tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100226332012-01-26T06:44:03.813-07:00"You're not crazy... you're a knitter. There's a cure for crazy." Uber SisLyndahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00290526988317334953noreply@blogger.comBlogger851100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10022633.post-50806446825255296082009-08-08T11:33:00.006-07:002009-08-08T13:25:22.950-07:00

Dear Blog-You thought I died, didn't you? Well... let me tell you a story.A week after I last posted, I went to the Old Pueblo Knitters guild meeting. We had a fabulous presentation on using color by Claire Parks, who is the head of the Fiber Arts department at our local college. The rest, as they say, is history.You already know that here in the Sorenson household the last two years have been

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Bobcat in our new backyardDear Blog-When I was last posting here on a semi-regular basis, it was at the end of August and I was just finishing up my gift knitting for my middle sister. Oldest sister was next, but because she reads this blog and I was working on her gifts exclusively, I took a posting moratorium as I knitted September away. As October rolled around I started getting felted

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My felted vestDear Blog-I am still knitting Christmas presents. Christmas was two and a half weeks ago and I'm still knitting presents. I hate to sound like Scrooge but I am so ready to move on. I have gorgeous yarns burning holes in my stash, just begging to get out and be used! But no, dear Blog, instead I am passing through the dark vale of Felted Vest Hell.Don't get me wrong, I am loving

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Dear Blog-If I were to tell you how much my husband loves Starbucks, I believe that you would think I was lying. He goes to Starbucks nearly every day. Right now he is working nights at a crap job that he hates with people that drive him crazy, and gets paid peanuts for his efforts. He is incredibly demoralized right now about the work situation, but it is what it is in Tucson right now.

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Dear Blog-Yippee to the New Year! I look forward to 2009 with hope and all sorts of optimism and creative energy. Because I'll be honest with you, as it was for so many others, 2008 was very much not a good year for us. It is behind us, it is done, and good riddance to it, too!But a New Year is time for new leaves, new chapters and new beginnings. I've got a roast beef in the oven and I'm even

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Dear Blog-When last I left you my sister had just lost her beloved pet, and I asked you all to drop her a line and a hug. Many, many thanks to all of you who took the time. Your thoughtfulness was very much appreciated by Carol and also by myself. Knitters are the best people.As soon as I heard about the tragedy I started digging through my books of knitted toys to see if I could find

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Just some of the socks I have knit in the last few monthsLast winter I decided to make socks for both of my sisters as part of their Christmas presents. For one sister I made the William Street Socks after first hunting down the required yarn over the entire United States. For the other sister I made the Snicket Socks. Upon hearing this my Mom requested bed socks as part of her gift. Then I

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Well, Knitting Fans, as of Saturday, Pookie the Sock Monkey is finished. This project was a heck of a lot of fun, half of which had to be the search for monkey accessories. In the end, I found that the hair and the glasses really made the monkey - who am I kidding? It's the mouth that makes the monkey! But other than that, a teddy bear was all that was needed. The body is made with Araucania

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At what turned out to be 3 a.m last night, we were tucked up in bed slumbering peacefully, when suddenly the sounds of a whole lot of sirens passing by for a whole long time woke us up. And you know how your mind will turn an outside sound into something that works with your dream. I don't know what I was dreaming just before the sirens penetrated my consciousness, but at that point, I was

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At Least He Has Legs NowBut he does look a bit forlorn, unable to hug his bear. I mentioned that I wanted to suit each monkey to the recipient, and so due to an unexpected change in my schedule this morning, I found that I had the time to wander over to Michaels with partial monkey in hand to look for glasses and whatever else might pop into the basket. Alas, no glasses, but I did find this

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The Big, Scaly Lizard, Spying on UsThere comes a point, I find, in the making of all knitted animals when they begin to take on their own live personality, and working on them starts to get a little creepy. (Yes, we are pretending that I've been here all along. Work with me.) So it is with my first Sock Monkey. Suddenly his sprouting legs are looking like weird little stumps and that is

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Dear Blog-I know, I have been terribly, terribly remiss! Life has been, literally, too busy. And I've been making some big changes to it all.At the end of December as I walked into the shop to teach one day, someone was on the phone with Lynn to tell us that Yarn Harlot had linked to the blog I write for the shop, using us as a reference on Afterthought Pockets. I mean, how cool is that? If

