cheppy chanukah!

candles 'n fried things 'n all.

so here's the scarf i gave to my boss's three year old daughter. i finished it and weaved in the ends an hour ago while sitting at my desk with my door open...and talking to my boss. (it's a little slow here thanks to the icky weather.)

he's going to get a pic of her wearing it. should be cute. i'll update then. i also gave her a "paint your own dreidel" kit that someone had given me a few years ago, for some reason. ages 3+.

here's a pic i took in lexington last week. tee-hee. (click on it if you can't read the text.)


off to the board meeting in florida tomorrow morning! let's see if i can take off at 6:30 as planned...

also...both pics here are from the iphone.

pasta salad, more knitted stuff, some crocheted stuff too

first off, here's mr. dante. i went to visit him on saturday. said hi to his mom while i was there, too.


next, i went to the national symphony orchestra's labor day concert on the capitol lawn on sunday with some friends. they brought drinks and sandwiches, i brought pasta salad.

ok here's what i did...
1 bag multi colored rotini (this one was called "wacky pasta" or something. it was 6 servings when cooked)
1/4 cup italian dressing (maybe a little less)
3 T sundried tomatoes, drained
1 container feta cheese (i don't know, 6, 8 oz?)
about 10 cherry tomatoes, quartered
1 small can sliced black olives
2 green onion tops, thinly sliced

cook the pasta about 30 seconds less than normal and drain. rinse with cold water to stop cooking. toss to dry as much as possible. add pasta and all ingredients in a large bowl and toss to mix. adjust add-ins as desired. refrigerate until serving time.

so i'm making a hat for a friend's mom who's going to lose her hair to chemo soon. here's a crocheted flower that i hand felted. i used lamb's pride worsted wool. love it. LOVE it! anyway, i didn't like any patterns for flowers that i found online so i sort of made up my own. i like the way it came out. if i can figure out how to do it again, i'll post directions. to felt, i used rubber gloves for some extra agitation. worked really well, probably took about 5 mintues. very warm water, drop of DISH SOAP in the water.


here's lurlene modeling the knitted hat. i used lion brand organic cotton in "strawberry" for a basic cap with a rib. it's quite soft. the flower is still a bit damp but should dry by tomorrow. i'll sew it on tomorrow. the flower can be worn on either side. i'm concerned that it's a little too big, but i think i can fix that by making something of a seem up the back. (can you tell i've been watching plastic surgery shows all summer?)

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.

Would You Like to Buy an O?

my mom just told me i used to listen to this record every single night....when i wasn't listening to "annie" and singing to the "annie" poster in the kitchen.

stuff i made back in the day

i used to make funky cards for the grandmas and grandpas. grandmas wore "pearls" (plastic from craft store) and grandpas were bald, with just a bit of doll hair around the sides of the head. i made mc a birthday card almost three summers ago, and i still think it's one of the best. i really tried to capture a unique feature of the subject...what does mc love to do?

i got one of those wooden drawer things from ikea. saved the sunday comics for a while. found some wooden feet and sticky felt....came up with this!

i really enjoy making these photo albums. here is one i did for my mom's friend who got married in 2002.

here are two baby ones. i was surprised to get paid for the girl one. a happy customer.




on another note, this week alone i have turn two people on to his excellency, alton brown and good eats. >sigh<

DSM, friends and my favorite model gets a new sweater

i spent a few days in iowa for work. i took these pics on the plane on the way back. i also took some in the airport at 630 in the am and was convinced i'd get cuffed, interrogated and put on several "lists." good thing no one paid attention...
i finally see some iowa farmland.

sorry, but this was just too freggin' awesome to pass up.

luke is getting a new sweater! he has outgrown this one so i am going to make a new one for him. his dad said that he enjoyed wearing the striped one, so i feel i've done well. i told him to keep it for their next kid, too.
for the next project, i have chosen a moss stitch sweater with collar in the cotton DK from Number Three. so far i've accomplished a lot after starting tuesday night!


a boxty update...they are headed to the arlington street people's assistance network soon, hopefully. i hope they will be enjoyed.

also to follow up...the music goes on! more music postings soon. i'm glad that won't end. :)

flub

flub is all in dutch.
i think he's awesome.
at least i think it's a he.
i have a flub keychain.
flub has lots of friends.
http://www.flub.nl/