knitting

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thistleingrey asked, "Have you been knitting at all?"

My knitting productivity definitely fell after I became a tenure-track professor, but yes, I have been knitting, even if I haven't been tracking most of it.


This cabled lap blanket is made from an impossibly soft merino-and-something blend. The joy is really in touching it:





I also seem to be comparatively good at taking photographs of toys:







Right now I'm working on a brilliant teal pair of stockings with patterning inspired by this sixteenth-century boys' pair. These gilt-and-green stockings in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts are part of the case for bright colors.