tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37957432012-02-16T18:05:34.126-05:00I'm a dog. I'm a working dog. I'm a hard working dog.Mzungutatuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000594458317258136noreply@blogger.comBlogger1821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795743.post-28911278878499286292008-03-17T23:50:00.003-04:002008-03-18T00:08:22.225-04:00

From a letter to a friend:First off, there are people, including me, who after you die will remember that you were valiant and human during many different hard times. However, I'd rather know you now than remember you later.Who can remain optimistic forever? But not being optimistic now is different than never having hope. In July sometime I remember saying to my husband that I was so miserable

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Mmmmm, I made masala dosa for supper tonight and it was delicious. I dod not make it from scratch; I bought premade batter from the local Indian grocery. Still it was the first time I made dosa on my home stove using my non-stick allclad nonstick square griddle. Woot!We ate until we were full for a few dollars of potatoes, onions, and some leftover veggies.I got two thumbs up from all three kids.

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Things I've done this year that I feel very good about:1) I sent my kids to a 2 night 4-H Camp. I rested, read, knit and2) Fixed the roof gutter. One end of the gutter has been tearing away from the roof for almost a year. I did not listen to the men at HomeDepot (I curse you for bankrupting our local hardware store) who said I had to replace the whole gutter system. I fixed the gutter myself and

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The next step for me after fabric postcards was using the materials and techniques for valentines. These are made with fusible interfacing and various ribbons, fabrics, and trims.CheerySophisticated backSophisticated frontI couldn't get good photos of the Almost Traditional valentine. The photos kept coming out fuzzy. IRL it is impressive.Almost Traditional BackAlmost Traditional

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My MIL took me to a fabric postacrd class at G Street Fabrics. It was a blast! I learned a lot about techniques and materials and was inspired to branch out. Fabric Postcard cottion print with limited quilting around 3 leaves.Fabric Postcard ultrasuede and cotton print cutout.

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New Year's Resolution Update:My paperwork isn't filed but I have paid all my bills so far this year and I feel like I have a grip on them. I do tend to put off paying them because...it's scary putting $900 into the account and paying out $850 for bills and knowing that there are more bills coming. Last weekend I took my bills on retreat with me and they were dealt with quite quickly. I feel

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I got lucky at the Thrift Store!I always check out the fabric/wig/showercurtainring section of the Thrift Store just in case and this time I got lucky. Mind, I've gotten lucky before with cones of lovely shetland yarn but this time it was needles. Not slightly melted plastic needles or weirdly warped straight needles. I found 2 pairs of ADDI'S! In perfect condition! Still in the packaging! Ok,I

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I'm still awake at 1:41am even though I'd have been happily in bed at 12:01. I had 3 kids here waiting until midnight to go to bed. We watched Bride and Prejudice and then the NYTS ball drop. I'm up waiting for my 15 year old to come back from a party. It was an adult party and she was invited as a guest of the child of the house. There was no alcohol in the home so I felt it was pretty safe.The

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I'm not very fond of New Year's Eve. I've done quiet at home with the family for my Mom's birthday with cream cheese and olive sandwiches. I've gone to fancy restaurants on dates. I've partied with people who drank huge amounts. I've drunk huge amounts. I've made many courced intricate and ntimate dinners for just the two of us. I've had family game nights with stew and chips.It always leaves me

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Whew, I've made it through most of the holiday season. It's been tough. My parents and my sister were a huge help! They came up for about a week, picked up my slack, had low expectations for me, and loved me and hugged me.It was tough for all of us. The MILofJoy came on Christmas Day and was cheerful and grateful to be with us (mostly the kids I think). We had a ham for my Dad's birthday (also

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I've been madly knitting a sweater/top for my eldest. She knows the colour and that I'm making it for her and she has even tried it on while blindfolded but she doesn't know the pattern. It is the Simple Bodice from StitchDiva. I am more than halfway down the first sleeve. One more sleeve and the neckline to go. I was deluded (again at Christmas - how does that happen) into thinking I had plenty

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I started cataloging my yarn onto Ravelry. The first bin down was mainly fun fur and acrylics.Our dog had to be banned from the room because he kept stealing balls of yarn. Being banned made him very sad but not reformed.