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Red-tailed hawk in the tree in front of our windowDear Blog-Well, the day after I posted last time about my horrible cold, I was in the ER. I woke up that morning feeling like absolute crap - really weak, coughing up a storm, and was rather afraid that I had pneumonia again. So I had DH come home and take me to the ER and several hours, one chest X-ray, and lots of drugs and about $1,000 later,

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This is how I look...This is how I feel...Dear Blog-Yes, It's official. My 'really bad allergies' turned out to be a really bad cold. I have just now gone through an entire box of tissues in about 24 hours. Why don't sick people stay home where they belong? I kept thinking, 'This is pretty fierce for allergies, but if it was a cold, I'd know it.' In the middle of the night on Tuesday night,

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Mukluks from Folk Style, before feltingDear Blog-Oh, I know, I could have started that in a nicer way, with a better title. Such as 'Time Flies When You're Knitting', or 'Look What I've Been Doing!', or even 'No, I Didn't Go To Rhinebeck'. But I am sorry, my principle issue at the moment is that the winds have been fierce for 2 days now, and as a result, my head IS a river of goo. Or perhaps

Lyndahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00290526988317334953noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10022633.post-35416425155862831312007-09-21T07:12:00.000-07:002008-12-10T10:06:49.462-07:00

Quail hanging out in the back yardDear Blog-I think you can assume that there are about 50 other things that I should be doing right now. Such as laundry, finishing up giving the kitchen a good deep clean and finding where that smell is coming from, paying bills, writing up patterns, spending time feeling guilty about all of the above. Of course, having just typed that out, I had to get up and

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The lizard that 'owns' our pondDear Blog-Today, on 'The Sorenson's Wild Kingdom', we have a photo of the lizard that owns our pond. This is a very fierce lizard that chases away all other lizards that dare to come near his pond, and then goes back to sunning himself on a rock and guarding his lizardom. The mesquite beans that you see on the ground in the background are a great favorite with

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Dear Blog-I swear, sometimes it is like being on Wild Kingdom and always getting to be the one who stays in the car and watches out the window. Last week after bringing DH home from work I was sitting on the couch reading my book and saw something moving outside, out of the corner of my eye. I just saw the hump of this big body going by with a ringed tail, and assumed it was one of the wild

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Shibori Scarf, finishedDear Blog-What a difference a couple of days can make. Since you have been good enough to listen to me complain about everything these last few weeks I thought I would let you know the good bits, too. Saturday morning as I was teaching, my Dad left me a voice mail that Mom's room had been changed at the rehab center. It seems her crazy-making roommate had hung up on one

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Isn't he cute? A ground squirrel that DH photographed, just after he climbed out of our pond. The squirrel, not DH. Munching away on a mesquite bean in front of our front window.Dear Blog-Yes, I am feeling like a half-drowned rat on a rapidly sinking ship. And you can be damned sure I am grabbing my ENTIRE yarn stash before I get into the lifeboat. Will there be room for those big plastic

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Dear Blog-Just a word of advice in your ear if you are inclined to take it. Never, ever, at the end of a long and eventful and life-rearranging week, look up to the skies and ask, "Good Lord! What ELSE could possibly happen?" Because I find that God - who so often ignores my rhetorical questions on the many issues taxing me today - just loves to answer that one.Last night, after coming home

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Dear Blog-As usual life has gotten ahead of me this past weekend, so while I have been knitting away like a madwoman in order to not actually become a madwoman, it hasn't given me time to stop in and visit with you.Thursday and Friday I was able to pick up some extra afternoon hours at the shop after teaching in the mornings. After work Thursday I came home, fetched the DH, and we went over to

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Dear Blog-The tricky part about keeping a blog of any sort is that one has to, by definition, have something to say on a fairly frequent basis. Hopefully it is a something that people other than yourself find interesting enough to read regularly. The tricky part about keeping a blog about knitting in particular is that one must do a good deal of knitting in between postings (behind the curtain

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I am NOT a Yarn Addict, I am NOT a Yarn Addict.... Huh? Wha? Oh, sorry, I must have dozed off...Dear Blog-Well I know, Blog, that you were just as terribly excited about the Kauni yarn yesterday as I was (am), so I thought I would take a few minutes to bring you up to date, Kauni-wise. I got the last skein wound up this morning, and I thought you might like to see them in the wound state.

