Dilemmas

For some reason I am drawn to lace. I just love it almost as much as I love cables. I am discovering I love lace knitted in heavier weight yarn for the pieces I want to wear. This presents a couple dilemmas. First and foremost is all the lace weight yarn in my stash. Second I am about 10 repeats into the stunning Leaf and Trellis Stole.




I think I will be OK with finishing this lace weight project, because I really do love it, but it may take me some time to finish. I have a hard calling to knit a very large triangle shawl in a heavier weight. I am considering the A Handsome Triangle found in Victorian Lace Today. I know I have some Fingering or DK weight yarn in my stash to make this beauty. Hummmmmm

Another thought.... I know I have green lace weight and I know I have green fingering weight. I could put them together and knit a shawl with them. That would stash bust for sure.

Jubilee

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This lace pattern is soooooooooo fun to knit. Even better it is a free Berroco Pattern.

Pattern found here:
http://www.berroco.com/exclusives/jubilee/jubilee.html

Jedi Mind Tricks.....

Starwars was released in May 1977. Guess what? I had never seen the movie until yesterday. GASP! Can you believe it? It was amazing all the references that I've come across over the years but never really knew the root. One such is the phrase "Jedi Mind Tricks". I was surprised to learn the meaning behind this little phrase. I feel like I have been let in on a private joke. :-)

Last weekend was Comfest. We picked up this garden spinner with a butterfly and I also visited my favorite incense vendor. I have been waiting a whole year to buy more of that guys incense.



I finished the Jubilee scarf this weekend. I blocked it this morning.


So I have been hinting to changes in the bonus room for a few weeks. Jimmy has taken over the den (former library room on the first floor) for his home office now that he works out of our house. This left the bonus room without a purpose. I soon suggested that we turn it into my studio/office. We had the walls painted a lovely lavender and I have been making slow progress on putting things in the proper place. It is still a work in process but here are a couple pictures.


Not sure if I posted a finished Clap picture after blocking so here it is. Sorry if it is redundant because I am to lazy to scroll back right now. I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July. I was sick with a summer cold last week and finally started to feel better yesterday morning. Of course I always like to share so now Jimmy is suffering from the sore throat and stuffy head. Mom always taught me to share which is always challenging for an only child. ;-)

Swatching do over.....

Really I don't mind swatching. What I mind is when I know I have swatched a certain yarn and didn't take proper notes on swatch results. Ravelry is perfect for recording all notes about a project including swatching. I have a yarn bought from eBay a couple years ago where I have a few skeins leftover. I decided to use this yarn for knitting the Jubilee.



Molly and I are knitting this pattern together and will be casting on later today together.

I have developed my own "protocol" for how and when I swatch. When I have a new yarn for a garment I swatch to obtain the gauge designated in the pattern. When knitting a garment it is very important to obtain the gauge specified, unless you are adapting, if you want the item to fit. Now if the pattern sizes doesn't strike your fancy you can adapt the sizing by "playing around" with the gauge and/or yarn weight.

Now when I am going to knit a shawl/scarf/stole, normally lacy, I generally don't concern myself with the pattern specified gauge. I am more interested in the way my chosen yarn looks when it is knit into the lace pattern. I will swatch to see what size needles will produce the stitch I will enjoy and be able to live with.

So this morning I went out to my project on Ravelry where I used this yarn and wouldn't you know I didn't make note of my swatch details. I really really hate when I have to swatch a yarn a second time. It is such a waste of time. So here I am getting rid of my frustration and sharing my lesson learned. Here is my swatch detail from this morning. YOU can surely bet this detail will be going into my Jubilee Ravelry project notes this time around. :-)

I will be using size 7 needles (the bottom lacy row was knit with size 5 and it is to tight for my liking). The yarn is Yarn Treehouse in a soft green. It is 40% Alpaca and 60% Merino and it is pretty soft.

Do you know what kitties do?

So Audra sent me an email with many many great pet pics in it this morning. One of the pics really hit home for me and I have to share it here.

Do you know what your cat does when you aren't home or perhaps even when you are home and not looking?


About a month after we adopted Kiki I noticed something off with my toothbrush. It had black hairs sticking out it. I was sooooooooooooooo grossed out. I spoke with the gal that brought us Kiki and she said oh yeah Sally said she caught Kitty Kitty doing that. For those that don't know the history. Kiki was called Kitty Kitty by her previous owner Sally. Sally has since passed away from a terrible illness. Kiki's name changed because she didn't answer to Kitty Kitty but Poo did. Kiki now loves her new shortened name and comes when she is called ~ well some of the time when she isn't ignorning us. Thanks for reading a little Kiki history. Oh by the way. That day all the toothbrushes were thrown out and new covered toothbrushes are used in our home. ;-)

Hummmm.....

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This is the tea on my desk at work. There are three different kinds. Does this mean I am a tea addict?

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