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I can keep moving every day from home to work and back, filling all my hours with actions and thoughts of keeping the family working, alive, fed, schooled, clean. Most nights I can fall into bed so exhausted that I have no thoughts other than the lovely feel of the sheets and the weight of the blanket. But sometimes I stop. There is blank time or a blank mind. Or even worse because I haven't

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I heard on the news today (good grief it must have been a slow news day) that Oprah had released her 2007 list of Favorite Things.Here are my current favorites. Enjoy!Favorite Facial Cleanser:Burt's Bees Orange Essence Facial Cleanser This cleanser works for me because my skin is weirdly normal but if I mess with it reacts with excessive oiliness AND dry patches. Back in the day I couldn't wait

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A whirlwind of a weekend. Genetics are funny; all three of my children are extroverts but my husband and I are introverts. We would be happy spending the weekend with one other person or largely alone and visit with friends or family once or twice a month but the kids like to see other people ALL the time, pretty much.Friday was another tough teaching day. Friday night was our regular pizza and

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Don't mind me! Turns out I was using the wrong needles. REALLY wrong needles. I've frogged and will start again on the weekend.The good news is that I managed to remember that it was Thursday all day long. I got everyone to therapy on time and home again and I made it to the vestry meeting on time. Saturday is my next checkpoint; there is a reconciliation meeting and some shopping has been

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As a break from the pink hoodie (my eyes are burning and my thumb tendons ache) I cast on for the Unoriginal Hat from Yarn Harlot. Then I frogged it and cast on again on larger needles, twice. It is now on size 10 needles and it still looks tiny. It looks like it would be a lovely cuff for a sweater for me. Well, maybe a little big for a cuff. Also a little out of focus in this shot. The colour

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Ravelry called!Oh, I could spend hours and hours just grazing and I have.In other knitting news, I finally finished my I Love Gansey socks. The yarn is Socka 6-fach Color in color 9518 lot # 35341. I like the cables but the hearts don't show up well in this colourway. The yarn split easily and seemed to come unspun as I knitted it. However, the yarn knitted up beautifully and the socks feel

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I'm still knitting. I'm still working on my I Love Gansey socks. (grumble) I do love them! I love the big cables and the small cables. I do not love the yarn (Socka) but it is comfortable. I am not loving the size 2 bamboo needles which are already starting to splinter. I do not love how long these socks are taking and I want to wear them NOW, TODAY, maybe tomorrow. (sigh) I'm on the plain part

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Today I had to report for jury duty. This is only the second time I've been called for jury duty in the 27 years since I registered to vote. The last time (also my first ever time) was also in this county and State about 10 years ago. Last time I was in several jury pools and then discarded during voire dire. This time I sat for several hours. I was sorted into a pool of 55 jurors for a criminal

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Last night was knitting night and we went. We are making it to the store to sit and knit about twice a month. Last week we were meeting with the Bishop and missed the knitting; knitting would have been more pleasant.I didn't have much fun last night. I'm not sure what made it feel wrong.1)It's a bit of a drive from our house; about 15 miles which isn't too far but is a 25 minute drive at least.2)

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The dog is nuts. It has been raining off and on for two days and he acts afraid of the rain...most of the time. For instance, today he had to be coaxed out of the house in a bare mist , he chased the ball once and ran back to the porch. He could not be persuaded to leave the porch and he whined and scratched at the door. He finally peed after an amazing 12 hours of waiting. Any drop of rain

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Sock in Bearfoot was on the needles early this year. This pair was for my husband. Not in order of knitting but in order of photo availability...Fair Isle socks--my first colourwork!Pink and blue felted slippers from stash ends. You can't see the cuffs in this photo but the cuffs are colour reversed.

