Saturday, June 21, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
Cough cough
I won't be going anywhere this weekend because I am sick...cough, cough, splutter, wheeze etc.
World Wide Knit In Public Day will be going ahead without us. I had hoped to attend this year, oh well.
Because I am sick I am allowed to surf the internet aimlessly for as long as I want to. Miss A cannot have it as she is well and the laptop is now infected as I have touched it. I feel a bit like a warped King Midas: 'I've touched it so now you cannot mwahahaha!'
I decided to make a mosaic, I'm sure you've seen them around and it killed half an hour for me.
Here's my mosaic:
The rules are :
A. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
B. Using only the first page, pick an image.
C. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into the mosaic maker
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to
?4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.
1. Loch Ossian Dawn, 2. Italian Clouds Canvas, 3. Wilderness of Glacier & Snow Lake, 4. drops in drops, 5. 4978-John Cusack, 6. Hat Lake Snow, 7. Roatan Beach - Perfect Day !!! 25000 + views and 200 + faves - Thank you - Janusz, 8. hot chockit in hungary, 9. water droplets in the shower - o.k. bokeh, 10. We are choosing hope over fear., 11. A big bloody Samoan storm that turned gay!, 12. Tiger! Tiger! Burning Bright
Kntting has not happened much this week cos I just don't wanna. The Iris Vest patterning has only 2 rows to go still and I don't wanna do it. The socks are pooling unidentically and I don't wanna knit them either. I have turned into a miserable 4 year old!
One thing I have learnt being on my own is if I feel that I am getting sick I wilI struggle on and get some shopping done quickly. We now have enough essentials and a few frozen dinners to last the weekend and then some. Not having someone else to pick up the slack is a bummer. Knowing that we will not starve this weekend If I can't get out of bed tomorrow is good.
Lots of funny foods end up in the trolley when I am not feeling well....blocks (plural!) of chocolate, custard tarts, and heat and eat puddings (hmm, all plurals)
Can you say 'comfort food' ?
World Wide Knit In Public Day will be going ahead without us. I had hoped to attend this year, oh well.
Because I am sick I am allowed to surf the internet aimlessly for as long as I want to. Miss A cannot have it as she is well and the laptop is now infected as I have touched it. I feel a bit like a warped King Midas: 'I've touched it so now you cannot mwahahaha!'
I decided to make a mosaic, I'm sure you've seen them around and it killed half an hour for me.
Here's my mosaic:
The rules are :
A. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
B. Using only the first page, pick an image.
C. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into the mosaic maker
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to
?4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.
1. Loch Ossian Dawn, 2. Italian Clouds Canvas, 3. Wilderness of Glacier & Snow Lake, 4. drops in drops, 5. 4978-John Cusack, 6. Hat Lake Snow, 7. Roatan Beach - Perfect Day !!! 25000 + views and 200 + faves - Thank you - Janusz, 8. hot chockit in hungary, 9. water droplets in the shower - o.k. bokeh, 10. We are choosing hope over fear., 11. A big bloody Samoan storm that turned gay!, 12. Tiger! Tiger! Burning Bright
Kntting has not happened much this week cos I just don't wanna. The Iris Vest patterning has only 2 rows to go still and I don't wanna do it. The socks are pooling unidentically and I don't wanna knit them either. I have turned into a miserable 4 year old!
One thing I have learnt being on my own is if I feel that I am getting sick I wilI struggle on and get some shopping done quickly. We now have enough essentials and a few frozen dinners to last the weekend and then some. Not having someone else to pick up the slack is a bummer. Knowing that we will not starve this weekend If I can't get out of bed tomorrow is good.
Lots of funny foods end up in the trolley when I am not feeling well....blocks (plural!) of chocolate, custard tarts, and heat and eat puddings (hmm, all plurals)
Can you say 'comfort food' ?
Friday, June 06, 2008
Long Weekend
Aah, this weekend is a long one courtesy of the Queen having a birthday. Thanks QE.
My university assignments have just been posted in which means I have come to the end of this semester. Must go and see how long the holidays are...ooh looks like about 6 weeks. I feel so tired and have looked forward to this for so long, to have respite from one stress is terrific. I have 3 days off now until back to work and it is delightful.
I am currently knitting the Iris vest, but have decided to modify it to knit it in the round and omit the front opening. After 5 false starts we are off. So far it's going well, no pictures cos I am stuffed and not getting up to get the camera. I'm using some Cleckheaton Country 12ply in purple.
What's the bet that the size will be wrong? I am sort of slotting the pattern into an old vest pattern the difference is only 6 sts which I will reduce when the pattern has finished.
My socks are in time out as the pooling on the second one is not nice. I hae tried knitting tighter, looser and it is still not nice. This is disappointing as the first one was good.
The Mega boots stretch socks are also in time out as I think they might be better on smaller needles and can't decide whether to continue or frog 'em.
Also can't get hold of 4-5 balls of Cascade 220 number 2428 lot 0665. I have 3 balls but need extra for a complete 3/4 sleeve cardy. That means I have to save up and get 8 hanks of something suitable. Now if I lost weight I would need less yarn, this is my main motivator to get fitter. Hence we have had no soft fizzy drink for the last 3 days. Not much, but it is a start.
So I have a free weekend of knitting to do when I let them out of time out. Which one should I let off first? Or I could start something new, you know, just for the weekend, seeing as though the others are naughty.
My university assignments have just been posted in which means I have come to the end of this semester. Must go and see how long the holidays are...ooh looks like about 6 weeks. I feel so tired and have looked forward to this for so long, to have respite from one stress is terrific. I have 3 days off now until back to work and it is delightful.
I am currently knitting the Iris vest, but have decided to modify it to knit it in the round and omit the front opening. After 5 false starts we are off. So far it's going well, no pictures cos I am stuffed and not getting up to get the camera. I'm using some Cleckheaton Country 12ply in purple.
What's the bet that the size will be wrong? I am sort of slotting the pattern into an old vest pattern the difference is only 6 sts which I will reduce when the pattern has finished.
My socks are in time out as the pooling on the second one is not nice. I hae tried knitting tighter, looser and it is still not nice. This is disappointing as the first one was good.
The Mega boots stretch socks are also in time out as I think they might be better on smaller needles and can't decide whether to continue or frog 'em.
Also can't get hold of 4-5 balls of Cascade 220 number 2428 lot 0665. I have 3 balls but need extra for a complete 3/4 sleeve cardy. That means I have to save up and get 8 hanks of something suitable. Now if I lost weight I would need less yarn, this is my main motivator to get fitter. Hence we have had no soft fizzy drink for the last 3 days. Not much, but it is a start.
So I have a free weekend of knitting to do when I let them out of time out. Which one should I let off first? Or I could start something new, you know, just for the weekend, seeing as though the others are naughty.
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