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1. Are you a yarn snob (do you prefer higher quality and/or natural fibers)? Do you avoid Red Heart and Lion Brand? Or is it all the same to you?
I have plenty of Red Heart/Lion Brand in my stash. I prefer wool & cotton blends. But of course I would take anything outside the ordinary as long as it doesn’t have eyelashes or dangly things hanging off. Not a big fan of novelty yarns.
2. Do you spin? Crochet?
I spin and crochet.
3. Do you have any allergies? (smoke, pets, fibers, perfume, etc.)
I have problems with a lot of different perfumes, soaps, lotions,etc. But fibers & animals are fine.
4. How long have you been knitting?
I learned to knit in my teens but didn’t knit regularly until about 11 years ago.
5. Do you have an Amazon or other online wish list?
I will have the wishlists posted as links on the left sidebar of the blog soon. Knitpicks, amazon, etc.
6. What’s your favorite scent? (for candles, bath products etc.)
Anything citrus!
7. Do you have a sweet tooth?
Oh yeah!
8. What other crafts or Do-It-Yourself things do you like to do?
Whatever strikes my fancy. I love photography right now.
9. What kind of music do you like? Can your computer/stereo play MP3s? (if your buddy wants to make you a CD)
I love alternative/indie/punk. Female artists of course are always good. Yeah, mp3’s are good.
10. What’s your favorite color? Or–do you have a color family/season/palette you prefer? Any colors you just can’t stand?
I love greens, turquoise, teals. Fall & winter colors really are my style. There isn’t really anything I can’t stand.
11. What is your family situation? Do you have any pets?
Married with 3 kids, 2 rabbits (one angora).
12. What are your life dreams? (really stretching it here, I know)
To own a yarn store. Plain and simple.
13. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with?
www.handpaintedyarn.com anything merino!
14. What fibers do you absolutely *not* like?
novelty, eyelash-ey styles
15. What is/are your current knitting obsession/s?
sweaters, fair isle, intarsia, lots of colors
16. What is/are your favorite item/s to knit?
sweaters
17. What are you knitting right now?
multiple sweaters and socks
18. What do you think about ponchos?
After making close to a dozen last year I am done with ponchos!
19. Do you prefer straight or circular needles?
Circular please!
20. Bamboo, aluminum, plastic?
That all depends on what you are knitting.
21. Are you a sock knitter?
Yes
22. How did you learn to knit?
We lived in Turkey in my young teen years and my mother hired a turkish friend to teach my sister and I.
23. How old is your oldest UFO?
10+ years, sweater for my husband, pieces are complete but not sewn together.
24. What is your favorite animated character or a favorite animal/bird?
None, I don’t have a favorite symbol.
25. What is your favorite holiday?
Christmas
26. Is there anything that you collect?
Not other than knitting items.
27. What knitting magazine subscriptions do you have?
vogue knitting, interweave knits
28. Any books out there you are dying to get your hands on?
Norsk strikkedesign
29. Any patterns you have been coveting, but haven’t bought for one reason or another??
Not really, no.
ETA: 30. What are your foot measurements, and what kind of socks do you like?

I like all socks! I wear a size 9 shoe, narrow feet.

When you have children there are things you learn to incorporate into your life. The latest issue in our house is scissors, or to be more exact, anything that could be used as a cutting implement. Tyler, our autistic son that’s almost 7, is encouraged to use scissors at school to help with his lack of fine motorskills. At home he is not encouraged & let me show you why….

Exhibit A

Notice how we spliced the cords back together, they are the ps2 cords after all!

Exhibit B

Exhibit C

electric fan cord

The scary thing about this one is that the fan was plugged in and turned on. He can’t handle the feeling of the fan air blowing on him, instead of pushing the button and turning the fan off, he permanently wanted it turned off.

Exhibit D

And the most traumatic example

one front of the aran cardigan, cut about an inch above the ribbing, no way to repair this one I am afraid!

And finally

Exhibit E from this morning

headphone cord

I guess the most frustrating thing about all this is that we made him bring us all the scissors yesterday after the aran cardigan was cut yet he still managed to cut this cord with a butter knife. <sigh> what in the world am I supposed to do about that?

And it’s not only the above items that he has cut. My pillow case has a perfect 3″ v shaped cut from scissors, Sadie’s favorite sheets were cut with craft scissors, a number of his t-shirts get cut at school, he cut all tails off of his dinosaurs and crocodiles to use as claws,

he cut all teeth/fangs/claws off of same said animals as well as elephant toys for real fangs to put in his mouth like k-9’s. I don’t mean he just cut one pair off that would work, he cut all of them off of all of his toys. Any and everything has been cut. It’s a textural issue with autistic kids. Unfortunately I guess it just comes with the territory. Don’t misunderstand & think he isn’t held accountable, he knows the consequences he just doesn’t think of them when he is cutting!

On to actual knitting updates!

I decided to make the fronts of the aran cardigan larger anyways (after I saw I had to remake one of the completed sides) so I just frogged them and am starting over. No biggy, just a good excuse to make alterations.

I have a baby shower to go to this week & the baby gifts are completed, I will post pics after the gifts are received. I am doing a fun item that I have not tried before for the mom. Pics to come after party!

I am excited that the new knitty is so much more advanced! It’s great to give newer knitter free, gorgeous patterns that make them think “okay, maybe I can do this”! Bravo Knitty, Bravo!!

I hope you all enjoyed a little sneak peek at the inner workings of the Andreasen household. Please don’t be scared away

Hope your weekend was happy!

That’s me this morning on the phone with Tracy while at Java Station. Photographer Trevor, age 4.

8: 45am starbucks on cota & state st.

obviously I didn’t take the picture below

9:15am we decided to move on to the SB Harbor & breakwater in the same order as our walk

obviously the water does break over the wall

I was quick enough to get the pic and move before getting splashed

trev & me looking at sb

series complete, come again!