Breakfast of Champions

At work there are three of us who read the paper during lunch break Jack looks to see who was arrested (any ex-students?), Larry looks to see who died, and I ,my friends, read the comics for the most part. Simply because all my friends are crazy gossips so I hear about everything through them and most of the time the stuff is dry or depressing. So anyway, today I was reading the comics and here is what the Garfield one looked like:

 Cartoon By Jim Davis

Does anybody else have the missing sock problem?

I’ve been working on pt two of Men’s Socks but I’m still on the cuff so it’s more of the same.

My Week in Review

Spring is a lovely time of year. It is the time of year that makes me want to get stuff done. So here’s my week in review.

Sunday, Here’s part one of Men’s Socks (Again).

Here it is again on Tuesday. All done <insert YAY here>

Yesterday I went to an outdoor Jazz concert at our local park. It was put on by the local middleschool and highschool jazz bands.

        

Here’s the second socks as of about thirty minutes ago.

How did your week go?

Rebel…

I decided this morning that this year I will finish all my Christmas gifts. So I’m starting  now. In May. This better work. Anyway, I was feeling a little rebellious so I made a bracelet.       

This is actually the second one I made. The fist one was yellow with green wording but this one looked so much nicer. This one was for a friend of mine who took a shine to mine. We are a very silly group so stuff like this is the norm.

Earth Day

I have an acquaintance Lilly, who is a culinary wizard. There was  an Earth Day expo at our local highschool. She was selling chocolate lollipops.

Around the edge it says “Make Every Day Earth Day” She was raising money for the Osa Wildlife preserve in Costa Rica. I’ve been working on the Cable Dress but we went fishing this weekend. As usual I didn’t catch a thing but the family next to us caught about 20 fish between them. Next time I’ll have some new knitty pictures I promise.

My New Toy

On Wednesday I got a new camera. I loved my old Kodak but when I was photographing some damage at our cabin I dropped it in the sand and the lens got scratched. Then a few weeks later it quit focussing right. Anyway, here’s my new toy.

I love it. The pictures are so much clearer. It really is a nice camera. The best part is that it is waterproof, now when I trip and fall in the creek it won’t matter so much.

 

Epilogue

I finished stuffing Simple Small Bear. I also embroidered the face. The picture here was my first attempt. I did not like the face and eventually re-did it…

I’ve been working on  a little hat for a friend of mine who is expecting. It’s a simple cable pattern. The only problem is that I did not realize that the cable pattern shrunk my gauge. I may have to frog and repeat…

I call it Umbilical Cord, for the twisting cables. I also worked on the Cable Dress and got a good five inches done.

An oddity

I’ve been doing some spinning lately. I have some dark blue wool left over from a fiber camp from a few years ago… It seems almost brittle, any reason for that? I’ve kept it in an airtight container in a plastic shopping bag. I started stuffing Simple Small Bear.

As you can see I’m not quite finished.

While I was at work today I found something (that has nothing to do with knitting but…) amusing.

There are nine creamers there. The lids somtimes stick, as you see here. Well it made me laugh.

Crawling out From Under my Rock…

Hello everybody! Today I joined Ravelry! I’ve been plugging away on Summit… Not much has changed at all. By the way you can  find me on ravelry as Cleo14. I’ll get back to you all soon once I figure it out!

Who I am

I was thinking this afternoon (as I was chugging away on Summit) about something my mother had asked me a few weeks ago. We were discussing Summit , the conversation went something like this

Me: I started a new scarf, It’s awesome.

Mom: You started another project?

Me: Yep.

Mom: You never finish a project do you? You just keep starting them.

Me: So?

Now, my dear mother is a non-knitter so I do not begrudge  her this. It’s simply the way I am. Right now I’m writing this and commenting on a blog. It’s just that I start a pattern and as I’m working I see something else I would love to knit. So I start it. So when someone asks “You’re working on another scarf?” I just say

“Yes. Yes I am.”

And there’s nothing wrong with that.

(ps. I spell checked this and used the word ‘something’ three times and each time I spelled it wrong. <shakes head>)

The Base of the Mountain

I’ve started a new scarf. For whatever reason the projects I have on my plate aren’t enough… Ah well here it is. It is the shawl from knitty.com called Summit. I simply modified the patter to scarf shape rather than shawl size.

 

Here it is on  my lap in front of the Tv.