Monthly Archives: February 2009

Tom’s Been Corrupted (UUUUGGGGHHHHH)

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Hi All,
Well I never thought it would happen to me!!!!!! I like to knit and I like to finish a project before I go onto the next one!!! Well lo and behold I have joined the many masses out there and now have 2 projects on needles staring at me saying pick me pick me. I want to do both but only have 2 hands my brain is just puzzeled and I think Lea-Ann (DW) is enjoying look on my face as to which one to work on. I need more coffee to decide TTYL, Tom

P.S. added by Lea-Ann —  Here’s Tom enjoying said cup of coffee with his projects beside him.tom-with-coffee.JPG

Tom’s March Madness “FCCTCC” Contest

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Join Tom in a Knitting Today-sponsored “Felted Clogs College Team Colors Contest” (now known as the FCCTCC). Simply knit your favorite college team color clogs using the Fiber Trends clog pattern (available at http://www.knittingtoday.com/go.mvc?ID=80252), embellished however you wish to represent your favorite team, and send a before and after picture with FCCTCC in the subject line to Lea-Ann@knittingtoday.com. Please also include the yarn details and your contact information. Each picture received will be printed out and entered into the drawing. Receive two more drawing entries if you use Shepherd’s Wool purchased from Knitting Today (available at http://www.knittingtoday.com/go.mvc?ID=shepherdswool ).

The “FCCTCC” starts now until the final buzzer of the final tournament of March Madness. Winner will be drawn out of all entries received. The winner will receive a $30 gift certificate from Knitting Today along with a pair of Fiber Trends Seude Slipper Soles of your size and color choice.

Let’s Get Knitting!  — Tom

I made a liar out of myself

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So, by Wednesday evening I had already started another knitting project.  It wasn’t a pair of boots or a door mitten.  And I could have picked up my sweater but I didn’t.  My daughter has basketball practice on Wed. evenings and since she is only 9 I don’t like to leave her and go home  even though it’s only roughly 5 miles away.  I just know something horrible will happen and I won’t be there to fix it, so I stay and use my super-human danger repelling mom powers so that all will be well.  She, of course, is oblivious to the high stakes drama taking place in my imagination, but that’s okay.  She is safe and that’s all that matters.

How could I not capitalize on this prime knitting time?  Had to have something very small and easy as we have to sit on these child sized benches and of course there’s the mom chat that goes on while we’re watching practice so I can’t really concentrate. The obvious choice for moments such as these is socks, so I pulled out some sock yarn and away we went.  I started the slip stitch sock pattern from Ravelry (by I think, Criminy Jickets?) and have decided that these are my ball practice socks.  I should be able to finish them before her season is over because they are as close to a basic sock as you can get without the standard ribbed leg.

Everyone around me can rest easy knowing that there will be no eye poking or stressed out tantrums or anything of that nature.  Also, the paint is going on the walls upstairs so it is down to a matter of a few weeks before the assorted upstairs furniture that has migrated downstairs is back in it’s rightful place.  Soon all will be back to normal, or at least as normal as things get, and the usual routine can resume. 

 Big sigh… :-)   -Susan

It’s been HOW LONG?

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Wow!  I was just thinking that it sure had been a while since I blogged so I checked and I was right…. November something-or-other.  My, oh my, where has my time gone?  Well, a lot of it was spent renovating upstairs.  I finally threw in the towel and we hired someone to finish it.  I was stuck at hanging the drywall.  Let’s be honest here, it wasn’t ever going to get done.  I am now priming and painting, I’ve ordered the carpet and our contractor wants to know when he can come do woodwork and hang the doors.  There is a small, but bright light at the end of this seemingly infinite tunnel. 

I am sad to report that very little has happened on the knitting front.  I have made a pair of Alpine boots (thought I had a pic, but evidently not on this computer), but still haven’t gotten around to the felted door mitten because I just do not find myself with that luxurious thing called time.  I do have two more pair of the boots on que- one for my son and another for my daughter that I’ve got to do soon or they may as well wait until next winter.  However, I am trying to finish my daughter’s cross stitch stocking because I feel terrible that it isn’t done.  She is very sweet about it and that somehow makes me feel worse. :-(   I have vowed to curb the knitting instinct until it is finished, or maybe when I am down to the beading.  Or until I feel like poking someones eye out with a knitting needle and really need to soothe the beast.  Whichever comes first. 

However,  (there is always a “however” with me) we have the new Shepherd’s Wool Fingering which is really making me itch to try lace- just something small, like the Reversible Lace Ladders scarf.  It only takes one skein and really wouldn’t be that difficult.   Also, I am intrigued by the newest Elsebeth Lavold book The Small Things Matter Collection.  She’s incorporated a bit of felting and has created some smaller projects that have the Viking Knit influence.  Very interesting.

 Too many things floating around in my head and not enough time.  You know those little helper elves in that fairy tale “The Cobbler’s Elves”?  Wonder where I can get some?  Just a few.  Don’t want to be greedy or selfish.  – Susan

Ford’s commercial on the NASCAR Daytona 500 — did you see it?

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Okay, so I’m sitting here watching the race and enjoying the commercials and the Ford truck commercial comes on with these really handy steps that come down off the side of the truck and I was just saying how great that would be when the boxes of yarn slide to the front and the commercial says something about “except if you’re carrying
YARN”!!!  WHAT??  What did they say?  Anyone else see the commercial?  Everyone is just sitting here laughing like crazy.  Lea-Ann