Now I can Cast On with New Projects.

I finished my Vogue wrap (Iris Schreier Modular design, Spring 2006). It was quick knit, mostly bus commute time. I made it of an inexpensive test yarn before unskeining the Sea Silk.
It was funny though because the yarn, (Hobby Lobby Yarn Bee Brand, Featherwisp in Creamsickle) while soft as a baby bunny, shed like one too! And I would have to be taped and defuzzed before work every morning. Talk about hitting the needles early! The funniest part though was when it thunderstormed one afternoon and we were all standing in the shelter together; there was one rather crabby young man lounging insolently on the bench so no one else could sit. Then he jumped up and hopped right onto the bus taking up multiple seats. However, since he had been sitting down wind from my knitting, I noticed as I got off the bus that his black headscarf was covered with little wispy fuzzies from my yarn. I'm ill bred enough to think that's Funny!

I, of course, celebrated this orgy of Finished Objects with Casting on many more!

Self Abzorba? or just a bathmat

It's done! The Great Abzorba of Mason Dixon Fame. I used circulars which made a lot of heavy and active stitches, if I do another one I shalln't do that. I used Lion Cotton and 13s. The colours are maize and faded denim ombre, 2 strands each.

Finis! Or the Lessening of Guilt.

Finished my little Red Alpaca off the Shoulder Sweater. Snug and curvaceous It's actually been done except for side seams for about a month. Now featuring Side Seams, ends wove in and ready to wear. Preferably to dinner with my Snookums wearing my new gold shoes.
A trifle blurry but my bonus at work went to a new Camera for Michael and we are states apart. Rats.









And Close up of the Cables which gave me a chance to practise my spot tinking.
I also adapted the sleeves. They were designed for those scrawny women with tiny arms. I don't have those, I am Sturdy. So silly little cap sleeves became above the elbow sleeves instead.

What I do for Peppermint Patties...

finished this little kimono in Lion Brand Sherbert Swirl. The ribbons say It's a Girl! The woman I made it for is paying me in Peppermint Patties. The things I'll do for the Sensation.

Not MasonDixon but lovely none the less

It's not part of the MasonDixon KAL but I'm still proud. It should be shown to all it's advantage on my VACATION! To see my future retreat from reality try heidelhouse.

A Little Lightheartedness.

Because it's a tough world out there and we should all hold hands crossing the street...

Check out Knitta, Please
(adult language) and the dreaded (gauge) word
Written by Mike Bryant, performed by Mike Bryant
A gangsta rap song about the most hardcore craft at the craft fair. See mikebryant.coffeehouse.ca for more.

This fun little gem was introduced to me by the CastOn podcast episode 28 and as I sat in 100 Farenheit degree heat on my city bus that had broken down, I was the only person not whining. Maybe I'm the crazy one.

Ball Band Colours

S = sugar n Cream
P = Peaches n Cream

Peppercorn Ombre (P) (Ooodles of it), White (P), Gumdrop (P), Rosewood (S), Softly Taupe (S), Sage Landscape (S), Ivory (S), Ecru (P), Winterberry (P), Cream (S), Fiesta Ombre (P), Potpourri (P), Lemon-Lime (P), Westport (S), Wine (S), Hot Blue (S), Country Sage (S), Cherry Swirl (S), Soft Teal (S), Butter Cream ombre (S), Country Brown ombre (S), Cornflower Blue (S), Jute (S), Beach Ball Blues (S), Key Lime Pie (S), Over the Rainbow (S), Coral Swirl (S), Creamsicle (S),Warm Brown (S), Soft Ecru (S) Painted Desert (S), Midnight Magic (a dark one, and a lighter one) (S)

Foul Play

Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn - the time is 1978, the place SanFrancisco.
What does this have to do with Knitting? One of those great Movie Lines...

Goldie Hawn plays a librarian (stop chuckling)who becomes involved in a deadly conspiracy. (Okay chuckle). The scene leading to great knitting is thus:

Dark evening, Goldie Hawn comes back to her apartment - you know the same apartment every movie in SanFran is filmed in - and as she comes into the living room...She is Attacked! Much thrashing and wrestling ensues, with the Attacker finally being pierced fatally with a pair of alumininum knitting needles.

Goldie runs to the kitchen (for the whippersnappers out there...phones used to be mounted on the wall in the kitchen-for convenience) calls the police station (pre 911) and gasps "I just killed a man with the needles!" The bored cop replies "Narcotics?" and she says "No, Knitting!"

So, despite a truely poopy week, at least I was not attacked in my living room its a good thing too because I only packed circulars on this trip.

The complexities of modern living:

I was reading recently where...in 1973... the average American had a list of 72 things they Wanted and on it 18 were neccessary.

Now, today...average American has a list of over 500 things they Wanted and consider 112 of them to be neccessary.

So in the spirit of early morning caffeine deprivation I was pondering my lists. They started simply enough. Remember the list is Stuff - not love, peace, caffeine (oh, is caffeine a thing?). I was actually doing swell until I hit....

YARN! simple four letter word. Yarn, easy enough right? No, there's bulky yarn for fast knits, baby yarn for gifts, soft alpaca yarn for that smouldering off the shoulder sweater, cotton yarn for warshclothes, wool yarn for The Man, sock yarn, shawl yarn....Beginning to see the dilemma? And I'm not even considering COLOURS. Rich vibrant, bright cheerful, deep autumnal, eeek! I am apparently a greedy person because I can't decide which I should live without. Yikes!

Urban Warshcloth sighting

For Knit in Public Day I decided to stray into odd new territory...A Champagne Bar!

Here is the warshcloth deciding what to order...
and later drinking...

and home to an early night with Miss Marple.

Not all Peach N Cream is Warshclothes

Took a break from the Warshrag addiction. Only because I went to the movies Saturday (X-Men 3, good special FX, little plot, little acting, IMO. Great Halle Berry hair though)and didn't think I could find those slip stitches in the dark.
What to make...what to make... AhHaa! It's summer here in Nebraska and my Nalgene bottle sweats everywhere. Look I have oodles of absorbent cotton yarn, and voila! The water bottle cozy. The cotton is absorbent without getting goopy, it stops people at work from drinking out of the wrong container, and you can hardly see the mistakes because of the colour. (look, it was the movies, it was dark)

Stay healthy and well.