3. July brings back memories of playing outside all day long.
4. That was obvious.
5. They say if you tell your dreams they won't haunt you.
6.I'll have to think it over.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to going to the fair!, tomorrow my plans include the second part of my croshit crochetclass and Sunday, I want to enjoy work, as usual!
Sean started pronouncing crochet as "cro-shit." I have to say it's a good turn of phrase, as it sums up his feelings about it. I enjoyed my class, it was good. If you are in the East Bay and have interest in taking a class with hookerbear, I suggest you do so. He made it easy and understandable. Peter teaches at Piedmont Yarn and Article Pract. I am actually all het up and wanting to make this afghan. Moi, who never thought would want to make an afghan or croshit! But there are a lot of things I've learned to do and learned to love since I started knitting, things I never had any interest in.
Anyhow. Have an excellent weekend. Me? I'm going to be knitting up another sample I took home (whoops) and some, uh, socks, that I uh, castonforlastnightwithnewyarn. I just couldn't help it. Whoops.
Organize! I am very tickled with myself at the moment. Late last night while most of you were asleep, I organized my projects in Ravelry, so that I can see what I've knit what year, and probably my favorite tab - what I've used my handspun yarn for. It's also interesting to see my color choices each year - 2007, 2008, and this year each definitely have an overall color scheme. I was so jealous of Jo's tabs, but couldn't exactly figure out how to use the feature a few months ago.
Well, something finally clicked last night and I was able to put it together. When your project is in edit mode, you can put in tags. Those tags can be used two ways - if you click on a tag after your project is out of edit mode, the link will take you to a page where all the projects in Ravelry with that tag are displayed. Or you can click the "organize" tab on your projects page, click "new set" and when a little window pops up, you can input the tags for your projects in the space for "tags to include in this set," which automatically groups all of the projects you've tagged with the same tag into one set. So I did away with my random tags and stuck to only a few - the year in which I finished something, "socks," "handspun," and a few extra-special ones I reserved for my frustration.
Mmmm, Rowan pornography, yummy. Seems a bit early for the Fall/Winter book, but I won't complain too much. It was rather hot to be thinking about sweaters today though. 86, yick. More than hot enough for me!
I've been a busy little knitting bee lately. I've been wondering why I've felt overwhelmed with my wip list, and I finally wrote them all down, and now I know why - I've got 11 projects that I actively want to be knitting, and 7 more that are taking up the precious database space of my mind, so very firmly back-burnered as they are. Add to those 18 projects the fact that I've been doing a ton of sample knitting, and I now see where all of my knitting time and energy has gone, and it hasn't been into projects for me or mine. So, for the rest of this month and quite probably the next, I'm not going to cast on for any more projects, but knit my wips down. Right after I pick up the next sample skein... ahem. No really, I would like to have these projects finished up.
Every so often I get an itch and must look through what is on my needles - some things get ripped, and others get finished, it's a good thing. My real problem is that my most exciting moments are from casting on and plunging into a project. It's not that I lose interest halfway in, but that the lust is gone. And then something else gets cast on and the first thing gets laid aside for a more convenient moment. After all, most projects have parts that are more suitable to certain social situations than their other parts. This is when the projects get put down. Well, I must pick those projects back up, dust them off, and work on finishing them. After all, Winter is coming soon, and it would be nice to have a pair of mittens, a few sweaters that fit well and are warm, long socks to keep out the biting cold, and a beautiful lacey alpaca shawl to put around my shoulders when I'm home at night, or to brighten up the day and warm my neck.
Too bad I want to knit for Summer too, ha! Ah well. Maybe later.
We had a beautiful double rainbow this weekend. I got a slightly decent picture of one of them as the sun was setting. It was cool - all around town, people were coming out on their porches, watching the rainbow, and calling their friends to look at it.
Have some extra cash for a superb dinner while in Oakland? Go toA Cote (sorry, no accents this time!) on College Avenue. It was beautiful outside, the wait staff was really, really great (and I don't say that often) and the food was pretty damned divine. Unless you like to wait, make a reservation earlier in the week, but the wait is at least worth while.
