tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54932822011-09-14T13:27:33.241-04:00From wool socks and cute shrugs to wear in the chilly a/c to crocheting beach bags - there is still plenty of use for knitting at the beach!Kathleen in Ormond Beachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553344485590006000noreply@blogger.comBlogger2901100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493282.post-58915886692189058952010-08-01T23:55:00.000-04:002010-08-01T23:55:37.644-04:00

Ok, I admit to leaving my blog by the wayside and even the odd contemplation on dropping it altogether.  Nowadays, I'm all over FaceBook, Ravelry and Twitter for personal and shop use and it feels like I've said it all (or at least enough). I can't believe how far I've come in the past year.  October 2009 was the month that I (with lots of help) repainted 222 South Beach Street in Daytona Beach

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It's just around the corner!We spend the summer relaxing, knitting leisurely by the pool or in the comfort of a/c while we catch up on movies in the evenings. I spent the summer shuttling 6 (yes, SIX!) kids around for three months - we called it Kamp Kaethe and we took lots of pictures. I'll spare you the full trauma of our massive scrapbook, but there are photos I'll just have to share as we

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....well, not really a farm, but Erika had riding lessons last weekend and Bobby took copious amounts of pictures. First think every visitor must deal with is Bob the Rooster. Bob gets yummy nom from a lot of visitors so he checks out every new arrival to see if someone remembered a carrot or similar. Ms. Cindy says Bob just showed up day and hasn't left.Bobby got a lovely shot of me knitting my

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After months of rehab and patient (?!) recuperation from the car accident in March that shattered her leg and knee, my sister Louise is up and walking again (and walking and walking!) and photographing her travels.Note from herself: Foggy cool morning here with my wash hanging damply on the line and I am off to study and draw owls at Birdsacre.b/t/w I am SO walking! I keep the crutches close at

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The storm that has set records in rainfall, lasted longer than any hurricane I've heard of and is STILL freaking here is not being named. I'm not sure why - maybe it will help us forget quickly, maybe it's just 'that' special and awe-inspiring, maybe the meteorologists are too busy trying to figure out what the heck it's going to do next and when it's finally going away. Either way, it's quite

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There's so much going on these days in Ormond Beach! I've been making new friends, having adventures with old friends, writing new patterns and breaking knit-speed records on the cutest socks EVER!Thursday before last, I caught Jody knitting some darn cute foldover-cuff socks - the Friday Night Bowling Socks and started my own pair the next day. I went through every ball of sock yarn to find

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Bobby says: Happy Birfday, MOm! Troy sweetly threw a little Birthday pool party for Helen last week - complete with grilled boca burgers and homemade carrot cake.And......dacquiris!Okay, ok - a nice pic of the auld pair:

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You got printer problems? We got solutions! Just let our expertly-trained team take an in-depth analysis and diagnose and solve your problem in minutes! We're not afraid to get our paws dirty ;)

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Susan organized a fabulous yarn dying party for her birthday last weekend and had lots of leftovers. I had such a great time at her party, catching up with pals from Sip-n-Knit that I haven't seen since moving to Volusia, pigging out on yummy fajitas and messing around with Kool-Aid and Wilton cake dyes. AND there was chocolate cake :) And I hate to see a friend weighed down under massive

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Another guest post from my sister. We had a yarn dying party the day after Thanksgiving at Threads of Time last year and Bobby had a ball. He used almost every color we had. So, my sister Helen made a scarf for him out of his yarn......Once a son starts dying his own yarn a mother has to get to work!Check out those colors!

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I started the daily sweater on my flight over here and have been knitting dutifully on it for weeks now - including hours and hours of clickety-click boring stockinette stitch. I threw it in a Cool as a Moose bag and took it with me everywhere and knit, knit, knit. I read the forum entries in Ravelry to be sure and try it on as you go, isn't that the whole big benefit of knitting from the

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Today we went sledding on Ertlberg with the Kisberi's. It's not the steepest, most-exciting slope, but it provided plenty of excitement for us.Dave had a great time on his belly..... check out the name of the sled he was riding. Ha! I wonder if these are made somewhere near Chicago!Cian's got a great scream going on as he and Dave race down the hill - he'd be a shoe-in for a horror flick! We

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My cat loves pouncing snowballs!

