Archive for May 2007
reclaiming the mojo
Posted by: amanda j on: May 30, 2007
I have fixed my knitting mojo! I bought yarn! Yay! (Well, at least I think this will help with the Sockapalooza problems). Those of us in Australia have known about The Knittery for some time. Their yarns are absolutely gorgeous. I have over time bought many skeins of sock yarn, both the merino and merino [...]
reflective thinking
Posted by: amanda j on: May 28, 2007
- In: knitting| memories| socks
- 7 Comments
My daughter, Purl, turned fourteen today. Fourteen is a lot of years. In four years, she will have been around for half of my life. I have to say, and I acknowledge my bias, she is quite remarkable. Tonight we went to watch her in her first ‘big play’. Drama is a big part of [...]
i can’t figure
Posted by: amanda j on: May 27, 2007
what the most disturbing part of this story is.
Can you help me? Is it the giant pig or the boy with the pistol? Or both? And I quote:
“It feels really good,” Jamison said. “It’s a good accomplishment. I probably won’t ever kill anything else that big.”
Yurk.
i quit!
Posted by: amanda j on: May 26, 2007
- In: memories| socks
- 13 Comments
No more posts about Sockapalooza until something goes right. I have knitted and knitted and knitted. The Undulating Rib socks from the previous post are no more. I am not talking about it. I have jinxed and hexed myself somehow. Suffice to say, I am knitting something, and you will just have to wait and [...]
indecisions, indecisions . . .
Posted by: amanda j on: May 24, 2007
- In: exchanges| knitting| socks
- 7 Comments
Oh dear. I have changed my mind again. The Retro Rib pattern is very cool and I got to here:
(another bad photo!)
and decided that this pattern was not doing the yarn justice either. This yarn is destined to be a plain stocking stitch sock pair. So, I ripped it all out. The sole of the foot above [...]
holy sheep! i’ve been tagged!
Posted by: amanda j on: May 22, 2007
larjmarj has tagged me! For a random seven facts about me! In my world the word random is used so often, it’s just . . . so random that I have been tagged. So here goes:
1. I grew up in various farming situations and one day had to literally nurse a sheep in a vehicle that [...]
whistle whistle prrdt
Posted by: amanda j on: May 19, 2007
We are budgie sitting! My Dad has gone to Queensland to see my little brother for his thirtieth birthday, and Daphne is staying with us. It is a bit strange with so much chirping noise in the house, but not unpleasant. At times Daphne can be heard saying things in my Dad’s voice through a budgie modulator. [...]
i’m in the middle of a sock frenzy!
Posted by: amanda j on: May 15, 2007
- In: KALs| ballroom dancing| knitting| socks| spinning
- 14 Comments
I have been knitting like a woman possessed in the past couple of days, and have made some good progress on two separate socks. This was early last night:
And this is now. I have not started my evening’s knitting yet.
Here is the Spunk Sock last night:
And now:
I don’t have a whole lot of time to devote [...]
we have a sockapawinna!
Posted by: amanda j on: May 13, 2007
- In: books| exchanges| knitting| socks
- 11 Comments
After far too much time deliberating, I have decided to share what I am knitting for my Sockapalooza pal – I will be making Tropicana from www.magknits.com! I started last night but thought that I knew better than the designer and cast on 66 stitches instead of 55. I knitted quite a bit – four [...]
all systems go
Posted by: amanda j on: May 12, 2007
- In: exchanges| knitting| socks| spinning
- 6 Comments
I have made my choices for Sockapalooza. I received some gorgeous yarn from Katt yesterday in her ‘Buggy’ colourway. I have knitted two pairs of socks from Katt’s yarn previously and they both turned out very well. It is a very soft and comfortable yarn that wears very well, and washes well too, which is [...]
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