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Delicious Yarny Goodness!Dear Blog-Yes, I'll say it again, blame it on Harry Potter. DH did a marathon and finished said tome on Sunday afternoon, whereupon it was turned over to me. When I was not eating, teaching or sleeping, I was reading Harry. Because don't we ALL have to know how this one ends? Graham tells me he went into work on Monday and put up a sign at his desk, 'I've read Harry

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A rare sight, yet becoming ever more common, herds of migrating knitting baskets rove the Desert Southwest landscapes. Although they move so slowly that their movement cannot be detected by the human eye, some theorize that humans are their main means of volition, and even maintain that knitting baskets have a parasitic relationship with humans - more typically with human females, though in some

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Cereus Flowers, 5:30 a.m.Dear Blog-You know, I have been wanting to sit down here and write to you for several days now. So while DH is off keeping the Starbucks local franchise from going bankrupt, I have time for the two of us to catch up.I know that I have mentioned to you that I am now writing a weekly blog for the LYS where I teach, Kiwi Knitting. Much as the notion that someone would

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Pink cereus, ready to bloom tonite.Dear Blog-My, that was a good whine I had yesterday evening! And yes, it did make me feel better. No, thanks for asking, I didn't have cheese with that. Though I do believe that like chocolate, cheese is one of the basic stress-food groups. Put cheese on pretty much anything and I'm happy. Make it melted cheese, and I'm yours for the asking. One of my

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Scheherazade, finished!Dear Blog-Did you ever have one of those days? This morning I got up at the butt-crack of dawn to ride into work with DH so that I could get the car to go to work myself later in the morning. Now let me just tell you, this has not been a good year for us financially. On New Year's weekend my husband went home sick from the Farmer's Market with his blood sugar out of

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Scheherazade, thiiiiiis closeDear Blog-Look! Look! I'm almost finished with the Scheherazade Stole! Last night I finished the final chart and began the edging. With a little knitting break before breakfast I now have two of the seven repeats completed for the final edge. Now how cool is that, I ask you? Ok, let's go back up to the top of the page and admire it for a bit... Isn't blocking

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Me, Mad Trend-setter, first thing in the morning before I am fully awake, and therefore before reason stays my hand. Note camera position cleverly hides 'thing' happening between my chin and neck.Dear Blog-There! I've said it!To the untrained eye, you might think that no one would look at me and say, Now there goes a mad Trend-setter! Now, in my younger days, I like to think that I did start

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Dear BlogSing it with me! I hate Tucson in the summer! I hate Tucson in the fall, I like Tucson in the winter, when it drizzles, I hate Tucson in the summer, when it sizzles. I hate Tucson, oh why, oh why, am I in Tucson?Yes, Blog, summer has arrived with a vengeance these past few weeks. Yesterday was the 4th, and it was predicted to be so hot (113 degrees) that no one wanted to go

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View From Our Front Window On A Very Hot DayDear Blog-I know I joke that I dream about knitting, and I know that whenever I have a knitting conundrum all I need to do is sleep on it, the answer will come to me when I wake up in the morning. Always works. But DH tells me that three nights ago when he rolled over in the middle of the night, I gave him a very enthusiastic and heartfelt, 'Thank you

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Dear Blog-Ha! I bet you didn't think you'd see me back here so soon! But as promised yesterday (and since I have a spare morning today), here are the pics that I didn't have yet yesterday when I posted. First there are the lovely new/vintage rhinestone buttons for my Algonquin cardi, courtesy of Anna. Aren't they lovely? They aren't the stark white of the previous ones, and that makes all

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Dear Blog-Well, as usual I have a ton of photos for you today, and I can think of at least three more that I want to show you. Those will have to wait. As usual, I have been knitting like a madwoman and not getting a heck of a lot of anything else done. April may be the cruelest month elsewhere, but it Tucson it is June. Lots of heat, no rain in sight. Until the monsoons come in early (

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Lady Eleanor, who is a bit camera shyDear Blog-She's done! Finished! Finito! Lady Eleanor the Second is now an FO. I finished her fringe on Saturday and have been admiring her beauty ever since. Oh, Lady Eleanor, I have missed you so. I promise you won't be sold to a stranger the way your sister was.LE2 detailOf course, in typical Lynda fashion, I did make some changes to the pattern.

