Busy, Bissee, Busy

Work projects all over the place – what a mess! Visit from wonderful family of friends that we haven’t seen in 5 years, from California! House cleaning, rearranging, but at least it’s somewhat clean. HOT HOT HOT! Heat indexes in the 100 degree range, ugh! All this equals very little knitting – and again, all…

She made me do it – well, sort of…

After the depressing dip in the frog pond on the “Trellis Cardigan”:http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring05/PATTtrellis.html for the umpteenth time – I needed a lift. I had measured the Trellis back against my almost-7-year-old and it looked like it would fit her – LOOSELY, even! Argh. So, ribbet, rippet, ribbet, off I went. I decided, instead of changing needles…

Trellis, stop calling out to me!

I reached a progress point in the Aran Square Afghan we are making for _the Daddy_ around here: !http://photos15.flickr.com/20745998_29a25e657d_m.jpg(aran rope cable square)!:http://photos15.flickr.com/20745998_29a25e657d_m.jpg This is the rope cable sqare, my first real cabling experience besides swatching. I’m happy with it. It measures out at about 14 inches square. So, my reward was to work with this…

Happy Father’s Day ‘2005

A nice day consisting of yummy “Chimichangas”:http://chicken.allrecipes.com/az/ChicknChimichngs.asp and yummy “Lemonade Party Cake”:http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/Recipe.aspx?recipeId=36276 and a nice day of relaxation (between allergy meds wearing off), knitting on the Father’s Day surprise, that me and the 2 older girls have been working on (since we can now work on it in front of him: !http://photos16.flickr.com/20358947_13848e65e9_m.jpg(aran afghan)!:http://flickr.com/photos/starzabove/20358947/ They are…

KnitCast

This is pretty cool – I am knitting, listening to a podcast of “KnitCast”:http://www.knitcast.com on my ‘pod. So far I listened to the first one about “knitting and biology”:http://scifiville.typepad.com/knitcast/2005/02/first_edition_o.html and then I listened to the one that was “an interview of Pam Allen”:http://scifiville.typepad.com/knitcast/2005/05/knitcast07_pam_.html the Editor of “Interweave Knits Magazine”:http://www.interweaveknits.com, which I recently subscribed to, even…

I’ve been Spoiled!

Thank you, Secret Pal! You made my day! What a haul! And a clue about my Secret Pal. Yum! Goodies for me – Chocolate, Osaka Mix, and Cookies (one package is missing, Pumpkin-Ginger cookies, I was able to taste one before DS snagged them after picking up my package for me at the P.O. and…