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I miss physical contact. I dream of a hand on my back. I need physical giving instead of draining.I also am feeling, suddenly and at odd times, the loss of 20 years of shared experiences. You know how your family and friends remember your shared experiences slightly differently? I like how that gives depth to my memories. I feel like huge parts of my life, almost half, are suddenly unsupported.

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Here's the deal.My friend for 20 years and husband for 16 left us (me, three kids) twice in just over a year. It was a huge shock to us the first time and less of a shock the second time. I've, we've, lived the last 2 years in crisis mode. We grieve. We're in therapy. We have been immersed in mental health issues and fallout, medications and diagnoses.I am in a lot of pain. I felt unable to blog

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Whimper Woof...tough day for this Sheep Dog.A lot of teachers called in sick today, the number of teachers missing from the Annex (all 9th graders) made me consider that they were having a sick out but apparently it was all a coincidence.What made it tough? several things: I had several difficult batches of sheep; though most of the sheep did their work with personal flair (fine with me) a few

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I'm not sure how well this photo will show.It is a closeup of the birch. Have I ever mentioned that I knit strangely? Perhaps not since I didn't realize it until recently. I knit into the back of all stitches and purl into the front of all stitches. The product looks exactly the same as other knitting I have seen as far as I can tell. However, there may be a problem with lace knitting. I noticed

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Birch in Rowan Kid Silk Haze being blocked on the sofa cushions of the guest house we stayed in for Christmas. Not only did I finish it before New Years Eve (the recipient's birthday) but I finished it in time to give it to her so that she could open it while we were still there. She was astonished at how light it was and the warmth it gathered around her. It is the perfect shawl for an older

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Wow, that was fast! He was quite biddable. These are felted slippers from Knitty.com in Nashua Handknits Painted Forest colourway. They are knit as humonguous socks and then felted to fit. There were some felting issues which ended up bring the first set of slippers (in Lamb's Pride) to my youngest child. LOL! and another mistake with yarn that led to one slipper being cut up and stuffed for use

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Knitting news without photos - I am sorry to say that I have no pictures of the Irish Hiking Cable scarf and Sally Melville Purl Stitch hat I made for my cousin/brother for Christmas.I will see if I can get my husband to model the hat and moebius scarf that I made him...and the felted slippers he got for Valentine's day.

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IKAT Scarf - From 1 skein of Mountain Colors Bearfoot 60% superwash wool, 25% mohair, 15% nylon in the Pheasant colourway. This photo is too dark but I had to rush the photography when the camera battery was low. I knit this scarf in the car on the way home from North Carolina and had to gift it less than 24 hours after we arrived home. It was lovely and soft before blocking but was tending to

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IKAT Scarf - knit to the left. I love this pattern! In Noro from 2 skeins. It blocks out all lovely and soft and was given as a gift.

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The thing about substitute teaching is that you aren't really teaching. As a Sheep Dog, I round up students and keep them safely within the classroom and building boundaries but I am rarely asked to teach. I am always a little thrilled when the Shepherd has left lesson plans for the day (psst! Mr. D, those photocopies of pages from p. 112 did not fool the Sheep who know that they are currently

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I'm working as a substitute teacher in a local high school and most days I feel like a sheep dog. My job is to corral the students into the classroom, keep them there or keep track of them between bells, and move them on out at the end of the class. Woof!Often their questions and statements repeat over and over until I hear them as bleating sheep (ok, not really as sheep but I become amused). For

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Lots of bike riding - lots of knitting.I've finished knitting the alpaca shawl but it needs to be blocked. I also finished a handspun softsoftsoft moebius scarf for my husband but it fits me not him. Hmmmm, what to do? I finished two scarves.And, I must be nuts! I obviously have overblown ideas about my own skills and time management because I have started Birch in Kid Silk Haze in a fuschia