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Dear Blog-Today I actually have a free morning to sit down and spend time writing to you. I really ought to be going early for my weekly blood draw so that I don't have to sit there so long waiting for my turn, later in the day when it is more crowded. I also should be starting my deep clean of this room, which looks like it was attacked by a yarn-vomiting monster. I'll definitely take a

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Dear Blog-I am beginning to suspect that if I don't post here soon, either my husband or my sister will begin beating me about the head and shoulders with sticks. Me sister keeps emailing and asking, When are you going to post, When are you going to post? Blah, blah blah! Heck, when was the last time you updated YOUR blog, you old bat? And every time I walk past the computer DH has brought up

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PINK PENSTEMMONDear Blog-My new issue of Vogue Knitting arrived the day before yesterday, and I saw in the new books section that Nicky Epstein has a book coming out on felted knitting. Now I know, Blog, that I have told you before that Nicky Epstein is my Goddess and that I will put no other Goddesses before her (other than the Goddess of All Knitting, Merino). But I swear, this woman has a

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PINK PENSTEMMON IN OUR BACKYARDDear Blog-No, Blog, it's ok. I didn't go on vacation without telling you about it first. You are probably sitting there feeling hurt and wondering why you didn't get a postcard.You remember I told you that I was scheduled to have two angiograms last week? Well, Monday evening I was very short of breath, with

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Dear Blog-Well, they said we would have a windy day today, but I didn't realize that the wind was planned to start at 6 am, and that it would be blowing so hard that you can't even see the city, or that it would make the blinds in front of the closed windows rattle. Asthma Woman doesn't like the wind. Asthma Woman wants it to go away. I can see why years ago people stuck out on the prairie in

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Dear Blog-I know, I know. I know what you're thinking. Where has she been? She doesn't call, she doesn't write. Doesn't she love me anymore? Has she (Gasp!) stopped knitting?What can I say? It has been a really, really busy month. My middle sister was here visiting for a week, and staying mostly with my parents, which meant a lot of driving back and forth for me. DH and I took her to the

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SUNSHINE ON THE FRINGE OF MY ELEMENTS SHAWLDear Blog-Yesterday, while waiting for people to come to our yard sale, I sat on the couch and listened to a book while I worked on finishing up a few last details on some projects. One of them was to finish that last lonely tier on my Argosy Scarf from the last Knitty. You may remember that this is the second of these that I have made, the first I

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Dear Blog-For a while now I have had this notion that I want to design a felted purse with cables. There is something about the idea of all that texture that I find really appealing. And I can see the bag in my mind's eye. In fact, I woke up one morning last fall with the whole bag already there in my brain, just needed writing out and knitting. But of course the holidays hit and all the best

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MY YARN CABINET VOMITEDBUT REMEMBER HOW GORGEOUS THE SNOW WAS ON MONDAY?Dear Blog-Although on one hand it would have made a great deal of sense to sew on the sleeves before taking on the neckline and button bands, on the other hand, leaving them til last gave me a LOT less bulk to deal with while I was working on the other sections. You know, there is only so much room in a chair, and I take up

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Dear Blog-It is another cold, frosty morning out there. You will need to be content with that bit of knowledge and not require photographic proof because it is too danged cold to go out there. Take my word for it, lots of heavy frost.Ok, so yesterday when we left our sweater, we were here:Shoulders finished with a three-needle bind off, neckline done and sewn into place inside, and the pockets

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SNOW ON THE SANTA CATALINA MOUNTAINSDear Blog-Look what happened to us last night! Yesterday afternoon at about 1:30 it started to rain, and continued to rain steadily all afternoon. Again, this is not our normal thing here in the desert, and it was a pleasure to sit on the couch all afternoon, reading and looking out the window. There were a few times when I swore the rain had a bit of

