whew end of day on friday and ready to go home.
i forgot to mention that i sent an email to my work's CLASSIFIED ads last week seeking other interested knitters at the workplace to start an after-work knitting group. i got some good responses and enough (about a dozen) interested that i am going to hold a first meeting next week! i am excited... we can meet in our company's huge cafeteria which is open 24/7 and the kitchen is open til 9 pm so folks can get whatever they want to munch on.
i had tried to start a group in park slope a couple of years ago and it didnt work out. so i am glad that this may - it seems as if there are a lot of newbies but thats fine - i would like to spend some time doing charity knitting and others are interested too. we'll see how it goes.
finished the cowl on wednesday night - after hair appt and getting home at an unbelievably early hour for me - 630 pm! then after that i worked on that best baby sweater and didnt like it so frogged it and then gave up for the night - thursday i had some stomach something (probably food poisoning) so after sleeping most of the morning - while recupping on the sofa, started a little aran cardigan i had designed for my nephew but in wool for the colleague's baby - but the red wool i had is too bulky and i needed something red as its a heart design - so frogged that after an hour of work - it was way too big for a new baby- and then got out the Falick/Nichols baby book and fllipping thru - found the baby aran sweater - funny how i hadnt remembered seeing it before... anyway its perfect and i have some patons wool that is a decent weight for it - am doing it in the round - its basically ft and bk with open shoulders with buttons. cast on and got about 5 inches done while watching FARMERS DAUGHTER (a fav) and a spencer tracy film - THE LAST HURRAH which i had never seen - very interesting John Ford film about tracy as an irish mayor who loses his last reelection and - good acting and dialogue and of course great depth of casting. a good evening.
still waiting for my package from schoolhouse press with the new Sally Melville book - sigh i had hoped it would come today - but i will have to make do this weekend with out it... anticipation especially to see and read about the Einstein coat everyone is talking about on the knit lists.
ok im off home now - to watch britcoms and knit and take out some of the newspapers in the five foot high stack... yikes.
e
Friday, January 31, 2003
Wednesday, January 29, 2003
argh
i had a nice long post written out and then got a phone call so finished it and when i went to post and publish - ti was gone!!!! ugh
so a shorter version herewith
work on the cowl progressed last night - while watching the fantasy but fun show Gilmore Girls (luke the diner guy has some serious competition!) and then reality doses with the prez. thank goodness the camera pool showed the dems sitting thru many of the reps standing ovations. where is the money going to come from for all of those programs and the tax refunds? can you say deficit spending? yikes.
finished one ball and started another and got half way thru - cowl is reaching almost the ending length - and then need to decide what to do for the edge to make it the top (since the lace has a definite top to the pattern). have a hair appt (first in a year) today and needed to bring something not as bulky so am starting an EZ best baby sweater for a colleague's new baby boy (jan 1). from my stash (!) in Classic Elite inca alpaca , a pretty dark blue heather. need to choose a more manly pattern than the lacey ones i normally use but the beginning is the yoke in garter so i can find a pattern tonight.
its been snowing off and on all day since i was walking to the subway - as a southern gal i still marvel and delight at snow falling - hopefully with the cold spells of the last few weeks, the ground is solidly frozen and it will stay on for awhile - would love to walk around prospect park and get shots.
ok off to do some work before i have to leave -
e
i had a nice long post written out and then got a phone call so finished it and when i went to post and publish - ti was gone!!!! ugh
so a shorter version herewith
work on the cowl progressed last night - while watching the fantasy but fun show Gilmore Girls (luke the diner guy has some serious competition!) and then reality doses with the prez. thank goodness the camera pool showed the dems sitting thru many of the reps standing ovations. where is the money going to come from for all of those programs and the tax refunds? can you say deficit spending? yikes.
finished one ball and started another and got half way thru - cowl is reaching almost the ending length - and then need to decide what to do for the edge to make it the top (since the lace has a definite top to the pattern). have a hair appt (first in a year) today and needed to bring something not as bulky so am starting an EZ best baby sweater for a colleague's new baby boy (jan 1). from my stash (!) in Classic Elite inca alpaca , a pretty dark blue heather. need to choose a more manly pattern than the lacey ones i normally use but the beginning is the yoke in garter so i can find a pattern tonight.
its been snowing off and on all day since i was walking to the subway - as a southern gal i still marvel and delight at snow falling - hopefully with the cold spells of the last few weeks, the ground is solidly frozen and it will stay on for awhile - would love to walk around prospect park and get shots.
