Wow, Knitting with the Stars!
Time to start planning . . .
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Earth Hour – 8:30 p.m. 28 March 2009
Earth Hour has already started on the other side of the world.
For one hour, lights will be turned off to symbolize the need for immediate action to fight Global Warming.
Plurk – Time Absorber Extraordinaire!
I’m enjoying PLURK since I joined it a few days ago. But, be warned – highly addictive!
Adorable Wee Rainbow Knitted Pouch
I made this yesterday as a prototype. The next one will be neater, with different seams and a deeper flap-over. Still, I think it’s so cute –
My new scheme to begin making money from knitting is a series of items in rainbow yarn. In addition to their general appeal, I’m going to use them as HIV/AIDS awareness-raising vehicles. I have a close friend who is gay and has kind of brought my attention to some of these issues. It occured to me that I could donate 25% of the proceeds to an appropriate charity. I like this idea.
I Love Bellingham
and, not just because my daughter lives there!
Why do I love thee? Let me count the ways?
(in the next blog entry)
Tagged Bellingham
UFO Progress
The blue scarf for my dad is now over three feet long.
I am heartily sick of it.
But, I will persevere.
Every UFO must adhere to the program of:
Photos from Bellingham
See the banner picture of sunset?
Sunset, I might add, which was occurring at 4:30 in the afternoon!
I took it with a cell phone while in Bellingham.
Here are a couple of others:
This was in the Bellingham Farmers’ Market
And some posters in a window, with artistic reflections –
Posted in Photography, The Outside World
Tagged Bellingham, Bellingham Farmers Market
Rainy Saturday and a To-Do List
I am looking for ANY excuse not to sit here working on work-work that I brought home, as opposed to house-work, play, knitting, or exercise. ANY excuse. Maybe that’s why I changed the blog banner to a close up of a Koigu rainbow bookmark?
1:30 p.m. One case done, two to go, and the game is about to start.
2:30 p.m. We’re up by three.
Another possible blog banner:
Sunday – Okay, blah blah, most of the chores are the Heels lost, etc.
Falling off the Yarn Wagon
OH NO!
I broke my vow not to buy any yarn!
But, c’mon, who could resist these Koigu PPM darlings?
My Boss is Very Nice. And Smart.
I have just the nicest person to work for that I can remember.
One way to explain is all the things she doesn’t do.
She doesn’t have temper tantrums or shout at us.
She is consistently friendly, even-tempered, and kind.
She laughs a lot.
She is warm, while respecting appropriate boundaries.
If you pass her in a narrow hall, she doesn’t pretend to have a sudden spell of blindness causing her not to see you.
She occasionally takes us out to lunch or brings cookies.
When we go out to lunch, we get to do some of the talking.
If you discuss a work-related project with her, you don’t have to suffer through five follow up conversations about how you “feel” about the first discussion.
She isn’t neurotic, repressed, angry, in the closet, on the ramparts, out of control, over the top, under the weather, beside herself, at the breaking point, in over her head, or other preposition-related status.
She doesn’t have to run for office for years and years!
Some ________s have a philosophy of only having their assistants for one year before nudging them out of the nest. If she adopts this approach, I may have to look for another job in six months. But, for the moment, I have stopped cringing and waiting for the other shoe to drop, and am just enjoying this situation.
Tagged good judges, Nice bosses
Pattern I Could Knit Over 'n Over Forever
Question Five of the Warm Ewe Up Swap asks us to consider what knitting we might find enjoyable even if done repeatedly.
None.
I hope to reduce my UFOs by means of the newly patented
method of UFO reduction.
But, if I have this much trouble finishing a single example of a given pattern, clearly I’m not the one who would make the same thing over and over . . . I don’t think.
Pattern I Could Knit Over ‘n Over Forever
Question Five of the Warm Ewe Up Swap asks us to consider what knitting we might find enjoyable even if done repeatedly.
None.
I hope to reduce my UFOs by means of the newly patented
method of UFO reduction.
But, if I have this much trouble finishing a single example of a given pattern, clearly I’m not the one who would make the same thing over and over . . . I don’t think.
Arrival of Second Swap Package!!
Guess what I found in the mailbox yesterday? The second
Warm Ewe Up package from my Spoiler, “Quelle Surprise.”
It’s lovely!! Just look: 
The softest ever merino/camel yarn, in 3 favorite colors.
How did she know I have a weakness for exotic fibers?
Spring green sock yarn!
. . . cute little post-its with cute little kitties . . .
Hemp yarn – and I was just reading about hemp and
thinking it would be fun to try!
Finally, mini-yarn balls for my I-cords!
Now, I know what you’re thinking, but No!
You can’t have Quelle Surprise, she’s MY spoiler!
Many Happy Returns 