Friday – 11 May 2007

[No clue – the post along with the comments just vanished. I think it may be to do with my editing methods. In any case, this is an approximate repost].

It was a long week and I was ready for a break. The Challah was baked by Nina to be taken along for services tonight. I would have photo’d the cake, but the dog got a piece of it when her back was turned.

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Knitting

More progress on the Grasshopper: beyond the heel and starting up the leg. I am still treating it as a sampler, so the stitches do vary here and there. After trying out the front-> back yarn over, I might just knit the second one by the pattern.
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Sockapalooza

I doing a sample pair (which I likely will keep for me) to double check gauge and pattern prior to making the one’s for my pal, the Lisa Souza yarn is really pretty bright. I like the way the twisted stitch rib is coming out. This was just a regular cable cast on. I am contemplating a chanel isle cast on for the second sock to see how it looks.
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Arches

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The time was August 2005, the location-Glasgow, Scotland. The SS Armadillo.

Audio Books

Checked out from the library – Dead Wrong by J A Jance and Fiddler by Ed McBain.
-Holly

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fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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3 Responses to Friday – 11 May 2007

  1. colin says:

    do have several pairs on the go at once or do you just knit very quickly?

    Off to scotland this coming Friday for the show at Edingburgh on Saturday.

  2. colin says:

    do have several pairs on the go at once or do you just knit very quickly?

    Off to scotland this coming Friday for the show at Edinburgh on Saturday.

  3. Holly says:

    I used to have lots on the needles, and horrible cases of second sock syndrome. For a while I was down to a single pair on the dps. I love dps. I have TNTC (too numerous to count) dpns. I know have the stockinette for mindless knitting while commuting (if not driving), the second grasshopper leg, and the Trauenfels socks for my Sockapalooza pal. When the Grasshopper is done, I will stick with just a simple pair and the Sock Pal pair.

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