Oh for the Love of Ravelry

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Oh, Ravelry. Melissa, I can't wait until you get over there.... the trouble is, it kind of serves many of the purposes of blogging - a place to put photos of projects, post notes about the projects. When you can look at my projects, my queue or favorites, whatever will we blog about? :-)

I'll post some pics of progress on current projects I took to update my ravelry notebook.
My Purl Bee Beret being made with a orphan skein of Koigu. Love working with the Koigu, the colors are great. I will definitely make some socks with it in the future.

I'm working with flickr so much I went ahead and paid for the 'pro' version so I didn't have to worry about file size, etc. (and I can have more 'sets' to organize the photos.

MIL/FIL are visiting this week, she brought up a breadmaker she wasn't using AND some yeast. Melissa - now is the time to post some recipes for your bread so I can try it out....

Rosie joins the family

Well, life without my sister just isn't the same.....so we got a dog, and Rosie seems to have helped assuage some of my usual homesickness for my sister. Mason has turned into Little Cesar, and has whispered his way into Rosie's heart. Don is up running with her in the early morning, and Little MacGyver may actually learn to keep her personal items OFF OF THE FLOOR!!!!!!!!

Curly is still a little shy around her but I'm sure they will be fast friends.

MacGyver is now knitting her first baby hat in the round in Takhi Cotton Classic in hot pink for Anna's baby(one circular needles....not pencils in double point) . It is slow going, but should just about be done by the time Anna gives birth in the middle of winter! I walk by the beginnings of the project and think, would she notice if I picked up her knitting and laid down a few rows, just to help her along? This is when good knitters go bad. If you find yourself being a cobbler's elf at night, just say no....

I am enjoying the book, Yarn Harlot, immensely. Life has been so busy that I can only read a few pages before bed every night, but on the bright side, it is going to last a lot longer that way. The Waterfall sock is coming along nicely. It takes some attention to the pattern, so I'm finding I'm taking more time with the lace pattern on this one. If only I had a week of vacation like someone I know...

Where there is a will there is a way...

We are training a new generation of creative knitters here...

Little MacGyver over there decided pencils were the perfect tool, she seems to prefer them to knitting needles and is creating headbands and scrunchies with aplomb.

Finished the Woolgirl sock club socks.... love them - the first pair of socks to actually fit me. I really need to look for lace based socks in the future.

Alright, now we're rollin'

The fruits of 1 week of vacation - family reunion, almost finishing a pair of socks, fixing my sister's computer and re-inventing(re-starting) the blog. (just in time for my Ravelry invite to arrive and me to return to a busy work schedule so I can abandon it again.)

Woolgirl Sock Club - how do I love thee let me count the ways... fun extras, neat pattern, beautiful yarn, fantastic shop owner/coordinator. Granted, its my first sock club so I don't have much to compare it to, but its been really neat. Even more exciting is that my sister and I both are doing it. Seeing as she is a monogomous knitter with only one project at a time, and I'm a bit of a yarn ho (lets see... is 5 projects on needles too much?!?) I jumped in and started the socks. One down, one in the middle of the gusset.














Don't my new sock and pretty namaste bag look soooo good together? (Melissa, don't you just want to go out and buy one of these bags RIGHT NOW!!!?) First I was a yarn ho, now I'm a crack, um, I mean, bag, pusher.

More of the woolgirl sock on flickr group of pics on the blog.



And now on to highlight the mutant socks, since Melissa won't do it herself. Let's give credit first, they were short row toe and heel socks... even I haven't gone there yet. But, well, it's important to start the next heel close to were the first one was start...if not, you end up with mutant socks. But they are made with love so I'm sure her 5 year old won't mind.



and finally.... I'm number 488 on the Ravelry queue..... It feels a little wrong to be this excited, but I am.

mewa wana post

Man I hope this works!
You're the best, Jean. We can't wait to hang out with you for the week!!
Liss

A new day...

Who'd have ever thought I'd love a dog. Really. Who'd have ever thought I'd be excited to come home and walk a dog. I'm not really a 'dog person'.Well, its a new dawn its a new day its a new life for me oooooooohAND I'M FEELING GOOD..... (can't you just hear nina simone in the background....)introducing... sophie.


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and the sandy beaches.Now that she is sleeping throughthe night, its a much happier arrangement then when we started.And back to knitting.....Happy to discover a new addition to the extended family, so I'm working on a new Bobbi Bear, this time in Misti Cotton Silk... whoa boy, what a yarn. soft, silky (yeah, I know, silk is supposed to be, uh, silky). Works up a little bit smaller than the Blue Sky Alpaca Cotton yarn, but should be nice nonetheless.
Misti Cotton Silk (in blue) Blue Sky Alpaca Cotton (in brown)


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2007_09090023 LYS is having a sale... I'm lusting after:


DustyroseNamaste Everyday BagAnd finally...... there are 4147 people ahead of me on waitlist for Ravelry. Is it wrong to check this weekly, um, I mean every other day?!?