25.2.05
Back in the saddle.
I've been too melancholy—with a bit of ennui thrown in—to post this week. Eventhough the weather has been great, sunny and warm all week, I just felt poopy. Then someone gave me a gift certificate to my favorite LYS, and I cheered up. I purchase the new Rowan magazine and feel inspired to knit more than socks and hand warmers. I got very excited in the car last night flipping through the new Rowan that we did the grocery shopping in under 20 minutes so I could get home to see if my stash of Linen Drape would work on Elspeth. It does! Beaded Martha is also another possibility. How about in Elann's Baby Silk?
A Good Bias is half done.
Mission Falls 1824 cotton is strange. I don't know if I like.
Some shots from our day trip to Port Townsend last weekend. Imagine Star Hollows only twice as big. Quaint, lots of historical charm, and lots of B&Bs/Inns. Sure enough, the battery died before we started our trek through the town's main streets, but the surrounding area was lovely. Fort Warden and the beaches are great.
Gourgeous day at the beach.
Rusty bunker door.
Front side of the fort. The fort is a labrynth. Some of the rooms and corridors were dark and creepy!
Stairs leading up to top of the fort.
Upper level of the fort.
Last shot before the battery ran dry. The main business street is much nicer than this. Lots of Victorian era buildings.
I've been too melancholy—with a bit of ennui thrown in—to post this week. Eventhough the weather has been great, sunny and warm all week, I just felt poopy. Then someone gave me a gift certificate to my favorite LYS, and I cheered up. I purchase the new Rowan magazine and feel inspired to knit more than socks and hand warmers. I got very excited in the car last night flipping through the new Rowan that we did the grocery shopping in under 20 minutes so I could get home to see if my stash of Linen Drape would work on Elspeth. It does! Beaded Martha is also another possibility. How about in Elann's Baby Silk?
A Good Bias is half done.
Mission Falls 1824 cotton is strange. I don't know if I like.
Some shots from our day trip to Port Townsend last weekend. Imagine Star Hollows only twice as big. Quaint, lots of historical charm, and lots of B&Bs/Inns. Sure enough, the battery died before we started our trek through the town's main streets, but the surrounding area was lovely. Fort Warden and the beaches are great.
Gourgeous day at the beach.
Rusty bunker door.
Front side of the fort. The fort is a labrynth. Some of the rooms and corridors were dark and creepy!
Stairs leading up to top of the fort.
Upper level of the fort.
Last shot before the battery ran dry. The main business street is much nicer than this. Lots of Victorian era buildings.
21.2.05
Wow! What a beautiful day. With the step counter clip on and I took a walk to the neighborhood p-patch. See what I saw in 5,000+ steps.
Too early for spring?
Come on in.
New meaning to grass between your toes.
Who wouldn't want to get their hands dirty with a view like this?
Okay, don't forget to close the gate on the way out.
The folks living down this end of the neighborhood are very creative.
They come in any color you want.
Knitting update: A Good Bias shrug is half done. I have been getting some flare ups of tendonitis for the past few weeks, so not much knitting this weekend.
Too early for spring?
Come on in.
New meaning to grass between your toes.
Who wouldn't want to get their hands dirty with a view like this?
Okay, don't forget to close the gate on the way out.
The folks living down this end of the neighborhood are very creative.
They come in any color you want.
Knitting update: A Good Bias shrug is half done. I have been getting some flare ups of tendonitis for the past few weeks, so not much knitting this weekend.
18.2.05
14.2.05
Good end to a good weekend.
Friday ended great, we went out for sushi on Saturday night, and this weekend I got much more done than I thought. On top of that, I got this on Sunday:
The seller looked a little dubious; made me a little suspicious that it may not have been his stuff he was selling, if you know what I mean. Anyway, I bought it for $15!! And look how I filled it:
And I completed my another pair of bootie slippers from that idea I mentioned earlier. The laundry was free all morning so I got to felt the slippers as soon as I was done. The 3-ply worsted felted better than the Lamb's Pride Worsted. Froggy is the 3-ply.
Friday ended great, we went out for sushi on Saturday night, and this weekend I got much more done than I thought. On top of that, I got this on Sunday:
The seller looked a little dubious; made me a little suspicious that it may not have been his stuff he was selling, if you know what I mean. Anyway, I bought it for $15!! And look how I filled it:
And I completed my another pair of bootie slippers from that idea I mentioned earlier. The laundry was free all morning so I got to felt the slippers as soon as I was done. The 3-ply worsted felted better than the Lamb's Pride Worsted. Froggy is the 3-ply.
12.2.05
Happy hands.
If you can make mittens you already know how to make these. I used Lamb's Pride Bulky. 24 stitches (2x2 ribbing) are a nice fit with size 9 needles. Increase every 3 rows, this includes the increase row, to get 8 stitches for the thumb. For Lamb's Pride Worsted 32 stitches is a good fit with size 8 needles, and 12 stitches total for the thumb. I'm about to try 32 stitches on some Noro Kureyon.
I've got another idea for the bootie slippers. Hopefully I can try it out this weekend.
If you can make mittens you already know how to make these. I used Lamb's Pride Bulky. 24 stitches (2x2 ribbing) are a nice fit with size 9 needles. Increase every 3 rows, this includes the increase row, to get 8 stitches for the thumb. For Lamb's Pride Worsted 32 stitches is a good fit with size 8 needles, and 12 stitches total for the thumb. I'm about to try 32 stitches on some Noro Kureyon.
