Monthly Archives: May 2010

Memorial Day, A Visit With Lorna, Cassidy update

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Memorial Day, celebrating the sacrifices men have made for our Country and our lives.  It is also the end of the month, the beginning of Summer, and the start of June. Oh my! There is so much to do and no time to do it, but at least it is getting lighter so when I wake up early, I can actually see to do things. Will I get more accomplished or just be overwhelmed because I can see everything that needs to be done?  Anyways . . . mark your calendar for:

June 16, 9-4, a Visit With Lorna — this is an event uniquely planned for Knitting Today. She will be bringing her Faith, Hope, Love, Knitting projects and telling us the stories, and the stories behind the stories. She’ll be showing us how to do techniques, talking about yarn and choices, and getting us started on a project of our choice form the book. It will be a relaxing day for us, crazy for her, and more info can be found at http://www.knittingtoday.com/go.mvc?id=lorna2010.

Cassidy update: I can’t pass up an opportunity to tell you what is happening with Cassidy.  I started the sleeves.  I am modifying the pattern so it starts right into the cables without doing ribbing because i didn’t want the ribbing to hug my pear-shaped body.  The back/fronts look good.  The sleeves are about 4 inches to wide around the wrist.  Do I do the ribbing?  Do I cut back the number of stitches so they start at 8″ and change the sleeve shaping appropriately?  What would you do?  What do you think I’ll decide to do? 

Have a wonderful day!!

Packing it up

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It is my last morning to sit on the porch outside in 70 degree weather with my first cup of coffee in the morning. I hear the weather back in Indiana isn’t so nice.

A little progress was made on Cassidy. I had to figure out where I was, tear down and fix some cable crosses and then make sure the sleeve shaping was going to fit my body. Mission accomplished. I even figured out how to cross a cable during bind off! Now I am wondering if I should fix the back cable bind off rows?

Progress was also made on redoing the cap sleeve shaping of the Galway sweater. That will be a separate post on what wasn’t liked, what I did to fix It and hopefully a good picture of Sue with it fitting.

I will knit in the Mountain Colors shawl at the airport. Wonder how many stitches I have on the needles now?

Giveaway results will come in tomorrow’s post, so stay tuned… in the meantime, susan tells me we now have water bottles with the knit happy sheep on them. Would you like one? Comment on something you have had to fix or repair and how you did it, including the tools used if any… if we go over 25 commenters, I will make it two prizes so share a link to this blog with your friends.

The other major accomplishment while I have been away was to learn css for the website redesign. I hope the new site plans can progress now!

Wow! Look how much the beans have grown.

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Surgery = progress (or different kind of surgery?)

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So, a four to six hour heart surgery means about six hours of knitting times so far today. I figured it would be a good time to concentrate on sleeve and AT THE SAME TIME neck shaping on Cassidy. I am ready to do a cable cross and realize there are not enough rows between cables on the right front but okay on the left….. taking a break before I go back to surgery to fix this….

Favorite color for Spring?

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I have a little bit of time on my hands waiting to go to my mom’s pre-op this morning and I am sitting outside drinking my coffee. It is 74F and not too humid at the moment. What i am noticing, besides the little lizards
(My mom said they are chameoleons) scurrying around, is the difference in color intensity from Indiana to Florida. I order yarn for Spring in January and those of you who live up north know how gray the sky is in January. So, now that it is brightening up, what do you think? What is your favorite color for the season? Link to the color you love …. give me something to look at while I’m sitting through the 5-6 hour operation tomorrow.
P.s. Thank you to Susan, Tom, Tara and Nancy for keeping the store running without me. I have to go water my moms bean plants now. You can move the Michigan farmer to Florida but the farmer moves along.