I'm beginning the year with the following still OTN:
* coral socklets
* the My So-Called Scarf
* green sox
* Aranmor
* Log Cabin comforter
* wolf puppies cross stitch
* sewing room cross stitch
* Rambling Leaves shawl
...but the pile of FOs for last year is much larger:
24 December 2007: house sox for th'Mr
24 December: Dave's fishing bear
23 December 2007: Cody's scarf
19 December 2007: Tom's scarf
17 December 2007: house sox for Dad
16 December 2007: fingerless gloves for Mom
7 December 2007: modular jacket #3
24 November 2007: basic garter stitch bib
11 November 2007: toboggan (or "watchcap") for th'Mr
3 November 2007: Celtic Cable Scarf, in Vanna acrylic
10 Oct 2007: blue flannel curtains for the apartment
7 Oct 2007: red & black socks for th'Mr
7 Oct 2007: illusion cloth
3 Sep 2007: EZ modular jacket for grandnephew Q's "black bear," in scrap acrylic
3 Sep 2007: blanket bunny buddy in mustard cotton
27 Aug 2007: socks for th'Mr in Paton's Kroy Whitecap, in the BBS pattern
19 Aug: mini blanket bunny buddy in black sock yarn
14 Aug 2007 "yarn harlot" scarf in k2-kb-p1 pattern, in weird old Mary Maxim acrylic
6 Aug 2007 a changepurse for grandniece C in Paton's merino denim - I mailed it unfelted
21 Jun 2007 "Amanda's Squatty Sidekick," in Paton's Merino red, denim, retro, for grandniece C
9 Jun 2007 five 8" squares (and five more from Larissa) mailed to Kansas
1 Jun 2007 Socks for Soldiers #1, mailed 7 Jun 2007
26 May 2007 Janlynn bears cross stitch pillow cover
20 May 2007 two more squares for Kansas
16 May 2007 two squares for Kansas in wool-ease
5 May 2007 wool-ease sox in tan for FIL
13 Apr 2007 twisted rib socks in Paton's Kroy Jacquard
14 Mar 2007 worsted weight wool-ease sox in green & wheat
11 Mar 2007 felted "project tote"
3 Mar 2007 worsted weight wool-ease socks in cranberry & wheat
1 Mar 2007 double diamond dc in greens
17 Feb 2007 ug rug (crochet)
12 Feb 2007 turtle (crochet)
6 Feb 2007 trivet in purples (crochet)
5 Feb 2007 tissue cover (crochet)
5 Feb 2007 trivet in green & white (crochet)
13 Jan 2007 at least nine butterflies (crochet)
13 Jan 2007 N's Pillsbury Doughguy (crochet)
7 Jan 2007 catnip mousie
7 Jan 2007 BiL D's red scarf
6 Jan 2007 niece C's glittery blue scarf
6 Jan 2007 BiL D's red hat
6 Jan 2007 T's niece's blue hat
6 Jan 2007 aunt J's UK Wildcats hat
Showing posts with label charity knitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charity knitting. Show all posts
04 January 2008
05 June 2007
June travel, prospects, & projects so far
Got back yesterday from house-/ dog-/ cat-sitting at C & S's place in Ohio. We drove up Thursday afternoon, got home yesterday afternoon after detouring through Charleston & Huntington WV, where I needed to sign the union books. Huntington says Kyger Creek is calling a few at a time and should go "time" two months (or so) from now, and "the Oilcan" in Ashland is due to begin a sixty-day outage Sept. 15th. There are about 110 ahead of me on the books. In Charleston, when I asked, "where's all the work?" they said, "right here, and Clarksburg." Sounds like I may get a call out in the nick of time. Wish me luck.
There's a woman in Kenova who is freecycling "a bag of misc sewing items" in which I'd expressed interest. Somehow we miscommunicated (both of us) and I didn't get the bag on either the trip to Ohio or the return trip, and now she's on a trip herself. I don't know what's in the bag and her sig file indicates our philosophies differ, but I'm having fun participating in our miscommunication, and am looking forward to (maybe, eventually) meeting her and picking up the bag.
While at C & S's, though we have internet access it's just not the same as being home on our own boxes, we spend less time on the computer and more wondering "what to do next." They have some sort of satellite TV and high-definition, and TIVO and a bunch of other stuff I don't know how to use, so we did manage to watch a few decent movies and even an episode of Dead Like Me that hadn't arrived in our netflix queue yet.
