12.30.10 Hello, It’s Me

I’ve thought about us for a long long time…. remember Todd Rundgren? He was hot in 1972.

There has been knitting. Lots of it. Mostly given away before I nabbed a photo.
THe is the Old Port Pullover from New England Knits. The yarn is Stonehedge Fiber Mills Shepherd’s Wool. I LOVE this yarn. Heavy worsted weight, 3 ply, soft soft soft. The dress dummy (no name yet, suggestions welcome) is new. Thanks Santa!

There has been visiting despite the snow: Caroline and Anne my girls. Anne’s birthday was Dec. 23rd. Boy was it cold, just like 24 years ago. Maybe that is why she is the shorter one. We visited with Granny, Bob, Laurie, Abby, Jordie, Grandma, Debbie, Sam and Peter. Peter will appreciate that I am not putting his lousy photo on the blog.

Hurry up Mom.

Since Christmas there has been more painting by Mr. Lady.

I am not discussing my colonoscopy any further cuz it was not fun. Don’t ask.

8.23.10 New Post!! You don’t have to read about my lightning scare again!

Yesterday Mr. Lady and I went on what I think I can only call a “date”. It was the day after our 28th wedding anniversary. I will not quibble. He did go grocery shopping and made a Baked Ziti (recipe from America’s Test Kitchen) on the actual day and then did some laundry too.

Anyway, yesterday we saw Inception. ***It was the best movie I have seen in a long time.*** If that was not mind bending enough we came forth from 3 hours in the dark theater into the light of a thunderstorm. What is it with wind and rain, thunder and sunlight all combined? Very surreal. Still not all. As we were driving away, in the VW Beetle with new front shoes, there was a rainbow. Not just any rainbow, no way, because we had just seen that crazy movie it had to be a special rainbow. In fact it was the brightest double rainbow I have ever seen. Did you know that the colors in double rainbows reverse themselves? Physics rears its complex head again. There were people in other cars but most were on cell phones and driving. We were not quite like this guy though. We went to Chipotle. It was not too much after all that weirdness. And it was not in our front yard this time. Then we went home and walked Suziedog who was most grateful.

I have been working on some knitting. Doing sort of a KAL with my sorority sisters of knitting, the TNKers: Tuesday Night Knitters, most of whom are knitting an honorary EZ piece. 100th bday you know. I started the BSJ a couple of times and just was not feeling it. So I took out a cone of LB 1878 from the local pharmacy (??) and began the Stonington Shawl (Ravelry link). Pretty easy, I decided to jazz up the center square with the eyelet. The yarn is some that I bought for weaving stash and is knitting very nicely. It is a soft 4 ply, fingering weight, probably from South America somewhere.

In an impromptu weaving burst, a new warp was wound onto the LeClerc and is deciding how to be threaded. I say that because I was just going to thread it for plain weave but decided to throw in some basketweave stripes. See, it is still deciding. The warp consists of some “sport weight” knitting yarns that have been hanging around me for a while. The solids were bought and started as a sweater from an Interweave Knits some (more than 10) years ago. The multi was bought at the yarn swap/sale a few months ago. We will see what comes of it.

All of my bruises are resolving. It has been about a month since the freakish incident. The only residual seems to be that my hand, where I didn’t even realize there was a bruise at first, continues to bother me. It will throw out a purple tinge every now and then and become sore from nothing in particular. That is the bone I think I cracked. Thanks to everyone for all of your good wishes! I really appreciate it.

And the Emperor is not so sure about me using his bedroom for weaving.

2.8.10 Nice weather we’re having…

Yep, weaving is on the blog. Don’t faint. It’s not much but it is at least something.

The 50 ends of yellow shetland warp has been on the Harrisville Rescue for a couple of months, since before my latest back issues which, by the way, are much relieved by the epidural cortisone injection. (Now if they could only inject the rest of me with cortisone!)

I cut off the ridiculous sample and resleyed to make something with skipped dents: 10 epi for 8 ends and skip 5 dents, repeat. Then added little extra yarn in some of the heddles and dents for a sprinkling of color weighting it off the back of the loom like a supplementary warp. Use a lease stick for a spacer because it was just lying there on the floor doing nothing.

Weave until the warp runs out and tie the ends in groups. Just off the loom it measured 6″ x 54″.
Wet finish by tossing into the washer with some warm water, a handy nightgown and a squirt of Ivory Liquid. Two minutes of agitation and I got fuzzy fulling so I took it out and hung it up to dry.
So now we have a new cheery scarf in a buttery (thanks Maureen) yellow with a little blue accent stripe to add to the gift box. After wet finishing it measures 5″x49″.

2.5.10 What Snow?

It is snowing again and I have finished my 2nd shawl this year no doubt in large part because of snow. Admittedly they are not huge shawls but more like shawlettes. This is Ruffled Fichu in Snow.

She measures 20″ down the center back, 55 inches in wingspan, and used approximately 700 yards of 2 yarns. That ruffled border was not so bad, just lots of picot bind off.

And this is my new pet. He came from The Yarn Lounge. He wants to go inside where it is warm.

Who is cuter?
Me?

or her?

Stay warm with your pets.