Thirds

Today seemed to be broken up into thirds.  This morning, I got up early and rode the exercise bike since it was cold.  Then I went to work and dealt with the chaos that is the day after returning from vacation.  Finally, I came home and just crashed.  I had every intention of knitting more than three rounds on a sock.  I also had every intention to take pictures of the in progress knitting.  Finally, I had intended to make soup for dinner, but instead put some cream cheese on a piece of bread and sacked out on the couch until finally heading to bed with the kindle.  Three phases of the day.  Three intentions.  I think now it is time for three dreams.

Knit on...

Yarn Aquisitions

While in Florida, I visited a yarn store called Knit! The store was worth the exclamation point as the selection was good and the staff was very friendly. If you are in the Longwood area, check it out. While there, my mom bought me some stitch markers (which you will see soon when I do a WIP update) and a ball of Zauberball in a purple colorway:This will become some sort of a shawl as I find I want the colors of the yarn to be very visible and not hidden on my feet.

For my birthday, I was given a gift certificate to ReBelle, so I headed there today on a mission for new sock yarn. I was organizing my stash to see what I had and was shocked to find just a single skein of Malabrigo sock yarn. In the past year, I have knit through my rather massive stash of sock yarns, which shocked me. So, I picked up three skeins:And last, but not least, my friend went with me to the yarn store and she picked out two skeins of Lamb's Pride Bulky for a hat that I will be knitting for her:So new year, new yarn!

Knit on...

Canoeing

Today, my dad and I went canoeing.

It was a fun trip down the river where we saw birds:We saw birds with turtles:We saw alligators (take my word for it, there was one there :oP )We had a good trip down the river, then a tougher trip back up the river. It was a fun time and it was nice to get out into the real Florida that hasn't been completely commercialized. We met my mom for lunch at a little Japanese restaurant downtown called Bento and now, I am going to kick my feet up and see if I can get a little knitting done before heading home tomorrow.

Knit on...

Meeting With Old Friends

First off, there will be a picture up here once I can figure out how to get that to upload from my kindle.

The picture is of me and my friend Courtney. I have known Courtney for about 16 years now. I don't get to see my Florida friends very often, but when I do, it's as if no time has passed and we pick right back up where we left off. Courtney is now a crocheting woman so that just tickles me to no end. I should have grabbed a shot of her bag while we were together.

Knitting wise, I am happy to say that I am actually doing some again. I started the dragonfly scarf and am a repeat in now. I also started a new sock. Pictures will be coming soon for both.

Knit on...

A new device that leads to more blogging

First off, let me wish you all a merry Christmas, albeit a little late.  The past couple of months have been interesting to say the least.  The biggest issue that came up was my inability to knit due to a cooking accident that left me minus a quarter of a thumb.  Thankfully, month later, the thumb has healed up enough that I can finally knit again.  To make the blogging hopefully easier, I now have a kindle fire that my parents gave me.  I will be playing with the mobile blogging features in the next few days so I am hoping that it will make it easier for me to update my blog more often.

Oh and in case you were wondering, the kindle fire is as awesome as they say it is!

Sent from my Kindle Fire

Another New Thing

So, I have inherited a very old sewing machine that once was my great-great aunt's. It's a Singer 1776 model, fully electric, and thankfully, new enough that it has universal needles and a universal bobbin band (very thankful for that after I broke the band this weekend). I'm thrilled to have it, so I wanted to try out doing a simple block quilt.

I am definitely rusty on my sewing skills. I wanted to just sew straight lines right now before I make the two skirts I have planned. Glad I did. Despite being slightly wonky, here is what my quilt top looks like without being ironed:It's crib-sized and I haven't cut the backing or the binding for it yet. In fact, I'm really just winging this whole quilt since I've never done this before. Anyone have any recommendations for a good, basic machine quilting book? I picked up a magazine at JB's the other day, but it doesn't give much as far as instruction goes, but does give lots of inspiration.

Anyways, that's what I've been up to. More painting will be coming in the near future, which I'm excited about. Also, I still knit :oP My projects are just in the boring stage now. I've got two more balls of cotton to add to the table runner before it's complete, so I'm chugging along there. Almost done with the first sock in the new pair too.

Enough rambling. It's 8 PM and I'm totally ready to crash and go to bed. Goodnight!

Knit on...

Charlie

Charlie is now ready to spin! Today, I finished the last of the flick carding and then took the fleece over to ReBelle to rent their drum carder. I came home with this:A big tupperware bin full of carded fleece. Once I get the llama fiber finished that is currently on my wheel, the spinning of Charlie will commence.

Knit on...