Date: January 17, 2008
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location:
Borders (in the same strip as Target)
4420 Mitchellville Road
Bowie, MD 20716
Phone: 301.352.5560
See you there!
Blog
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Bowie Borders Knitting Meetup
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I’m Dreaming of My Next Project…
Ok, why do I hear Bing Crosby crooning in my head when I say that title aloud? Nope, can’t say it. Gotta sing it. Is anyone else out there weird like I am?
The truth is that there hasn’t been much knitting going on around here lately. It’s a sad fact that I am bored, bored, bored with the hat I’ve been knitting for what I’m sure qualifies as forever by now. You know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna go bind that sucker off at the end of the round I’m currently working on and call it done. I think the ribbing has gone on for long enough and I just need to make it stop before I completely lose my knitting mojo.
What’s next on my list, you might ask? I am thinking of a Tulip Baby Sweater, or perhaps an Andean Chullo hat. (I see that the kit is on backorder once again but I have mine and I do intend to use it.)
I’m also eying the Pfeiffer Falls Hooded Scarf from Interweave Knits. Truthfully this might be my very next project, except that it requires a provisional cast on and grafting, both of which scare me. I don’t know why that is. They just do. Perhaps this is why I should do this project. Something new to learn, right?
And then there is the question of sweaters. I’ve never made one for anyone other than a newborn baby, and I think I need to just do it in 2009. This is another knitting fear hurdle that I must get over. I’m trying to decide whether to make the February Lady Sweater, or this one, by Jordana Paige. I have 2,700 yards of Tess Yarns raw silk just waiting to be made into something beautiful for me.
But then there is the sad question of my brown ripple afghan. I’d better just finish the thing, don’tcha think? More than a year is just too long. I really lost my mojo with it when it ripped last May. Yes, last May. Do you suppose I can get the thing done by this May? Sigh.
Ok, so you see my conundrum. Which is why I must leave you now, to attend to that hat. Ugh. According to that last link I’ve been doing the ribbing for a whole month now. Enough already. Here I go to bind off.
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Little Things Make Me Happy
Lookie what my DH brought me this morning:
coffee mug It’s a coffee mug from Starbucks that looks like a cable knit sweater! I first saw this on The Chum a couple days before Christmas, but hadn’t been able to find one. I thought I’d be stuck going to eBay for a used one. Thankfully, my DH had his eye out and he scored one today! I think I’m going to use it as a pen holder for my office.
Not much knitting going on around here. I’m on my fourth day of a headache and I can barely see. I’ve got the migraine meds on board and I’m just hoping they kick in soon!
More tomorrow…
Lights Out for now.
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January Knitting Group Brings Many New Friends
Today was our monthly knitting group meeting at the Borders in Bowie. Was I ever surprised to see so many new faces! Today I got to welcome about four people I hadn’t met before.
Lisa came for the first time today, and brought two hats in progress, and a scarf. One of the hats became an FO and she was looking SO cute in it today.
Leslie came once in November when I wasn’t there, so I never met her before today. At least not in real life. But, once when she was headed to a new yarn shop, she and I swapped a flurry of excited emails about the shop thanks to her cell phone. Small World! Leslie also encouraged her friend Melinda to come. Melinda was knitting a scarf with two yummy purple yarns that I covet.
Old friends Lola, Rhoda, Dina, Tammy, and Diane were also there today. Oh, and the wonderful Marie! Marie has done a wonderful job of promoting our group and bringing folks in. Today she was excited to shop for knitting magazines with Lisa, and to share with the group that a Ravelry friend of hers just had a pattern published in Interweave Crochet. (That magazine rocks, by the way. Not sure my grandmother would have known what to do with it.)
It was great to see so many new faces today and for all of us to be together in the New Year. I’m already looking forward to next month.
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New Year, New Yarn
Wait, you didn’t actually think I’d have one of those silly “I won’t buy any new yarn this year,” resolutions, did you? Moi? Uh huh.
Well, ok, technically, it was last year when I bought it. And it came today! Yay! What is it? Why it is this pile o’ loveliness:
seven shades of Dream In Color Classy When Sheri at The Loopy Ewe wrote last week that they had the Dream in Color Classy new shades of yarn in, I thought I’d click on over and check them out. As you can see, maybe I shouldn’t have! The colors are so yummy and warm and they looked so nice together that I had to have a bunch of them! These guys are destined to be a Tulip Baby Sweater. No, I don’t know of a baby to give them to. But eventually there will be one, and I will be ready. (Did I mention, sheepishly, that I actually have a Tulip Cardigan Kit waiting to be knit up already? Shhhhh…. we won’t talk about that.) At least this way with full skeins of each color I should be able to whip up some matching booties and a hat. Or maybe a whole other sweater with the stripes in a different order.
Ravelry Now a Household Word
My nearly 13-year-old daughter loves to make bottle cap art with Klutz Capsters
, and asked for more bottle caps in her Christmas stocking. They arrived a little late (Santa was backordered) but she did find them in her stocking on New Year’s Eve and has already made a whole pile of new bottle cap art objects. “What do you plan to do with them, Diana?” I ask. I got a shrug and a giggle for an answer.
She dumped her collection of bottle caps on the floor tonight for me to see them all, and she said, handing me two of them, “Look, mom, isn’t this the Ravelry dog?”
Bottle cap art with Bob Oh my! Bob is everywhere! Ok so maybe these aren’t as cute as the real thing, but hey, my kid knows who Bob is! I think that means I’m too obsessed with my knitting community. But, hey… there are worse things that could be.
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Day One
Well the new year started off with a bang around here. I was up most of the night not feeling well, and consequently spent most of the day asleep. Not the good kind of all snuggled up in bed sleep, but the kind that would find me in the middle of writing an e-mail and waking up to discover that somehow an hour had disappeared. Yuck.
Consequently the knitting I had planned to do today went right out the window.
I hope your New Year’s Day has been more exciting than mine! I’m yawning again so I think I’m going to bed for the night. I’ve got a new Episode of Cast On to keep me company if for some reason sleep eludes me again. Then, if all goes well, I’ll get up tomorrow morning and put on a pot of stew in my new crock pot that my mom gave me for Christmas. And I’ll knit. I have a hat to finish for an anxious little girl — the one who’s really not so little anymore and for whom teenagehood will arrive in 2009.
Yikes.