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Bike BlogI biked again this moring, only 8 miles this time. The mower machines were still working on the path, now they are working out all the way to the edges of private property. I saw no rabbits and only a few birds (1 male cardinal and some little grey and brown birds). no rabbits, no fox.On the trail I saw 4 bikers, 2 joggers, 1 walker, and a couple walking. I've seen the couple before;

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No Biking todayI mowed the yard instead. Phew!I am working on several knitting projects these days. One is a sock that I am carefully tinking because somehow I knit it fine until the heel and then I knit it inside out. I still can't figure out how I did that. Project #2 is the alpaca shawl I started for myself last year. It is a relatively simple Sally Melville pattern but last Fall it was the

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Bike BloggingOn August 13th my kids were away and I stayed home from church. I decided to go for a bike ride on the nearby Rails to Trails path. You would not believe how many barriers I put in the way of going on a simple ride: I don't have the right clothes, my bike is gone (I think I sent it to Good Will several years ago because it was so heavy), there's no water bottle clip on the kid bike,

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Link for the One Skein Wonder One Skein WonderIt is a lovely project.

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Second One Skein Wonder. This OSW and the previous one were made with yarn donated to me by a wonderful friend who is cleaning out her stash to keep only what she might use in her lifetime. Go Colleen! Again, this is not the recommended yarn; it is a cotton blend (I did keep the labels, somewhere) and I used it doubled.

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One Skein Wonder (that took almost 2 skeins but wasn't the recommended yarn). I used the official pattern from Glampyre and Carabella. the yarn was various thicknesses and fibers including some silk. I really need to look for the labels.

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Futher mending update:I am down to one skirt in the mending pile. It is a lovely woven orange linen skirt with beautiful shaping but the back seam stretches along the wapr?woof? showing black stretch along both sides of the seam.I'll need the machine and some confidence to tackle the fix I have in mind.

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I'm taking a break from "One Skein Wonder"s to clean up my sewing desk. Today I put the loose items from the top of the desk into the appropriate drawers and tonight I'm doing the small mendings that have been waiting for me for over a year.I have finished:Sewing the seam on a pillow which came from the factory with a large open sectionAttached the rope handle for a small felted and embroidered

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A Meme, because sometimes even I fall for them.5 Things always in my purse:*I don't carry a purse. I do own a reticule sort of bag for special occasions when I have no pockets. then it usually holds my money clip (license, credit card, insurance card, money) and my keys.5 Things always in my wallet :*I don't carry a wallet either. I carry a money clip with cards and money in it.5 Things always in

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1 hour and 25 minutes into the day and it is already the worst birthday I have ever had.

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My Gracious Acceptance SpeechThank you. (pause for applause to subside) Thank you very much for this award for Best Dinner Ever. I will cherish it and use it for inspiration on those dull afternoons when I cannot think of anything to cook for dinner.I'd like to thank my family who nominated me for this award. (blow kisses) I appreciate their enthusiasm for all three dishes (pause) and the food in

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Frog or Tink?Frogging is scary. Really! Maybe it is because I knit into the back of each stitch (don't ask - I taught myself from a book and must be somewhat dyslexic) but when I frog the stitches I can't tell when to stop (sigh) and I generally lose a couple of stitches into the edges. Anyway, even using the hint to hold the knitting flat and frog until the live yarn is on the left I still mess

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Fat Tuesday and those Slouchy SocksThose slouchy Olympic socks made my family laugh very hard. They are like leg warmers with feet; I can wear them OVER my jeans. I Think that they look great worn over a pair of tights with ankle boots and a mid-calf skirt.Yesterday was Fat Tuesday (also known as Shrove Tuesday). We shrive (?) every day in confessional prayer and did not schedule confession at

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Team Kenya overcomes the odds!Kenyan Jr. member, K, finished her knitting well before the extinguishing of the flame in torino. The exuberant team members stood solemnly for a playing of dual national Anthems: The Star Spangled Banner and Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu. I regret that the high notes in TSSB lead to embarrassing squeaks from the elder team member and that the concensus was that the Kenyan

