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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Oops!

I was "tagged" the other day by Kay with a book meme.......I noticed it right before we were heading out of town, thought I'd do it when we got back...then promptly forgot all about it! That is until I saw tonight that I got tagged with it again by Sue

Sorry about that. Ok....Here goes.

The rules are:

Pick up the closest book with 123 pages or more.
Well...that proved to be a challenge! I'm in my hobby/computer room and all books in here are related to one of those things! The book that was truly closest was "Knitting Workshop" by Elizabeth Zimmerman.....and page 123 is blank....totally blank except for the page number...weird, but true! On to the next closest...."Knitting Rules" by Yarn Harlot.

Turn to page 123 and find the first 5 sentences.

Post the next 3 sentences:

"At this time in my life I coveted, more than any other thing, a chic pink suede hat with rabbits on it that had a white satin ribbon that tied fetchingly under the chin. My mum is a practical woman, and instead of the pink rabbit hat gracing my head (and changing my life, for the right hat can mean much for the social standing of a nine-year old girl), I had, for that entire winter: a gray and red hand-knit hat topped with a red pom-pom on top. The pom-pom was not only red and not a rabbit (That was really its biggest crime), but it was also almost as big as my head."

Tag 5 more people.

Soooo, I'm tagging: Shelley
Amanda
Rosemary
Anna
Guinifer

Ok.....all done!

Monday, February 18, 2008

Good to be home

The past couple of weeks have just been a whirlwind. It was nice to be home today. Week before last I spent most of the week in Dallas with my sweet daughter. Thank you all so much for the caring words and thoughts about her and Brian's loss. It always feels good to have the kind of friends that let you know they care during times like these....I so appreciate all of you! I count myself as blessed to have friends like all of you!

I came back home for a few days, had "sleep-overs" with Clayton and Carter then with Savy and Dax, worked the first part of last week at GYC, then we left for Dallas again on Thursday to attend DH's employee appreciation banquet. Those things are usually soooo boring, but the trip ended up being a nice one. He had sales meeting Friday until about 2 pm so I got to just hang out in the hotel and knit all morning that day. We went to dinner with Mel and B Friday night. It was good to see her again for myself and see that she is doing ok. She still has her "moments" about losing the baby, but all-in-all, she is doing pretty good and they are planning to start trying again as soon as the Doc says it's ok.

Saturday we just "played" all day. DH took me to visit The Shabby Sheep...I think the only yarn store in the Dallas Metro I had never been to. It was a fun visit! I was having withdrawals from all the fur-kids and when we pulled up in front of the shop there was a "Stoneleigh" looking out the window at us! She was a cutey and Ron had a blast playing with Abbey while I got my fiber-fix! She looked so much like our little guy! I did manage to do some damage while there :-) BUT all of it wasn't my fault...lol! I picked up the pattern for the Opening Night Vest and the Manos del Uruguay to do it out of and was in the process of checking out when DH came to me actually fondling a skein of eslebeth lavold baby llama saying what a nice scarf and hat it would make!!! What a guy!!! He didn't have to do much convincing for me to decide HE needed it!!

From there we spent the rest of the afternoon hitting aquarium shops so he could do some shopping around too. He was so sweet and offered to take me to a couple more yarn stores, but I seriously need to STOP with the stash acquisition.....seriously! My wall of yarn is full and things are starting to pile up in bags and corners again. I must get some FO's done before I do any more yarn shopping! I think I have aquired quite a few things I haven't even posted in the past few months.....with Ravelry in my life sometimes I can't remember if I have actually posted things both places or not! We went to the banquet Saturday night and Ron won a nice digital camera!! So it was a nice little trip!

Here are a few things I've picked up fairly recently...

I'm usually not much of a novelty yarn type of gal, but I thought these Feza Alps were so pretty when they came in at Gourmet Yarn the other day. Amanda did a quick scarf out of the Feza Dazzle a couple of weeks ago and she just loves it, so I thought I would do a couple too! A quick mindless knit is always good to have around!

I also picked up a couple of sock goodies:

Madelaine Tosh


Some Yarnsmith Silk Soc

And some Prism

I also snagged some Zephyr to re-do my MS 3 out of. I'm still just sick that I had to frog the first one. It was my first real lace project and I was so proud of it....I'm just determined that I'm going to do another one!

I'm pretty sure that's all I've gotten lately....I think...see what I mean....time to stop!

I have been knitting some....not just hoarding yarn....I promise I have!! I'm still working on Savy's Polkadot out of the Berrocco Boho, am a little over half finished with the Modern Log Cabin Wrap, getting ready to turn the heel on some Jaywalkers out of Opal Neon and most recently started a Clapotis. I'm doing it out of the frogged MS3 yarn...Cherry Tree Hill Supersock. I needed to get that going so I can attend the Clapotis Tea at The Gourmet Yarn Company next weekend!!

I'll try to get some pics of those wips on here soon....for now, I'm tired and just hoping I can sleep tonight. Been having problems with that lately and it sure makes a body tired!

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Sad

So very sad today. My sweet girl lost her baby this week.

Saturday, February 02, 2008

Just Saturday

Nothing exciting going on around here....just another Saturday morning. We didn't get any grand kids this weekend because there is stuff around here that needs to be done that is hard to do when little ones are running around wanting your attention.

First order of business is to fix fence posts so the fur-kids don't get out of the yard! The big winds we had this week broke several posts off at the ground and the fence is leaning and close to falling over! We are going to replace them...and gradually all the rest.... with steel posts this time around! We live on a really busy corner and I'm petrified that one of the boys will get out of the yard and get mashed!

I've got some running around to do as well. Pass Your Plate is having a freezer sale today and I'm going to go stock up on pre-prepared entrees. With the sale prices they are having today, I can have a freezer full of meals ready to pop in the oven for the same amount, or less, than I can go to the grocery store and buy ingredients for......and still have to do the preparation on....so why not?

Today is the Gourmet Yarn Knit-In too! I missed last month so I'm really looking forward to going. It is always so much fun and I get to see people that I don't see any other time.

I have made some progress this week on knitting. I am almost through the first color chart on the Modern Log Cabin Wrap. I knew I shouldn't have started it.....I got all into it and haven't touched Savy's Polkadot Jacket since I cast the wrap on! I am definitely going to focus on that jacket and knock it out after I get the wrap done...... honestly........discipline will prevail....lol!!!

I also got side-tracked on a quick little project last night. I'm going to wrap these up and send them to Mel when I get them done...probably will finish the second one tonight at the Knit-In...they go really fast!

I'm also excited about another project I have planned for her and the new wee-one! It's funny....I noticed the pattern several weeks ago (before we got the news) while looking through the Folk Style book. I commented on now neat I thought it was but.....at the time....had no reason to make one so decided not to buy the book! I had already gotten the Log Cabin wrap pattern off of the Knitting Daily site so thought I didn't need it. Anyway, it is the Tribal Baby Sling. It is so awesome! And now that my DD is expecting....I have a good reason to buy that book after all...lol!

I also joined the Six-Sox KAL group last month. The very first pattern I'm getting turns out to be based off of the Upstream Sock in Cat Bordhi's new book.....so I guess I'm going to have to get that book too....I mean I'll need it for reference to do the pattern, right?

Isn't it funny how things just happen that necessitate the acquisition of knitterly things that we want but decide we don't really "need"? I think it's called "justification"...lol!