justina forever
putting one foot in front of the other since i could walk
Category: knitting
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This post is a little late, but I am happy to declare on my blog that my story, “The Boyfriend-Sweater Curse,” appears in Sharp Notions: Essays from the Stitching Life, alongside writing from twenty-seven writers in Canada, the US, and beyond. How cool it is to hold my story in my hands, but cooler still…
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Free pattern download for sunrise-sunset-mittens.pdf! UGH! All I want to do is knit. Here’s the second-last thing to come off my needles… I have named them the SUNRISE SUNSET mittens. Here’s what they would look like if I were wearing them whilst carrying a pile of invisible firewood. And here’s what they would look like…
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About a month and a half ago, Evan gave me a bike for my birthday. It was the best birthday present I’d ever received in my life… aside from the flight home to Hong Kong from my parents. (Though these gifts do beg the question: did I deserve it? Any of it? But that’s a…
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Does Topsy Limekitty deserve arms? What do you think? Comment away!
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Did you know that you can dye yarn with Kool-Aid? IT’S TRUE. Like, if it worked on your hair as a badass tween, then it should work on all kinds of other natural fibres, right? Right. Logic! Anyway I found two really useful-looking tutorials at knitty and snowangels.com, with Kool-Aid palettes that are really to dye for (get…