13 posts from 2007

So, I want to knit something, now that the headband will be off the needles tonight.  I was at first thinking lace, but I still have needlepoint to work on, and stacks of sewing projects, and lace does take my attention.  So I'm thinking of getting the Knit Your Bit scarves out of the way.  Besides, then I can get them out of the way before we go to Denver.

I am digging in the stash for these, some Red Heart (the highest in washability, you can't kill the stuff) in an odd green tween I got to make a sweater for a former...well, let's not go there.  Anyway, I have three skeins of the stuff, so I should be able to get something out of it.

Now, the question of pattern arises...

The 2006 Knit Your Bit scarves are very dashing...

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But I don't know that I have anything for the stripe, and that is an awful lot of garter stitch.  If I wanted to do that much I'd work on my sweater.

There is the Mistake Rib scarf, from Mason-Dixon knitting, it's the third photo down, which has possibilities.  But a ribbed scarf?  Hmmmmm...

And then there is the One Row scarf by the Yarn Harlot  Which looks like it might do well tweedy, but that stitch requires a lot of traditional stitching, and I am an oddly exotic duck.

Decisions, decisions.  OK, I'm going with the One Row first.   I have three skeins I want out of my stash, I may well try all three.

I was going to make my Mother-in-law a bag for Christmas.  The same pattern as the one fro the GIL, the Miranda bag, but with a cats theme.  Yea, add in a drs appointment and the quest for new glasses and I am just out of time. 

But she did ask for casserole covers

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And they do have a cat theme

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Cats on the top, paw prints on the bottom.  I'll make up the bag and take them out to her in January.  I also made the FIL knitted slippers, but I'm not going to share them, I think.  I'll decide later if I like them that much or not.

First off, and finally, mittens for the Soaring Eagles Project

Mittens

Those two on the top were experiments.  Now they are heading to the tree,  As a wise man once said  "If I put it on the tree, it's an ornament".  I started with Gifted mittens, by Katie Gilbert, and the pinkandpurple ones (the standard girl color) follows it.  But when I went to do the orange ones, I realized my gauge was way the hell off.  In something a lot close to the right gauge I disliked the main seam, but I still love her thumb.   So I got her pattern to work in the round.  And now I swear I will never do mittens any other way again.

My second finished object of the night (I have yet to go to bed, it's still night) is the Miranda bag, from Lazy Girl Designs.  It's a gift for my Grandmother-in-law

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Who thankfully does not read this blog.  And no, I am not a cruel woman, she has a thing for frogs.  The main fabric there is from the In The Bog collection by Anne Ormsby.  The trim was picked up at Jo-Ann's, because I refused to spend $9.00 a yard for trim.  And besides, they were out of the rest of it at the quilt shop.

I do want one of these for myself.  I mean, look at how this thing opens up.

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We're talking perfect knitting bag.  Now if I can just figure out how to get a zipper into the thing.

I'll keep you posted.

And it looks interesting.  So here goes.  But before I start, I finally got the mittens to work, so a knitting post will be forthcoming.

So the idea is to put the answer into Google Images, and then pick an image from the first page of results.

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1.  Age at next birthday

2.  A place you’d like to travel:

3.  Your favorite place:

4. Your favorite objects:

5. Your favorite food:

6.  Your favorite animals:

7. Your favorite color:

8.  Town where you were born:

9.  Town where you live:

10. Name of a past pet

11.  First name of your true love:

12.  Best friend’s nickname:

13.  Your nickname/screenname/online persona/avatar

14.  Your first name:

15. Your middle name:

16.  Your last name: (since it's not my legal one)

17. Bad habit of yours:

18.  First job:

19: Grandmother’s name:

20.  College major: Dual major

and

The in-laws have come and gone, an event which almost merits it's own post.  Tomorrow is my day at the hospital fundraiser, which will also merit it's own post.  And as for projects I've been working on mittens for the Soaring Eagles Project, which is over with the buttons.  Mittens that just won't quite gel, drat it all.  Which is why I haven't been here, and why this post is so short, I really must knit.

More soon.

A good thing:  Being able to call it quits when you want to.

I've been keeping to my goal of one ornament finished a day - until today.  My body aches, my head aches, I'm exhausted, I cannot, cannot, look at another fiddly piece of felt.  I'm done, I give, no more.  I'm taking a break.  If those two reindeer round ornaments go up a few days after the rest of the tree, so be it.

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Everything else is done.  Tomorrow I'll start on the calico stars I want, but I think I may cheat.  I may just...use the sewing machine.

A bad thing:  Starbucks coffee

Being a day between checks and out of beans, and not willing to pull from savings for a pound of coffee, I used the gift card to pick up a pound of Sumata from Starbucks.  Extra bold, thick and rich, so it said.  My ass.  I used my regular amount, 1/3 of a cup beans to the #8 line on the pot, and ground it fine.  I ended up with flavored cream by the time I was done.  I swear I brew my tea stronger than that. 

And to top it off I had to be up at 6:45 yesterday to take the hubbo to the dentist, which meant I was up at 8:30 this morning.  Couple being off my usual schedule, as much as I might prefer this one for the holidays, with a serious lack of caffeine, and my behind is not keeping up.  Tomorrow I mix the last of the good stuff with the weak, in the hopes of making something drinkable, the hubbo will pick up more of the good stuff on his way to work.

And I'm off to knit mittens for the Soaring Eagles project.  Later, wolflings.

Another charity to knit for

http://www.nationalww2museum.org/education/knitting.html

  The Knit Your Bit Campaign 

The National WWII Museum is proud to launch its own Knit Your Bit campaign. You can help the Museum honor WWII veterans by Knitting Your Bit- in this case a simple, but cozy, scarf to be donated to a veteran in a Veterans Center somewhere in the United States.

I tried knitting for the guys in the desert, it didn't go well....

Last night I finished the gingerbread house!  It looks absolutely adorable, just perfect for the tree, totally unsophisticated and utterly traditional.  That means that entire kit is done, and on time too!

I'll get a picture of all the finished objects when I have them all.  Or when the husband is home to take the picture.

Every year my husband, mother and I volunteer for the Festival of the Trees, the big annual fund raising project at Providence Hospital in Medford. More information about the Festival itself, and the hospital can be found at those links.

Three Sisters of Providence arrived at the Medford depot in 1911 to begin a labor of love in the Rogue Valley. They were committed to finding ways of providing care for those less fortunate. For nearly 100 years, Providence Medford Medical Center has never wavered from the Sisters’ goal of quality life for all people, and never has a person been knowingly turned away. The story is one of faith and hard work in response to a community’s needs, and also a story of community response and support for the Sisters’ vision. Together, it is a story of continual growth and excellence in health care for the people of southern Oregon and northern California.

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"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'
"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me."

 - Matthew 25: 34-40

But I am developing a fascination with finished objects.  For example:

Gingerbread_ornaments

I've finished everything in this group but the gingerbread house.  That I'll finish maybe tomorrow, or perhaps the next day. In fact I just finished the candy cane just now.

 I think it has to do with the time of year, and a bad case of converging deadlines.

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