Yesterday I was bound and determined to have a relaxing day. I had planned a bike ride with O’Kathy in the morning, and then a day of relaxing on Sarah’s back deck while Bug ran through the sprinkler.
Since Minnie’s son came over to mow the back area (due to my fear of snakes), I had [...]
Archive for May, 2009
31 May
A perfect day
30 May
Nebraska Vegetarian Little Piggies
Bug version:
This little piggy went to the Old Market
This little piggy stayed home
This little piggy had yoghurt
This little piggy had none
This little piggy went “wee wee wee wee” all the way home!
29 May
Once a day
I am trying to spin once a day. A little each day. It has been tough because I never feel like I am getting anywhere on a project. And yes, it would be a lot easier if I would just stop spinning laceweight, but I love laceweight yarns, how can I resist!
You may remember my [...]
28 May
I am dumb
New car dumb, that is.
I’ve not been driving the pretty new car because…well because it is pretty. Too pretty to drive.
But last night I wanted to spend some time with friends, so I loaded Bug into the car and went over to see them. It was a little late when we returned home, it was [...]
27 May
Wahnananah BAT SHAWL!
I’ve got Sarah’s bat shawl to feature tonight, she did a really nice job on it. And….Bug blocked it! Dead serious. I put the top wires in, and pulled the point to the bottom, and Bug put the rest of the pins in and blocked it out. She was intense! She’d pull a side out, [...]
26 May
Show off!
Hanami stole, with hematite beads throughout. I love this asymmetrical stole, it is just the prettiest thing!
It has been raining all day, which made me worry that I wouldn’t be able to get decent pictures. I couldn’t hang the stole, but this will do.
26 May
A dye day of our own
O’Kathy, Mary, and I decided awhile back that we needed to have a dye day where we experiment with different dyes and fibers and yarns and just have fun. We’ve been trying to plan this for so long now, but getting 3 very busy women together for one day is almost impossible. We finally came [...]
25 May
A quick update
I should have a litte more for you tomorrow, but I wanted to show off a swap package I received last week but was too busy to show off then!
24 May
Another hobby
When we were kids, one of our favorite family outings was to go biking on the Erie Canal. We grew up doing this and biking long distances at a fairly young age, and some of my best memories are of long days biking through small towns, and stopping to shop here and there.
When I grew [...]
23 May
Old hat, New hat
I know I’ve been somewhat absentee this week. I have literally not been home in the evening since last Saturday, so my blogging time has been very limited. As has my picture taking time.
And the reason? Well, for the last 10 years, I’ve been driving this:
And, I’ve been happy about it! My old hat has [...]
20 May
I mean it, really!
I need to steal a little from Margaret and Helen blog for a moment, since Helen has managed to sum up quickly what concerns me so much and what weighs heavily on my heart.
From this post:
“As Americans, many of us just can’t understand why terrorists from the Middle East would want to destroy us. The [...]
18 May
Are you sick of this yet?
I’ve been working so exclusively on my stole that I have gotten carried away with it and fail to remember I have anything else on the needles at all! I’ve begun the cherry blossom section, which has gone quite quickly. But, I rather overdid it tonight and haven’t got any knitting time in. Therefore, I [...]
17 May
Hanami basketweave
As you can see, I’ve completed the basketweave portion of the stole. I now start on the cherry blossom section. I expect that this side will go a bit faster than the basketweave portion as that required so much concentration!
It is not readily visible on the picture, but each diamond section has a hematite bead [...]
17 May
Bug in the car
Bug has taken to playing in the car when she gets the chance. She came inside today to have lunch, and I smelled something strange. I kept thinking that maybe J came home early or something, because it smelled like him suddenly in the house. I couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. Then [...]
17 May
Announcement
Announcement: Anyone who knows me knows how big a deal this is. I ran over a snake with my lawn mower. GO ME! I am shaking so hard!
16 May
If you want to destroy my sweater…
I had a very froggy day. I asked Beltway to bring an extra ball winder so I could frog in style. And just so I could share my shame, I took pictures.
This:
Became this:
One was a mystery shawl in a design I never quite liked. I stopped knitting on it to see if the design would [...]
14 May
A black hanami
I’ve begun the latest lace piece, the hanami stole. I am adding black hematite beads to the body of the stole. Pictured is 2 out of the 7 basket weave repeats. I am hoping to work a chart a day on this stole, which would have me finish in around 2 weeks. But, knowing me [...]
13 May
Blue fingers
I needed to dye some fiber over the weekend for a swap partner. I’d seen that she likes blues and browns (some of my personal favorites as well!) Now, back in September I dyed up some merino. I was rather fond of the December Skies colorway I had done, but I wanted to try to [...]
12 May
The elusive “W”
In the yarn world, if you don’t have it, you are desperately trying to get it.
If you do have it, you are being harassed or you’ve been secretive about having it.
When you try to buy it, you find that all sorts of rules have been placed upon it. No more than 1 or 2 skeins [...]
11 May
My Mothers Day
Bug and I spent the day in the garden. After church we went to pick up the veggies and herbs I wanted to plant, we brought them home, got them in the ground, weeded, watered, and then trimmed hedges. Now, usually my mom gets to work with Bug on the yard, they get it in [...]
10 May
Sorbet
122 yards 50% Merino 50% Tencel 3 ply
12 WPI, worsted weight yarn
I spun this from 3 irish girls roving. I was looking to work for a bit heavier weight yarn rather than the thin stuff I can’t help but create. I managed, but it was a struggle! I have to constantly watch myself when trying [...]
9 May
One more!
This is the final scarf which I blocked for Sarah. I’ll be sorry to stop featuring knitting done by friends, as I have little to post since I am working quite monogamously on my pinwheel sweater.
This is jojoland melody yarn, which you can see by the gradual and long color changes. The cable and lace [...]
6 May
Noro Stripe Scarf
Noro stripe scarves have been all the rage, but I haven’t managed to knit one yet. Luckily, Sarah has, and it was one of the scarves I wanted to block for her. Which means now I get to feature a noro striped scarf right on my blog!
The idea is to take 2 skeins of Noro [...]
5 May
More Malabrigo Lace
But not my own! I took some projects from my dear friend Sarah so I could block them. This is the first of the batch.
As you can see, for all my whining yesterday, malabrigo really does make a lovely shawl!
4 May
Scheherazade Stole
I am done with my stole, and…well…it didn’t exactly turn out as I’d have liked it to. I am going to start with the pretty shots, and then I’ll give you a rundown on the problems.
The edging:
It is really nice and long:
Now let’s talk about the issues. I used malabrigo laceweight. Malabrigo really is some [...]
4 May
Recognize this?
You may think you’ve seen this before.
In fact, it looks an awful lot like this.
But this one is for me! I’d intended to get to this sooner, so that Bug and I could wear matching sweaters, but it has taken longer than I expected. Luckily, Bug’s sweater still fits. I could increase the length of [...]
1 May
Red Shoes
When I was young, perhaps 4th or 5th grade, my feet were around a woman’s size 4.5 or 5. When Mom took me school shopping that year, we realized that shoes in that size were really inexpensive! Now, we didn’t really have a lot of extra money for clothing when I was growing up, and [...]
