11-25-04 :: here now for keeps. am making beautiful silk garden hat. bright colored skeins from a year ago which have lost their color # tag. will put it up with appropriate sized pop up window in short order.

when I considered the style of my new journal I decided I would like it to be a big blank space like my paper journal. I love my paper journal, it's full of sketches of imagined knitting. very little of what comes off the needles resembles the ideas expressed on paper. I am finding this very true with the Christmas slippers with which my paper journal had the highest expectations and the working of has been truly hard. I am not at all in favor of hard work knitting. but I am a fan of persistent knitting and I like the idea of sticking with the slipper idea till it finds a way to become fun knitting. these happy feet keep me at it

11-29 -04 :: I have not learned to make the pop-up page the size of the photo.

this hat is the next pattern I want to share. it is the basic formula I use to knit all hats. I started writing it out in words like any gauge/any needle size/any yarn. Karl suggested that it would be easier to learn from specific instructions...so my plan is now to write up the basic hat formula for various fiber/needles in a way that I hope knitter's imagination will learn to fly away with.

12-04-04 :: have conquered the art of pop-ups in freeway, but... have so much farther to go before I'm comfortable in here.

this is my favorite picture not only of the past year, but of my life so far. my baby with his baby. the picture is linked to photo collection from the year (family photos, not knitting, tho ... there is a vest in my birthday shot that was this year's work

anyway, I will be continuing to figure out how this format can work for me and promise to be back in the new year with Christmas slipper story and my first knitting as a job story xo

Happy HappyHappy December

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