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Dear Blog-A few days ago DH asked me if I had written to Blog lately, and I had to confess that I hadn't. I was too busy knitting and trying to finish my CYO before our guild meeting on Thursday. While I wasn't able to reach that goal - tho it was a danged cold morning that day and I sure could have put it to good use - it managed to spur me on to the point where I was so near to finishing it

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Dear Blog-I wrote the following two days ago, and blogger decided it was so full of yummy goodness that it wanted to EAT my post rather than, well, post it. All I was able to recover was about 1/3 of the original. This made me so very annoyed with blogger that I couldn't bear to even look at the thing yesterday. So this morning I will work to replace was what eaten.It is a very dark morning

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Dear Blog-Ok, after I took breakfast to DH at the farmer's market (Sausage McMuffin with egg and hashbrowns, all of which is at one and the same time really gross, and pretty darned yummy), I came home and had my own breakfast, attacked the house, lounged about, etc. In general, everything except to come back here and show you what I had meant to do over this last year.Here is my list:*Cabled

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MY RED THANKSGIVING CACTUS IS VERY HAPPY THIS MORNINGDear Blog-Well, as I promised, here are the sleeves of my Philosopher's Wool Colour Your Own. I was very, very pleased with myself. Until, that is, I saw that although they may be twins, they are NOT identical. Hmmm... Then I decided, Hell, just get over it. They'll be on opposite sides of my body.Now mind you, if I had

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Dear Blog-I told you yesterday that I would show you what I got for Christmas, so here I am. I guess by now all my family know that I am A Woman Obsessed, so they just enable me with things relating to knitting. First, a couple of weeks before Christmas, my parents gave me money as my gift, and I hot-footed it to work where I picked up the Denise pink needle set that I had been lusting after. I

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Dear Blog-Christmas is finally over! The humiliating cat sweater project is finished! I have at last finished re-formating and organizing 17 patterns in my word-processing program, changed them all into Word documents, and from there into pdf files!I'll take one story at a time. Last Friday, the 22nd, I had to go to the LYS to play Knit Dr in the morning, and then left there to run out and

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Dear Blog-I am finally having to face what the painful reality of being a Yarn Ho is. Sure, there are probably lots of women out there who think of themselves as Yarn Hos, but until you find yourself knitting a sweater for a cat for money, trust me, you don't have a clue what being a Yarn Ho really is. They say that every addict hits their bottom eventually, and sadly enough, I have hit

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Dear Blog-Good morning on this cold, frosty December morning. I am in the habit of turning the heat way down before going to bed, because I like to sleep in a cold room in a bed with flannel sheets and a big fluffy down comforter, but the flip side to that is that when you get up in the morning, the house is danged cold and it takes it a while to warm up. Especially in this room and in the LR

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Dear Blog-So I told you about how I started the Scheherazade shawl (hereafter known as SS), and then realized that it wasn't knitting suitable for evenings in front of the tv. So I relegated it to daytime knitting, and started on the other project I had been lusting after - the Philosopher's Wool Colour Your Own in Ocean Spray. It was a long road to starting this project. This yarn is

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Dear Blog-So I saw these cute mitten and stocking patterns in the aforementioned IK and decided I needed a few of those, too. To them I added some store-bought knit ornaments from Cost Plus (at half price) and before I realized what I was doing, I had a knitting tree. If you look closely you can see the white mitten at the top instead of a star. This is in my dining room, which is in reality

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Dear Blog-After spending an hour and a half in the dental chair this morning, I'm so happy to be free that I could just dance a jig. Only, honestly, it would be really scary if I did that, so I'll content myself with getting further up to date with the whole blogging/knitting relationship.I wanted to show you some other things that I worked on during my freaked-out time in November, then in the

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Dear Blog-Phew! This time of year life just gets too darned busy. Last we talked I was up to my elbows in dirty wine glasses. I spent the whole day washing the dishes from the night before, and putting the house back in order. And they weren't even wild!Makes me think of a time in my younger days when all parties were wild, going out with three of my work buddies and ending up back at this

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Dear Blog-I'm sorry I haven't written in a while. Life just gets so busy during this time of year. But today I have not much to do besides washing a lot of dishes and putting the house back together, and so while more wine glasses soak, here I am.I was an eventful month since I was talking with you last. I went through the whole breast cancer scare - to my relief my biopsy was negative - you

