Friday, August 18, 2006

A Bit of Visiting....and other news...

On the homefront this past week, we had a visitor, Connie a.k.a. Aunt Connie by all the kids, and to me? Well, she used to be my sister-in-law, but now...she remains as always and forever, my sister of the heart. What a beautiful soul this woman has, and everything else I might add. She came into town for a short visit last week. My daughter, Havala, and I got to spend some time with her last friday, she came over here and started looking over the knitting I had been doing....tried on (for the very first time) a homemade sock and of course was completely smitten. Now Connie knits, and does quite a lot with her life, she is currently into her photography, but I have to tell you, after she put that sock on, well, it very well may have changed her life, and if not completely, it did inspire her to make some socks. So I got out this little book I had found when I made my first pair of socks and gave it to her and then we talked a bit about socks, how they're made....I feel I have done my daily knitterly duty.

We then went to lunch at the Wild Fork in Utica Square where you can always find really good food, it was a bit crowded but we managed to get right in. From there we took a stroll to Loops where Connie proceeded to have a truly great time, she grabbed up some sock yarn, some dpns and was charmed with the Lucy bag....so she got some yarn for that...and the circs for making it, my daughter bought some wool for the Market bag (which I will be knitting), this was perhaps the first time I've ever walked into a yarn shop and left empty handed, I guess I was getting enough thrills watching them.

We got back to the homestead and I started telling her (while she's writing it all down) about the yarn shops on-line, knitting blogs, etc, it was so much fun seeing her get so excited about it all. My oldest son, Aardron, dropped by to visit with his favourite Auntie, he then jumped up to gather his children to bring over so they could spend some time with her also.

We had a great visit.

Conor starts school next Monday, and yesterday, our last day of the summer together I was really wanting to do something special (last year we went and rode the roller-coaster together, his first time) but sadly, we ended up just having ourselves a quiet day together,( due to a dental appointment I had the day before and was feeling like I needed a more restful day for healing) but I think we had a great day.
There's a website he just loves, and if I knew how to do links I would show you, but that will have to wait for another day. The website shows all kinds of bugs, reptiles, birds, animals, you name it, they've got it and they're all linked together and yes, he really truly loves it.


One more bit of news and this is really fantastic news, one of my dearest friends, Jo, just got home from an 8 month stay in hospital, she's doing very well and I'd go into it more but feel I should get an 'ok' from her first, and really, right now, it's enough that she is finally back home, because we all know....home is where she wants to be. Welcome home sweetheart.

On the personal knitting front....
Here is a photo of the shawl I was working on, finished it, got it blocked and....Ta Da!


I really like this shawl, and am just itching to get started on another lace project but it may have to wait.....socks are forever calling my name, mostly the socks to be made with special names on them for holiday gifts........

Monday, August 14, 2006

Coming right along.....


Last Tuesday was knitnight at the neighborhood library, we had a great crowd, some newcomers, a couple who were newbies, and they were picking up the knitting like they were born with needles in their wee bitty hands, they were that good. Everyone brought their projects to show and there are some real beauties being knitted up. Can't wait til the next knitnight, perhaps I'll take the camera and ask for pics.

As for my knitting.....well, these are socks for Bobby, my DH, he really likes having handknit socks.



And then there's this.......


It's a shawl out of Nancie M. Wiseman's book, Knitted Shawls, Stoles, and Scarves, I'm using Rowan yorkshire tweed 4ply and the colour in person is different from the pic in that the green is a brighter green and has other greens mixed in, looks very much like a wall glaze I did on living room walls for a friend of mine......it really is a beautiful mix of colours.

And then there are these, starting with this one...



next came these...

and then a couple more...


The 'warshrags' have been too much fun...and they helped me keep my sanity while trying to figure some of this blog thing out...

That's it for today, we did have Bobby's BD last thursday, we took him to Fuji's for sushi, then home for chocolate cake that I baked, I had also given him some KoKoa truffles,mmmmm, those little gems just melt some heaven in your mouth.

Friday, August 04, 2006

In the meantime...

Well, this is the second time for trying this particular post...bear with me..what I need is to find someone close by who's done this and...pick..their..brain..there's a few things baffling me, I know the problem lies within the 'language', I just don't fully understand it..BUT...

I do know how to type...and I do know how to post a pic, so that's what I'll do today.

These are some pics of the baby cappies I made for the WIC programs which I read about at the YarnHarlot's site, three went to sunny CA and three went to MA where the winters are much colder.

I had a great time making these cappies and tons of fun making the different leaves and shapes to sew on for decoration.











Can you tell how enchanted I am with the 'tom' hat? Yep, I only made the one.

Onward and upward, I always say...that and.....*help*

so where is it?????

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

hah!

still trying to learn the ropes.

Still trying....















Still trying to work some 'stuff' out here, this is one of the baby cappies I made for the WIC program, this particular hat went to California.

Marianne's Knotminding

trying.to.do.this.

still trying to do something here.