knitting,

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I know many of you are suckers for the button tin. Here are some pictures of mine.

This was inherited from my Grammy. Many of the buttons are loosely tied together and many came from dress shirts – carefully snipped off and tied together before the shirt went to the rag bin. I have to confess that I myself have not added much to the button tin. At least not many buttons – all that incidental crap in the first picture are things I have tossed in there when I couldn’t be bothered to find a real home for them.

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I went digging through the bin to find a button for a little FO – a finished Calorimetry! I started this project while mulling over my recent yarn dilemas.

Click here for a look at the button options. The button sits at the nape of the neck, so I used the one on the bottom right since it has the lowest profile.

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yarn: Plymouth Soy Silk Stripes – thanks Kathleen!
pattern: Calorimetry
recipient: unofficial D#3, Baby Ruben!

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thank you thank you for your birthday wishes! and your many suggestions regarding my sock and yarn choice suggestions. For now I am ignoring the socks. I want to simply attach the Koigu and finish the damn things, but fear that I will never wear them if they are mismatched to such an extent. On the other hand, I do not have the knitters’ stomach at the moment to start ripping the finished sock. So I am setting the whole damn thing aside.

As for the BeaverSlide ……. I have been carrying the colorcards all over soliciting friends’ advice. My first thought was to go with the BeaverSlide Fisherman Weight in the color Autumn Dogwood. It is very close to the chokecherry. But Margene tells me that the fisherman weight is considerable heavier that the worsted. I don’t want to go any bigger than 4 st/inch in gauge.The waters have gotten further muddied by Kathleen’s suggestion that I check out Peace Fleece and by bins of Cascade 220 at a local yarn shop.

In mother in law news ….. her pace maker was put in on Tuesday and her wrist surgery was yesterday. Both went well and she is feeling good. I believe she will be released from the hospital today!

hope you all have a great weekend!

it’s my birthday and I’ll cry if I want to…..

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First things first – my package from Margene!

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a handmade card!

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Margene recognizes my inner hot mamma!
she hasn’t been the same since our kiss ;)

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how sweet is that sachet?!

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it smells so good

Thanks Margene – you’re the best!!

and now for the birthday heartbreak in the form of a small story

……. in my stash I had two skeins of CherryTree Hill yarn. “I shall knit some socks. Look! they are in the same colorway and so there is plenty of yarn ” and I begin to knit. And knit. One sock is completed and the other has a partial heelflap. It is at this point that I run out of yarn on the first skein.

While I am setting the second skein on my swift for winding, I realize that it is not the same weight as the first skein. Crapola. whattodo whattodo? A conference with Cara yields the solution of holding the strands doubled. okayokaythatshouldwork okayokaythatshouldwork

Not only is it now too thick – but the act of knitting reveals that these are not the same colorway at all! double crapola.

I have some leftover Koigu in the stash from the last time I ran out of sock yarn. So here’s the choice:

  • do I decide that I possess that certain younosayqua to not only knit, but wear mismatched socks? the benefit – I just attach the Koigu and knit. the downside? I can’t even spell younosayqua let alone act it out.
  • or do I rip out the exisiting sock? the benefit: I will have matched socks. the downside: I already have the ends woven in!

You would think that this would be the end of the heartbreak. You would be wrong.

As a means of distracting myself from some tough knitting decisions, I turned my attention to my BeaverSlide color cards. More phone consultation and a color was deemed perfect for my upcoming % sweater project. I got on their website – chokecherry is sold out! I have inquired as to the chokecherry availability timeframe …….

  • but, do I pick another color? the upside? I will have new yarn for my project. the downside? this will be especially difficult since chokecherry was crowned the perfect one.
  • or do I wait it out and knit another % sweater from my stash? the benefit? there are two benefits …. I will have knit a prototype % sweater and worked out any kinks and I will have knit from my stash. the downside? I hate my stash.

    • ~wail~

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Thank you for all your kind wished on my MiL’s behalf. It turns out that her broken wrist is a god send. During the stress test, her heart rate went even lower and so today she is getting a pace maker with the wrist surgery now set for Thursday. Her fall was most likely due to her low heart rate and it is damn lucky that she was only on the bottom rung of the ladder and not the top, nor behind the wheel of her car ….. countless horrible scenarios.

And now for some earthly delights ……

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good things in the mailbox!

Here we have color cards from Beaver Slide and a package from Margene!! The color cards were in the weekend’s mail and the box was waiting on my front porch when I got home from work last night.

I was all set to tear into it and then remembered Cara’s pictures of herself, a birthday package and the daily newspaper during her birthday countdown last year. So I restrained myself. Unfortunately, I only have a weekend susbscription to our newspaper, so how about this for my countdown instead? ; )

**my calendar is generated by my palm pilot. I really don’t celebrate Roosevelt’s birthday …… I swear! now I have to run along and go walk Fala.