I Don't Know Why

I waited so long! I have great big squishy love for all of it.

A New Addition

A new tyrannical kitty to help keep my yarn tangled and my needles chewed.

My daughter named her Miku. My dog on the other hand has a few inventive nicknames for her, I'm sure. ;)

In knitting news...I pulled a Yarn Harlot. Who'd a thunk that measuring to 16-1/2" would be so difficult? Obviously, my tape measure is broken, because my notes were correct. Doesn't change the fact that I had to rip out half of the back to my textured cardigan, knit the extra two inches. Too bad I didn't make the same measuring error on the left front...no one would have be any the wiser and I'd be knitting the right front as I type. I'm sure with the new kitten, I won't have anymore such distractions.

Pooh.

Knit on...

Relegated

My camera is pooh. Pooched. Bit the dust. Has gone to the great lens in the sky. :( So, until I get a new one...one with a flash, macro and zoom and all those other nifty things a camera does that we take for granted, you will all be subjected to crappy pic's taken by the camera on my iPod Touch. I'd apologize, but shit happens. :P

Knitting update with crappy pic follows.

So, I finally finished the back of the Textured Cardigan(Rav link).

There is a lot of knitting and bobbles on that back. I'm making the medium/large 50" size, so you can just imagine.

The front is much easier on the bobbles with the added excitement of pockets.

Ohhhhhhh, ahhhhhhhh!

I want this finished. It's perfect weather for wearing, like, NOW! At least knitting needles don't pooch unless I do...

Birthday Request

As per my daughter, whom is turning nine today! Happy Birthday, toots!

I even managed to squeeze in and knit part two of eight between all the baking and the dipping. :)

I know, still doesn't look like much, but it's a project concentrating on colour placement and I made 5 swatches until I settled on what I thought was complimentary. It's interesting to see how colours come together and compliment each other, even when you thought they wouldn't. :) This is a KnitPicks Palette stash buster. I have a lot of single colours and would like to knit them up for something useful.

Part One of Eight

It'll get more interesting. Promise.

Kony 2012

I will repost this here once a month for the remainder of 2012 so we don't forget.



P.S. I just want to say that I've been reading around the web how this video won't help, it's a fundraising attempt by Invisible Children to make another documentary, to how the campaign reflects neither the realities of northern Ugandan nor the attitudes of its people, etc...but, when I watch this video, I see children. I see children living in fear in a certain area of the world that happens to be in an area of Uganda. I see myself as having been completely ignorant of this before watching this video. I had no idea who Joseph Kony was. Maybe I'm just a middle aged naive white woman who needs to remain under her rock, but I personally cannot live my life with suspicion, pessimism or ignorance. That is all. :)