New Look

Well, for the umpteenth time I have changed the look of my blog. It seems that my ability to not change it is pretty sad and sorry. This place will probably be a construction zone for a while longer. My deepest, sincerest, crossing-my-fingers-est hopes are to get some good photos posted...(photos that my husband will take, because, as should be a well-known fact, I am clumsy and unskilled with the camera.)

Fair Isle!

Well, after finishing my two Ravelympics projects early and not having the yarn to make my mom's blanket yet, I raided the stash and chose this Fair Isle project for my nephew. It came out pretty well :) I'm actually proud of myself for doing the two-handed stranding and frogging this thing until it was to my liking. Now that the little boy is getting a hat, my little niece will need one too!

Ravelympics FO #2

My spankin' new purse has arrived (or more accurately, has been completed.) Voila...






Complete with a cotton liner and zipper. Oh, the sewing!! But it was totally worth it. Even my husband likes it. I will be carrying this thing around until it wears out.

Hellz Yeah

One project completed for Ravelympics 2008.



Natalya gloves for Sister. She will like these. Hell, I like these. She picked out the yarn herself, so these will be replacing Evangeline as her Christmas gift. (It came to my attention that she doesn't like to wear wool...now she gets Caron Simply Soft.) I might try to knit her a hat based on this cable pattern since there will be plenty of yarn left over. Go Team Red Sox :)

Out of the swing of things

There hasn't been much knitting in my house lately. The hanging dish towel that matches the dish cloth from the previous post is just so boring..and is therefore still sitting on the needles. However, Ravelympics begins on Friday and I will be knitting my little heart out on a cabled purse and another pair of fingerless gloves.

So, if there has been no knitting, what has there been? Well, a couple of weeks ago on my husband's birthday, we took a trip up to Anaheim to see the Red Sox play the Angels. It was my first time at a pro baseball game and it was utterly awesome. The Sox lost, unfortunately, but it was a fun day anyway.

And last weekend marked the first time that I ventured out into the big Pacific Ocean past my ankles. I've always kind of had an unreasonable fear of the ocean in the same manner that some people are afraid of heights. Okay, so it's really not that unreasonable. I mean, there are plenty of things swimming about undetected that wouldn't mind to bite or sting me out of curiosity or spite. And I figure that if I were meant to swim in water I would be equipped with something other than obvious land-dwelling accessories such as legs and lungs. Anyhow, the trip out into the water was preceded by a lot of Frisbee throwing, catching, missing, and chasing on the beach. That was a pretty good day.

So I still haven't gotten a job yet and as delightful as staying home all day can be, I don't have much interaction with other people these days. My goal this weekend was to temporarily fix that problem. We invited over some friends, I made dinner, they brought libations, we listened to an array of 80's music, then somehow ended up at the karaoke bar down the street. We sang, I danced in cute but horribly uncomfortable heels, and, well.....the day after was an unpleasant one. Today Husband and I both seem to be fully recovered, though.

That will teach me to cram a bunch of fun into one night to make up for all of the other long boring days at home.

Oh yeah, I just found out that Jason Mraz is going to be playing locally on Oct. 31. Totally going.