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November 4, 2008 at 10:44 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Hey, all you U.S. citizens out there - if you haven’t voted already, it’s time to get out and do it.
I just got back from voting and I’m all a-tremble, even a little weepy. This has been such an emotional election - I’m much more vested in the outcome than I’ve ever been before. I’m going to be glued to the television all evening to hear the returns.
There was barely any wait at my polling place, and no glitches to be seen - all the machines were working fine. I wish the same were true at every polling place throughout the nation. Thank you to all of you who have to persevere through a more trying process but vote anyway!!!
October 21, 2008 at 7:01 pm · Filed under socks, Uncategorized
I have knitted many things since I last wrote - I want to have pictures posted soon.
Socks, of course. Especially an intarsia pair from Cat Bordhi’s “Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles”, and the Mermaid Socks from Lucy Neatby’s “Cool Socks, Warm Feet.” I hardly ever make socks from patterns, but here I am, making two pairs.
I love the Estonian Fishtail pattern from the Mermaid Socks (also featured in Nancy Bush’s Estoninan knitting book). It twists around in spiral fashion, but one never needs to move the end-of-round marker or transfer stitches from needle to needle to accomplish the k2tog’s. One of those utterly fascinating knitting mysteries. The socks seem almost garish, but I think in a good way. I like the Neatby book because it has many ideas to use patterned sock yarn.
What I need to do now is go and hide a million intarsia tails - that pair will be so beautiful when finished.
February 4, 2008 at 9:56 am · Filed under Uncategorized
I’m currently in Pearl Beach, Michigan, with Hawkeye and Dub, visiting Grandma and Grandpa. The view out my window is of a beautiful wild river with a marshland and forest on the other side. The river is always changing - sometimes iced over, sometimes running free.
The birding has been fantastic - we saw a merlin right ouside our windows! That is a new bird for me. It looked much bigger than I would have imagined. We’ve seen lots of ducks too - canvasbacks, common goldeneyes, common mergansers, mallards, I think a bufflehead or two. Also mute swans. All this from the comfort of our living room!
Of course I’m knitting a lot too. Working on a wonderful four-color stash sweater, though it looks like I’ll have to buy a skein or two to finish it. Also a very delicate scarf in pink lace-weight yarn - the Trellis-Bordered Openwork Diamonds pattern.
We went to Mary Maxim’s retail store in Port Huron and I got more of the beige Invicta for the strange-gauge socks. For now, I’m having fun working on the sweater and scarf - the socks can wait a bit longer.
The kids are great - field trips with Hawkeye for train watching and sledding, learning to build fires in the fireplace, Dub providing play-by-play commentary for the Superbowl. We’re all getting lots of quality time with Grandma and Grandpa. Life is good.
