Year: 2003

Anyone Want To Sign My Practice Schedule?

Sarah Music

Band starts tonight. I should be excited, but I’m just worried…I’ve only played for a grand total of maybe 2 hours since the July 3rd concert. Ugh. I also had a “duck foot” added to my horn in the off-season. It’s supposed to transfer the weight of the horn from your pinky finger to the top of your hand. I figured that this would be a good thing, since after playing for a couple hours at a time (for example, rehearsals or concerts) my pinky finger would get all numb and tingly. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get used to it yet (maybe because I didn’t practice much?) and it’s soldered on, permanently.

Between that and the lack of practicing, rehearsal ought to be wonderful! Here’s hoping that the first rehearsal is very, very short. As in: hand out the music, and let’s go home!

Housekeeping & Confessions

Sarah Crafts

I changed the order my links display in the sidebar and added some new ones. There are probably more I should add, but since I was working on it late last night, my brain stopped working before I finished.

So, does it count as starting a new project if you just swatch for it? What if the intention was to start a new project, but you didn’t have the right needles – does it count then? If so, I have serious start-itis issues right now. And there’s a new local yarn shop opening up tonight…

Here’s my justification, though: we’re going away for the weekend, and most of the knitting I’m doing right now is secret Christmas-present-type-knitting…which I can’t work on where we’re going. All of the other projects I have going and/or planned are very pattern-intensive…not good for car rides or conversation. So, I think I might have to start something new just to have a project to work on this weekend. :)

Four Puppies and a Pot of Chili…

Sarah Dogs

Makes for good football-watching entertainment! My cousins brought over their golden, Casper, and their black lab-mix, Macy, for a play-date. We figured we had 240 lbs. worth of dog-bodies in the house. Black and gold fur everywhere!

All the dogs got along quite well, except that Macy and Murphy had a couple of little spats. Nothing got out of hand, though. Unfortunately, it was pretty much impossible to get a picture of the four of them sitting still…except when someone had treats in their hands.

There are more pictures of the furriness…forgive the overall blue-ish cast – not quite sure what happened there, but I don’t feel like running them all through Photoshop right now.

It Must Be Time To Go Shopping

Sarah Crafts

…Yarn shopping, that is! After all, I finished a project! I actually finished Janda at Sit & Knit on Thursday, but I had to wait until daylight and free time coincided to have Denis take pictures. He’s still not so sure about this two color thing, but I like it!

Of course, I celebrated finishing a project by working on finishing all of the other in-progress projects…well, not really. I started another one. (Big surprise there, right?) But, really, honestly, I’m working on Christmas knitting now. No more distractions! Until the new yarn shop opens on Tuesday, anyway…

Knitty News

Sarah Crafts

Yippee! I’m finishing Janda just in time – the new Knitty is out! Well, OK, I’m not quite done yet…one more side/sleeve seam to sew and 9 more inches to knit on the hood. (I’ve been doing the icky finishing work in between knitting the hood, so when I’m done with the knitting I’ll be completely done!)

I Stopped Procrastinating!

Sarah Crafts

What’s this?!? Both sleeves of Janda blocking on the guest room floor! Yay! I spent all day Sunday watching football and knitting. At first I had to force myself to work only on the sleeve, but then as I got closer and closer to the end, I couldn’t put it down! All in all, I knit about two-thirds of the sleeve yesterday…kind of makes you wonder why it took me so long!

I also felted my Kureyon bag, which has turned into a little itty-bitty purse. I think the 6+ feet of i-cord I knitted has become too short for both handles…I may need to go buy another skein of the yarn, in which case I’m going to buy enough to also make one of these multidirectional scarves!

Other than these little projects, most of my knitting from here on in is going to be somewhat secret…after all, Christmas is coming, and I have a lot of projects I should be working on. Unless of course I decide to start more projects for me!

With This Ring

Sarah General

I just got back from my cousin’s wedding. It’s funny how the ceremonies are different, the receptions are different, but once you’re married, every wedding you ever go to reminds you of your own.

The world will turn and the seasons will change,
and all the leassons we will learn will be beautiful and strange.
We’ll have our fill of tears, our share of sighs.
My only prayer is that you realize
you’ll always be beautiful in my eyes.
— Joshua Kadison, Beautiful In My Eyes

I wish my cousin and new cousin-in-law the best of everything in their marriage, and happiness always.

Little Knitted Things

Sarah Crafts

I finished the knitting for the Kureyon tote Wednesday evening. Here it is in all of its unfelted glory! I’m going to try to felt it this weekend, but it’s shaping up to be a busy one, so we’ll see.

I also made up and knitted a tie pattern…my mom knitted a dress, and had extra yarn, so I made a tie for my dad to wear. Of course, I don’t really expect that he’ll wear it, but I’ll take pictures and put the pattern up sometime soon.

I have serious “second sleeve syndrome”. Granted, I had to finish the wedding cross-stitch, but I’ve been “working” on the second Janda sleeve for almost a month now. (Well, it’s been traveling in my knitting bag, anyway.) I only managed to put about 20 rows on it at Sit & Knit last night. Grr. It’s just this sleeve, a hood, and a couple of seams away from being done. Time to crack the whip I think!