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September 28, 2007 at 9:40 am | In me | 2 Comments

Hubby and I watched the new show Life on NBC on Wednesday night. Technically, we watched Bionic Woman and since Life came on after and we were too lazy to change the channel, well, we watched the show.

Quick synopsis: Charlie Crews was a cop who was convicted of a homicide and spent 12 years in a Federal Penitentiary before he was exonerated. Everyone thought he was guilty. His wife divorced him pretty quickly after his conviction.

So hubby mentioned that if I was sentenced to life without parole, he would divorce me too. Even if he knew I was innocent. He would fight for a couple of years, but that was it.

I was astonished! He was incredulous that I wouldn’t do the same.

I think he just doesn’t want to change the cat litter.

What would you do?

Letting my mind wander on I-435

September 26, 2007 at 10:05 am | In Socks, knitting | 1 Comment

There are a lot of things that I take for granted.

It’s kind of stupid, but it’s what I started thinking about as I passed by Worlds of Fun this morning on the way to work. If I had had to travel to the closest Six Flags as a kid to get on a roller coaster, well, I’m pretty sure I would never have ridden one.

One of the other things I take for granted is that my daughter will always be healthy. Anything can happen, but it won’t, right? Well, it does happen sometimes. Kemtee has a dear friend whose daughter has just been diagnosed with an illness straight out of House, M.D. She’s asking anyone who wants to help to Sock it to Maggie. Please consider helping raise the spirits of a 17 year old girl who loves hand-knits.

Another thing I am taking for granted is that my Husband Socks will fit the hubby. He will not try the first one on for me!

Oh, how I am loving the Mountain Colors Bearfoot!

From 90 to 54 degrees in two days, welcome Autumn

September 25, 2007 at 3:35 pm | In yarn | 1 Comment

Wow, I should win Sheri’s contest more often. Hello everyone! Thanks for stopping by!

Ok, now, since my head is full of totally unbloggable stuff, here are some yarny pictures.

These are the fall-appropriate Koigu KPPPM colors I picked up last month.

And here they are close up.

I have no plans for them as yet. Well, except the cuddling. It was fun pulling them all out of their bag to cuddle and take pictures.

Half ‘n half done

September 24, 2007 at 11:51 am | In knitting | 2 Comments

The pair of husband socks is half done, i.e. the first sock is complete.

I finished sewing up the right half of Reid.

Whadda weekend. Let’s just say that we won’t be going back to that Japanese steak house until Ladybug is older.

So, who’s ready for Heroes tonight?

Things

September 20, 2007 at 10:37 am | In knitting | 2 Comments

I’m motoring my way down the foot of the first Husband sock. It is my opinion that the most irritating part of a flap ‘n gusset sock is all those gusset stitches making things unwieldy. Once I get past the gusset, things move much more swimmingly.

I also have attached one sleeve to the side of Reid, and I am seaming up the length of sleeve to make the tube. Seaming is time consuming! There was a point in the knitting of the pieces when I decided to leave long tails for the seaming process. It turns out that all of those long tails are on one side of the cardigan. It amuses me. (Needless to say, that’s the side that has gotten all the seaming attention.)

I have neglected to mention that about a week after I whined about StitchDiva not accepting PayPal, I went back to their site and was able to pay by PayPal! I am sure that I didn’t overlook it before, but I am so glad I went back to check. I purchased the patterns for Sahara and the Simple Knitted Bodice.

And I am also happy to announce that Annie has been given a clean bill of health from the vet. Although the vet seems to think she has some phantom pain from the excised toe bone.

Let me introduce you to my leetle friends

September 18, 2007 at 9:47 am | In yarn | 1 Comment

I haven’t felt a reason to rush to get pictures of my Koigu purchases from last month. So instead of photographing them all at the same time, I’ll do it piecemeal.

These first two skeins are single loners that were on sale. They’ll probably become toddler socks.

Koigu P330, labeled by the store as Yellow Squash. This picture is probably the easiest yarn photo I have ever taken!

