G. Knerd

When I decided that I was going to knit Erica a wedding blanket, I said there were a few rules: Finish Marissa’s wedding blanket first Finish Tristan’s cARGHdigan first Figure out the schedule for knitting, so I would know when I was slipping On the other hand, just because I decided to wind some of […]

A couple weeks ago, I got a lovely large package in the mail.  At first, I was confused, because the outside of it said it was filled with chocolates – I might have a bit of a weakness for chocolate, but I knew I hadn’t broken down and bought over a cubic foot of it. […]

(I thought I’d posted this from my phone last Thursday, but it turns out that I apparently only saved it.  Damn technology.) Reading the directions is important.  It’s a life skill that I’ve only had spotty success with, both in knitting and in life.  In knitting, it usually manifests in me going off pattern within […]

I was unpacking some stuff I hadn’t touched in a very long time, and I came across the ball bands for some Cascade 220.  I apparently wanted to remember something about the colors I used, because I made sure to write a note about the color on each one of them. For those of you […]

Stoichiometry is the part of chemistry that involves calculating the numerical relationships between various things in a reaction.  When I was studying chemistry, it was always my favorite part, because it felt a little bit like alchemy – if you could find a chain of relationships between any two things, you could convert that thing […]

So it’s about time to get yarn for my friend’s wedding blanket (heretofore referred to as Wedding Blanket II), and I’ve already scheduled some tentative time to go to the yarn store with the bride-to-be and pick out the colors she likes.  However, before we do that, I need to figure out how much yarn […]

I finally got a chance to catch up with a couple of my very best friends and exchange Xmas gifts with them.  I think I got the better part of that exchange, because I walked away with this: “What is it?” I can hear you asking, in awed and shushed tones.  That, my friends, is […]

So I’ve been working on the pattern for the Garden Party Socks, and I’m at the point that I need to add some pictures of the finished product.  I’ve got a theory that the most famous knitters are currently the ones who produce the best knitting porn.  And I want to be one of the […]

This holiday season, I had not one, not two, not even three, but four family Christmas celebrations to go to.  Luckily, they were spread out over the course of a week – I’m not sure how I would have survived otherwise. Also luckily, the people in my family know what I like: yarn and knitting […]

I’ve been meaning to post this for, um, an embarrassingly long time.  A few months, in fact, because this picture was taken in early October, when the Blanket Thief and I joined his family to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving.  My mother-in-law took us to the local Buy and Save, which is possibly the most disorganized, bazaar-esque […]