Saturday, February 11

this was written Friday night but I didn't upload it

and once again the time has slipped away from me. This week was particularly bad for too little sleep and no self-organization. I did manage to work out every day, though. We had our new bed delivered yesterday, so I slept well last night. It slays me how ... tall this mattress set it. Our old one was one we paid $300 for about 15 years ago. It was pretty crappy and we didn't really notice that until this last vacation where we stayed at some really nice places with very comfortable beds. So feeling like the Princess and the Pea I climbed into bed last night and settled in. Very comfy; I'm sure tonight I'll sleep even better knowing that I don't have to get up early tomorrow.

My lunchtime knitting project is a rolled-brim hat made from some leftover Malabrigo wool. The fewer stitch cast on means the yarn is doing some nice stripey-pooling. I think this will be a really cute hat. I've got some more Malabrigo leftovers to make another, then I have a supply of Patons Classic Wool for more hats.

The other day at work I was thinking about what wool I had in my stash for hats and such and suddenly remembered some orange and red Elann Norwegian Wool. It would be perfect for the pirates toque. The finished size of the hat with Dale Hauk is a bit bigger than would fit me; this Norwegian Wool is just slightly thinner, so I'm getting 6.5 spi instead of the pattern gauge of 6. I think it will fit perfectly! Here is one skull repeat's worth and where I was last night when I put it down to go to bed:

Here's a closer look at the skull motif; I adjusted the colour to be fairly close to true:

Survivor: Where do they get the whackjobs for this freakshow?! Of course I love every minute of it. I didn't think it was fair that Melinda went just because the others arbitrarily decided that based on nothing other than she wasn't "one of them". I think they should have booted Shane; especially because he was all "I don't want to be here" - once you say that, it should be the kiss of death and away you go. No changing your mind or flip-flopping.

Oh, and YAY - new Amazing Race starting in a couple of weeks. I see they are going back to the "real" format, so it will be worth watching. Hmm, who to hate, who to hate?!

We finally are getting a bit of snow the past couple of days. Yesterday was not that cold, but from the inside looking out it was horrible - incredibly windy and blustery, but once outside it wasn't too bad. Today the wind has quite a bite to it and even though it was only about -5° C when I walked to work, in the open spots the wind was brisk. Still not enough snow to snowshoe, but if the tracks get set, it could be decent skiing.

Saturday noon. We slept in today - well, we went to bed really early last night, so even though we got up early, we'd both had about 10 hours of sleep. The bed is very comfortable and relaxing. We went out for brunch, also very good, and now the big fella's at work doing paperwork and I'm getting a few things done around the house. I have decided I really need to spend part of my weekends getting organized for the week ahead. While my current workload isn't particularly challenging, I'm still away from home 8 hours of the day and not here to take care of things as I'd like; this past week redefined that point for me in that I was totally unorganized and got nothing accomplished because of that. I wasn't disciplined in getting to bed at a decent hour, not eating well, and it just snowballed all the way to Friday night. So today with a good night's sleep and good breakfast in me, I'm going to make some solid plans and stick to them.

On my list of things to do today is of course work on my pirates hat. I -love- how it's turning out and can't wait to finish it and wear it! It's a great, quick -feral- [™ Jim] project. I am happy to be working on smaller projects right now - they're fun, easy to cart around with me and quicker gratification!

posted by Terri at 2/11/2006 12:10:00 PM (0) comments

Monday, February 6

 

IPJ was great!

I slept late, showered and jumped into fresh new jammies and enjoyed my International Pajama Day. My goal was to knit, relax, watch some dvds, repeat as needed.

These are the Opal Ladybug socks when I sat down to the first dvd.

Here they are finished - finally! I think I started these socks to take on our little vacation mid-November. They have been languishing, neglected, set aside, but finally they're done. I wore them to work today!

After I got home from work, I did some chores, then had an extra-long workout on the punching bag. I am going to feel that tomorrow. I also rolled off my exercise ball backwards and whacked my head on the concrete basement floor - it's hard to try to grab onto something when you're wearing big, fat red boxing gloves!

Anyway, I have a couple of computer things to do, then I'm going to take some of my left-over Malabrigo and make some kid's hats for the Dulaan project. I'm thinking of making some socks with leftover sock yarn as well. I've got lots of yarn and wool that is not enough for an adult's hat or pair of socks, so this will put it to good use.

I also want to make a pair of wrist warmers - I found a very cute pattern in the "Yarn to Dye For" book that uses sock yarn. Another project is the Bzzz hat from the second Stitch 'n Bitch book; it is shaped basically like this free pattern here. As the Dulaan project calls for 100% wool or other warm natural fibres, I have dug through the stash and found some nice Patons Classic Wool and others that will be great for cosy warm hats.

posted by Terri at 2/06/2006 08:04:00 PM (0) comments

Saturday, February 4

 

don't forget ...

Sunday is International Pajama Day. I'll be participating, will you?

posted by Terri at 2/04/2006 09:59:00 PM (0) comments

Thursday, February 2

 

serious lack of knitting

A view of part of my walk to/from work (in lieu of photos of knitting progress).

Have had a very busy week, work and otherwise. I haven't picked up my knitting in ... three days? Had a major satellite internet problem, ran out of time in the evenings to do chores etc. and the knitting suffered. I have, however, managed to have three great punching bag workouts so far this week. [ow!]

I've decided to put into the stash the latest bulky yarn I acquired (the Gedifra) and concentrate on some smaller, fun projects for the near future. I really really need to finish those Opal Ladybug socks - they are languishing at the heel flap stage. I've found a number of very cute hat patterns I want to try (from a variety of sources) and including the We Be Pirates* hat from Hello Yarn. (*properly named "We Call Them Pirates" hat).

But wooo-hooo, tonight a new Survivor starts, so I'm pvr'ing it and will watch it later this evening!

posted by Terri at 2/02/2006 07:01:00 PM (0) comments