Category: musings

  • big brown blob

    Not much exciting happening around here – I’m trying (although not really hard enough!) to get a bit of Christmas knitting done.

    big brown blob

    This is a plain vest for my grandfather, being worked up in Ultra Alpaca in a nice brown. I’m actually nearly done now, on the second upper front (the body’s knit in one piece). Then just bands and buttons to go. It should be done in time! But knitting something for my grandpa means I should probably knit something for my grandma, right? I knit her a tam a few years ago that she used a lot, so now I’m thinking of maybe knitting her a slightly fancier one. Nothing too slouchy.

    Then there’s weaving to do, designing that I want to get done. I’ve got lots of ideas but somehow the energy just isn’t there! I think I’m feeling a little overwhelmed with everything that I want to get done that I just…don’t do anything. I’ve hardly knit at all this weekend! I’ve been cooking and lots of other stuff, but not really knitting. I’ve got to get back on that.

    Oh, I did knit up this simple hat for the store –

    earflap hat

    I used Fibre Company Terra, which is one of my favourite yarns! It’s too bad the yarn comes in such a small skein though – I had to use 2 to make this hat. It was fun to do a project that turned out well and was so quick! I’ve been making a bunch of easy pattern cards with patterns like this, the simple shawl, wristwarmers, the red shrug, and so on. I’m hoping to soon put out a sheet of available patterns for wholesale, but that’s a ways off right now.

    swirl

    I love that colour. And the swirl!

  • permission denied!

    Does anyone use Google Reader’s “next” button thing? I’m moving more to the blog reader thing to keep track of what I like to read, but I also love looking at people’s actual sites! Ysolda told me about the next button, so I’ve been using that.

    But every so often I reach a page that just says “permission denied” in the upper left corner that doesn’t let me go anywhere else! If I go to the main Google Reader page I still have unread posts, so it’s not the end of the internet – I’m thinking that one of the blogs on my list has some kind of block on this.

    Any ideas? I guess I could go through and re-add stuff back to my list one at a time, but that sucks!

  • today’s the day

    As a non-American, obviously I can’t vote! But whoever governs the US has a huge impact on the entire world (much as I hate to admit it).

    So, my American readers and friends, get out there and VOTE! Make record turnout numbers! Wear your stickers proudly (sorry to those who voted early or is it absentee?, I know you don’t get stickers!).

    I’m not going to tell you who to vote for, because I’m certainly not going to change anyone’s mind at this point.

    But I think you know what to do.

    Perimeter skirt - joining ridge

    Coming up – another new pattern! Whoa.