I turn my camera on, I cut my fingers on the way, on the way

Last night when I got home from work, I had a lovely surprise waiting for me - my reveal pkg form my SP7 - the lovely Lisa from Knitti-me. Look at all the wondrous goodies I received:



close ups:
I love this set!
so pretty
fairy stitchmarkers!
isn't this gorgeous?!

Thank you Lisa - I love love love everything!

I have gotten a lot done on the black stole, I joined the 4th of 6 cones Tuesday at SnB - I really like the way it looks:


Hopefully I can finish it in the next week - I really want to cast on that KSH and start Melissa's cardigan. It looks like a rainy weekend so I should be able to get a lot done.

I can't seem to face up to the facts, I'm tense and nervous and I Can't relax

I tried posting this yesterday, but was having "issues" with my computer, so here I go trying it again.

I rushed home Tuesday night from my SnB in LIC to catch the season finale of Veronica Mars - if you have been a reader of this blog you know I am totally obsessed with this show. I do believe it is the best thing on television. For those of you who don't know it - it is the story of a HS girl who solves mysteries with her PI dad and the help of her friends and sometimes enemies too. Now I know that sounds like a really dumb premise for a tv show unless it it on the Disney Channel, but trust me - this is not Disney. Last season she had to solve the murder of her best friend, figure out who raped her, find her alcoholic mother while solving MOTW(mysteries of the week) and keeping her grades up so she could get a scholarship and get out of Neptune, her home town. The writing on this show is so good, the actors are amazing, especially Kristin Bell, Enrico Colantoni, papa Mars, Jason Dohring, her on again off again badboy boyfriend and this seasons stand out - Kyle Gallner, as Beaver, My name is Cassidy, Casablancas - The character development and storylines are some of the best -if not the best on the air now!

The season finale was really good! Veronica finally solved the mystery of who blew up a bus load of HS students, in the process she 1. Found out the the county supervisor, also know as the mayor, was a child molester, 2. Who really raped her last season, 3. That the rapist is the same person who blew up the bus, killed Curly Moran and that he was sexually abused by the Mayor; 4. Thought her father had been murdered, and 5. Was rescued(sort of) by her now on again love interest when said 'Psycho killer' tried to kill her on the roof of the Neptune Grand, before throwing himself off. Kind of campy and over the top - but so well written and acted, especially as I said, by Kyle Gallner (who you can now see on Big Love - another obsession) as the aforementioned psycho killer.

There is some question as to whether the show will be picked up next season by the new CW network - I really hope it is, I would sorely miss my VM fix if they didn't. I strongly recommend that you watch the summer reruns and tune in next season - it will be worth your while.

On to knitting stuff - the yarn I ordered from Red Bird Farms came - it is a fingering wt version of Zyphyr in the Jasper colorway 920 yards of wool/silk yummynis:


I also spent an evening winding up the Tencel lace wt I bought from Mystical Creations last year. This is 2100 yards of fine lace wt yarn in Vanilla:
It took me over an hour to wind it all - I am think that the flirty ruffles shawl would look good in this.

Well lunch is over, so it is back to work for me.

Jah sent I as your postman with your mail

I have always heard stories about mail that showed up years after it was sent, but I had never actually had it happen till Friday - and though this isn't years after it was sent it is almost 6 months:



It is a Christmas card from my friend Angela - the one who made my Crab Louis - there was a really pretty stitch marker in there also but I dropped it and it is now hiding somewhere in my stash. Thanks Angela and Merry Christmas.

some strange music draws me in makes me come on like some heroin/e

No update pictures today - I can't seem to devote enough time to one project long enough to show any progress - that of course did not stop me from adding to my overflowing stash of yarn and patterns. After meeting with the new account manager, I walked over to Purl and spent the last of my Amex gift check and the money I earned doing a massage treatment last week.

Behold the fruits of my labors:
the KSH for my likker'd up granny cardigan - I am having a really hard time not spending all day fondling this yarn - it is addictive, my preciousssss.

I also picked up 2 patterns the Rockstar Cardigan from Alchemy and a silk alpaca babushka from macandme that I think will look beautiful in the Brooks Farm yarn I picked up at Rhinebeck last year, and 2 skeins lorna's laces for a neck wrap.

I have made a deal with myself that as soon as I finish the black stole for my co-worker, I can start swatching the KSH, that should motivate me to finish the stole quickly

Summertime, time, time, Child, the living’s easy.

This was a wonderful weekend, the best I've has in a long time - Friday I got some girlfriend time with my best bud, Saturday I spent the morning visiting my mother and the afternoon shopping, Sunday was the Prospect Part Fleece festival; perfect weather, perfectly pleasant pastimes.

Here are a few pictures I promised to post:

My Boobilcious tank progress


The lovely yarn from Brooklyn Handspun


The beautiful doilies from my Crochetville Secret Pal




Pictures of Fleece Festival 06






And just cause I think these are sooo funny



Poor naked Alpacas!

What do I get out of this? I always try I always miss

Odds and ends today - I decided I am not going to MS&W this year - boo hoo - My car is in desperate need of a new muffler and my inspection and registration are up in June, so what money I had saved up really needs to be spent on the Hyundai from Hell.

That is not to say I won't be buying anymore yarn, in fact I am preparing to scors some Kid Silk Crack on Tuesday - I am meeting a new Account Manager at our downtown branch which is on Varick St, a stones throw from Sullivan, so I plan on stopping at Purl and picking up 6 skeins of Liqueur for this:

Though I think I will call her 'likker'd up granny' in deference to my color choice.
There is a KAL starting here

I also ordered some yarn from Marie at Brooklyn Handspun and I ordered something - I can't remember what - from Red Bird Knits . I can't wait to see what it is, I know it will be gorgeous, all her yarn is, I just wish I wasn't having another brain cramp.

