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Where has the summer gone?!? It’s the last day of July… I guess time really does start to speed up when you get older, because I’m pretty sure yesterday was June 1st! All I’ve been doing lately on the knitting front is swatching – not very exciting. Maybe I’ll actually do something productive at Sit [...]
Thank goodness I took the time to swatch the pink mohair for Grecian Rose before I went back to the store and bought the rest. It’s gorgeous. Pink, fluffy, soft to knit…until I touched it to my arm, where it turned into a square of thorns. It feels like there are bits of straw poking [...]
(It must have been one of those commandments on the third tablet that broke!) Why am I coveting? My mom knits, too, and we fuel each other’s obsession…I’ve even gotten her hooked on knitting socks. Now she’s starting a new project: she’s going to knit a dress out of fabulous ribbon yarn. (Covet, covet.) The [...]
Warning: the pictures that follow may be too graphic for those with sensitive natures to handle. What started out as a peaceful day quickly turned into mayhem and destruction, leaving one skein dead and another wounded Saturday afternoon. The victim, identified only as “Classic Elite Miracle”, was innocently napping in the shade of a knitting [...]
After a late-night trip to Starbuck’s the night before last – I swear I got decaf! – I was buzzed until one a.m., so… Suki is complete! I added buttons to the straps when I sewed them on, to make it both more secure and prettier. Don’t ask me why I had several white star [...]
When things get busy, I apparently forget to blog. :) Let’s see – spent the weekend with Denis’ family, cooked lots of food, ate lots of food, played some cards, lost $5.40 at the race track, and finished knitting a sock. (I think the track is probably the oddest place I’ve ever knitted. At least, [...]
No knittin’ yesterday – instead, I took the day off to run errands (hooray for fresh groceries in the house!) and spend some time with two of my neices (and their parents, of course!) Somewhere between swimming, playing bubbles and drawing with sidewalk chalk (otherwise known as outside crayons) I realized I’m getting old. Woke [...]
Has anyone else out there noticed the complete lack of crafting programs for the Mac? Things like knitwear designers or quilt designers…what exists is either very pricey, or ancient – c’mon, system 7?!? Windows users, on the other hand, have their choice of many $20 shareware apps. I’d break down and fire up Virtual PC [...]
…they are very, very good! In other news, Suki is felted – hopefully it will be dry enough to take pictures tonight!
I have a theory: each of my dogs has a certain number of hours during any given 24 hour period when they are perfect angels. It’s a different number for each. But if you trust them beyond those hours, bad things happen. For example, we decided to let Murphy have the run of the house [...]