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WooHoo~ (I spring into the gymnast TADA! position)Lead member of the Kenyan team has finished a Toddler Sweater and Slouchy Socks

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Team Kenya is taking it to the photo finish!I ran into a snag with my second sock; I ran out of yarn. Yes, I'm getting gauge for row and stitch but I still ran out. Go figure! While we were out getting groceries I dropped into the 'local' yarn store The Yarn Garden to get a supplemental skein. Sadly, they were out of this particular Jo Sharp Rare Comfort Infusion Mohair (long-o name) in colour

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Olympic Update: It looks like Team Kenya is finishing strong! I have finished the toddler sweater and one of the slouchy knee-high socks and the second sock is already past the heel. K is just finishing up the fish tail (and then it will need to be felted). Though she is bedridden with some sort of stomach bug, she valiantly knits between bouts of heaving.Two more kid meals done for this week.

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Last night was G's dinner. He chose homemade sausage pizza, salad, and fruit salad. He made the dough in the mixer but I put everything else together because he's been having intestinal issues for the last few days.Tonight was A's dinner. She made grilled chicken enchiladas (I grilled the chicken and YES it was freezing outside today), steamed carrots, and Berry Yum (whipped cream and fresh

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Tonight K made dinner.She made the shopping list, plucked the items from the grocery shelves, and cooked the whole thing herself. Indeed, she made up the entree recipe! She served: Sliced french bread with olive oil for dipping, salad with homemade peppercorn dressing, and spagghetti with calimari in a tomato sauce. She chose ice cream for dessert.I think she did a great job and I am very proud

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Announcing a new member to TEAM KENYA: K. - 13 year old K. is knitting a series of fish to be felted and a fluffy stuffed rabbit. She cast on the first fish on Sunday because she was in bed during the opening ceremonies (as telecast in this area).BTW, does it annoy anyone else the way that the NBC stations pretend that they are covering live Olympic action when Italy is about 6 hours ahead of the

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Knitting OlympicsI have cast on for the Knitting Olympics as organized by Yarn Harlot. In the strategy of Venezuela and Ethiopia I am entering these Winter Games as the Kenyan Team. I have, of course, missed the official deadline for signing up but that is (vague wave) not necessary for the experience. Efforts to engage other knitters in the family have failed.I have cast on a Toddler Sweater. I

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Third Booga Bag 

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My first socks 

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Knitting in public has never been a problem for me. Maye this is because my mother knit at faculty meetings and in airports and so I thought it was normal. I don't think anyone knitting in public was particularly brave or bold unless they were generally shy. Even then knitting is great for shy people (I am very shy) because it keeps you from having to interact too much.There are times and places

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I have been knitting. Since the mitered hearts I've finished the pink X-back shirt for K's birthday, made myself a pair of socks (woohoo! first pair), and started on a second pair of socks for G. Pictures will be posted soon.

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Mitered hearts for comparison You can see what a difference there was in size because of yarn choice.These mitered hearts are a great break from Booga bags and the monotony of knitting 6400 stitches all the same. Before these mitered hearts, picking up stitches was a weakness in my knitting; it seemed like I always ended up with the stitches on the wrong needle. Now, I'm practically a pro at

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Red mitered heart Made with Dalegarn Sissik. This yarn is easy to knit with but it feels a little waxy. I think the flecks of colour look great.