I finished the soldiersocks and printed out the band I'm supposed to wrap them in. I'm glad that's done; it took much much longer than I had planned, or expected, and I was heartily sick of the project several times before the end, but the socks are beautiful and I'm proud of them. And it was good practice knitting; I now have a standard sock pattern (my adaptation of the official SFS pattern) to use with fingering weight yarn, and a new favorite "cheap" sock yarn: knitpicks essential solids.
Got quite a bit done on the Oh's and X's cross stitch, and unless the backstitching really transforms what I see so far, I won't be buying any more of their patterns. th'Mr made a valid point:
he: "how much did that cost you?"
me: "not much, I got it out of the clearance bin at Michaels, I think."
he: "then why, if you don't enjoy it, are you finishing it?"
me: "uh..."
I'm finishing it because I'm curious just how much the backstitching will improve it. I'm finishing it because it'll fit with the "decor" or "theme" of what will eventually be my sewing room. I'm finishing it because I'm OCD and have a really hard time not finishing what I start... eventually. But most of all I was working on it over the weekend because after finishing the soldier socks I had no other project with me to work on, and there's nothing like a craft store to be found anywhere near Athens, Ohio.
Wednesday, I think it was, th'Mr & I were out riding around town after RJ's film screening, and finally found the quilting supply store that I'd seen "Grand Opening June 1" fliers for. It wasn't open yet, but the proprietor (proprietess?) invited me in anyway, and I came out the proud owner of a Fiskar's brand 3-piece quilting set - rotary cutter, mat, and transparent ruler.
On the way home from Ohio we stopped in Barboursville to get th'Mr's dad (hereafter to be known as th'Mr.Sr) a birthday present, a digital picture frame. I think it's a great idea and something he (1) doesn't already have (2) may have actually never heard of (3) will enjoy. This is a guy who's pretty hard to buy for.
Speaking of guys hard to buy for, Fathers' Day is coming up, what, this weekend? I'm going to get busy knitting ties of sock yarn. Wish me speed.
And with that, I'll close this blog entry (almost neglecting to mention that we finally had rain, both while we were away and last night, and my nasturtiums are blooming!) and go cast on a tie.
Oh, my. I was all prepared to <shriek> here, when I did my usual <arrow up, enter> in order to access wvdial to go online and post this, and instead of wvdial my previous command had apparently been HALT... so after rebooting I expected this whole post to be gone but NO, Firefox is absofuckinlutely amazing. Yes, it's still here. Now to add some pix...
There's a woman in Kenova who is freecycling "a bag of misc sewing items" in which I'd expressed interest. Somehow we miscommunicated (both of us) and I didn't get the bag on either the trip to Ohio or the return trip, and now she's on a trip herself. I don't know what's in the bag and her sig file indicates our philosophies differ, but I'm having fun participating in our miscommunication, and am looking forward to (maybe, eventually) meeting her and picking up the bag.
While at C & S's, though we have internet access it's just not the same as being home on our own boxes, we spend less time on the computer and more wondering "what to do next." They have some sort of satellite TV and high-definition, and TIVO and a bunch of other stuff I don't know how to use, so we did manage to watch a few decent movies and even an episode of Dead Like Me that hadn't arrived in our netflix queue yet.
I finished the soldiersocks and printed out the band I'm supposed to wrap them in. I'm glad that's done; it took much much longer than I had planned, or expected, and I was heartily sick of the project several times before the end, but the socks are beautiful and I'm proud of them. And it was good practice knitting; I now have a standard sock pattern (my adaptation of the official SFS pattern) to use with fingering weight yarn, and a new favorite "cheap" sock yarn: knitpicks essential solids.
Got quite a bit done on the Oh's and X's cross stitch, and unless the backstitching really transforms what I see so far, I won't be buying any more of their patterns. th'Mr made a valid point:
he: "how much did that cost you?"
me: "not much, I got it out of the clearance bin at Michaels, I think."
he: "then why, if you don't enjoy it, are you finishing it?"
me: "uh..."
I'm finishing it because I'm curious just how much the backstitching will improve it. I'm finishing it because it'll fit with the "decor" or "theme" of what will eventually be my sewing room. I'm finishing it because I'm OCD and have a really hard time not finishing what I start... eventually. But most of all I was working on it over the weekend because after finishing the soldier socks I had no other project with me to work on, and there's nothing like a craft store to be found anywhere near Athens, Ohio.
Wednesday, I think it was, th'Mr & I were out riding around town after RJ's film screening, and finally found the quilting supply store that I'd seen "Grand Opening June 1" fliers for. It wasn't open yet, but the proprietor (proprietess?) invited me in anyway, and I came out the proud owner of a Fiskar's brand 3-piece quilting set - rotary cutter, mat, and transparent ruler.