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Ever go get your haircut and tell your stylist to do whatever she thinks would be most attractive and then you come out looking just like your mother???? Dave says it's okay as long as I don't look like HIS mother, ha ha!! That being said, it wouldn't be so bad if I grew up to be my Mom. Check out some of her knitting. she got ahold of the Patons Street 'something' book and knit the hoodie for

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After all the worrying and my panic that I was going to have to turn Moses, the little kitten found outside our wool shop, into the Humane Society just to keep him out of the freezing temps (don't laugh! It really does get cold her sometimes) Judie agreed to adopt him today! Just keeping my fingers crossed that everything goes well at the vet's office tomorrow and he tests negative for all the

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David and Pat re-painted the living room this week and I got a photo of the progress. I said 'warm colors' thinking that he would be watering down the paint anyways, so there was no way it would come out dark.........

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There's a lot going on these days. But I've just got a couple of quick updates and pictures.The kittens are doing well. I got a picture from Pollyanna's new dad and she's getting along well with her new Yorkie friend, Mushu. And, she's now called Fiona. White Sox and Snickerdoodle (sometimes called Mittens) are growing in leaps and bounds and already have appointments to be "fixed" before

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It finally happened. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee came to Florida! Thanks to Knitwitz in Jacksonville for organizing her visit and hosting a great night out.Susan came up from Orlando and we drove together, stopping in St. Augustine first to initiate a yarn crawl. Alas, the Knitting Boutique was closed for vacation (talk about yer bad timing!) and we were forced to comfort ourselves with my first visit

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(Recently turned) Six year-old Bobby was watching the Notre Dame game with his Dad this weekend when he realized that Dad was enjoying a refreshing beverage with a koozie around it and Bobby had NO koozie!!Here's Dad's koozie: Here's the only koozie in the house that might possibly fit Bobby's cup: Not only was it GIRL colors, but it was too tall and Bobby was afraid he would be drinking more

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Gosh, she's cute! And Snickerdoodle is a great tag for a kitten, but what's a better-fitting ladycat name?Any ideas?p.s. Do you like my official Kitten Sleeping Pads? I never thought I'd be so excited to knit cotton, but I've endowed everyone I can get ahold of with knit dishclothes - looooove me some Peaches & Creme!

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So much to catch up on!2 months ago, I completed my first crochet project. With the help of my sister Helen, I made a blanket for Jennifer's first baby. She'll need a lot of help keeping warm in Canada. 3 Weeks ago, I rescued 5 gorgeous kittens. 3 have been adopted so far (2 to my niece and nephew - my brother-in-law is delighted! LOL) 2 weeks ago, I lost my job. Luckily, Dave was flying in that

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Busy, busy, busy!Though I have forayed into the dark-side of crochet (pictures later!) I haven't given up knitting or blogging. Just an eensy hiatus on the blogging thing as I get my Ravelry account and, um... oh yeah....life in general up and running.I'm working for a German company in Florida (rough assignment, I know) renting a house with a pool, visiting my family on the weekends and keeping

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Hi Sweetie,Not to bother you, but could you please wake up and check if I left my ball winder over with you in Germany? Yes, I know it's 3 am over there. It'll just take a second and then you can go back to sleep and forget this all happened.But, talk about your brownie points! Just have a quick little look and then I can stop tearing my sister's house apart cupboard by cupboard. I could swear I

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We had a brilliant visit to Turkey over the Christmas holidays! Below are some pictures of Pamukkale with it's white cliffs and Roman ruins during our 2-day excursion. Our hotel room in Pamukkale was not without charm. We were given a room with two separate beds and the bedside table was bolted to the wall between them. I approached reception after 3 cocktails and explained that we had a

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I have so much to update about, but so little time (living in Florida for work, looking for a decent used car (big laugh there!) staying with my sister in our New Combined Yarn Studio Where I Sleep, attending a family Thanksgiving for the first time in 4 years and all sorts of stuff). Until my brain functions enough to allow me some time to type, entertain yourself with pictures of Erika in her

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I'm starting to like this new job :)p.s. since the movie's ending drove me nuts, I went out and bought the Golden Compass trilogy and I have to recommend it whole-heartedly.

