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Link to the podcast is not working? Looking forward to hearing it!
Commented Mar 4, 2011 on kismet at martinimade
kismet
The next installment of the Sweater Quest podcast is now live. This time, there's an added bonus if you listen until the very end. Also, this time, there are no sounds of distant cats howling. Go here for Chapter 1.1. Coincidentally, this showed up in the mail at the start of the week: Its ori...
Love the baby toes!
Commented May 19, 2010 on I suppose that these days, I'm not doing as much... at i was knit together...
I suppose that these days, I'm not doing as much...
I suppose that these days, I'm not doing as much knitting or sewing as I am working outside. When the weather starts to change, those of us who have four seasons really love to take advantage of our opportunity to garden and get the outdoors settled for our few months of nice weather. It's been...
I can do both (and sew and quilt and macrame), but I knit pretty much exclusively now because I love the finished product so much...the smoothness of stockinette stitch. The rhythm of knitting also makes me more relaxed than that of crocheting.
Commented Mar 20, 2010 on All I'm Saying. at knit and tonic
All I'm Saying.
Back when I was stitching all those balls, I gathered a hell of a lot of that Perle cotton, the number five type and when I saw this crocheted pin cushion I thought I needed to make one as soon as possible. I don't do much crochet or sewing myself, but why not? Which brings me to this: I have...
I confess I'm a chicken when it comes to buttonholes, although I have made them a few times. When faced with a project such as yours, I often take it to a professional seamstress (although you seem to qualify as one!) to have them done; someone with very good credentials (and lots of experience with buttonholes!). You amaze me with the speed you work at when it comes to sewing!
Commented Mar 13, 2010 on All week, I've been swatching for Tissue. I did... at i was knit together...
All week, I've been swatching for Tissue. I did...
All week, I've been swatching for Tissue. I did NOT like the yarn doubled, although I did make guage that way. It was too heavy for my taste, especially for a sweater named Tissue. I imagined lightweight, drapey, soft and floaty as an actual tissue cardigan. SO I ended up using one strand of glo...
The top is gorgeous. Great style and choices of fabric. You look great!
Commented Mar 5, 2010 on Last night, I came home from choir practice and... at i was knit together...
Last night, I came home from choir practice and...
Last night, I came home from choir practice and fell asleep on the sofa. For the whole night. Birdie came and woke me up at 5:00AM! Television on, all the house lights on. I must have really been out of it. Here's what was so cool waking up at that hour, in an unexpected place. When I woke up,...
Ruth - please take care of yourself. I've been in your shoes (but in a different way) and pushed on (what's the old saying, picked up my bootstraps and carried on). Now, I'm disabled and chronically ill b/c I didn't learn to listen to my body until it was too late. It's amazing how unimportant so many things turn out to be when we let them slide, even though we thought the earth would end if we didn't get them done. So, the advice above is so true - rest, re-create. You don't have to be superwoman for ANY of us! Your family needs you first.
Commented Feb 4, 2010 on We interrupt this blog to say at Knitting on Impulse
We interrupt this blog to say
I'm sick. I've been trying to pretend it wasn't happening, reluctant to admit defeat in my healthiest winter in years, if not decades, hoping that if I didn't say anything I would magically have the energy to keep up a normal work schedule. Not working. And the Olympics are looming - in a good a...
Gorgeous socks. Of course it's twenty-ten. Imagine if we had spent the last century saying, "Nineteen hundred fifty-seven."
Commented Jan 4, 2010 on Twenty Ten* at tentenknits
Twenty Ten*
Happy 2010! I am so excited for this year right now for no good reason than I just feel good about the number 2010. It sounds so wholesome and peaceful and exciting. It's even and round and has a Ten and if you haven't noticed, I like tens. So much is going to happen this year - I can feel i...
What a magical family outing! And the snow pictures are truly beautiful. Good memories for you and your family in the coming years when it becomes so hard to get family together! Happy New Year, Ruth
Commented Jan 4, 2010 on Last Day of the Holiday at Knitting on Impulse
Last Day of the Holiday
So of course we snuck in a quick family ski: Catrionagh is the impulsive speed demon of the family, and consequently skis with her dad, while Liam and I are a team. I've come to really treasure these mother-son excursions - chatting away, planning our route, recapping the highlights... it's ...
And that's what it is all about, is it not, Ruth? Living in the now. Because anything else is beyond us and our control.
A very happy new year to you and your family!
Commented Jan 1, 2010 on 2010 at Knitting on Impulse
2010
It starts tomorrow. I'm not exactly sure what to say about 2009. It has, in many ways, been extraordinarily successful: the business is finally showing signs of genuinely being able to support us, and my daughter has a wonderful teacher whose approach has allowed her to blossom in ways I feared...
Leave it to the kids to make reality known. You have company. My yarn now occupies space in the sewing room, bedroom, the great room, and recently moved into the guest bedroom (not that it's a guest. I plan to give it permanent abode! LOL!)
Commented Dec 2, 2009 on How many yards in an egg? at Knitting on Impulse
How many yards in an egg?
DD to DS: "If an ostrich laid an egg on the roof, which side would it roll down?" (her version of the old "if a rooster laid an egg..." brain teaser). DS: (knows the rooster version) "Ha! Ostriches don't lay eggs!" DD: "Of course they do, silly, guess again." DS: ".............that side?" DD: (...
Suggest Cetaphil to your son. They have a special face wash that really clears things up.
Commented Nov 13, 2009 on Bad Yogis/Bad Knitters at knit and tonic
Bad Yogis/Bad Knitters
I just came from lunch with a friend. Before we met she was at the drug store and called me on the phone and asked me what I'd suggest she have her pre-pubescent son use on his face (he's beginning to break out). I said some sort of mild wash, blah blah blah, and when we met up, she pulled a p...
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