On the way home from Ohio we stopped in Barboursville to get th'Mr's dad (hereafter to be known as th'Mr.Sr) a birthday present, a digital picture frame. I think it's a great idea and something he (1) doesn't already have (2) may have actually never heard of (3) will enjoy. This is a guy who's pretty hard to buy for.
Speaking of guys hard to buy for, Fathers' Day is coming up, what, this weekend? I'm going to get busy knitting ties of sock yarn. Wish me speed.
And with that, I'll close this blog entry (almost neglecting to mention that we finally had rain, both while we were away and last night, and my nasturtiums are blooming!) and go cast on a tie.
Oh, my. I was all prepared to <shriek> here, when I did my usual <arrow up, enter> in order to access wvdial to go online and post this, and instead of wvdial my previous command had apparently been HALT... so after rebooting I expected this whole post to be gone but NO, Firefox is absofuckinlutely amazing. Yes, it's still here. Now to add some pix...
19 May 2007
start-itis
Yesterday my six balls of Icelandic laceweight arrived. I'd bought them from a knitlister who is destashing in order to make a move easier, she says ;). At any rate, $70 retail yarn plus postage and I paid $35 for it. It's an intriguing yarn, a beautiful blue and very fine. It's a little scratchier than I expected, so this won't be Mom's second shawl. She wanted lavender anyway. This is more my color!
I googled for patterns and found a few, most notably on elann.com. Suddenly start-itis struck and now I'm 24 rows into the Rambling Leaves Shawl. It's exciting, till I think of all the projects I already have OTN. Finished a third block for Kansas this morning, then spent an hour on the BBS (big black socks - for soldiers), made a pot of chili from scratch and the internet, then spent a while working on the Janlynn Bear cross stitch. Guilt is a powerful motivator.
That damn start-itis, though; I have several patterns up on the screen and can't seem to close the browser on them. I'm afraid I'll be casting on at least one of them very very soon. Maybe this one.
I googled for patterns and found a few, most notably on elann.com. Suddenly start-itis struck and now I'm 24 rows into the Rambling Leaves Shawl. It's exciting, till I think of all the projects I already have OTN. Finished a third block for Kansas this morning, then spent an hour on the BBS (big black socks - for soldiers), made a pot of chili from scratch and the internet, then spent a while working on the Janlynn Bear cross stitch. Guilt is a powerful motivator.
That damn start-itis, though; I have several patterns up on the screen and can't seem to close the browser on them. I'm afraid I'll be casting on at least one of them very very soon. Maybe this one.
18 May 2007
charity knitting and frost in late May
I made it to the Friday night knit-together yesterday, after a two-week hiatus. Slowly I'm learning everyone's names. I can't put in words how much I enjoy these two hours a week; I'm always sorry for it to end.
Last night I worked on the soldier socks, finishing the initial ball of knitpicks on one of them, which got me most of the way down the gusset decreases. Later, at home, I began a third eight-inch square for Kansas. The first two I'd sent home (as demos) with one of the knitnighters, who works at Dove's (our local women's shelter) and has about half of the women at the shelter knitting.
My six balls of "icelandic laceweight" arrived yesterday. I'm disappointed in the texture --scratchy-- and I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it (knit a swatch or two first, I suppose?). I'd planned to use it for a shawl.
th'Mr phoned the drrr yesterday and they told him Cuz is improving but they'd still like to keep her another night.
Last night it was supposed to get down to 36 (with scattered frost advisories), but looking out my south window it looks like lots of things are blooming, so the frost probably missed us. I have a begonia and a cilantro here on my windowsill which I haven't planted yet. I wonder how the big hanging pot of millionbells (on the front, north porch) weathered the night...
Last night I worked on the soldier socks, finishing the initial ball of knitpicks on one of them, which got me most of the way down the gusset decreases. Later, at home, I began a third eight-inch square for Kansas. The first two I'd sent home (as demos) with one of the knitnighters, who works at Dove's (our local women's shelter) and has about half of the women at the shelter knitting.
My six balls of "icelandic laceweight" arrived yesterday. I'm disappointed in the texture --scratchy-- and I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it (knit a swatch or two first, I suppose?). I'd planned to use it for a shawl.
th'Mr phoned the drrr yesterday and they told him Cuz is improving but they'd still like to keep her another night.
Last night it was supposed to get down to 36 (with scattered frost advisories), but looking out my south window it looks like lots of things are blooming, so the frost probably missed us. I have a begonia and a cilantro here on my windowsill which I haven't planted yet. I wonder how the big hanging pot of millionbells (on the front, north porch) weathered the night...
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