Category: Knitting

Happy Birthday from DefensiveDriving.com

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Okay, this must be the single most depressing birthday wish I ever received via email. Well, happy birthday to me anyway. I feel the need to clarify here . . .  I am not a bad driver, this was from the FIRST and ONLY speeding ticket I’ve ever received . . . a little over a year ago.

After moving to Texas (1/1/1996) I longed for the snowy Winters I had always known… for years really. But now I gotta tell you, once Christmas is over and most certainly after my birthday, I am ready for Spring. Here in Central Texas we start planting around Valentine’s Day. . . I’m serious. I’m not trying to make you jealous, really. That said, I may want to undecorate the Christmas tree tomorrow so I can make the recycling deadline. I can’t wait to start building my raised bed… I did get a head start on the composting a few months ago.

Twist (pictured above), what can I say. . . I may not be too far along but I am really enjoying it. It’s been a tough deadline week so I was smart enough to not pick this up at night with my tired eyes and screw it up. I’ll sit with it some over the weekend as we will have NO ELECTRICITY for at least tomorrow. May be a good opportunity to see Juno too.

Well, I must wash my face and head off to work. Wish me a short day at the office, please.

4 short years ago Roscoe was my birthday present….here’s how he looked then at 6 weeks.

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“How clever of you. . . to know something of which you are ignorant.”

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I am Elizabeth Bennet!

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Okay, so I turn 43 tomorrow. Wow.

For my birthday weekend we are having the electric service panel replaced on our house. Woohoo!
My birthday gift (besides a whole lot of either Classic Elite Lush or Blue Sky Alpaca to knit a luxurious shawl) is going to be the coolest of projects… DH and I are going to build a homemade tabletop letterpress that I saw in Readymade magazine. I am so excited to get some plates made and start printing. I had a mini print shop set up in the kitchen for my Christmas cards and realized how much I just adore printmaking. I will say this about my forties. . .  I’ve never experienced living in such an explosion of creativity as I have in the past 3 years. Don’t know if it’s reconnecting with (and then losing) a long lost mother, just being in my forties and just not giving a shit…or finally making a nest. Whatever it is, I’m finally living the creative life I knew I always wanted. . . it’s not a luxury, I need it.

First pair of socks for SAM 5. I finished my first picot edge and it looked so great….then I got
overconfident and made some mistakes a few rows into the leg. The
needles are US 1 and the yarn is teensy so I kept losing stitches and soon
realized I would never be back where I need to be.  . .  so I started over and am back where I was. The picot edge is so pretty but I need to learn to do a proper chain cuz mine did not plink off the stitches like it shoulda.

Oh, and to the oh so brave IB in Minnesota . . . I’m on that same journey sistah, be in touch. email me

Finally a sweater I may actually finish!

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I started My Cedar Creek Socks
using Lornas Laces and the yarn just didn’t do it for me. I like a bit of
sproing in my sock yarn, don’t you? I remembered I had a skein of Plucky Knitter merino in "Reese" Colorway . . . It looks like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup wrapper. I’ll take a photo of this super cute stuff tonight but the candy shot will have to do today. This is cruel I know, as I know most of you are viewing this from your work computer and your thoughts have now turned to the vending machine down the hall. Sorry.

I have started and scrapped more more sweaters than I’d hoped to. I have actually finished a few baby sweaters with no problems. . . top down, bottom up, set in sleeves. I’ve gotten pretty bored with scarves.

A week ago I started Ariann  . . . again . . . for like the 7th time. scrapped it. I like to knit at night while I watch TV so the lace pattern was making me kinda nuts. While it’s not a complicated lace pattern, it does require more constant attention than cabling. So over the weekend I started Twist. I am LOVING it! I love me some cables and while I was intimidated by having to seam it up at the end, it actually feels less daunting while knitting since I do not have so many stitches on the needles. This one piece at a time thing may be right up my alley. I have actually knit as far as one of the 5 or 6 cables on the back! Will probably go with collar instead of a hood.