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Mitered Heart Sachet I bought Interweave Knits magazine for two patterns - this heart and a baby kimono only to find out that the heart pattern is free online as a pdf. I made this heart with mystery yarn that is thicker than the recommended yarn. It worked well because it made it easy for me to see what I was doing. The bottom square is supposed to be textured like the other squares but I didn't

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Felted Booga Bag #2 I did not use Noro for this bag; I mostly used Lamb's Pride worsted which is a mingling of wool and mohair. This yarn knits up beautifully (it almost seems a shame to felt it) and felts very quickly. The mohair goes create a little bit of a halo effect after felting but if it bothers you you can always trim it. The red is a mystery wool from the thrift store and the black is

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Felted Booga Bag #1 

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Thanks EACA but I wanted to be Hitchhiker's Guide instead.You're Watership Down!by Richard AdamsThough many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you'reactually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink theirassumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people of all time. You'dbe

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Booga strap unfelted 

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Booga bag unfelted The Booga Bag by Black Sheep Bags. My bag is made of Noro Kureyon; I happened to pick the same colour as the original. Partway through the 2nd skein I ran into yarn problems; a yellow section just broke at any pressure. I pulled off all the weak stuff and then got back to the knitting.Whenever I pick up stitches I end up doing it backwards. I had to back the stitches off onto

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I consider myself good at ebay. Really. I've bought and sold and gotten some great bargains. I've only once bought stolen goods and the police said I didn't have to give the NASCAR model car back since we had already put it together. I've always sighed when I heard about people who went crazy on ebay and filled up their whole houses with ebay stuff they didn't need. These people need help (I said

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The mitten on the left was my first attempt. I have ripped out the first mitten and reknitted it to be a match. They are cute! The first mitten took me a whole day, the second mitten took an evening, and the third mitten took less than 3 hours.

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The number one direction for the Dulaan mittens is "Make two alike". Bwahahahaha! I'm a huge failure!It's very funny to see the difference between the two mittens. This pair would only fit a child with one lobster claw. When I finish mitten #3 and before I rip out mitten #1 and start over with it, I'll take a picture.Bwahahaha! It looks only remotely like the pattern photo.(shuddering laugh sigh)

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I'm at the point on this that I either have to tell the birthday girl it is for her so that I can measure the straps or I wrap it up the way it is and she'll have to wait after she recieves the gift for me to finish it and block the piece. I'm leaning toward telling her now so that it will be ready to wear on her birthday.In excitement that I've put it down for the moment, I have attempted my

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Tagliatelli in Toscana 

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Shimmer in Monet 

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Shimmer 5 in Jay 

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Lapis Giotto 

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The book - Artyfacts 

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I went to StitchDC and I got LOTS of fun yarns and a book and it hardly cost me anything! Hard to believe? (g) I had gift certificates.I loaded up on Colinette yarns because they are fun! And I got a Colinette book so that my daughter and I could have instructions to follow for this fun yarn. I have three skeins of Colinette 5 Point in Zebra colourway that were for my husband's moebius scarf but

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I did it again! I mowed the yard with the riding mower!! Yay me!!!There are lots of exclamation points because I'm all jittery and shaky still.(deep breath) I not only read the manual again but this time I followed the instructions...even when the instructions tell me to do scary things. Like when I was supposed to drive this huge machine straight up the steep hills. We have a very steep back

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Survivor I call this one Survivor because I knit it during the season finale of Survivor (2 hours). It is made from 2 skeins of Karabella Yarns Brushed Alpaca. One skein was grey and the other white. I knitted with both yarns held together and then with each yarn separately making a pattern of thick and thin AND colours.

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People are crazy and at least one of those crazy people works for the local utility company. Saturday night we were driving home from dinner out (it was ok, too expensive but lovely soup). A big storm with lots of lightning had been hovering over the area for several hours and we were admiring the bolts that went sideways AND the ones that went up and down. As we were driving along Daisy Lane,

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A vibrating razor? Do women really want a vibrating sharp blade near their delicate parts? Female circumcision? No sir! Just a small shaving accident.(shudder)

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Dulaan hat with a goofy kid 

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Speaking of delicious French food, here is a delicious and easy recipe for Pain au Chocolat. It takes a number of hours to complete but most of that time the dough is chilling in the refridgerator. This morning I used a variety of chocolate bars in the pain including one with hazelnuts and one with lemon zest (both were bittersweet chocolate). My children would prefer I used a semi-sweet.

