Well, its been a bit since I've populated the blog with knitting stuff - so here is a picture of Sock #1 of a pair.


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Well, it took longer than I thought, but I am FINALLY finished. I think it turned out wonderful (except I need to fix that dropped stitch I found last night).

This is my Mom's Christmas Present. (She doesn't read my blog, so its safe to show)


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Sock It to Me:

Competitive Knitters Get Deadly Serious Based on 'Assassin' Game,This Contest Has Players on Pins and Needles

By KEVIN J. DELANEY December 17, 2007; Page A1 Wall Street Journal

Meryl Williams's friends had been asking her for days, "Are you dead yet?" On Oct. 30, she suddenly was. The socks did it.

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OK - its been a while since I've had knitting content. My camera has been broken and I've been working on one big project that I haven't had a chance to photograph and one small project that I finished up a few weeks ago.

These are for my SIL for Christmas, along with polish and a giftcard for a pedicure. That's my foot modeling it.


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Carpe Lanum - Sieze the Wool.

This was the motto for my knitting weekend retreat with the knitters to the Southeastern Animal and  Fiber Festival (aka SAFF) in Asheville North Carolina.  We took off Thursday afternoon, were some of the first people in the arena on Friday, took classes and SIEZED THE WOOL!!!  I saved money all year long (since last ( Read more... )

HEY!!!  I've been podcasted.

I listen to Craftlit: A Podcast for Crafters Who Love Books.  The premise is we listen to books (in the public domain) while we knit, crochet, weave, spin . . .   Well the story we have been doing is Tristian and Isolde (French version) and as we neared the end, I offered to read a short version of the story as told by ( Read more... )

Well, I can't say I'm 100% pleased with how this turned out - but only because I thought it would be BIGGER.  Its my fault, I didn't take in account the differences between the yarn in the pattern and the yarn I used and how that would affect the size.  So while I did knit it bigger that the original pattern, it came out smaller because the yarn I ( Read more... )

Once a knitter starts using Nice yarns (i.e yarns that cost money and you can't find at big box stores) it becomes more and more difficult to resist knitting things for people in nice yarns.  Its a knitting conundrum.  And that is where I am at.

I want to knit an afghan (Hemlock Ring Blanket) or my parents for Christmas.  I KNOW that they will ( Read more... )

Today was the first time I've been able to do a full routine work out.

This means:
Warm up on stationary bike - 10 minutes
Elliptical - 20 minutes and 5 min cool down
Upper Body Weight Machine routine (4 reps)

At
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Too bad I can't add weights to my needles.

You know - then I could Pump Needle and get buff while I knit. GRIN

I've heard rumors in my knitting group of some knitters out there in the world who can knit while exercising or on the treadmill or walking - and I envy them.