I started my first project from Big Girl Knits (not sure I love that title):

in a soft gold cotton I picked up at Smileys. I'll post pics when there is more to see than 10 rows of seed stitch.

I finished the 2nd cone of black wool/silk for my co-workers shawl. I really like this stitch pattern, it is quick and easy to remember, but looks complicated and quite pretty. I sent her a picture of my progress and she liked it so that is good.

David and Robert are going camping this weekend - Jeff is in trouble for not finishing school work again, so he is home with his mother, hopefully doing some of his homework. I am going out with Marilyn tonight - I think I might stay over there since no one will be home tonight and I no longer like coming home to an empty apartment. Besides we will be drinking and I don't want to be driving when I have had a few or more.

Sunday I will be in Prospect Park for the Annual Sheep Shearing - I volunteer every year at The Yarn Tree - There are spinning, weaving and dying demos and a few of us teach the little ones how to finger crochet. It is always a lot of fun - I look forward to doing it - I think of this as my first Right of Spring. If you are in the area stop in!

Can you hear them - They talk about us

Telling lies - Well that's no surprise

Guess where I am going? The Nokia Theatre, now what did I do with those big plastic earrings and flourescent lace accessories, like oh my god!?? Marilyn and I are going - it's going to be so much fun!

The weather this weekend put a damper on our weekend plans, David and I were going to drive upstate today but with all the rain and damp we just stayed home. Last night we drove to Roosevelt Field, didn't really buy anything but had a good time window shopping - all I picked up was Bead Style Magazine . I spent today making a pair of earrings based on a pair I saw in the mag. I would post some pictures but I left my USB cable at work.

I’ve been looking so long at these pictures of you...that I almost beleive that they’re real

Warning Picture Heavy Post

Today was a good day - the weather was perfect, I didn't lose my cell phone at SnB last night and I got goodies in the mail.

My 3 bosses where in RI the last 3 days and while I had some deadlines early this week - today was slow so I spent the day cleaning up my files and receiving good things by UPS. First this came from the Fruit Store:

The card said it was from my 3 managers - I think they though Admin Prof Day was today instead of next Wed. In the boxes starting from the big one on the bottom, were 3 apples and 3 pears, then cheese and crackers, 6 chocolate chip cookies, and a small box of mixed nuts.

The next thing that arrived was this:
I had preordered it from Amazon in February and it finally showed up today! Can I tell you how much I love this book - finally sweaters I want to knit and I don't have to figure out how to upsize the ones I love like this:

and this:

and this:

and this one:

oh, and this one:

not to mention - this:

and I haven't even gotten to the accessories yet!

I also ordered this:
http://neoknits.blogspot.com/2006/03/its-ready.html - A granny smith cardigan that I love soooo much more than the one in Knitty - all I need are 6 skeins of Crack Silk Haze and I am all set!

And this weekend I picked up these patterns:
David bought me a sewing machine a few years ago and the only thing I have used it for is to sew patches on the boys Scout uniforms.

This is the stole I have been working on for my co-worker - I like the way it is coming out and it is very easy to work on while drinking coffee and talking on Tuesday nights:

...if I could be sure the head on the door was a dream....

I am finally feeling human again - my doctor said I had a bad case of the "ickies" - 2 prescriptions and $75 later I started to feel better. I LOVE that cough syrup w/codeine. I slept for about 3 straight days - it was lovely - deep sleep with no dreams - usually when I am sick I have strange dreams, I once dreamt I was having a rather heated conversation with the Walrus from Alice in Wonderland. To this day I swear he was at the foot of my bed giving me a hard time about oysters.

Once I regained conscienceness I was able to finish A Good Bias, see:




I just cast on for a shawl for a co-worker - she asked me at a weak moment and I agreed to knit one for her. It is a straight stole in trellis lace - the yarn though is wonderful - she picked the heavier wt Zypher - it is a pleasure to knit with, the silk gives it a lovely sheen. I think it will be quite beautiful when it is done.

I am trying to decide what I want to cast on for me - I have so many projects I want to knit, I can't decide what I want to do first. I think the feather and fan shawl will probably win out. I love that yarn I received from my SP and have been itching to work with it!

I am very late sending out my final SP7 package - March just flew by, what with my mother, FLA and then the ickies - it was over before I realized it. I will be sending out my reveal pkg tomorrow. I really hope my SP likes everything, I feel really bad about being so late ending it out.

I am planning on going to the LIC knit group tomorrow after work - I really enjoyed it the last time I went and I really want to make it a regular happening.

I'm back, back in a NY Groove....

Well, not exactly. The only souvenir I brought back from FLA was a head/chest cold, which has currently progressed to laryngitis and a hacking cough, so I am not it any kind of groove at all.

I wanted to thank everyone for their kind thoughts for my mother - she is back in the nursing home and the pacemaker is working perfectly - she is just tired and weak from the ordeal - I've only been to see her once since I came home because I am afraid in her weakened state I will give her pneumonia.

Florida was great, but COLD - I froze my a$% off, plus it really was a business trip - I worked the whole time and mostly on my feet, so I was one exhausted camper when I got home Sunday night. Monday I woke with this cold and have been feeling miserable ever since.

I am behind on all my projects and really need to spend some quality time with my fiber and needles. I have 5 more repeats and the A Good Bias is finished. I want that done soon, so I can wear it. Then I want to start something summery, in cotton and lace. Don't know what yet but something.

Time to get back to work, as long as my phone doesn't ring - I will be fine.....