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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
shhhhh! and make a mitten while you're at it...
so, i totally need to learn to stop talking. anyway...
here is an update on the scarf i'm making for my boss's 3 year old. there are two cables...and i made a little hole in the middle so you basically just thread one end through so it stays on. i think i'll start the pink again in about another 1" and then yellow and then it'll be done.
again with my whole yarn diet...i started making this sock maybe a year ago? after the sheep and wool festival in 5/06 i know, because i got the yarn there.
it's totally not going to happen. i took it apart, and it's now going to be a pair of fingerless mittens! not my pattern...don't want to steal intellectual property or whatever...giving credit!
my universe now revolves around josh ritter's new album
(bit of a long catch up post again today)
i posted a josh video here a few weeks ago. here's another one. (hi doug!)
the new album is called "the historical conquests of josh ritter" and came out aug 21. hey josh, don't forget about us old fans who came to see you back in the day when you opened for joan baez! (josh is from latah county, id. COUNTIES!)
next, here's another baby hat from last week. i added a pom-pom after i took the pic, too. i've made about 4 hats in the last week. they take me about two metro rides and a lunch break. i'm going to start on some child size ones soon.
i'm going to do a happy heads, dc push in the next month. if you have a knitting related list or friends who knit, please let them know about happy heads. our 4th year!
i started a scarf for my boss's (almost) three year old daughter. now i have about 24" finished...about 2" yellow, 4" pink, rest purple. i'm doing two little cables in it, too. i think it's pretty cute. i'll take another pic tonight. i'll probably make it about 32" long. she's really little. i think she'll like it a lot. i'm using left over blue sky cotton.
do note the stain on my couch. that's from cheese. i wound up cleaning the covers of the cushions on saturday, and then i stitched up some bunny-related holes.
dante came to visit on saturday, too. he brought his mom and dad. he's just starting to crawl and sit up on his own.
(don't worry, dolley wanted nothing to do with him.)
dante was interested in the aflac duck i have. don't know where i got it, but if you squeeze it you hear its annoying "aflaaaaac" thing.
here he's showing off his two fabulous bottom teeth.
i'm going to write more about this later this weekend, but i'm going to try a little bit of the same idea...mainly the using what i have in order to eventually use less. i've already talked about using up stuff in my bathroom cabinet...and using up the yarn i have now before getting more...this will encourage my hat program as well.
on the plane ride back i worked on a shawl...i finished it this evening but haven't taken a photo yet. i will soon.
next, i took some pics for slides. here's one in sepia.
need to crop this a little, but it's called "after party"
i started a simple baby hat for a co-worker's three months old on friday. she was born a month early and she's still tiny.
and here it is....i finished it this afternoon.
i made a mock banana sundae this weekend, too. used plain yogurt instead of ice cream. was really good. also peanut butter and choco syrup.
went to a bead show on saturday. this is all i bought! i was able to control myself somewhat. i've already used two strands for two pieces, so i'm well on my way to using some of what i got. i have plans for the pearls, too. plans!
i shoved some oat hay into this grass ball and doll played with it for a while. looked like a lot of fun.
i'll post AR pics when i get home tonight....if i get home. my 1235 flight was canceled and i'm waiting for a 335 to take me to o'hare, then eventually home. considering my luck at o'hare, i might finish up my crochet work here to make myself a pillow on which i may sleep tonight.
had i known that i'd be stuck here for an extra 3 hours, i probably would have gone to the clinton library for real, and not just looked around the lobby and pished in the bathroom. i did learn that FDR was the first president driven around in an armored car after the attack on pearl harbor. at the time, the only armored car the secret service could get right away had been confiscated from al capone in 1934. it was a black and green bulletproof 1928 341A cadillac town sedan weighing 9,000 pounds. here's the whole story.
free wifi in the airport at LIT. that's making this a smidge more tollerable.
*smidge.*
like the deer? he looks so real, it's almost like he wasn't shot in the woods while eating!
really. he really is. people LOVE him here in arkansas. i'm in hot springs for one more day. going to try to go to the clinton library tomorrow before i fly out from little rock. it's beastly hot here. i have to go to a party now. more free light beer!
so, jack at work thinks my simpsonized self is a little off. he thinks i'm more like this...
