The Isle of Sleeves

This is a new place for me.  Having never knit a sweater before, I’m not entirely sure, but I suspect I’ve landed on Sleeve Island.  It feels vaguely familiar – the scenery is a lot like that at Second Sock Syndrome.  I find myself doing things that are in no way related to getting off [...]

Q&A – plying

Woo hoo, aren’t I the big fallutin blogger – answering questions in my posts!  Let’s just say I’m distracting myself from the fact that my cardi sleeves are using two and a half balls of yarn instead of the allotted two balls of yarn, which means I have only three balls with which to knit [...]

Greensleeves

I’m knitting my Rambling Rose sleeves in a race against time.  Otherwise known as knit faster so you don’t run out of yarn. 

When I started this sleeve, I had eight balls of yarn left.  My goal/hope/wish/desire is that each sleeve will take no more than two balls of yarn, leaving four balls for the yoke, neck [...]

Now playing at the Carver Theatre

Menopause…the musical???  Whaaaattt?  Do you think the guy on the bike is waiting for the ticket office to open?  ha
I was going to bastardize the classic musical hit “Oklahoma” to the tune of “Mennnnnn-opausal”, etc., but I spent six of my formative years in OK City and feel some sort of loyalty to the musical, Shirley [...]

let me distract you

Well, I was SURE I would finish the right front of my cardi last night and get a good start on a sleeve, but thanks to progesterone, I sacked out on the couch before 9:00 and still have about eight rows to go.  No more medicine until right before bedtime, for sure!  So, since it [...]

solitude

Until a couple of years ago, it wasn’t unusual for me to go an entire weekend without speaking face-to-face with another adult.  Unless you count the cashier at the grocery store, and I didn’t.  I hated it.  I called my friends, I called my sister, I called my mom.  I tried to fill my time, but [...]

virtual sunshine

I had a lot of fun taking these pictures; I hope you enjoyed them as well.  Thanks to everyone for the ‘get better’ wishes – I’m sure I’ll soon be back to normal (as much as is possible).  Have a great weekend!

I got the baby!

Which means I get to bring the next King Cake.  In honor of Mardi Gras, I’m resurrecting an old email I wrote after visiting New Orleans for Mardi Gras in 2001.
Random Scenes From Mardi Gras
A man sitting on the street corner having his wooden leg “tattooed” by a girl in a bathing suit…three mid-40s guys with [...]

Semi-solid dye job

This post is for Rachel, who asked on her blog about achieving a solid color of dye throughout.  Earth Guild recommends using gauber’s salts, and although I have a jar that came with my Lanaset dye starter kit, I’ve never used it. 
Part of my order from The Sheep Shed included 1 lb. of black/white roving, [...]

Starting off my Monday with a 16 oz. Diet Rockstar energy drink

That’s my excuse if this post is rambling. 
I’m in a green phase, apparently. Exhibit A: Green is a dominant color?  Exhibit B:  Rambling Rose cardigan:

Granted, I didn’t go to the store and purchase green yarn to knit this sweater, I shopped from the stash.  But it is green.  Sea foam, I think.  I’ve completed the [...]

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