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Continue reading →: What’s up?
Three years ago I bought a house with lovely landscaping. It had been vacant for a year, and was pretty much untended. I’ve been slowing becoming familiar with what’s there, cutting back some exceedingly overgrown bits, and trying to undo some bad landscaping decisions. (WHO plants English ivy along a…
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Continue reading →: Thinking about knitting I
When I started knitting socks, rather than scarves and other flat rectangles, I got completely tangled in the decreases. I don’t knit like most people, and certainly not like any knitting pattern I’ve ever seen. I did a bit of research, and what I do is like what Annie Modesitt…
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Continue reading →: Socks
So, you might ask… what have I been up to lately, in the way of string? Some fancy medieval thing, a new technique, an insane piece of tablet weaving? Nope, I’ve been knitting socks. A year ago, I was hunting for a pair of purple socks to go with a…
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Continue reading →: Why this, why now?
Hi, my name is Phiala (Sarah), and I have a problem, or actually several: I have a penchant for finding extremely neat things and not taking proper notes. A conversation with me has frequent, “Well, I read somewhere…” and “I saw this neat website…” but no followthrough. I tend to…
Welcome!
I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.
I also do some science and write some fiction.
I’m Phiala most places on the internet.
