‘Random Babbling’ Category

  1. Meet Buddy

    September 17, 2010 by ChiaLynn

    This is Buddy:

    Mary Cummins, a wildlife rehabilitator and the owner of Animal Advocates, found Buddy on the streets of LA last Christmas. He was starving, filthy and badly scarred.

    Less than a year later, an empty eye socket is all that’s left of that sad, desperate dog.

    At least once a week, I check in on Buddy’s Facebook page, and I think “Why has no one adopted him yet?” But then I remember why I haven’t adopted him, even though I want to, and I know that there are dozens of other people who would also like to but have their own reasons for not doing so.

    Somewhere out there, though, there’s a home for Buddy. I’m hoping that by blogging this for Pedigree‘s “Write a Post, Help a Dog” project, I can help him find it.


  2. Behold, The Scarf of Madness

    September 12, 2010 by ChiaLynn

    The Scarf of Madness on a Chia

    And my cleavage.

    Last year, I bought two skeins of recycled sari silk yarn at Jeni Originals in Laramie, Wyoming. It’s gorgeous, gorgeous stuff, but it’s also really difficult to work with. It’s thick and thin and thick and thin, and it tears, and it’s fuzzy when you didn’t want it to be, and sometimes it’s so tough it rips your fingers. (This is why NovySan calls it The Yarn of Madness.)

    It sat and glowered color at me for months, and I kept trying different patterns, and it would spit and snarl and refuse, and I’d put it back in the drawer and stare at it periodically…

    And then, I realized that what this beautiful, antisocial yarn needed was a friend. Something to break up the thick, heavy rows it settles into all too easily, and make it shine. “Black,” I thought. “It needs a plain black silk.”

    At first, I intended to knit it double with said black silk, but then I found a pattern for a bias-knit, double garter scarf and realized that this was it.

    And it was.

    And it was good.


  3. The Day of Madness

    September 11, 2010 by ChiaLynn

    Today, I finished knitting The Scarf of Madnes, and attended the HP Lovecraft Film Festival, where I watched films dealing with obsession and madness.

    Pics and further details to follow.