Sorry I missed posting yesterday. The day rather got out of control. I’m not altogether sure how, nor what all I did, but before I knew it Dave was coming home and I hadn’t posted a thing yet. Gads. This morning I’m posting a bit earlier than I often do, to ensure you have something […]
Welcome to the May 15, 2007 edition of Yarnival!. Getting the submissions last month was an interesting experience. I wouldn’t get one for days, then suddenly three or four would pop into my inbox within an hour or two. I even got a submission that was complete and total spam, so I’m not going to […]
Weekend things
Dave got a bee in his bonnet this weekend. He decided that he’s tired of people parking on our stand-up sprinklers and breaking them, so planned on moving them to the back edge of the top of the garden, instead of the front edge of it. He started digging to find where the lines […]
I know. Most of the time when I find bugs in the garden I certainly don’t find it exciting. At least not in a pleasurable way. But when I found this baby praying mantis playing on my cucumber yesterday morning, I was ecstatic. He’s so cute. I’ve never seen one so small before. I hope […]
In some ways it seems like forever since I started stitching this, in other ways I can’t believe I’m done already. Without further ado, here she is:
Pattern: Stepsisters by The Silver Lining
Stitch count: 242 x 113
Finished size: approximately 15 x 7
Fabric: 32-count lambswool jobelan, 2 over 2
Time: started July 23, 2006, finished May 10, […]
It always amazes me what a difference it makes to the finished item when you go down a needle size.
Here you see the new Forget-Me-Not sock knit with size 0 needles resting on top of the completed one knit on size 1 needles. Both have 64 stitches. I lined up the right side of […]
I’ve been tagged twice for this meme, first by Rachel then by Melissa, which means I’d better do it before anyone else tags me. First, the rules:
Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
People who are tagged write a blog post about their own 8 random things and post these rules.
At the […]
Though I think I had a right to balk when Dave thought that my new Peace Fleece Woodland sock yarn was the same color as everything else I knit, I have to admit to that not always being the case.
Take this pile, for instance. I took some stuff upstairs earlier this morning, planning on […]
I finished the first sock yesterday, late in the afternoon. I think what I really need to do is to go down a needle size from size 1s to 0s. Though the sock fits the circumference of my foot, it doesn’t feel quite right, feels a tiny bit loose—no, that’s not quite right; it’s more […]
I may not have said anything for a few days (or so) about the green shawl, but I have been knitting away at it. I’ve completed 88 rows so far, and I think I’m finally getting into the swing of things. Since the faggoting changes directions at the midpoint in the shawl, as well as […]