I've got another idea for the bootie slippers. Hopefully I can try it out this weekend.
Reading plans for 2005 (a selected few from the list below). P&P is on the list and I gave it the hubby to read while I reread Persuasion. What a lovely book.
Bath, England 1998
Next is L'etranger, I just like saying it in French, Camus's The Stranger. We've been lucky and found many of the books at Half Price Books.
From the Guardian:
*Stacked on the night stand
Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart*
Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories
Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice
Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot
Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The
Unnamable
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions
Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights
Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger*
Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the
Night
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales
Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo
Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy*
Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations
Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz
Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The
Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov
George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch*
Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man
Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea*
William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom; The
Sound and the Fury
Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental
Education
Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of
Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera*
Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust*
Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls
Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum
Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the
Backlands
Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger.
Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea
Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey
Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll's House
The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC).
James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses*
Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The
Castle Bohemia
Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala
Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain
Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek
DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers
Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People
Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems
Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook
Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking*
Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC).
Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi
Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain
Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick
Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays.
Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History
Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved
Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji Genji*
Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities
Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita
Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300).
George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984
Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses
Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet
Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales
Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past*
Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel
Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo
Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi
Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight's Children
Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard
Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North
Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness*
William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King
Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black
Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of
Tristram Shandy
Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno
Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels
Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The
Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories
Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500).
Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana
Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid
Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass
Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway*; To the Lighthouse
Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian
Bath, England 1998
Next is L'etranger, I just like saying it in French, Camus's The Stranger. We've been lucky and found many of the books at Half Price Books.
From the Guardian:
*Stacked on the night stand
Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart*
Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories
Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice
Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot
Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The
Unnamable
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions
Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights
Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger*
Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the
Night
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales
Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo
Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy*
Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations
Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz
Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The
Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov
George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch*
Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man
Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea*
William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom; The
Sound and the Fury
Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental
Education
Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of
Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera*
Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust*
Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls
Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum
Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the
Backlands
Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger.
Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea
Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey
Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll's House
The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC).
James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses*
Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The
Castle Bohemia
Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala
Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain
Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek
DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers
Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People
Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems
Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook
Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking*
Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC).
Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi
Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain
Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick
Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays.
Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History
Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved
Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji Genji*
Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities
Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita
Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300).
George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984
Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses
Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet
Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales
Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past*
Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel
Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo
Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi
Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight's Children
Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard
Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North
Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness*
William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King
Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black
Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of
Tristram Shandy
Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno
Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels
Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The
Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories
Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500).
Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana
Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid
Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass
Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway*; To the Lighthouse
Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian
10.2.05
Yippee!! My knitting is turning into cash. I made $45 dollars this week. will post a pic of my cash cow this weekend!!
Show and Tell
Do they still let kids have show and tell in grade school these days?
Barcelona (must be pronounced with the Catalonian lisp). Rooftop of Casa Mila (La Pedrera). Circa last century!!
Chocolate and chiles and alcohol!
Yummy! Chili and Pepper, Cassis and Champagne, and Chili and Highland Whiskey. We also tasted Apple and Cognac. Delicious!
Show and Tell
Do they still let kids have show and tell in grade school these days?
Barcelona (must be pronounced with the Catalonian lisp). Rooftop of Casa Mila (La Pedrera). Circa last century!!
Chocolate and chiles and alcohol!
Yummy! Chili and Pepper, Cassis and Champagne, and Chili and Highland Whiskey. We also tasted Apple and Cognac. Delicious!
8.2.05
Foot tales
Pre-felt booties. Adapted from the ever so popular Fiber Trends pattern for kids. You know kids, they have a hard time keeping things on their feet so I adapted these into bootie-style rather than the slip on style of the original pattern.
I adapted these into bootie-style rather than the slip on style of the original pattern.
Teeny tiny. Test run in slipper style.
My new tool pouch. (click)
Ingrid gave me a pen when I visited her shop.
Pre-felt booties. Adapted from the ever so popular Fiber Trends pattern for kids. You know kids, they have a hard time keeping things on their feet so I adapted these into bootie-style rather than the slip on style of the original pattern.
I adapted these into bootie-style rather than the slip on style of the original pattern.
Teeny tiny. Test run in slipper style.
My new tool pouch. (click)
Ingrid gave me a pen when I visited her shop.
4.2.05
untitled
We have been hit with a nasty virus. Not the computer kind. Lucky for me I
wasn't hit as bad as others. I had a feeling that something would be passed
around with so many kids around. The little birthday boy was lucky to have
dodged the bug. There were 13 people staying at my brother's house, and all
but one came down with an icky GI virus. Yuck!! We haven't eaten real food
in days. And we may cancel our Super Bowl Feast.
Huzzah!!
Phildar has a new freebie up. However, it looks very similar to the black
and white jacket pattern that has been up for a while.
wasn't hit as bad as others. I had a feeling that something would be passed
around with so many kids around. The little birthday boy was lucky to have
dodged the bug. There were 13 people staying at my brother's house, and all
but one came down with an icky GI virus. Yuck!! We haven't eaten real food
in days. And we may cancel our Super Bowl Feast.
Huzzah!!
Phildar has a new freebie up. However, it looks very similar to the black
and white jacket pattern that has been up for a while.