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Someone recommended French Women Don't Get Fat to me. I do agree with the dietary ideas inside, that a little of wonderful things like cake and butter are good choices but that moderation is the key.I do have a problem with the title and the idea that it plants. It is bad enough that we marginalize women and especially fat women and that the media continues to push the ideal of extra-skinny women

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Movie Meme: X the ones you have seen. I obviously read a lot more than I go to movies.1. ( ) Napoleon Dynamite2. ( ) Saw3. ( ) White Noise4. ( ) White Oleander5. () Anger Management6. () 50 First Dates7. ( ) Jason X8. () Scream9. () Scream 210. ( ) Scream 311. () Scary Movie12. () Scary Movie 213. ( ) Scary Movie 314. () American Pie15. () American Pie 216. () American Wedding17. (x) Harry

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I found the link where I learned to recycle yarn! http://neauveau.com/recycledyarn.html Wonderful accompanying pictures.I get a real energy boost from turning $3.90 worth of Value Village sweater into two lovely sweaters for my children.

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Several people have found this blog while searching on STITCHDC. Here is a quick review of the store.I've only been to the StitchDC store on Capitol Hill, not the one in Georgetown. The store is just across from the Navy Barracks in a section of 8th Street, SE that is nicely renovated. It may be hard to spot - the outside is pale blue. I've interacted with two different women who work at StitchDC

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Well, it sort of makes sense. I have Mid-western in me and I have never been to the mid-west. I grew up in Kenya, spent some formative pre-college years in rural North Carolina, went to college in Pennsylvania, lived in DC for for 8 years, and in Maryland just outside DC for 11 years. Though really DC and Maryland are pretty Southern/Dixie not yankee at all. People can't usually tell where I'm

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The ill-fated blue wrap. Isn't the ruffle edge nice? 

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Fun scarf - knitted in less than 24 hours as a birthday present 

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There is no shame in being afraid. Acknowledging fear should not be shameful. I should not feel guilty and inadequate because I'm afraid of something.Is there any other way to say that and make it clearer?I'm afraid of lots of things. I am afraid of rejection and it impacts my life but that isn't the sort of fear that I'm thinking about today. I'm afraid of ants even though I know that that fear

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An expensive and time consuming knitting mistake.I made a beautiful moebius wrap. It was supposed to be lacy with a lovely geometric pattern and I bought a great denim coloured variegated mohair yarn to knit it out of. I cast on for the largest size wrap, 236 stitches, and increased one stitch at the beginning of the next round. Then I knot and purled my way through the beginning of the scarf -

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People try to ban books from schools and libraries for many reasons including racism and sexism in the books, what is considered excess violence in books for children, and religious ideals (or lack thereof). I'm considered quite conservative among the parents of my children's peers. We don't watch much tv or read the Left Behind series for either adults or teens and yet we read Harry Potter,

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Why did I stop running? Yes, it is true even if amazing to those of you who only know adult me. As a child I ran back and forth across the playing fields at school, around the block, and through the neighbourhood. Later I ran through the woods, across fields of knee high grass, and up and down mountains. I ran for the speed. I ran for the feeling of wind in my face. I ran for the feeling in my

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Recycled Blue as a sweater. Einstein sweater in child size 10-12. This still needs buttons. 

Mzungutatuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000594458317258136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795743.post-1111460031641152242005-03-21T21:30:00.000-05:002005-03-21T21:53:51.676-05:00

I'm a new knitter. I just learned how to knit in mid-January. My first knitting was done on yarn I bought for less than a dollar at the thrift store; it came in a big bag of mismatched balls. I used needles that had been left in our house by the previous owner (my previous use of the needles had been to fish lint out of the dryer trap).When I felt confidant, I ventured to Michael's and bought

Mzungutatuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000594458317258136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795743.post-1111458561882398142005-03-21T21:29:00.000-05:002005-03-21T21:29:21.883-05:00

Blue wool sweater during recycling. I forgot to take a "before" picture. 

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Cream sweater during recycling 

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