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Dear Blog-I'm sorry I haven't written in a while. It seems that life just gets so darned busy, and yet for the life of me I can't think of a single useful thing that I've been doing. EXCEPT!!! The Sakiori III vest is finished at last. Actually, I had finished it on Saturday, it just takes me forever to sit down and sew on buttons, and this time it was both buttons and frogs as well. But here

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Dear Blog-The unthinkable has happened and my whole world has changed. You read about these horrible tragedies that occur, and while you feel a certain degree of human sympathy for the innocent victims - and who could not? - you don't understand what a life-changing event it is until you experience such a thing yourself. How on one side of the divide your life jogs along in the old way, and in

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Dear Blog-I have pictures for you! This week I brought the camera with me to the market so that you can see what we do on Sundays...Here are some of my felted bowls that I have been bringing to the Farmer's Market to sell. The two in the foreground and the purple one in the back row are made with Kureyon. It makes a limper felted fabric, but the colors can't be beat. The orange bowls are

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Dear Blog-I have lots of pictures for you today of green, growing things. Including progress on G's vest...This is the Sakiori vest from Folk Vests. He gets too warm wearing knitted things, but thought he wanted a vest for winter at the farmer's market. Even here in the desert it gets quite cold on winter mornings. I love being all bundled up and seeing those who are obviously visiting

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Dear Blog-I may have already told you the beginning of this story, but darnit, I'm going to tell you again. When I got back into knitting several years back I tried my darnedest to get my oldest sister, who had also knit when we were children, to take up knitting too. I was just thoroughly convinced that she would love it - the patterns, the yarns, the creativity and relaxation, all of it. It

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Dear Blog-It's time to hide the screaming doormat by the front door and invite innocent people to step in. Time to put out the pumpkins - both plastic and felted - and get into the spirit of fall and harvest and all those wonderful things that people in other parts of the country get to enjoy, while we continue to bake our butts off in 90 degree heat. Ah, yes, fall in the desert Southwest...

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Dear Blog-I did it. I confess. Last night when I was coming home from my 'Italian For Beginners' class. I saw him crossing the road, all stretched out on a bit of blacktop patching and pointed towards our house. I didn't even have to swerve to get him. Never, Never have I deliberately run over a living thing with my car. Sure, I've been tempted, who hasn't? What woman with a

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Dear Blog-So I was really tempted to add in projects that I did last Christmas for gifts, then realized how anal I'm getting about putting all the pictures on that I can find so far. I have decided to spare you that. It would be right up there with looking at someone else's vacation or baby pictures. I'd rather smack my teeth out with a hammer.Instead, as one last bit before I make my husband

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Even tho we live in the desert and we should hit the mid-80s today, you can still feel that fall is upon us. The mornings are cooler, the sun is not so blow-torch-on-your-head intense. What knitter doesn't love fall and the idea that soon you can start wearing all your lovely, big wooly knitted things again? The change of seasons gives us an excuse for our obsessions. In the back of my mind

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The Dineh Vest was another pattern that I had looked at for some time before just breaking down and buying the yarn and getting it out of my system. In Folk Vests it is shown in a red colorway with black and light blue contrast. I chose to work this in colors that are more traditional according to the Navajo rugs I have. I have never been a vest person but this is one that convinced me that

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... There is that long gap of time in between when one's husband gets home from work, and when you can get near the computer again. Here are some of the projects that I still have waiting in the wings to talk about. I've decided to do perhaps one or two at a time, until I master that whole 'put the photo where you want it' thing.I fell in love with the Lady Eleanor's Entrelac Stole from Scarf

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I'll be delighted when I am all caught up. This time I'm going to put all the pictures in at once, and see if I can add text around them. Experiments in blogging!Oh, crap! I forgot to move the cursor down before adding in the pics. I guess I will just have to talk up here. The bear is named Sasha, and he was knitted for the new son of a friend of ours. He married a Russian woman and we

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My morning was not dull.I was walking past the front door and what do I see looking in the screen door at me but a rattlesnake. And I'm serious, he was up on his hind legs looking in, sticking his tongue out. Saturday evening G and I were watching a movie when we heard some familiar noises out on the front porch, and sure enough there were 4 javelina eating the plants. Well, we banged on the

