Ordinary Canary

This weekend I went to the Hallockville Fiber Festival, which is an excuse for knitters and spinners and other fiber nuts to get together and swap stories and goods. It was held at the Hallockville Museum Farm, which is an old farm with dedicated buildings to weaving and spinning. I watched a demonstration [...]

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Last night I dreamed of knitting as a type of personal hell; the stitch was stockinette, which references a project I’ve been working on that makes me dislike knitting.  Stockinette, stockinette, rows and rows of endless, never changing stockinette.
But stockinette is the perfect stitch for dreams.  In dreams, your brain often goes over the same [...]

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I ordinarily hate this season, but for some reason, I have really been enjoying fall this year. New York has a marked change of the seasons, which D.C. doesn’t really. Weather in D.C. is either hot or cold - in New York, there’s a distinct period of several weeks where you get to [...]

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No, this isn’t about the global market crash.
For those of you that know me in person, you’ll know that I spend a lot of too much time playing a game called World of Warcraft. One of the things that I find most fascinating about the game is the in-game economy. There’s a series [...]

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I was standing in the vestibule of the train yesterday on my way to work, knitting as I usually do. A man came up to the vestibule and stood there, waiting for the train to pull into the station so that he would be one of the first ones out.
“What are you knitting? [...]

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