April 25, 2006
Fun with Sticks
Thanks for all the comments and compliments on YourTax knee socks! It was really cool to see how long it took me.
Project Spectrum
Tropicana Tang Sock #1!
One down One to go.
You can see that it is an anklet of sorts. Really I just wanted instant gratification and I've not done a pair of ankle socks before. Plus, I get to make another pair should I choose to from this yarn!
This is my walkabout project.. where I go it goes...it likes to go outside...
I've been knitting #2 on my lunch hour...waiting at the bank, waiting in the drive thru at the taco bell, and in the remainder of the time...in the sunshine of a beautiful day outside...to dinner with Lolly on Wednesday...on the phone...
Because I am weak...I started another pair of socks...
From Knitting on the Road - Nancy Bush
Pattern:Denmark
Needle:US1 Brittany DPN
Yarn: Tess Designer Sock
I'm actually using 5 dpns...it's very annoying because they are 7" dpns...and there are 4 of them in rotation.
But this pattern is a bit more difficult than my latest cookie cutter socks...therefore more beautiful for the TESS yarn I chose.
The Tess is worth it...A sock yarn beyond compare! A triumph of color! Oh...how I love...
*ahem, since Tess is not paying me to extoll the virtues of their sock yarn, I must admit...I do prefer it a smidge more than, well, anything at this current moment.
See for yourself ---
Tess will be at Sheeps NEXT WEEKEND!!!!
What drew me to this specific sock...was the Nupp Stitch. It's a neat little doodad. One must keep the interest high when wrangling 5 7" dpns. I love the color...I don't know what this colorway is called...but I love it. It reminds me of a Kaleidoscope...
A NEEDLE NEED
Does any one want to trade me a pair of bamboo 1s for a pair of new or practically new Bamboo 2s? (preferably not 7") I have 4 pairs of 2s. Email me & Let me know...
All my needles have been kept in their orignal packaging sleeves. Thanks...
Oh! Stop the Press...
I am taking a Fair Isle knitting class with Ei in 2 weeks! I'm so excited.
It's the little things...like fun with sticks that keep me excited about life. And Pixie too.
Lookit what Pixie and I found this weekend...a robin's nest! (we think it's a robin's nest)
We zoomed in and quickly got out of there before Mama came home...
We're going to revisit to see if the babies are hatched...from afar of course!
The Just for Fun Item for Today
Here is an example of someone whose name rhymes with Smether, who is stuck in the timewarp of the 1980s to early 1990s...
Here are some of my favorites of all time....I make no excuses.
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Yeah, um don't ask me who does any new cool music...
I hid with my head in the sand listening to Erasure during the grunge period...
I rummaged through the $5 dollar 80s bargain bin while all my friends were dropping cash like it was hot on strange foreign techno music...
Hey, I tried to listen to it, even recently...with the exception of Franz Ferdinand (which I listen to at Lolly's) or Gwen Stefani (Pixie's favorite radio edits)...
I still reach for the Duran duran, Kate Bush, Tori Amos and Siouxsie laden 80-90s mix on my IPod, than subject myself to bands like the BlackEyedPeas or... or...or... See? I can't even name any and I only know that one because I banned Pixie from singing "My Humps" from that stupid commercial on tv.
le sigh.
Yes, yes....I FEAR CHANGE...
Hello, My name is Heather and I fear change.
Except in Knitting.
Okay a little there, too.
April 12, 2006
25 years in Orbit...
Happy Anniversary to the Shuttle Program...
Space Shuttle Columbia
25 years of exploration, pushing the boundaries and expanding the horizon of humankind.
Early on the morning of April 12, 1981, two astronauts sat strapped into their seats on the flight deck of Columbia, a radically new spacecraft known as the space shuttle.
STS 1 The First Orbiter Mission
STS 7 Challenger First Woman in Space
Story Musgrave - My Favorite Astronaut - truly a renaissance man
Although Columbia and two of her crews are no longer with us, I'll keep my gaze on the stars and their limitless possiblities and wonder in them.
April 03, 2006
Orange you glad you knit?
April Project Spectrum...hit me this morning...full force.
Lovely blossoms...
The Right Vintage...
Enjoy a few good belly laughs with a good read...
My Sunshine Girl and some new Tropical Tang yarn...
A good companion for Beltway traffic...nothing like you and the Kwisatz Haderach among the sea of brake lights. Everyone should read this book (and series). I am a fanatic. seriously. be afraid.
It's a good start for this month, non? I'll be documenting a day in my life...for April's Spectrum. Stay tuned.
I've been working on the Cutaway...
It's really a great knit and one I can't seem to stop knitting on...I'm scouring the known universe for a button...a shell button with a pink hue. I've noticed a lot of shell buttons have a blue hue. hm. Hopefully this isn't going to be a holy grail item. You know the one where you spend your entire life, with the yarn swatch hoping to find the perfect button? But what a worthy cause, eh?
Slowly but surely...Your Tax Dollars at Work Sock #2
This...
Is going to be knit up into these...
Mad Props to ebay seller Kbrece...her yarn is awesome. I can't wait to knit with it...
Sheeps and Wools? You ask how many days until I get to see my sister?
Well, it just so happens that I do know!
Thirty-two (32) whole days.
yay!