now.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/peaks-island-hood">Peaks Island Hood </a>from Ysolda's Whimsical Little Knits 2.</td></tr>
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I needed a good scarf to wear when I ride the scooter in the cold. Hopefully, with its buttons and a hood, this one will be perfect.<br />
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-58334790511275092542012-09-23T11:05:00.003-04:002012-09-23T11:05:45.758-04:00Easter Egg Yarn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I swear I have been knitting and spinning. I've even taken a lot of pictures to show you and then forget that I still have to post about them.<br />
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Way back a million years ago, I <a href="http://www.ambitiousknits.com/2011/05/weekend-update-sheep-and-wool.html">went to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival</a> and ended up buying a little bump of Easter-egg colored fiber. For some reason I didn't make note of what it was at the time and I have long since lost the label for it. I suspect that it is Corriedale. I had started spinning it on a spindle, but I wound what I was working on onto a bobbin and worked it up on the wheel instead.<br />
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I had split the bump in different ways so that the same colors wouldn't always line up, but there was still a lot of Lakers yellow and purple going on there (side note: when I was little I wanted to be an LA Lakers Cheerleader. When law school get annoying, sometimes I wish I had followed through with that...but only sometimes).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It really does look like Easter. </td></tr>
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had extra singles on one bobbin so I made a tiny bit of 3-ply,
chain-plied. The plies on this one are obviously the same colors.
Looks very different.</td></tr>
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-69741826388061703692012-09-06T19:30:00.000-04:002012-09-06T19:30:01.664-04:00Yarn From Afar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My <a href="http://www.ambitiousknits.com/2012/09/pink-elephants.html">former roomie</a>, went to Kathmandu this summer to do some amazing public health work, abandoning me in the U.S. While she was seeing beautiful things like this:<br />
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I was working in a cubical. Pft!<br />
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I think she took pity on me, because she brought be back the best souvenirs.<br />
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400 yards of yak and what appears to be tufts of gold silk.<br />
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It is full of vegetable matter and is pretty grubby. I am in love with it, because I know it is going to plump up and be gorgeous once it is knit up and has a bath.<br />
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She also brough back 100 yards of what appears to be sari silk.<br />
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The colors in this pic aren't quite right. It is beautiful magenta more like this.<br />
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With all kinds of golds and blues mixed in. I might just wear this one around my neck as a necklace. Don't judge.<br />
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Now that I am spinning my own yarn, I can't help but think of how much time effort the women (I assume they are women) halfway around the world put into these skeins. Roomie said she found them in a little shop in an ally at the back of the market. What a precious, good find!<br />
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-13941259019813399272012-09-05T22:00:00.003-04:002012-09-05T22:00:34.347-04:00Pink Elephants<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Happy Birthday, Meg! </div>
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JoAnnaJaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01685768623140733916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027579348013665025.post-18816993944761407792012-09-04T22:05:00.002-04:002012-09-04T22:05:30.287-04:00Lobstah<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I ended my summer with a trip to Maine. It was beautiful.<br />
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And I made some friends. <br />
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We met on a boat.<br />
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I liberated them from their cages.<br />
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They came home with me in the car.<br />
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We got along...mostly.<br />
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There was also yarn in Maine, at <a href="http://halcyonyarn.com/">Halcyon Yarn</a>.<br />
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So much yarn!<br />
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And fiber, too!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, that is all fiber you can see there.</td></tr>
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I ended up with: <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A big ball of silk/merino mix (because I am obsessed with a good silk/merino)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What appears to be a giant dust bunny but is really Yak. I honestly don't know what came over me with this purchase. I have no clue how to spin it or what it will look like when it's done.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is alpaca. Nate made me do it. Kept being like, "ooo, it's so soft and such a pretty color." He's an enabler.</td></tr>
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I wanted to show you the difference between these last two fibers. On the right is the alpaca and on the left is the yak. Look how short and fuzzy the yak is compared to the alpaca.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alpaca</td></tr>
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And look at the difference between 4 ounces of yak on the left compared to 4 ounces of alpaca on the right.<br />
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Any tips on how to spin either of these? I have no clue what I'm doing.</div>
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