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April 25, 2006
Self-Portrait Tuesday - Silly
Moving house has its sucky moments, but it can inspire silliness. For instance, you've cooked a steak with your friend, and you discover that, while you have two forks, you've failed to pack knives. But then again, you don't have a kitchen table and there's no light in the living room, so you wind up sitting on the floor in semi-darkness. At least the wine is Bonny Doon screw-top.
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April 20, 2006
obligatory blog update
I have been a very bad blogger (and a very bad knitter) lately. There's been a lot going on, and the chaos has prevented me from updating regularly. Soon things will settle down (I hope) and my knitting bloggitude will resume.
But here's a random picture of Ethan to tide y'all over.
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April 11, 2006
bandwagon birthday meme
Margaret did this, and it amused me.
Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
Three events:
1307 - According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
1926 - George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
1985 - Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip by Bill Watterson, is first published.
Two birthdays:
1836 - Sir William S. Gilbert, British dramatist (d. 1911)
(I like the synchronicity of the death of Sullivan on Margaret's birthday)
1928 - Mickey Mouse, Cartoon Mouse
(duh)
One death:
1978 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (suicide) (b. 1931)
(sort of a cheater extra event)
Self-Portrait Tuesday - Silly (2)
I am too lazy to go out to the car and get my camera and arrange some sort of silliness, so I'm just going to post this picture from Christmas. I've always liked putting olives on my fingers and waving them around at people.
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April 5, 2006
Self-Portrait Tuesday - Silly (1) (and other stuff)
I know it's Wednesday, but I took this last night. I have witnesses. This is me, eating pizza (with jaw-hurting consequences) and being annoyed that the camera wouldn't focus.
Lest you think I never finish everything, here's a cool hat I made. It's a totally generic pattern, but I love how it turned out. The yarn is Filatura 127 Print. The ribbed brim of the hat is made of the pink colorway, and I was thinking about putting a pink puffball on the top, but I like how the top looks as is. Happy Project Spectrum April!
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April 1, 2006
FLASH! (Aaauuugh)
Last year I wanted to do this, but I really didn't have that much stash, and I felt inadequate. This year, not so much.
What I realized while photographing this is that, while I don't have as much yarn as I'd feared, it is outta control. I must find a better yarn-storage system.
So here goes.
Here's my precious, precious Brooks Farm mohair. There's some Duet and some Primo, and the black is the new Riata. Yum.
And the bowl of trophy yarn on the kitchen table. Most of it is Artyarns Supermerino, but there's some Alchemy Silk Purse, and some various laceweights from Knitpicks. The feather needs to be sewn into my black bonnet. I do not intend to knit with it.
My "I'm actively working on this" bag. Inside is Skully and Interlocking Balloons.
Here's the yummy yarn I got in Sacramento last week.
My shameful, shameful "Knitting Stage Manager" bag. It hasn't been cleaned out since the last play I did. In it is some Claudia in a mindless stockinette tube (good booth knitting), a black scarf that I think I'm going to frog, and a great pink cabled scarf to which I mislaid the pattern and can't figure it out.
Closeup of aforementioned bag
The ingredients for the Harry Potter scarf
Odds and ends - Manos, Kidsmack Haze, Lavold Silky Wool, Cascade 220, Gedifra Techno Hair and Louisa Harding Fauve (ahem), Brooks Farm Duet, etc.
Except for the Malabrigo (upper left blue ball), I know what I'm doing with all of this. I just have to get off my ass.
My precious skein of Artfibers Chai, with some Knitpicks sock yarn in the foreground
Bag of pink/purple/red yarn
Some of the Cashsoft from the evil blanket of doom. The rest of the yarn and the blanket are stuffed unceremoniously in the wicker chest. I did not photograph them, just out of spite.
SSS pile. The blue sock is the first real sock I ever made, just to see if I could do it. The second orange All Seasons Cotton sock just needs the toe closed up and the heel added. I don't know why I just don't do it - the first one fits beautifully and is extremely comfortable. The skein of Louet gems is for the boring-ass sock that's in my Jordana Paige bag.
Stash of neutrals. There's a bunch of wonderful alpaca (for an undetermined shawl, probably), and some delicious angora.
Actively working on this: the Besotted scarf for Paula
The Kidsmack Haze for Birch
A shameful peek into my Jordana Paige bag. There's some more of that red alpaca, a partially finished sock, a bit of pink angora, and some pink Claudia that I'd like to make some baby socks out of.
And here's where it gets ugly. This is the upstairs hall closet.
I thought if I shoved it way in the back, I wouldn't have to acknowledge the presence of all that Lion Brand.
Another bag of odds and ends. Yeah, there's a bunch of fizzy novelty yarn, but there's also some lovely cashmere.
Some yummy yummy Alchemy Promise, and a little peek of Artfibers Paco
Surprisingly, this skein of Brooks Farm merino is the only un-knitted yarn in my bedroom. One of my cute bras is keeping it company.
And finally, most of my knitting books. The newer ones are stuffed into knitting bags, under my bed, and between sofa cushions.
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