Yes, it has been weeks; and I do apologize. Work, life, and my commitment to knit 1 hour a night results in some things getting put to the back burner.
I Can't Write It Better
Update on Crafts Magazine Shop, Simply Sewing, Modern Quilting, Kerrie Allman, Tallulah Ray (if you're wondering click on the link). To reiterate: As of today, Simply Sewing is two weeks late showing up on the shelves. If you are a subscriber, I urge you to contact the magazine to find out the status of your subscription. If you recently subscribed, get in touch with your bank, credit card company or PayPal and find out about getting a refund. Experience suggests that when magazines from any interation of this company are late, their demise, leaving behind unfufilled subscribers, generally follows closely behind.
Totally Tubular
After a fortnight of deadlines, deadlines, deadlines at work I need something relaxing AND I needed to find a project that would use up the 14 skeins of Knit Picks Swish in my stash. I had originally earmarked this yarn for a sweater, but after reading reviews on Ravelry about projects knit with this yarn growing, fuzzing, losing stitch definition, etc., I decided to do something that didn't matter rather than put a lot of effort into a sweater only to have it be potentially useless in the end.
Found a bedjacket pattern on Ravelry. Since the bedjacket has ribbed cuffs, decided to try the tubular cast on. Found a great video on You Tube done by Eunny Jang and in under an 30 minutes was bashing away in K1P1.
I know this about myself as knitter and I need to keep reminding myself, I don't like knitting with soft squishy yarns. Crunch and scratch are more my cup of tea. Yes it means I need to keep a stock of hand and cuticle creams nearby to remoisten every hour but I'd rather do that than work with a yarn the slips, slides, splits and does a St. Vitus dance all over my needles. Moving to the bamboo needles seems to have settled the yarn down a bit. But the first five inches was a nightmare after weeks of knitting with non-superwash, sticky yarns.
Color Affection Addiction or 6K Plus Ravelers Can't Be Wrong
Okay, so I was resistant. I don't like stripes. Since knitting down the stash is the order of the day, I pulled out the bag of Knit Picks Palette I'd socked away in the spring for the Miami Vice Shawl, ponied up for the pattern, and cast on. Thrilling, challenging knitting it isn't...more let me master the theory of relativity while knitting, but OH the results. Part of it is in the shaping, the other part is simple is just sometimes better. As for the stripes, I am knitting my Color Affection color block in pinks and fushias.
A Bit Scary but Exciting
Not really scary, just one of those moments that prompts a reevaluation of my self-perception. Saw an advertisement for a play the piqued my interest. Clicked on the link, read the reviews and then clicked on the link to the ticket site. Was about to exit after looking at the matinee ticket prices when a pricing option suddenly registered: 60 and over. Well hells bells, I'm over 60 now and totally eligible for reduced ticket prices.
I Can't Write It Better
Update on Crafts Magazine Shop, Simply Sewing, Modern Quilting, Kerrie Allman, Tallulah Ray (if you're wondering click on the link). To reiterate: As of today, Simply Sewing is two weeks late showing up on the shelves. If you are a subscriber, I urge you to contact the magazine to find out the status of your subscription. If you recently subscribed, get in touch with your bank, credit card company or PayPal and find out about getting a refund. Experience suggests that when magazines from any interation of this company are late, their demise, leaving behind unfufilled subscribers, generally follows closely behind.
Totally Tubular
After a fortnight of deadlines, deadlines, deadlines at work I need something relaxing AND I needed to find a project that would use up the 14 skeins of Knit Picks Swish in my stash. I had originally earmarked this yarn for a sweater, but after reading reviews on Ravelry about projects knit with this yarn growing, fuzzing, losing stitch definition, etc., I decided to do something that didn't matter rather than put a lot of effort into a sweater only to have it be potentially useless in the end.
Found a bedjacket pattern on Ravelry. Since the bedjacket has ribbed cuffs, decided to try the tubular cast on. Found a great video on You Tube done by Eunny Jang and in under an 30 minutes was bashing away in K1P1.
I know this about myself as knitter and I need to keep reminding myself, I don't like knitting with soft squishy yarns. Crunch and scratch are more my cup of tea. Yes it means I need to keep a stock of hand and cuticle creams nearby to remoisten every hour but I'd rather do that than work with a yarn the slips, slides, splits and does a St. Vitus dance all over my needles. Moving to the bamboo needles seems to have settled the yarn down a bit. But the first five inches was a nightmare after weeks of knitting with non-superwash, sticky yarns.
Color Affection Addiction or 6K Plus Ravelers Can't Be Wrong
Okay, so I was resistant. I don't like stripes. Since knitting down the stash is the order of the day, I pulled out the bag of Knit Picks Palette I'd socked away in the spring for the Miami Vice Shawl, ponied up for the pattern, and cast on. Thrilling, challenging knitting it isn't...more let me master the theory of relativity while knitting, but OH the results. Part of it is in the shaping, the other part is simple is just sometimes better. As for the stripes, I am knitting my Color Affection color block in pinks and fushias.
A Bit Scary but Exciting
Not really scary, just one of those moments that prompts a reevaluation of my self-perception. Saw an advertisement for a play the piqued my interest. Clicked on the link, read the reviews and then clicked on the link to the ticket site. Was about to exit after looking at the matinee ticket prices when a pricing option suddenly registered: 60 and over. Well hells bells, I'm over 60 now and totally eligible for reduced ticket prices.
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