Today, was the long awaited arrival of our foam mattress topper. I was very pleased to discover, after getting it out of its impossibly small box, that it wasn't very stinky at all and would be quite fine for sleeping on tonight. What I hadn't anticipated was how difficult it would be to maneuver around once it expanded again!
I built the frame for my rectangle loom today, but then discovered that I cannot find my teeny tiny drill bit (I should have just bought one when I was at Home Depot like I told myself I should). Since there are 400 pins to be nailed in, I think I will wait until I get one to predrill the holes and save myself from wanting to stab myself with a pitchfork! The building of it went well though, given my meager carpentry skills. It's not as pretty as the $400 oak ones, but it's functional and only cost me $15. ($17 when I get the new drill bits!)
I did have momentary episode with a crow that was confused and thought he was a chicken. He's been practicing different imitations all month, and today's subject was chicken. He was sitting outside going "Baawwk?" "Bawwk?!" .... "Bawwk!!" for almost half an hour. I didn't have the heart to tell him that I firmly believe that God only put chickens on the planet to be eaten!
The rest of my day was spent pretending that I was going to accomplish something and doing very little other than knitting three lace repeats on the sweater I am working on. The upside is that it's nothing but knit rows from here out, so the rest of it should fly by!
John has to work tomorrow, which makes me have a /sad, but at least I am staying home from knitting tonight so we will have that time together. Hopefully we can have some reading time. It's been a while since we read a chapter in the Lord of the Rings, and I do love listening to him read.
I do apologize for my lack of pictorial evidence lately. I suppose I could say that it's because I've been too busy, but I guess that doesn't fly so well after a blog post about how lazy I was today.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Places To Go and People To See
Today is a very exciting day. Yes, it's 10:50 and I'm just getting home, but what could be better than spending nearly the entire day knitting with close friends, and then knitting with a community of more than a hundred women (and men) who share a passion for knitting?
Tonight was the first time in a billion years I was able to get to the Atlanta Knitting Guild meeting. The speaker was Sivia Harding, which was extra special because I happened to knit the sample Aquataine Gauntlets that she will be using to teach one of the classes this meeting. I even managed to part with some of my pennies to get a few of her patterns, the Rosalind and the Shetland Garden Faroese. Maybe sometime in this lifetime I will finish with the pattern writing that I have on my plate right now to be able to knit them! For now they are going to be taped on the wall-o-wishing that has my Jeanie pattern waiting wishfully on it.
My 18 Pearls Wrap is also going places and meeting people. Farmhouse Yarns has decided to carry the pattern after I knit a sample in one of their yarns, and my original shawl has gone to visit Only Ewe and Cotton Too in Alpharetta, GA. This makes me doubly excited because Elyse Anderson, the owner, happens to be one of the nicest people I think I've ever met, and because this shop is one of my favorites in the area. (Even if it is on the other side of the world for me, which makes me sad because I can't get there very often). Elyse also carries Ester Bitran's Olmue, the yarn my original design was knit from, which was the catalyst for my new focus on designing and writing patterns. I liked this yarn for this pattern so much, I bought a skein from Elyse to knit another! It is also super-lovely out of most sock yarns, including long color change yarns like Noro's Kureyon Sock, which Elyse also carries! Please feel free to stop by her wonderful shop to meet a really special lady and have a chance to see my wrap in person. If you can't get by the shop, you can follow the happenings at Only Ewe and Cotton Too on Facebook.
Other exciting news for the day include the fact that I am now DONE knitting the gull lace on my February Lady Sweater, thanks to an extra long guild meeting, and can start the sleeves tomorrow. After this sweater is done there is just one more sweater of doom to repair, and a vest to knit before I can focus on my designs again.
Tonight was the first time in a billion years I was able to get to the Atlanta Knitting Guild meeting. The speaker was Sivia Harding, which was extra special because I happened to knit the sample Aquataine Gauntlets that she will be using to teach one of the classes this meeting. I even managed to part with some of my pennies to get a few of her patterns, the Rosalind and the Shetland Garden Faroese. Maybe sometime in this lifetime I will finish with the pattern writing that I have on my plate right now to be able to knit them! For now they are going to be taped on the wall-o-wishing that has my Jeanie pattern waiting wishfully on it.
My 18 Pearls Wrap is also going places and meeting people. Farmhouse Yarns has decided to carry the pattern after I knit a sample in one of their yarns, and my original shawl has gone to visit Only Ewe and Cotton Too in Alpharetta, GA. This makes me doubly excited because Elyse Anderson, the owner, happens to be one of the nicest people I think I've ever met, and because this shop is one of my favorites in the area. (Even if it is on the other side of the world for me, which makes me sad because I can't get there very often). Elyse also carries Ester Bitran's Olmue, the yarn my original design was knit from, which was the catalyst for my new focus on designing and writing patterns. I liked this yarn for this pattern so much, I bought a skein from Elyse to knit another! It is also super-lovely out of most sock yarns, including long color change yarns like Noro's Kureyon Sock, which Elyse also carries! Please feel free to stop by her wonderful shop to meet a really special lady and have a chance to see my wrap in person. If you can't get by the shop, you can follow the happenings at Only Ewe and Cotton Too on Facebook.
Other exciting news for the day include the fact that I am now DONE knitting the gull lace on my February Lady Sweater, thanks to an extra long guild meeting, and can start the sleeves tomorrow. After this sweater is done there is just one more sweater of doom to repair, and a vest to knit before I can focus on my designs again.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Being Unemployed Is Hard Work.
I don't understand how I can have no job, and be constantly so busy I could pull my hair out. My poor husband used to suffer through, "I'm too tired from work." as an excuse for not having the housework done, and now he has to abide by my decrees that, "My knee hurts too much still to clean well." and "I had to knit all day long." or the ever popular, "But honey, I was dyeing wool!"
Today's escapades involved photographing a second version of my mermaid scarf for Farmhouse Yarns, who will graciously be carrying my pattern across the country, along with working on finishing up a February Lady Sweater with dubious 'fitting' ability. Nothing like knitting a sweater for someone for someone else with dubious measurements and no way to have them try it on mid-knit!
All is happy in my world though, Farmhouse Yarns has also agreed to carry my 18 Pearls shawl, which is exciting (even if it does mean I have to knit it a THIRD time out of their yarn /gag). Fall has come, the dreaded heat and humidity have moved off for the year, and it's time to have the snuggly blanket out. For those who don't know what the snuggly blanket is yet, it's my electric blanket that got renamed because when it is on both of my animals snuggle up to me like the little heat-leeches that they are! See the following picture of my cat shamelessly sleeping between two layers of blanket and leeching heat. You would think that eventually she would start to bake in there, but all I ever get is 'purrr.'
Today's escapades involved photographing a second version of my mermaid scarf for Farmhouse Yarns, who will graciously be carrying my pattern across the country, along with working on finishing up a February Lady Sweater with dubious 'fitting' ability. Nothing like knitting a sweater for someone for someone else with dubious measurements and no way to have them try it on mid-knit!
All is happy in my world though, Farmhouse Yarns has also agreed to carry my 18 Pearls shawl, which is exciting (even if it does mean I have to knit it a THIRD time out of their yarn /gag). Fall has come, the dreaded heat and humidity have moved off for the year, and it's time to have the snuggly blanket out. For those who don't know what the snuggly blanket is yet, it's my electric blanket that got renamed because when it is on both of my animals snuggle up to me like the little heat-leeches that they are! See the following picture of my cat shamelessly sleeping between two layers of blanket and leeching heat. You would think that eventually she would start to bake in there, but all I ever get is 'purrr.'
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