Archive for August, 2008

Reminded

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Thanks to Amy I thought I better post my Olympic non-completion:

I got through 1 skein and part way into the 2nd and will probably have to purchase another skein to make it long enough.  Remember, I was sitting on my butt eating popcorn…please excuse the clothing in the background.  These are school clothes - I [...]

Working and Sitting on my Butt

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Too busy to take pictures of my scarf but I have worked through 1 skein and will start the next one tomorrow night (hopefully…)  Dh and I have been working crazy here in addition to juggling kid’s social situations and watching my 5 year old grandson - this has been very challenging to say the [...]

I’ve started…

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Thank you to all the wonderful people who gave me their opinion on which scarf I should start…I didn’t pick any of them.  I picked the first one - The One Row Scarf.  The picture on the Harlot site is very different from another one I saw done up and that is what convinced me [...]

Opinion in Olympic Proportion

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Well - I am getting a little more inspired to start a new project for the Olympics but am still struggling with the possibility of the “wrestling” division with my WIPs but let’s be honest…there is nothing like starting a new project!
I need some help picking out a pattern.  I have 2 yummy skeins of [...]

Classic Reading

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

No knitting going on but I was inspired to watch Meg Swensen’s Gurnsey sweater DVD and now understand the whole gusset thing and even purchased the new Vogue Knitting magazine!  Maybe some time soon I will actually pick up the needles. I am trying to reconcile the fact that I have several items on the [...]