May 5, 2007

Much Ado....about something :)

Youngest Grand daughter has claimed this job as her own. After having watched one or the other of us put the garbage bag in the can, she's decided she can handle it! She does a pretty good job of it, too! Smart little 19 month old!

I didn't get any knitting done to speak of yesterday. F picked me up and we went to lunch, then to the movies. Saw Spiderman. Don't waste your money. Three hours that seemed like six. So totally predictable, minimal plot. They expected the special effects to carry the movie and there weren't that many new ones. Watching Spidey swing through NY just doesn't do it anymore.... I was disappointed. F and I give it "Two Thumbs Down."

After that disappointment, we went to Baskin-Robbins to freeze out our disappointment. Only to create another one. Oh, the ice cream was as good as always, but over $7.00 for three scoops of ice cream? Puhleeze! Nothing special, a double scoop cone and a single scoop dish. Oh and the movie prices have gone up, too, since the last time I went. Six dollars for the matinee, $9.50 regular price. Of course this is the new ownership of the theaters and they accept credit cards so that accounts for the price increase....The best part of our day was coffee at Border's Bookstore. We sat and chatted worked on some paperwork.

The knitting I didn't work on was a dishcloth. I CO on this Ridge Stitch Dishcloth with the rest of the MicroSpun to see how well it works and if it lives up to the rave reviews I've read.

The Heathen Housewife has been making a mitered blanket. Click the link button to see it. Unbelievable. Again, a good way to use up those leftover balls of yarn! I'm not sure when she started it...but it looks way cool.

So, I have no knitting pics to share, but here's a couple of cross stitch pictures I did in years of yore.....

The second one is Shakespear's Much Ado About Nothing. If you've never seen the movie with Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Keaton and Robert Sean Leanord (Dr. Wilson from House, M.D.) take the time to rent it. It's a fabulous story and really fun to watch, not to mention an outstanding cast!

There is a new knitting/crochet community, Ravelry, in the process of being created. From the way I understand it, it's like 360, except that everyone in it is a fiber person. Right now it's by invitation only as they are still testing everything. Those that are "in" and have posted about it say it's fantastic. Guess the rest of us will have to wait and see!

April 11, 2007

Sock of Disappointment

I frogged the purple sock. Tried it on and it was way too small. Well, not way to small, but too small for comfort. So, I went up a needle size, swatched and will CO again as soon as I finish the Ankh washcloth for B. I decided to use the Micro Spun. It's soooooooooooooooooooo soft, and very thin (compared to Sugar 'n Cream. So I am using two strands. It's coming out beautifully and feels so nice. Again, I can't imagine an acrylic washcloth would be that useful, but others swear by it. When I get done with the Ankh, I'll knit up what's left and try it out.

The hat with a pattern is coming along nicely. I'm using one of the patterns from the 365 Pattern a Day calendar. Maybe I can finish it tonight, but I'm thinking it'll take another evening!

And so that was my uneventful life yesterday. Today my son and I have left over pieces of dead tree to haul to the dumpster. I let the property manager know it'll take us a while to get it done but that we will haul it all away...eventually....

Here's another one of my cross stitch projects of long ago....

March 8, 2007

TOO TIGHT!!!

I bound off my sock last night and the bind off is too tight! I knew, as I was doing it, I shouldn't bind off when I'm tired and watching Lost, but did I listen to myself? Noooooooooooooooooo... So today I unbind, rebind and the CO the next sock. I'm going to wait till I'm done with sock #2 before I do the heels.

Live and learn....

This is a cross stitch I did several years ago. I didn't have the money to have it framed so I made it into a small pillow that sits on my bookshelf next to "my chair" in my bedroom.

We saw Ghost Rider yesterday. I thought it was great fun. A little campy with funny comic book lines thrown in, but it had a good story...and beginning, middle and end, which I find to be a problem with many movies. They have a beginning, a middle and then they stop filming. No end, they just stop filming! Anyway, Nick Cage did a great job, the special effects were great and it was totally entertaining!

March 24, 2007

I dyed....

Here's the KA dyeing I did yesterday. I started with Arctic Apple on the Knitpicks yarn with the colored bits. It was too light, so added some Lemon-Lime and got this green. The red is Black Cherry, and the blue is Blue Raspberry. The Red and Blue is the same yarn as the anklets I'm currently knitting.

I have the heel flap just about done, so if I get a goodly amount of knitting time in today, I should be able to finish it.

Do you ever go in to just do the dishes or just clean off the table next to your chair and end up rearranging the entire room? That happened to me yesterday. We have a very tiny kitchen as far as counter space goes. There was about a foot square piece of counter top to use during meal prep or baking, etc. Just wasn't conducive to doing anything.... So, yesterday, I added a flat top to a trunk that is in the corner of the kitchen and moved the bottled water dispenser (crock with a five gallon bottle) and my daughter's bread machine. With a little more rearranging it opened up a whole bunch of space! Guess it worked...my daughter made muffins for breakfast!

Remember how tickled I was that my AC unit was up and running? It's almost cold enough again to turn on the heater! It rained on and off all day yesterday and the temp was down in the mid 40s last night! So I guess our weather is just as screwy, if not as dramatic, as the New Englanders and others with all the new snow! Global warming is a reality.

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Navigator: Yes, I do know how to cross stitch. And I'm quite good! I'm one of those people that can only do one hobby at a time, so now I knit!