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So awesome! I really wish I could have participated in this yarn bombing in Santa Barbara. It turned out so cool!

Those are the words a dear knitting friend wrote on her blog this morning. She is creating an art project just for herself with intention & focus.

It has been a long, long time since I have created anything for myself with intention. The focus is sometimes there when I am creating but for a long time now I have been choosing easy projects, easy patterns (for my skill level), and 90% of what I have made I have given away. I have designed a few things here & there over the last year but nothing that I’ve done anything with really.

I started a sweater for myself about a month ago, got bored and knit 6 gift shawls instead. I love my ideas for the sweater it’s just simple and something I have wanted but not found in other patterns. But it doesn’t take intention or focus the way I perceive the meaning of those 2 words.

I am going to focus my thoughts on  Intention. The Knitting Olympics are coming up and that has always been a time for me to push myself. I want to design & knit a sweater for myself. I have the yarn chosen, the pattern is still a little hazy but I am hoping it will become clear.

I used to use my focus & intention on photography but since losing all my equipment in the storage unit I lost all interest.

Huh, that made me think of sewing. Quilting, more specifically. That may be the outlet I am looking for.

More thinking I am thinking.

Those are some thick scales!

I realize I haven’t been over here much writing about what’s happening on needles & hooks. It’s been a busy production month for me since I am not working, being a stay at home worker, and I want to get a serious jump on  Christmas gifts.

I have a lovely pile of finished items that I am really, really hoping the recipients love. So far they are all for my new in-laws, just the ladies so far. Men and kids will be after I finish up the ladies gifts.

I so badly want to post pictures and pattern links but I can’t since some of the gift recipients visit here. Darnit! I could do very cryptic photos…hmm…I may just have to do that!

 

So, remember when you & Dad left me home for a long weekend with Ali when we were 14 and we shaved our heads and dyed our hair without asking? And then you bleached mine to pumpkin orange then re-dyed it to black. You didn’t care if my hair was black, the point was that I didn’t ask first.

Well I am not necessarily asking since I am 37 but I am informing you that there will be head shaving happening here soon…this humidity is killing me and I don’t think I can stand the underneath part of my hair becoming dreadlocks every other day any longer. I shaved Josh’s hair in to a mohawk (how his hair is meant to be naturally I have decided ;o)) tonight to help keep him cool at work. He wears his hats all the time anyways but with such thick, wavy dark hair it gets pretty hot. As soon as I was done and looked at him it was like he was 16 again! Weird yet not weird at all. Until we reconnected the last couple years and his hair was longer, grown out, I had only known Josh with a mohawk. Always, always I coveted his perfect dark wavy mohawk. Now I get to touch it and fondle it all I want. 
And as far as my hair goes; ringlet sideburns, shaved sides, that’s where it’s heading. No crazy colors this time around though…at least not right now…that is Cori’s thing lately with purple and blue ;o) 

So, that is my hair processing for tonight…now to get a good night’s sleep so I can shave with a steady hand!

It’s an Olympics summer! That means a few things but mostly it means that there is a Ravelympics going on and I am on Team Temptress!
For those of you that live under a rock, the knitting Olympics start at the Opening Ceremonies and your project/projects must be finished by the end of the Closing Ceremonies.
I have participated since 2008 and it’s really fun to push myself  with a project that should be impossible to get done in that time frame.  Not sure what I will do this time around, I have a couple of months to decide and gather the yarn.  It may be a new design or an intricate pattern or multiple projects. Never know!

Chauntel Lee Ensey
My husband knows me too well,”You just wish we were all robots, you could tap our touchscreens and make us do your bidding. X out all the animals that you can’t make yarn from. Oh, and you would keep the people that make the knitting needles. And we’ll hook up an IV of coffee.” LMAO — with Josh Ensey.
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