Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2006 | 3 Comments »
The Knitting Olympics closed yesterday. I hate to admit it, but I guess I’m a non-qualifier. To be perfectly honest, I probably don’t even rate a Bronze medal. See, here’s where my project was near the end of the closing ceremonies.
Notice all those ends waiting to be woven in? And you can’t see all the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2006 | 2 Comments »
is apparently alive and well. I don’t like to think of myself as competitive, but I guess I have at least a little bit in me.
1) I emailed the link of my last blog entry to several friends. By doing so, I not only released it into the wilds of the Internet to frolic and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 18, 2006 | 3 Comments »
This is NOT knitting or garden related at all. I am going to record here a story that sounds made up, but it is not. Sadly, it is absolutely true.
Be warned: this story is totally hilarious, but definitely off-color. If you offend easily, don’t read below the line.
The story was related to me by my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2006 | 1 Comment »
So, Val came over tonight to visit with Rachael. She brought her friend Rick (a visiting Australian swing dancer…doesn’t that sound intriguing?) and Chinese carry-out.
Val is really good with a camera and she had fun taking some shots with mine.
Me working on my Olympic project, gloves.
Sadie, guarding her “squeaker toy.” (One of 3 squeaky toys [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2006 | No Comments »
It appears I’m sort of zooming through glove #1, despite my original miscalculations that resulted in frogging down to the cuff. I made a stupid mistake in measuring my gauge. Recall that I noted my stitch gauge as 8 sts per inch? Well, that was actually my row gauge.
Duh! I measured vertical stitch count (row [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2006 | 1 Comment »
For those of us who don’t speak Italian, the above (very) roughly translates as Endings and Beginnings. (Or so I hope. I don’t really speak Italian, and visited one of those dictionary sites to try and figure out a decent translation.)
Why the emphasis on endings and beginnings?
1) I finished my Jaywalkers Wednesday night.
I think [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2006 | No Comments »
Today one of our own — a kind, intelligent, lovely, talented knitter — goes under the knife. Rachael has cervical cancer. She is only 30 years old, but will have a hysterectomy today. She has no children, and while she has been a bit amibiguous about whether having children was a personal goal, the sad [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Many thanks to Franklin for creating this special edition of a Knitting Olympics button for his home town! Go Team Chicago!
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