ok off to do some work before i have to leave -
e
Tuesday, January 28, 2003
long time no post
well... since may i have knitted but obviously not posted.
gosh - where did the year go... summer was hot and long - to be honest i dont remember what i was doing that i couldnt post but i know i worked a lot and stayed in the ac a lot during one of the hottest summers in nyc...
i was working on many little sweaters for my new nephew - and struggling with the powers that be at my "job" to convert from part time to full time - THAT did finally happen at the end of september and i started working four days- friday-monday with sat and sun 12 hour days. then the first week of october two day guys were fired and i started working seven days and did that thru christmas (with only three days off - how crazy was i ? dont ask) and then i applied for one of the day spots and got it and started that last week - however i am training the temp consultant who is replacing me - so worked last weekend and will for at least two more... however not long hours. slept in for the first time in years on sunday morning and went in mid afternoon.
boy am i looking forward to having weekends off along with the rest of the world... its been eight long years on the weekends... the reasons why i took it involved pursuit of a music career which didnt work out. (NOT more about that as it is too depressing)
anyway - back to the present. while i was working nonstop from oct thru dec, the closest i got to knitting was carrying a project back and forth in the cab to the office and home at night - however i did start a shawl of my own design out of classic elite inca alpaca using cat's paw pattern (one of the old shetland patterns from one of the Barbara Walker books probably book one, will have to look it up..) anyway it was a simple pattern with garter stitch edge and increases every other row... i have no idea how many skeins i used, i just keep knitting and knitting - its very big - probably five feet from the tip of the triangle to the center of the top. i pushed to finish it two weeks ago - i took three days off !!!! and slept and knit and that was it... well, by the third day, i couldnt stand it and actually cleaned some of the apt and put away some things (however, the five foot high stack of newspapers is still there... later). anyway, i finished it just in time for the artic freeze which hit nyc last week - boy was i glad to have it. incredibly warm and very light!
but the artic freeze out continues, so sunday i cast on for a cowl in the same yarn and the same pattern to match - just a tube to fit over my head to keep it warm (since i hate hat hair) almost finished with this - just a few more inches - knit a lot during my first pedicure in about a year last night... and then while watching two british mysteries last night (yeah) - midsomer murders and waking the dead (love that trevor eve!)
well thats it for now... back to work. hopefully i will be posting more frequently - inspired by wendy and others whom i visit daily.
e
gosh - where did the year go... summer was hot and long - to be honest i dont remember what i was doing that i couldnt post but i know i worked a lot and stayed in the ac a lot during one of the hottest summers in nyc...
i was working on many little sweaters for my new nephew - and struggling with the powers that be at my "job" to convert from part time to full time - THAT did finally happen at the end of september and i started working four days- friday-monday with sat and sun 12 hour days. then the first week of october two day guys were fired and i started working seven days and did that thru christmas (with only three days off - how crazy was i ? dont ask) and then i applied for one of the day spots and got it and started that last week - however i am training the temp consultant who is replacing me - so worked last weekend and will for at least two more... however not long hours. slept in for the first time in years on sunday morning and went in mid afternoon.
boy am i looking forward to having weekends off along with the rest of the world... its been eight long years on the weekends... the reasons why i took it involved pursuit of a music career which didnt work out. (NOT more about that as it is too depressing)
anyway - back to the present. while i was working nonstop from oct thru dec, the closest i got to knitting was carrying a project back and forth in the cab to the office and home at night - however i did start a shawl of my own design out of classic elite inca alpaca using cat's paw pattern (one of the old shetland patterns from one of the Barbara Walker books probably book one, will have to look it up..) anyway it was a simple pattern with garter stitch edge and increases every other row... i have no idea how many skeins i used, i just keep knitting and knitting - its very big - probably five feet from the tip of the triangle to the center of the top. i pushed to finish it two weeks ago - i took three days off !!!! and slept and knit and that was it... well, by the third day, i couldnt stand it and actually cleaned some of the apt and put away some things (however, the five foot high stack of newspapers is still there... later). anyway, i finished it just in time for the artic freeze which hit nyc last week - boy was i glad to have it. incredibly warm and very light!
but the artic freeze out continues, so sunday i cast on for a cowl in the same yarn and the same pattern to match - just a tube to fit over my head to keep it warm (since i hate hat hair) almost finished with this - just a few more inches - knit a lot during my first pedicure in about a year last night... and then while watching two british mysteries last night (yeah) - midsomer murders and waking the dead (love that trevor eve!)
well thats it for now... back to work. hopefully i will be posting more frequently - inspired by wendy and others whom i visit daily.
e
