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welcome to the new home of pepperknit!

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Hey, it’s me, Minty, known as Erin in the real world, and I bit the bullet and bought the domain pepperknit.com. I’ll be blogging from here now; please update your bookmarks, blogfeeds, etc.

This is still very much a work in progress, and the site will continue to grow and develop over time. It’s amazing how long it takes to get it all together. Eventually you can expect to click on the left sidebar to find:

  • A gallery of photos, and not just finished objects
  • A page with info about me, for people who are new to the site
  • A page devoted to patterns, both free and (hopefully, soon) worth some money

We’ll see where it goes. I’m tweaking the code and playing around, so please bear with me and feel free to offer suggestions.

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think of the yarn!

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This morning, the tube that connects the toilet tank to the pipe came dislodged—I guess years of sitting still got boring. A geyser of water came shooting out (thankfully, I was home at the time—unthankfully, I was alone) and immediately flooded the bathroom, the hall, and the guest room.

When I ran downstairs to find my phone to call maintenance, it was raining on the first floor. Leaking all over the living room, through the spaces between the hardwood floors of the second floor (yay(?) for exposed beams and thus no real ceilings in the apartment). A half-inch of water on the floor of the living room, all over the couch, just . . . just . . . raining.

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from here to there

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My daily commute is a whopping 1-mile walk. If I do the Gmap Pedometer (play with it, it’s fun!), it comes out to 1.03 miles, guesstimating from door to door. I walk with a coworker friend, who lives nearby, and we chit chat for the 15–20 minutes it takes. Needless to say, it would be impossible to get anything else done during this time.

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back from nyc; wish I had more knitting content

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I had a busy weekend in NYC, concentrated on food and friends, but I did manage to squeeze in some knitting-related activities.

My knitting was woefully ignored on the train ride up; I opted instead to do some puzzles. I did finish the heel flap on my second pair of pomatomus, however, on the train ride back.