Thursday, May 20, 2010

oh where to begin...

lets see...as you can see i have been knitting...just on a smaller scale/smaller things...on saturday i had this grand illusion of knitting a bike...so with a little floral wire...pliers...dpns...and scrap yarn...a few hours later it was born...my own little unicycle...yes i'm very aware that i'm a little strange...and now i'm thinking about knitting a few different styles of bikes...a tricycle...10/12 speed...bmx...mountain bike...maybe i'll even go as far as a knitted red radio flyer wagon...hmmm that maybe on the needles next...*scratching chin while cocking eyebrow* now where is my red yarn?

on the 25th of april we celebrated ricky's birthday and our 7th anniversary of marital bliss...this year i gifted him 7 olives in a jar with a tag saying "olive you" i told him for each anniversary we celebrate i'll knit him a new one and add it to the jar...he was surprised...and i didn't cave and give them to him early...



as for home life...well nothing much is new...dani will soon be finished with school and off to jersey to visit his dad for two months...he'll be returning home a little early only to be attending the 100 anniversary of scouting this year with his troop...and as for dami he has been loving the warmer weather...we've been spending the majority of our days outside in the sun gardening or in the pool/slip and sliding...every so often he'll put in a knitting request...the latest one was a rocket for oliver(his little blue bear)to ride on...

i've knitted a few other things...but haven't photographed/post them on rav...echo flower shawl in kiwi green is one of the 10 shawls in 2010...it's mum's for mothers day...i cast on and knitted a few pattern repeats then suddenly realized that i only had 375 yards...not even enough yarn to complete the shawlette version...i purchased the yarn a while back and was sure they wouldn't have anymore so i knit 7 pattern repeats...after blocking 42x19...dammit vontorchie pay attention...



on the needles...dad's sweater...

on vinyl...bad mans world by jenny lewis...

Friday, February 5, 2010

slackasser...

well...well...well...i know...i'm terrible...it's been so difficult for me to try to keep up with my blog...butwhatcannaisay...i'm a slack ass...however i'll try to be a little better about posting more frequently in the future...

i've been knitting on the regular which has kept me from insanity...it's usually quick little projects that give me instant gratification...even tho i really should be picking up my needles and completing some of my bigger projects...sorry dad...i'm still working on your sweater...you'll get it one day...i badly want to get the damn thing done but there is something i just don't like about it and i'm itching to rip it out and start over...it's hard to push on...and i know that's why it's taking me foreva...

i set two goals for myself for the new year...to read 52 books in 52 weeks...and to knit 10 shawls in 2010...i don't know what i was thinking at the time...but i'm starting to believe that these two goals are attainable...so far i'm lovin' the book goal...i'm reading some great books...and blowing up my library card that's for damn sure...unfortunately i haven't started on any shawls just yet...but i will be pretty soon...so that's all that's new in my part of the world...until next time...

on the needles...three more of these cute little bears...and dads sweater...

on vinyl...uprising by muse...