Posted in knitting, tagged lace shawl victorian on March 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Although I don’t normally describe myself with the word giddy—make that, I never describe myself with that word—that’s the best word for it. I’m giddy about the shipment that arrived from Amazon.com today!! Two books: Favorite Socks: 25 Timeless Designs from Interweave and Victorian Lace Today.
Grumperina really gets [...]
Posted in knitting on March 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I realize that you probably want to see more knitting, but it just hasn’t been a very productive day in that area. Tonight I put the popcorn popper on the stove and served-up some popcorn to fuel me through some administrative issues with my blog. What is it with blog widgets, anyway? [...]
Posted in knitting on March 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So I meant to de-stash at the annual fiber buy/sell event at the local knitter’s guild this week, instead I brought more home. But how can you resist offers like these at rock-bottom prices?
Four skeins of Koigu KPPPM:
Below we have (clockwise starting at upper right): 1 skein Atmosphere (100% cotton) by Classic Elite; 1 [...]
Posted in Seattle, cooking, tagged Seattle on March 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Despite the rain we’ve had lately, it cleared-up nicely and I headed for the University of Washington campus in Seattle for the photo-op with my son. Every year people visit campus just to see the Japanese cherry blossoms in bloom, and with Spring Break underway and the sun out, today was the day to [...]
Posted in knitting, projects, tagged heirloom lace shawl miller on March 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My 2½-year old son had been asking off-and-on for the past few months and yesterday it finally came to the point that it could no longer be avoided: Elmo needed batteries. Actually, we don’t have an Elmo doll, no, we just have his head, complete with clasp to attach it to…something, I guess. Elmo’s head [...]
Posted in Seattle on March 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
At home with a sore throat the other day, I reached for the sore throat lozenges, that is, my carefully meted blackcurrant flavored Halls Soothers.
Why “carefully meted” you ask? Because I bought them at Heathrow Airport in England in 2004 when I stopped there between a flight from Italy and a flight back to [...]
Posted in knitting, projects, tagged heirloom lace shawl merino ballband wrist cuffs on March 12, 2007 | 4 Comments »
This domestic shorthair may finally be succumbing to the cold that had her husband and son down and out, but she’s not beyond walking to the mailbox to check for the small package that arrived today containing the merino lace yarn for the Bird’s Eye Shawl from Heirloom Knitting! I’m so excited, and I [...]
Posted in knitting on March 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have no idea why, but some of my buttons on my sidebar are no longer appearing, since they were present and accounted for yesterday. It’s odd, because the code is still present in my sidebar, we just can’t see the buttons. I wish I knew why this is happening; it all looked [...]
Posted in knitting, projects, tagged Aran sweater bernat on March 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Below is another project from my early days of knitting. I made this Aran-style sweater about 1985 and I used Brown Sheep yarn.
At the time it was hard to find a traditional Aran sweater pattern, especially with updated fitting, so I used the only Aran pattern book I could find, The Bernat Book Of [...]
Posted in knitting, projects, tagged seatbelt snuggle berroco on March 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Okay, I admit I have projects that I’m working on that I have not yet mentioned. Sorry. I’m still getting my blogging act together. But, I’ve finished my seatbelt snuggle, which may be small, but which will hopefully be useful. You see, there have be numerous times in the summer when I [...]
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