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.

It's Over!

The christmas shopping season is over! Finally! It's not that it was horrible it's that it never seems to end. Sale after sale, cranky customers, messy people - really would it kill you to put it back where you found it.

Now maybe I can claim my house back. I'm seriously considering using my christmas money to go to the laundry mat and catch up. There's probably somewhere around a dozen loads. My dad made a comment about having to much clothing, what he doesn't realise is that isn't really the case. I just haven't gotten any of the summer clothes washed and packed, they're still laying in piles everywhere.

But I want yarn too. Decisions, decisions.

So I think my favorite present wasn't really a present for me. My mom got a new flat monitor for her computer so I got the hand me down. It's brighter and so much bigger than mine. Yay!

For christmas I got an accessory pack for my gameboy, a stuffed penguin, a heart christmas ornament, earrings, $25, Tracy Ulman's knitting book Knit Together, a full set of bamboo knitting needles, two Diana Krall CDs and the Knitting Pattern-A-Day 2007 calendar.

The kids got quite a bit but the MIL finally slowed down, she didn't buy nearly as much as she usually does. Everything should actually fit this year.

Well I better go get a load in the washer now that the dishwasher has finished.

In Memory

For Duty Calls
(In Memory of Count Sarnac Kir)
Catherine of Eoforwic (c) 2006

The trumpets sound, throughout the halls,
He does not come, for Duty calls.
Seek now him not, for he's not found,
He's gone ahead, for Duty calls.

The pipes, they cry, echo the walls,
He answers not, for Duty calls.
Hail now him not, for this is why:
He heard the Song, for Duty calls.

As strong he stood, then sudden falls,
Although he fights, for Duty calls.
We left him not, we never could,
He travelled on, for Duty calls.

He served as Khan, white mammoth bawls,
His humour served, for Duty calls.
It harmed him not, as crown passed on,
He tread the path, for Duty calls.

T'is not the end, for though voice drawls,
His mem'ry lives, for Duty calls.
Forget him not, forever, friend,
His Game is Ours, for Duty calls.