And I'm happy! I signed up this week with a placement agency that actually has competent people working for it. I love it! I am super-excited, I have a few days of temp work coming up as well as a position I'm excited about interviewing for.
1. The last thing I ate was salad and goat cheese.
2. A spindle (what else?) is something I recently bought.
3. When it rains, it is cold.
4. My boyfriend was the first person I talked to today.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to feeling good, tomorrow my plans include OMG a CROCHET class !?! and Sunday, I want to enjoy my work!
That's right, ladies and gentlemen - I'm going to dip my toes into the dark side. Visiting with a hook. I don't think I'll ever become a crochet person, but I was thinking basic skillz might be handy for the odd crochet question I get. And also, there are somanycutelittleanimals to make.
Whoa. Quite an eye-opening article. Read it all the way through. Guess I might not make any cashmere purchases this year after all. Also, just read Kate's post - a lot of food for thought all around. Of course, I don't ever buy cashmere sweaters new, or pure cashmere yarn because I feel I cannot afford it. But perhaps I really can't afford it - I like to keep my impact on the Earth as small as possible. We all have negative impact on the Earth in this modern world - for example, I drive a car. But I also endeavor to buy in bulk, not buy things with a lot of packaging, recycle, I was a vegetarian for 10 years, I don't eat meat frequently now, and in this small way, I can be mindful by not buying things with expensive goat hair. Hm.
Well, onto other things. The random number generator picked 2! So lovely Hilary shall be listening to Three Cups of Tea! Enjoy it!
Random factoid - that's how I would have abbreviated it if I was taking notes in class - Three Cups of Tea. I developed my own notational system.
I believe I have mentioned the book before, if not on this blog, in my podcast. Anyhow, I found out that my mom doesn't want the audiobook set back (it was passed on to her, and she passed it on to me without listening to it first as she "doesn't have time for audiobooks" (she is not a knitter), and so... I am passing it on. If you would like a chance for a free audiobook on cd set (Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson) leave a comment on this entry. You have a week to do so. I'll choose a winner next Monday, July 6th, midnight, to be announced Tuesday July 7th.
I really enjoyed this book. It was very inspirational for me, but if you are as conservative as my mother, it may not be for you. She visited this weekend, and it was funny - as I was telling her about the story in the car, silence ensued. I said "you don't really want to listen to this liberal do-gooder story, do you?" She laughed, and said "well, I wasn't going to say anything..."
I think personality is very interesting. I was raised by both my parents, mostly by my mom after le divorce (though my dad was in the same town, I just lived with mom and didn't do the split-custody thing, it was all very amicable, for which we are all greatful (yay personal details!)) anyhow -mostly raised by my mother, who gets more conservative every year- and yet I really turned out much more middle of the road. I tend to think personality is pre-set when we are born. What do you think?
The only thing I would love is if you would pass the audiobook on when you're done with it, and urge the recipient to do the same. Obviously you don't have to, but it would be nice.
Knitting - I cast on for another Aestlight. This time I am using A Verb For Keeping Warm alpaca/silk in the colorway "No. 9". The knit fabric feels very lovely, quite silky. This is the iteration for Mary Ellen, my dad's girlfriend. Did I mention she is allergic to wool? She is. And so I spent a few nights thinking up the perfect yarn for her, one without wool. I think this will be lovely, as alpaca is supposed to be hypo-allergenic, and who doesn't love silk? The gauge in the pattern is 6 sts to the inch, and I am knitting this one at 5 sts to the inch instead, which is good, because I wanted it to be bigger, as Mary E. is somewhat taller etc. than myself. The garter stitch triangle is pure addiction. I finished it last night, and so it is time to pick up for the lace. Wish me luck with the lace! I am determined that this version will have no mistakes in it.
Again, I love the color of the needles with the yarn! These are the Prym/Inox needles, and they are grey. They are also super-cheap, and I actually love them. They are slippery (though that is not quite the right word) and somewhat snub-nosed, and they're awesome. Less than $7 for a pair of circular needles with a good join - how can that be beat?! I had never tried them out till last week, and only briefly. I picked these up at work to cast on during my break, and the rest is history.
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