Day: September 23, 2005

Hopefully by the time any of you read this I will have deleted & put a stop to the rash of crass comments that have been left on my blog. I won’t even give you an example they are so bad! I sat here, mouth agape, muttering “uh, what?…uh,how can they…rrrrrgh”

Unlike blogger, I do not have word verification for anonymous commentors. So if it doesn’t stop today I have to enable the members only commenting. That sucks for me because then I will receive NO comments ever! If you want to be able to leave comments you will have to sign up for a blogharbor account to do it. Sorry!

Blame the jerks leaving all the pornograhic comments!

 

WOOHOO! Oh how I love the homespun circle blanket!! Done in about about 30 hours, give or take, not bad for a gigantic circle out of the most pain-in-the-butt yarn ever invented! I am planning on setting up my digital camera on this computer tomorrow so that I can actually show tantalizing pictures!

I did change the fringe all around. They had it crocheted with 40 chains as the actual fringe then slst through one knit stitch, chain 40, skip 2 knit stitches, slst, chain 40, etc…

I wasn’t digging how damn long they were so I decided to do chain 20, sl st into knit st, chain 20, skip 3 sts, sl st into knit st, chain 20, go back and sl st into the middle st in between the first fringe, chain 20, etc….so that they overlap. It worked perfectly if I do say so myself. I do promise pictures tomorrow!!

Also, as sad as it is, I have been watching knitty gritty on diy. I am drawn to anything knitting therefore I torture myself by watching a very, let’s just say, lame show. It has the potential to be really cool but alas it has yet to really impress me. Go ahead Tracy, laugh all you want!

Now my goal is to get back to the aran sweater, I only have half of the sleeves left to do then sew it together. Not bad~ I just hate finishing sweaters!

Pushaw! That damn knitters review on handpaintedyarn has really screwed up my knitting world. I am holding onto my last 4 colors of merino like gold!! Just not happy about that~

Now I will go curl up with my yummy new blanket & knit on my aran sleeves!

My 6 year old autistic son, Tyler, has absconded with a number of important items in the past week.

1- digital camera (um…yeah…kind of a big one)

2- all eyeglass cases

3- almost all pens (I have a distinct feeling that they are in the eyeglass cases)

4- my little tiny needlework scissors

So I guess that means that I get to do a thorough search of all the hiding places. Lately I haven’t even been able to find those!

On the knitting front, it’s been a busy Saturday so not a whole lot got done. But I did take the folder from Thuy that is holding all of my circ’s & dpn’s and label each page very nicely. I was planning to take a pic & post it today but that just ain’t gonna happen!

I worked on the bag for my niece a bit then decided that I should switch to 10 1/2’s instead of 10’s. So I did. I didn’t even frog back to the beginning of the body of the bag. DOn’t think it will make that much difference in the look. If anything it will help give the bottom more defenition & strength. (Can you tell I am totally making this up as I go along to make myself feel better for not really giving a rip about doing it totally perfect?)

I have decided that I am going to put up a couple of free patterns to pass on to all of you out there. Don’t know when this will happen. Soon hopefully. THen I expect comments & feedback on how they work out. Nicely or not so nicely.

Tracy & Cristy (sp?) stopped by for a moment. Glad that Tracy has a friend for the weekend, it’s the perfect weather & I am sure they will just rock SB tonight!  Party on girls!!

I am hoping that Monday morning we (Tracy, Summers & I) can make it up to Solvang. I have somethings I need to drop off at my sister in laws house. Then we can hit the spinning shop & maybe the yarn stores up there. It’s so pretty!! Can’t wait until all the holiday lights & such are lit up there. It’s so festive!

I went through all of my books & magz today & put bookplates in them so if I lend them out the person lending them will have some clue who to return it to. I think I may be the worst at that, Tracy would know! I don’t think I will do that with my 8 binders of patterns that I have downloaded & purchased off of the internet. That is a grand plan, but not for today.

 

I love getting mail! But my lame ass mail lady has a tendency to take her merry old time delivering! So I dont get my mail until after 5pm most days! When she has a sub I get it sooner…explain…my teeth are clenched now writing about her!

But I forgive her today because she actually brought me some fun goodies! Fiber for more spinning! Like I need to add anything else to my to-do list. So I will post some pics of the fibers after this post. I already spun up some of the merino/tussah silk blend & I am truly in love! I haven’t spun any of the darker fiber yet because I was having so much fun with the silk blend. I must go take a picture of the yarn on the spindle. I do plan to ply this yarn that is why it is so thin.

Anyhoo…our satellite receiver burned out so today I had one of the recordable dvr’s installed. woohoo! How perfect is that for bedtime with the kids. 3 minutes lost here…4 there…8…over there…ooohhp potty time… mommy says grrrr! But now I can still get mad, say grrr & not miss my shows. How perfectly selfish of me! Mother of the year, that’s me!

I was pretty proud of myself today for getting all those pics taken & posted. I do wish I could say I sat down & knit both sleeves for George’s sweater. Unfortunately I just spin myself more yarn for knitting that I don’t have time for. DOH!

Okay I have to go beddy-bye now. It’s late & my eyes are stinging so I suppose that means they want to sleep. Or I have crap in them. One or the other. Oh, coughing kid out of bed. Til tomorrow….