Koigu P516, labeled as Forest Shadows. Yeah, I see that fuzzy ply right there.

And finally, for you and your toddler’s amusement, I present a link to the video that gave Anna the giggles over and over again for almost 20 minutes: Mission Sqwerlpossible!

Hmm, there’s a package on the porch.

September 17, 2007 at 2:49 pm | In knitting, yarn | 2 Comments

The prize fairy swooped by my house this weekend!

Tasha/KnittingFisher held a contest on her blog a few weeks ago, and I was the lucky winner. My first impression upon just looking at the package was, “Wow, that’s a lot of postage! Well, it does have some heft to it….”

Well, yes, it does have some weight in there. Fresh King Salmon, jarred to last for 2 years! However, I don’t think it will sit on the shelf THAT long. Plus a lovely note with a sort of how-to for the Salmon. Very useful for me!

Cute notecards of Alaskan animals,

and two skeins of Online sock yarn. Can you believe that this is the first faux isle sock yarn to enter my stash? It should be fun to knit up! And I can have matching Mommy and Anna socks!

Thank you Tasha!

How to “sew shoulder seams”

September 13, 2007 at 10:31 am | In knitting, reid | 2 Comments

Step 1. Get really excited that you have 40 minutes to yourself to start the process.

Step 2. Pin shoulders together and be very grateful that you do in fact have the right number of stitches. Pat yourself on the back for your counting prowess.

Step 3. Climb on a chair to take a picture.

Step 4. Start carefully reading directions in Stitch ‘n Bitch. Don’t like them. Get Domiknitrix book. No help either.

Step 5. Decide to wing something like a mattress stitch.

Step 6. Work about an inch. Rip it out because it looks awful.

Step 7. Try another semi-mattress stitch.

Step 8. Rip again.

Step 9. Look at clock. The 40 minutes are gone. Quickly lay all the pieces of the cardigan out on the table to see how they’ll look when they are together.

Step 10. Take a crappy picture.

Step 11. Leave house to pick up daughter, grumbling to yourself about how you can do all these wonderful amazing things, like Kitchener, and HEEEEEEYYYYY.

Step 12. Think about undoing the bind-off and kitchenering or doing a 3 needle bind-off the entire 20 minute drive to pick up daughter. Bemoan the lack of Internet in the car.

(much later)

Step 13. Start picking out the bind-off for one of the front pieces. Piss off husband, who wants to work on the NYTimes Saturday crossword.

Step 14. Get half the crossword done, hand it to husband with the agreement that if he gets anything else, I will stop unknitting.

Step 15. Go to bed with slightly cranky husband. Utter the words that are most likely to get him to stop being mad: “I’m not wearing underwear.”

Why flash?

September 12, 2007 at 10:47 am | In Socks, knitting | 2 Comments

Well, because that’s the only way these pictures will turn out!

I let Hubby decide the fate of his socks. He chose stockinette. I had done 2.5″ in 2×2 rib when I asked him, so that’s how long the ribbed cuff will be!

Let the seaming begin!

September 11, 2007 at 10:17 am | In Socks, knitting, reid | 2 Comments

I was able to finish the last sleeve and dunk all the pieces in water yesterday. They dried overnight. I might be able to work up the shoulder seams tonight.

I also took all of Hubby’s measurements and cast on for the first ever Husband Sock. I am such a lucky knitter; his foot has only a 9″ circumference and is only 9 3/4″ long. And he has skinny calves (because he used to be a track guy.) At 7 spi, I cast on for a 60 stitch sock (size 2.25mm needles!). How awesome is that?

Now my only decision is whether I should do the whole leg in 2×2 rib, or if I should just do a cuff, and stockinette for the rest. I’m leaning toward the stockinette option right now.

And of course I don’t have pictures, and even if I did they would be horrible. I’m using Mountain Colors Bearfoot, colorway Larkspur, which is as close to the Plaid colorway of my Embossed Leaves socks as I could find.