One Crazy Fiber Lady

Today is an odd day at work.  By the holiday schedule, the office is closed.  Except for us in IT.  We decided to trade today for the two scheduled half day holidays of Christmas Eve and New Years Eve.  I think it was a great idea.  I hated the prospect of schlepping in for a total of 3 hours of work.  Almost had more commuting time there.

Anyway, it is a grey, cold Monday out there and I am on day two of a horrendous headache.  Ick. 

All in all, I’ve been pretty darn busy.  Between getting the home network chatting with the XBox (YAY!!), knitting, monkey wrangling and other assorted things, life really has been busy.  I intro-ed the monkeys and mom to Star Wars Lego on the xbox.  It was cute.  Mom and I even played until the wee hours of Saturday night.  That was fun! 

Saturday, mom and dad took the twins to a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese’s so I could go to celebrate the joint b’day party of Deb and Kim, along with fellow Jersey Spinner, Jessica and special guest Liz.  Now that was a blast.  I would have stayed longer but I got the guilt phone call from mom wondering if I was ever coming home   I’m pleading camnesia.  There are great pictures over on Deb’s blog and I vaguely remember a group photo being taken by at least two different cameras!

Almost all my knitting time has been dedicated to Kauni.  It’s my only train/ferry/SnB knitting recently and it has been progressing beautifully.  I took this Thurs morning on the way to work.  Needless to say, it has progressed a bit since then.

Love it.  I’ve been seriously considering what to do with the sleeves thanks to some prodding by other knitters.  Lisa was the first to really call my attention to this little detail.  I chatted with Kristen at the MY SnB thursday night as well.  It was decided that this pattern would be a bit too busy for the sleeves.  Maybe at the cuff was how I left it.  Friday morning, I was surfing and hit on this.  There’s the answer.  Plain sleeves!

Whether I try to matchy-match them or go hog wild I’m not sure yet.  Probably won’t know until I start the second sleeve and I see where my yarn colors are   But I love the detail body and plain sleeve look.  Winner.

Yesterday we had a little houseguest for a visit.

Dad brought the littlest family member in for a romp around the bunny safe kitchen.  Here the girls are checking him out.  Sara was the most perplexed by the whole bunny thing.  I doubt she’s ever seen one before (Yeti was already outside when she arrived) and was the most nervous around him.  Bandit was pretty relaxed with the cats and even stretched out for a nap with Sara next to him.

Craft on!

Time for a really quick post today.  I had a busy morning at the office and I suspect a busy night. 

Here’s Kauni relaxing on my chair at lunch today:

Kim and I had a lovely lunch at the mall again today.  Finally I remember I have a camera in my bag and have evidence…

After eating, and a brief amount of knitting, we did some shopping.  Not the usual shopping you would expect from us intrepid knitters.  No.  We hit Gamestop.  I have this sitting under my desk now.

I can’t wait to go home!!!!! 

Craft on

I spent my weekend, rather understandably I suppose, working on Kauni.  Go figure.  The folks were gone most of the weekend so the kids and I were alone.  I’ve been battling a sore throat and stuffy head for about a week now and on Saturday, felt pretty miserable.  I plunked myself on the den couch, remote in hand and kept the kids entertained with Noggin, Nick and all their toys.  While they played/fought/cuddled, I worked on Kauni when not sleeping. 

I took this picture last night.

Love, Kauni Style.

Sunday was spent doing some much needed shopping.  My little girl refuses to wear pants so I had to buy her a couple more skirts, as well as introduce her to the joys of tights.  After an hour or so of kidlet shopping, timothy grass was acquired for the littlest family member who lives out back.  He’s a cutie who likes to bunk my hand with his nose as I put his water bowl back in.  Little goof.   And he just loves nose scritches.  He’ll grind his teeth contentedly, stretch himself out as far and as flat as he can as I pet him.  Sweet guy.

Anyway, when I wasn’t otherwise occupied with knitting, shopping or child rearing, I spent a good deal of time with my Nintendo DS   You can see the corner of it on top of Kauni in the above picture.  Friday, Kim and I stopped in at Gamestop and I picked up the new Simpsons game.  Dudes, it is way cool.  I’m kind of stuck on a particular level but will get past it if it kills me.  I have done some damage to my right thumb from pressing the B button too much and hope to have the feeling back in the tip soon.  Kidding.  Its not quite that bad but it is a tad odd and I should lay off.  I want to get the Star Wars Lego complete that comes out tomorrow.  I’ll probably get it for the DS too, but there’s a little voice in the back of my head that is starting to get louder and its requesting an Xbox 360   Like I need another game platform! 

Craft on!

I’m seriously loving the whole Kauni Damask knitting.  I can’t stop.  Even though I have a tendency to get queasy when not looking out at the water on the ferry, I’m knitting it, even if it means reading the chart for the next row.  That’s how much I’m loving this project.  I took it to the SnB last night.  Combined with this commuting knitting this morning, I’ve made some decent progress. 

I took this just off Pier 11 this morning on the way to the office.

And I took this for the same reason my kids do a lot of things, because I could…

Everything is just so pretty this morning with the sun streaming down.  I do think the colors are a bit more vibrant than they are appearing here, but that’s just sun + camera playing off each other.  Still.  LOVE.

I’m going to get some bonus knitting time today.  Kim and I are meeting for lunch at the Seaport Mall where there will definitely be some knitting.

Have a great weekend all!

Craft on!

Happy Halloween!

The twins had a big old happy halloween yesterday.  First there was the parade/massive candy collection bonanza at their preschool.  They had parents volunteer to be trick-or-treat cars in the parking lot of the school and pass out treats to the kids who paraded by in their costumes.  There were 20 something parent cars and @120 kids participating.  The twins each brought home huge stuffed bags full of stuff.

I left work early and when I got home, we canvased the neighborhood where I proudly watched them ring the bell, say "Happy Halloween" followed by an unprompted "Thank you".  Since they could now reach the doorbell themselves, Mom and I would wait on the sidewalk as they made the trek.  It was fun.  I finally got them back to our house and inside with the promise that they could pass out candy to those who rang our doorbell.  My favorite part of that was right after Alex had finished doling out from his bag to the two kids on the porch, a boy probably 9ish and a little girl around the twins’ age, my boy said "Happy Halloween kids".  Little old man.  Mom and I cracked up.

On the knitting front, I ripped back Kauni last night.  For a fleeting moment, I thought I could just pull one of the remaining two skeins and start it with the orange/red section and work the other direction.  Unfortunately, both skeins where on the orange/yellow and I would have had to lose alot.  It wasn’t worth it.  The third skein started with the right color, but it was in the wrong freakin direction.  Seems three of my 4 go red to purple via the center pull, but the fourth was wound in the other direction.  I’m back to where I was in the pattern by the end of my commute this morning.  I reversed the orange/red yarn I’d been using starting with the red and spit-spliced it into the correct directional skein.  This should probably result in approximately the B pgrogression.  Cool.  That was my favorite!

Lastly, I leave you with this quiz…

What Kind of Knitter Are You?

Snarky Old School. You may be old, you may be young, but you’re the knitter that puts us all to shame with your amazing skills. Novelty yarns that NOT your gig. Your knitting library probably out does most, especially with the old but goodies, like Alice Starmore and the original editons of Barbara Walker’s books. You’re cool, but you scare me.
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Tonight is the beloved MY SnB and Kauni is coming along.

Craft on!