Seeing Double

I will admit, that I have bought the same colourway of a sock yarn more than once. I may have bought a magazine a second time. I was not prepared to see this.

I even placed the new copy of the book right beside the first copy on the shelf and still didn't notice.


I suspect that I will find my knitting in the fridge soon.

Until then, does anyone need a copy of "The Natural Knitter".

I've been tagged
Michelle, aka knittinggrammy thinks that the world is interested in six quirky but unspectacular things about me. I disagree, but in an attempt to play fair, I will invent some.

1. I hate cooked turnips. I don't just mildly dislike turnips. I hate them. D's family thinks it's funny to dump a spoonful on my plate so that I have to eat them. I won't. There aren't many foods I won't eat but cooked turnips are at the top of my list.

2.I like raw turnips.

3. I am afraid of heights. In the past I have avoided the Capillano Suspension Bridge and the cave at Grotto Canyon because they were too high.

4. I'm stubborn. (just ask Sandra if you don't believe me) This is why I now have stood on the glass window at the Calgary Tower, on the top of Chichen Itza, and climbed all the stairs to stand outside at St Paul's Cathedral in London. I may only have one chance to see the sights and you always get the best view from high up. I refuse to let my fear of heights spoil the view. Next on my list is the Sydney Harbour Bridge but that one might be too high.

5. I believe that the law giving pedestrians the 'right of way' should be changed.

6. I watch lots of reality shows on TV. Survivor, Amazing Race, Hell's kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, Big Brother. I watch them all.

Vegetable sister #2 and Gingersnaps can consider themselves tagged.

I am a Procrastinator

I have gone shopping for Birthday gifts on the day of the birthday...if not the day after. I have entered damp socks in the Stampede because I hadn't blocked them early enough...even though the knitting was completed much earlier. I have started Christmas knitting on December 23.

I have the best of intentions to become more organised and not leave things until the last possible moment, but I get sidetracked and something more interesting will pull me away.

I confess, I was going to post this morning but my knitting and a crappy movie on TV made me delay until now.

I tell you this because there is an anomaly in my house. Why is my Christmas cactus blooming in October?



We just barely finished the turkey soup after Thanksgiving and I haven't bought my Halloween candy yet.

This wrong....unless it's really an Easter cactus and is procrastinating too.

Did you ever wonder????



how many people Kinneared The Yarn Harlot at Rhinebeck this past weekend??????

THE RHINEBECK/NYC ADVENTURE

Back in August, when we started planning our trip to NY, we realised that there wouldn't be enough time to see everything that Seven Knitters wanted to see. We didn't even come close.

But we rode the subway....from Hoboken to Manhatten to Battery Park, to Brooklyn and back again.

I missed Central Park where I was going to go jogging and find a body because on Law and Order they always find bodies in Central Park. Got my TV fix last night and the body was found in Battery Park. Now that was some good planning.



We looked at statues.



We ate. Then we ate some more. And for a break, we would have a glass of wine. And then we ate.



We had time to contemplate life in beautiful surroundings.



And we also went to the NY Sheep and Wool Festival.


We can rest before our next great adventure.

ZOMBIES ON THE LOOSE

While most of the citizens were happily eating turkey and mashed potatoes, a horrific scene was occurring on the streets of our fair city.


The Zombies were running amok.(okay, zombies don't run. They were walking slowly and creating mayhem)

But fear not.

One brave soul, armed only with his trusty toaster was there to save us.

He fought valiantly, and vanquished the foe. We can now rest easy and return to our pumpkin pie and spend the rest of the weekend knitting. We are safe!

FINISHED....AGAIN

On Monday I finished my Tilted Duster. As I was taking the picture to post on Ravelry, I realised that I didn't like the buttons that I had found in my stash, and I didn't like the way the collar bunched up around my neck, and it needed a snap right at the edge to make it close neatly.
Today I ripped it back and reknit it. I am much happier with the new closing. I now have the perfect sweater on which to wear this.
My shawl pin beaded for me by my friend Lorraine.

Sometimes a pattern just needs to be changed.

Tilted Dusted from Interweave knits 2007
Yarn - Berroco Peruvio 100% wool
Other alterations- Ribbing added to the bottom of the sweater to prevent rolling of the stocking stitch sections
-Sleeves were made one size larger.

A BRILLIANT IDEA

Every so often, I get an idea. Once in awhile, I get a good idea. Sometimes, I get a brilliant idea.

That's what happened back in July when I thought we should have a sock exchange.

The not so brilliant part of the idea was assuming that everyone checks their email as often as I do. Some people missed out but those of us who decided to exchange socks had fun.

These are my socks, knit by the wonderful mtlaise. They're perfect. They are Dreaming in Color Smooshy and match the sweater that I knit in the spring.



Pretty spiffy socks for Angele's third pair of socks. And now they're MINE!

HOME AGAIN, HOME AGAIN, JIGGIDITY JIG

6163 - Total Kilometres travelled.

States driven through - Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kansas. Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana.

Hours spent in the truck - too many to count.

Surprising sites - The windmills in Montana. There are fields full of windmills, that looked like some creature from outer space. Those things are huge.  And they looked even stranger on Tuesday when they weren't moving - at all.

Antelopes on the prairies.  There were hundreds and hundreds of antelopes. There were more antelopes than cows in the pastures.  We saw so many that we stopped pointing them out.

The Feed Lots in Kansas. Kansas around Dodge City is home to many many feed lots.  I'm not talking about small feed lots either.  They were huge!  Fortunately, on our trip home we drove through a very different part of Kansas that was very picturesque, with rolling prairie, and sunflower fields.

Mount Rushmore. Defiantly worth the trip.

And why did we drive to Bartlesville?


So that Grandmas could walk to the park.


So someone could crawl through the tunnel.


And since the one of the reasons for this road trip was to see sites that were written about in Western Novels, someone had to ride a horse.


We went to Bartlesville to visit, and relax and hangout.


The typical tourist photo - no sock included.