Well, I drove up to St. Louis yesterday with mom to pick up the li’l bro from the airport. He’s visiting from his current stomping grounds aka SLO(San Luis Obispo), in good ‘ol Cal-ee-forn-eye-ay. It’s great to see him again. His hair is longer than any of the girls in the family, and he still…
Realistic Rationalization Re:Knitting
Some knitting randomness – “This article”:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6038622/site/newsweek/ probably has the best explanation of why I yearn to knit so much. Mom signed us up for a sock knitting class that started Monday night and boy, was I nervous! I was so afraid I was not skilled enough. There were 4 of us in the class, 2…
Rippet Rippet
In my browsing and reading about knitting I keep coming across a term – FROG. And I finally googled the answer (it took awhile) : _*Frog* means to undo something. Because you have to “rippit” “rippit”_
My First Completed Knitting Project!
!http://photos4.flickr.com/8825911_b73198ab03_m.jpg(strawberry fruit cap)!:http://www.flickr.com/photos/starzabove/8825911/ p{color:red;text-align:center}. *Fini!*
4 Needles, Oh My!
Well, I’ve written a lot about knitting lately, but that is my latest “fun”, so that is honestly what is going on in my life, aside from the normal _stuff_. I’ve even been watching some knitting shows from the “DIY Network”:http://diynet.com off of the dvr. One is “Knitty Gritty”:http://diynet.com/diy/shows_dkng/0,2044,DIY_18180,00.html which is a really fun, trendy…
Easy Knitting – great start for kids
I purchased one of these “Knifty Knitters”:http://www.creativexpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=cx&Category_Code=gc-kniftyknitter for my 11yo, who loves it and is very good at it. And then the 14yo (who has been enjoying lap looming picked one up, but that led her to try _real_ knitting again and she was able to get the hang of it this time! She’s knitting…
Square Finished – Strawberry Reward
So, I finished one fourth of the “lapghan”:http://www.starzabove.com/images/lapghan.jpg pattern (and it actually turned out _square_!), so as my reward, I have started an “Ann Norley Strawberry Fruit Cap”:http://knittingzone.com/catalog/product_info.php?pName=fruit-caps-ann-norling-10 for my great-niece. p{float:right;margin-left:10px;}. !http://photos7.flickr.com/8692806_a741d0b5c2_m.jpg(Strawberry Reward)!:http://www.flickr.com/photos/starzabove/8692806/ I know I didn’t complete an entire project, but I completed _something_ and it looks pretty much like it’s supposed to…
Presidential Ponderings from an 11yo
11yo: Have we ever had a woman President? me: No, not yet. We’ve never even had a female Presidential candidate, just a vice-presidential candidate several elections back. 11yo: Well, if we ever do, what will her husband be called? me: What do you mean? 11yo: Well, now the President’s wife is called the First Lady,…
Gmail ups limits!
Wowsa! I love using Gmail, especially for list subscriptions – the conversation format of messages makes things so much easier to follow. But now, so as not to be undone by all of the other free email programs that are upping their limits following the beta release of Gmail, they have double their large 1…
That is IT! I’ve HAD it!
This is so OVER! I am SO outta here! I will deal with this NO MORE! Say good bye NOW. And if you want to know why, click “here”:/af2005.php