The first real snow fall 2007

Monday, Nov. 26/07

Halloween Pictures

My husband as The Bride of Frankenstein.



Hubby & the kids. And me.

Bang! Bang!

Another sockwars victim falls. I am dead.

Finished!

The shawl wove on my triangle loom is finished.

Update

I haven't posted on here in ages, ah the fun of being a narco.

Well the house is coming along thanks to my new livingroom window;
and holding Dh's birthday party. The livingroom is almost tidy. I have to clean off my computer desk again and sort through all the junk I tossed on it from the rest of the room.
My god I'm a pack rat.

I also have built my triangular loom and have almost completed my first piece. A shawl for myself. I just have to finish tightening the bottom up.Here's some close ups:



Gorgeous isn't it. I have learned one very important thing about weaving on this loom. Don't use flat yarn if you are obsessive like I am. The main reason it's taking so long is because I'm actually going through it and untwisting any little flaw. Next time I'm using plain old plied yarn, in fact I have the yarn and my next one is a gift for someone.

Well I'm going back to it now.

On the needles - pictures

Baby blanket - modular

Lace cardigan

Stash busting Granny square afhgan

My Hidden Rooms

For years I have had dreams where we are in a new house and after moving in and being there for a few days I find a hidden room. These rooms always have things in them that the last tenant has left behind probably because this is a room that has been forgotten or they just didn't want the contents. But these things are always fascinating to me.

I found another one last night.

It was behind a couple of closets. I noticed through a hole a life size painted cut out of Goofy & Donald Duck. So I decided to venture back to see what was there. I found a room about 5x4 that was apparently used for toy storage because the toys were still there.

There were 2 doll houses one small tin one and a large wooden one (both furnished), puzzles, books, toy cars and more that I didn't really look at. Beside the large doll house there is a short hallway with a door on the left wall, hanging on the wall before that door are about 15 or so handmade dolls for the doll house, some cloth & yarn some porcelain. The door lead to an old bathroom, larger than the one that is in the house but for some reason the tub has been removed and the window covered over. Out the window is the backyard, why I don't know there is an extra window on the back of my new house I don't know, but being the typical woman I started planning the bathrooms make over. My dream ended with me trying to figure out where I was going to get a claw foot tub to go in it.

I'll have to jot down the other rooms from my dreams. There has been the fully furnished Victorian ladies study in an attic off of an already found large empty room. The entire apartment that apparently was mine but I had forgotten about (how do you forget an apartment). And the series of underground rooms under our semi shared with my husbands best friends semi.

What these dreams mean, who knows.

New York - Waaaa

Man I would love to be in NYC tomorrow. Yarnharlot is launching her book at FIT tomorrow and it is turning into this huge event. She is hoping to fill (and possibly excede) the 750 seats to represent knitters. There are way to many people in the world who don't realize just how many knitters there are out there. Frankly it's sad.

Confessions of a Narcoleptic Mom

This is a little piece I found in one of my notebooks when I was cleaning up. I'm posting it for all those people out there that live with this disorder.

Confessions of a Narcoleptic Mom

There's so much to write about... My feelings that I'm letting my kids down, followed by the reality that on average I'm doing what I can. The fact that I love the people around me but at the same time they irritate the hell out of me. The fact that my job gets all my energy & my home spirals deeper into hell every day. And then there is this feeling that I'm trapped in my body & by my body (& brain). Some days I wonder if going off my meds would make others have to deal with my disorder, my illness, my defect because they would then see what it is that I'm living with every single second that I breath in this world. Now it's not pity that I want, no, it's some degree of understanding & yes damn it help because my life is difficult. However because I look normal nobody gets it!

Wristlets - my pattern

Wristlets with thumb hole.

Yarn: Sport weight or DK
Needles: Set of 4 3.75mm/US5 double pointed needles (set of 4 or 5) or circulars, your choice.


Wristlets
CO 48. Work 8 rnds of 2x2 ribbing.

Rnd 1: k4, p2, C4F, p2, C4F, p2, C4F, p2, k24
Rnd 2-6: k4, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k24
Rnd 7-42: repeat rnds 1 through 6
Rnd 43: k4, p2, C4F, p2, C4F, p2, C4F, p2, k24, turn
Rnd 44: p24, k2, p4, k2, p4, k2, p4, k2, p4, turn
Rnd 45: k4, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k24, turn
Rnd 46: repeat rnd 44
Rnd 47: repeat rnd 45
Rnd 48: repeat rnd 44
Rnd 49: repeat rnd 43
Rnd 50-55 repeat rnds 44-49.

Work 8 rnds of 2x2 ribbing. Bind off.