lifelong knitter

The clear winner!

After the short program,
(also known as SWATCHING)
It became obvious that the Jaggerspun Zephyr
was going to be representing us
PROUDLY in the Knitting Olympics.

Oh, and about that carb loading?

The boybird and I discovered
Bruegger's
CHOCOLATE CHIP bagels!
YUM.

Knitting Olympics update

I've decided to finally tackle the
Orchid Leaf Pi Shawl!
My particular challenge right now
is reading CHARTS,
and these are doooozies...
so maybe I need to be on the SPECIAL
Olympics team.
I'm not putting my name on the official list
because I am having symptoms
which may or may not be caused
by my retina detaching.
sigh.
(It's kind of like the Northern Lights...
a very pretty aura, and all...
but the Corneal Specialist,
he is worried.)
I'm going to figure out a way to
ENLARGE the charts somehow
and cast on when the olympic flame is lit....
Stayed tuned as I conduct
Olympic trials to see which of the HOPEFULS
(Zephyr laceweight in Cinnabar, Cherry tree hill blueberry, The Mystery laceweight, Joslyn's fiber farm thing ONE (silver) and thing TWO (marled browns))
makes the cut.

Hey, I'm training for the Olympics!
Think I'll go do some carb loading...
bread and chocolate.
teehee.

Imagination...

Is more important than knowledge, according to Einstein!

So, I'm imagining that it is SPRING!

mmmmmmm, Hyacinths!

Hope your Friday is SWEET!

Up and at em....

Why am I up at 4AM?
Pre Olympic THINKING!
Yes, I am excited about the Winter Games
(what's not to LOVE about the picture of the
Olympic flame in a gondola?)
but mostly I am thinking about the
Knitting Olympics.
What project to choose, mostly.
I'm SUCH a process knitter.
The only deadline I ever really knit to
is the annual Christmas frenzy.
For some strange reason,
I just cannot get this whole idea
out of my mind.
Oh, that Yarn Harlot
and her Wild Ideas...
giggle.

Waiting in line...

For a turn in the fabulous felted (kitty) bed!

First, PeeWee dragged his little red puppy pillow into the bed....
turned around three times and settled in for a nap.
Carson is pictured here, waiting PATIENTLY
for his turn.
Gypsy kitty is sound asleep in her kitty condo.

I used 2 and a half skeins of Lambs Pride Bulky,
a hand dyed colorway I got several years ago.

Size 13US bamboo dpns and a 24" circular.

The fuzzies at the top are Sensations Peacock from a bargain bin
at joAnn's fabric store....

Go and knit you some!

Bookworm makes Major Progress!

The Daughter bird called from College yesterday
on the cell phone
to say she had registered for classes
and bought her books for the Spring Semester
even though ALL of the books weren't in yet.

I felt the tears
beginning to well up...

Let's break this down,
shall we (?)
and COUNT the BLESSINGS!

(1) She managed to negotiate the registration process
BY HERSELF for the first time.
This involves
a) going to various offices around campus
to be sure all of your thing are in order
b) waiting in long lines
c) sometimes having to go BACK and wait in the same lines AGAIN
for no apparent reason
(sigh)
did I mention she managed this BY HERSELF?
without even a single *hey MOM?* cell phone call?
2) once all of the clearances have been stamped, you
have to have your student ID reissued
3) this means waiting in a long line to have your picture taken
AGAIN and getting another identical card to the one you already have
which is NOT Logical and therefore a source (previously) of
Great Stress.
4) She bought her books even though they weren't ALL in yet.
I'm not sure I could break this down.
This is just a HUGE stress for her.
She wants ALL of her books.
Classes begin tomorrow.
5) She wrote a CHECK for her books.
and called me with the exact amount so I could record it in my ledger.
AS IF I would actually balance my checkbook.
Ahem.
a) she did not lose the check
b) she did not panic and write the wrong amount in the wrong place
because she didn't process the amount correctly when it was told to her
in a stressfull situation with lots of ambient noise and lots of other students
waiting to buy THEIR books.
c) she did not call me to ask if she should wait until all of the books were in
before writing the check.

She SIMPLY wrote a check for her books, called me on the cell phone to tell me how much they
were, and asked if I could order the *late* textbook on the Internet.

wow.

pinch.pinch.pinch.

ow.

Yep, awake!

WOW!

Pictures tomorrow of the finished felted kitty bed
(if it EVER dries!)

Namaste.

Peace be with you....

I love it that Gypsy's birthday will be Martin Luther King Day....
the cat condo is all ready for her!

Hope your day is one of Peace and Dreams....

Before....

I'm getting a HAIRCUT tomorrow
and Mama says this knitted poodle bed
will become a Felted Kitty Bed
while I am at the spa.

We'll just SEE about that!

Stormy Weather

Thunder and Lightning
and windy weather is Good For Knitting,
not so much for sleeping.
sigh.
I've almost reached the *prefelted diameter*
of Gypy's felted kitty bed.
Knitting something round
IN THE ROUND
using the pi method
is So Soothing.
Elizabeth Zimmerman was a Genius!
I went back and marked the section
in Knitter's Almanac about the pi shawls.....
Then of course I started reading through all
of my EZ books and thought it might be
a lovely year long project to revisit
some of her patterns and unventions
and use up some stash yarn
in tribute to
The Opinionated Knitter.
Knit On....

Mine!

A certain small poodle thinks perhaps Gypsy's felted cat bed
belongs to HIM.
Hope your Friday is filled with
Warm Fuzzies!