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Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
The Expected: a fast-topic-changing Friday!
The Promised: The pattern for the Renee Baby Blanket, in celebration of my niece’s being-born-day!
I have a few more details on Molly Renee…she is 21.5″ long, with curly dark hair. Personality-wise, she’s really laid-back…sleeping straight through her first night, even. She’s a pretty girl, and a relaxed baby.
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The Renee Blanket.
A lovely combination of lace, warmth, and wash-ability.
This pattern uses 400 grams (8 skeins) of Dale of Norway Baby Ull, or 1440 yards of a substitute yarn with 6 stitches to the inch.
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Five bucks buys you an instantly-downloadable PDF file, which includes the pattern, lace chart, photos, and the Renee Blanket story.
$5.00 US, via PayPal.
Next…!
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I had a strange sensation when I stepped outside early this morning.
It was the sensation of not sweating.
Could it be? Might I make it through this Texas summer??
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I can’t be the only one this happens to. Relaxing in the evening, knitting on a pair of socks, drinking some wine. I take a sip of wine, and DANGER! Needle! Eye!
It’s all about living’ on the edge, I suppose.
Yes, that’s orange soda. It was a little early in the day.
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The dogs got…
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Stinky new chew hooves yesterday.
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I think giving dogs chew hooves must be like giving human children a new video game.
I didn’t hear a peep from them for hours. Aside from the crunching, of course.
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I couldn’t have handpicked a better fortune for myself.
Have a great weekend!
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
It was a long, productive night.
Not so much for me, but certainly for my sister and her husband.
Molly Renee finally decided to stop torturing her mother, and take her first step towards autonomy.
Here she is, with her proud big brother. Timmy suddenly looks much older to me, now that he’s not the baby anymore.
She’s 6.9 pounds and a yet undetermined length. (My mom and I have a bet going on this…I say 19.5 inches. Mom’s gonna owe me a cheeseburger.)
Mother and baby are both fine, and doing well.
Pleasure to see ya, Molly Renee!
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Must get off the computer.
Must get back to what I was doing.
Can’t.
Stop…
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Harry Potter books arrived in the mail. Well, the first six, at least.
I have a book to my nose every minute that I’m not watching this:
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I’m half-way through the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Lots of wizards and goblins in my life right now.
I think I already watched the first two movies ages ago, but watching them back-to-back makes a big difference for me in following the story.
I understand so many pop culture references now. I know who Strider is! I know who Arwen is!
Yeah, sometimes the bandwagon picks me up much later than everyone else.
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And, this. I haven’t posted about this project before, but I’m nearly finished. It’s a thick, 100% washable wool blanket for Molly Renee. The sort of blanket that she can treat roughly without ruining it.
As with every knitted baby blanket, when I near the end, I start to knit furiously. Trying to END THE MONOTONY. Besides, my next project is calling to me. (Since I’m a one-project-at-a-timer, I won’t start the next one until this one is complete.)
Almost there.
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Naturally, these guys are the best reading/movie watching/knitting buddies a gal could ask for.
My friend, a.k.a. “Strider’s Mistress”, let me borrow her Lord of the Rings DVDs. Her Basenji happens to be named “Strider”. I’ll have this all figured out soon.
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
Ready to blast off into a fast-topic-changing Friday? Well, ready or not…
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I’ve been a little nervous lately. I was nearing completion on my current knitting project, and I had no idea what to knit next.
After a few days of searching high and low for something good, my next project idea came in the mail.
Cute, right?
The shocking thing is…
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…that it came from this magazine.
I know that people find nice things to knit within the pages of Cast On, but I usually flip through for a good belly laugh.
After all, it oftentimes provides us with gems like this:
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Yeah.
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I am reading the most delightful book. It is Better Than Beauty, A Guide to Charm, first published in 1938. Much of the information is timeless, while other stuff is more like this:
Hair, like any other part of your body, should be washed when it is dirty. If you live in an industrial center where coal dust rules the waves, your hair needs laundering once or twice a week.
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Next socks = started.
These are the Go With the Flow Socks from Interweave’s Favorite Socks book. I’m using Araucania sock yarn.
This is also the maiden voyage for my new Knit Picks DPNs. Wow. These needles are fab.
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Pfffbbffft!
Have a great weekend!
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Two finished knits in one week? Crazy!
Not really. Today’s FO is a pair of socks I’ve been working on since April.
Yes, APRIL.
I always have a pair of socks going as a portable project, and I rarely focus all of my knitting attention on them. I knit on these during a pedicure last week and made great progress, so I decided to go ahead, finish them up, and take some photos.
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First I had to get Abe to move, then brush off a few tiny black hairs from the backdrop.
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There we go.
These are the Aran Braided Socks from Knit Picks, knit with Colinette Jitterbug.
I would have made them longer, but Jitterbug doesn’t really offer enough yardage for longer socks.
This photo is another total ripoff from Caro’s awesome photo styling.
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I have two favorite things about this sock design.
The first thing is the way the cables appear to “drip” right down into the ribbing.
The second thing is how stretchy the finished socks are. Very well-fitting, even on my skinny feet.
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This is my first pair of short socks. I can see myself probably wearing these around the house.
I can’t see myself wearing short wool socks outside during really cold weather.
I’ll get plenty of use from these, but I’m feeling a little ripped off by the yarn company. They could have given me enough yarn for a normal pair of socks. (It was an impulsive purchase where I didn’t check the yardage.)
Ah, lesson learned.
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Ambassador Lou.
Yesterday I did a home visit for some potential Basenji Rescue adopters. One of the people in the couple had never met a Basenji before, so Lou came along to remedy that problem.
Lou was such a gentleman, and he totally turned on the charm. Needless to say, the couple can’t WAIT to get their own Basenji now, even after I told them some horror stories.
Here he is, being such a good boy during the car ride there.
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