Posts from ‘August, 2008’

Earlier this summer, DBNY had a sale on lace yarns and among them was Possum Lace. Yarn that was made with 30% possum fur.
I didn’t think anything of it and got a skein of “Old Roses” colorway which was so pretty that I figured it’d be a pretty way to try my hand at lace [...]

of my birth…
I pretty much never really do anything for my birthday because usually there’s not very many people that I know well enough to want to invite to a party close enough by to try and arrange a party. But since I’ve come to live in Hollywood, that’s changed a lot… which is ironic [...]

Feels like the Gestapo were outside my door last night…
But what makes it even weirder, just before 9pm last night I had the most bizarre and unfortunately nasty encounter with an employee of the Transit Authority.
I was “watering the dogs” in which I walk them to the little fenced off area next between the cul [...]

Not sure where the day went but worked on the Sweater Bag for most of the day when I was knitting. Got to the end of the first round of the cable pattern of 35 rows and then realized I’d effed up the center cable… and then the side cable. So lost about 3 hours [...]

I’ve been trying to keep a diary of my progress and doing ok with it but am way behind with the photos to go with the posts.
Only the first post is posted so far (which explains what Ravelympics is), and I’m reminding myself that there’s plenty of time to take and post the photos but [...]

6 hours of knitting so far (broken up a bit with breaks here and there) while watching Battlestar Galactica Season 3.
Started round 1 of the Sweater Bag (first round after the 12 rows of ribbing) and am currently about to start round 17. Definitely not knitting very fast.
Half of the 100 stitches are involved in [...]

So the other day, I log into Ravelry and find a fun message from a nice lady named Beth.
Hi there, I plopped onto your profile from the Evangeline site. I have to tell you how much I like your Jayne hats. I showed my son – a Firefox/Serenity fan but NOT a knitting fan [...]

Didn’t get that much knitting done. Was so tired and exhausted that I went to bed early. Or rather I fell asleep on the couch and later woke up and moved into bed at 3am. And was too groggy to think about turning lights, ac, and etc off. So much for resolving to stop wasting [...]

I’m having terrible trouble staying focused on any one project. Tonight I dug out the Wisdom Skye yarn in the Maroon colorway that I scored off Ebay from Your Stash or Mine last month to check it out for the Sweater Bag from Lion Brand Yarns.

This picture made me fall in love with the pattern [...]

Played more with the ball winder today as I came across some of my ancient stash of acrylics that were partially used.
Found them while looking for the cotton dishcloth yarn for redoing the Sunflower Hotpad. Did it in 2004 from a booklet but neglected to notice that it called for doubling the yarn.
Couldn’t figure out [...]