Daisy Dog
Now I’m working on a Hippo. A I can’t decide if she is a Plum Hippo or a Persimmon Hippo (it’s a new shade). Probably Persimmon. It’s more fun to say.
Daisy Dog
Tag Archives: knitting
Poppyseed Cat
Poppyseed Cat
It’s getting harder and harder to come up with flavor names for all the different grays. While I’m waiting on my Ravenwood Kid (arriving sometime this summer), I’m trying to knit up the other cashmere I have. Poppyseed is made from Jade Sapphire in the aran weight.
Egg Pattern Winners
I finished the eggs!
Yes, there were six colors in the kit.
Ellie and I have been taking turns hiding them in different rooms for the other one to find. In fact, the yellow egg is hidden so very very well in my bedroom that neither of us can find it.
There were so many of you interested in happy chickens and knitted eggs, that I decided that a dozen patterns was a more appropriate number for an egg-related giveaway. The random number generator has selected:
18 – kathy b
12 – celestinw
6 – Ruth
27 – Katie
21 – Cathy B
24 – Sophie
22 – Coralee
28 – Cassie
2 – Kimberly
30 – John
4 – Susan
10 – Donna B.
It took me FOREVER to get all of those sent! If you didn’t receive a pattern by way of a Ravelry gift and should have, please let me know and I’ll fix it. The random number generator seems to favor folks with the initial ‘B’. Just a tip for the next giveaway.
Y’all best get to knitting, winners – it’s a good thing these are quick like a bunny!
Eggs in One Basket
I bought myself an Easter treat!
For two years, I’ve been trying to get myself together well enough to host a big “Factory Farm Eggs are Just Mean have an Eggless Easter” awareness campaign. Purchasing eggs from factory farms to celebrate new life, new growth and a beautiful spring is simply hypocritical. The chickens that lay those pretty, white eggs suffer horribly and may already be dead. As part of that, I’ve been working on an egg pattern. But lots of folks have already designed eggs. So I kind of stall.
When Elizabeth from the Sitting Tree offered a kit with little skeins, the pattern and the tote (with a yellow bottom YAY) I really couldn’t help myself. Her little egg pattern is elegant in its simplicity and I’m going to give away half a dozen of them (them = Elizabeth’s pattern in PDF form) to random commenters on this post. Even if you call me names in your comment and say that I am trying to ruin agribusiness you are still in the running. But if you’ve ever seen a picture of chickens crammed into a battery cage, you won’t be calling me names. Just leave a comment before the end of the day Tuesday, March 26, and be sure that I can reach you by email to send your pattern.
If you do buy eggs this Easter, look for humane certification labels or find a friend with well cared for backyard birds. Even better: knit yourself an alternative.
Home Again
Great Gran is knitting at home today.
She really likes those hats.
Woo hoo!
Waiting for Discharge
We think Great Gran is going home today! She finished her hat while waiting to hear.
I seamed that thing. She hates to seam.
UPDATE: She DID go home today! YAY!
Private Room
Great Gran was moved to a private room yesterday and I just finished that rabbit!
Great Gran started a hat
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We’re waiting on the neurologist and CT results and hope she’ll go home today or tomorrow.
In the meantime, I hope she’ll take a nap!
NICU
Body, ear, head.
Turns out you can get a fair amount of knitting done hanging out in the Neural Intensive Care Unit with Great Gran. She said, “You sit down.” So I did. And stayed put.
Subdurall Hematoma. We are hopeful that it will fix itself.
Slacker
We’re at The Little Gym and I’m sitting still and I can post FROM MY PHONE so here I am!
Still working on the socks. Occasionally.
I was going to tell you on Monday what all I did on my Christmas vacation. But for one reason or another, I just didn’t. I’ve got this great yarn to round out Mindful Fiber. But I can’t get organized enough to write about it. I finally finished a rabbit for a customer. But that’s about all the knitting I’ve done this week and I really had to work to find the time.
Eh. We’ve all got stuff. Mine’s just keeping me away from you.
Pictures Or It Didn’t Happen
I’m on vacation until after Christmas so I started a sock.
Ingredients: yarn, pattern, needles
I haven’t knit socks in 4.5 years.
These are for Michael, so I’m using Socks That Rock mediumweight in Monsoon from the Blue Moon Fiber Arts Rockin’ Sock Club about a million years ago. If you use 56 stitches and US2s you’ll get vertical stripes, but 60 stitches and US2s makes a lovely spiral of color. That does mean that I have to modify the Simple Skyp Socks stitch pattern by two stitches and hope that the ‘heels by number’ site still exists (it DOES). But still.
I’m knitting socks.