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I created this list a few weeks ago while in email conversation with one of my sisters, whom I have turned into a yarn junkie... Going to one of the websites for AA, I used their 12 Steps as the basis for a similar list for knitaholics. Enjoy!The 12 Steps of Yarnaholics Anonymous1 ) We admitted we were powerless over yarn--that our stash closets had become unmanageable.2 ) Came to believe that

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Started with chipping a plate as I was washing dishes this morning, a big chip out of the rim. :-( Then on the way home from doing waxing on one of my clients I got a ticket for not stopping at a stop sign. I could swear I stopped. He says, no, I looked, but I just rolled right through. Hmmm... Thought about doing the traffic school, but it would cost the same as the ticket, AND bore me

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I'll admit it. But I finally have found where all those old pics are that were downloaded from the camera! Oh, happy day. So here I sit at the computer on this gorgeous September day in the desert with the intention of getting all that old stuff blogged about and bring this beast up to the present.The problem is I just knit too much, and if I have spare time that is what I am doing. So let's

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Nicky Epstein is my Knitting Goddess, and I shall place no other Knitting Goddesses before her!Last August I pre-ordered her new book, Knitted Flowers, in eager anticipation of it's scheduled end-of-September release. Which was then postponed to mid-December, which was then postponed til the end of April. But that is okay, I could be content to wait forever, as long as it eventually got here

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And why did I knit him a sweater? Oh, God yes! Of course. This is for my niece's baby. Um, who happens to be named Ron. It is from a Morehouse Farm pattern and knitted up so quickly. I was really pleased with the result.Above that you see a bad picture of me sitting in front of our soap and candle display at the home show. My husband and I are both Aromatherapists, and he makes Aromatherapy soaps

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Somewhere here I uploaded more pictures, but I'll be darned if I can find them. Hopefully they show some children's sweaters that I made for a business proposal. Someone we knew who is something of an entrepreneur and outdoor clothing manufacturer wanted to start a business with handknit childrens sweaters. Somehow that just kinda fizzled out, but here are the sweaters. Okay, so here is just one

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Here are few pictures from our vacation in the mid-Hudson Valley in early summer to visit my family. There are a couple of pictures from Country Wool (hmmm... maybe I will put the post here where I talked about my yarn crawl on vacation. Yeah, that's next.). I loved Country Wool, loved Claudia, and could stay in there all day looking at her amazing selection of yarns. The first pic shows the

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They have finally made it simple enough to add pictures to the blog that even I can figure it out. So I am going to post several bits so that I can stick in all my pictures that have been waiting, and tell about each project.Watch out, I have a whole year's worth of projects to show...Here are Milly and Henry, the bears I did for my niece's girls. They are pretty darned cute, now that I look at

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Okay, all you Cowardly Lions of the knitting world! Repeat after me:It's just needles and yarn, it's just needles and yarn, it's just needles and yarn... :-DMy second project after getting back into knitting after a 37 year hiatus was a pair of socks. My first was a sweater. And aside from the fact that I would never want to meet the gorilla who would have fitted into that sweater (I frogged

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WoooHoooo! I finally finished the PITA reindeer sweater! It's done! It's done, it's done, it's done!!!I started this sweater last August as an Xmas present for my Dad. The Christmas before he had wanted a sweater with reindeer on it, it seems one of his fellow church-goers had one on and he wanted one similar. Mom and I looked everywhere in town, searched the internet, nothing. So I decided to

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... since I have been here. This winter has not been my best - since mid-January I have had, in turn, the flu, pneumonia, bronchitis and pneumonia yet again. Needless to say I am keeping my fingers crossed that it is over! And to think I complained last spring when I had three colds in three months' time!Anyway, it has certainly kept me from posting here, as I was either feeling like boiled hell,

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...was the word, and the word was "KNIT!" And so she knits. And God said, "Knit one, purl one." And so she knitted one and purled the next. And after a while she became aware of a deep, abiding desire to make her own knitting blog, and so appealed to her husband. He took her to the website, where she set up her knitting blog. And she saw that it was good.

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