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I was just in the middle of the coolest film. There were child-heroes, action, adventure and cute, cuddly animals. I literally jumped out of my seat a couple of times, there were nearly tears towards the end, Nicole Kidman totally weirded me out (all systems normal there) and Sam Elliot was his typical reassuring self that made me feel safer for the characters he was around to save the day when

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After a great weekend of family-time, yummy restaurant food and 2 yarn shop visits, I sat myself down to watch The Exorcism of Emily Rose and start another Foliage hat. During commercials, I started bagging my new yarn and remembered to restart the bagging of the yarn I brought back with me from Germany. I ran back to my bedroom every couple of minutes to grab more yarn out of the yarn suitcase

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Happy Thanksgiving Mum!She sent me a picture from her back porch on a beautiful Nova Scotian morningThings to be thankful for:- Motorcycle accident-nephew is recuperating well and will be able to graduate with his class.- Bubba has lost some serious weight and is looking awesome!! Watch out girls ;)- My super cool new job has me bustling back and forth from Florida (home of my Family and cool

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C'mon...don't I get an Emmy for this!!! Who gets so totally excited about felting that she throws her project into the washer without tying in her cast-on tail and removing the only stitch marker in the freaking bowl????She's still a little floppy, so she's going back into the washer with the bathroom floor mats. What say I throw on a couple more stitch markers - if I squint my eyes, I can

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Must ShareWell, I'm just too proud of myself! These are the knitted nesting boxes from the book that Kathleen is toting around…Mason-Dixon something, something. This is how I spent my vacation up in Chicago. People kept inviting me places and offering me activities but I kept saying…"No thanks, I'm knitting!" Anyway, I got some weird looks but I don't mind. I used my substituting day on Tuesday

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A big shout out to Shelley who returned from her Canada vacation this year with her yarn locked into a Becel margerine tub. She found that her wound yarn cake held it's shape for an average of 1.2 yarn moves/jostles/take-a-longs/glances-in-the-general direction and not only did the cake lose its shape, but it tangled up quickly as well. I've been fighting/ignoring this dilemma for a while now and

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Literally, please, be-ribboned! As in "ribbon thyself"! Cause I don't know nuthin' 'bout sewin' no ribbons! I've had Mason-Dixon's Heartbreakingly Cute Baby Kimono finished for a week or two (nearly three) and am only ribboning it tonight because the Mom went into labor today. Nothing like the image of giving birth to make me consider sewing ribbons onto cotton might NOT be as painful as I

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There're so many reasons for duality in today's world. Conflicting feelings between potential presidential candidates... brilliant marriage versus love affiar with one's homeland... can I be a Yuppie while dressing like a Granola Girl...and most importantly: how much can I stray from the Rowan pattern and still end up with an awesome Rowan baby kimono??? I mean, the black and white trim looks

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Believe it or not, I'm still among the land of the living.I made it through 4 months of a spontaneous teaching gig at the University of Erlangen/Nuremberg (Business English, baby!), finding a new job, 2 months of 5am mornings (doubly fun when coupled with a 2 hour commute) and even inculcated myself into the world of metal components. Take THAT, Martha ;)When my two months of Florida training

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Got my package of superwash hand-dyed sock yarn from Rohrspatz and Wollmeise today. We also had some very violent summer storms this afternoon, so I think I'll cast on the Gewitterhimmel asap and maybe appease the Gods enough to stop yanking trees out of our gardens :)

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But, seriously, who needs a reason? The Germans have annual fests in nearly every little village and, in this case, on a mountain-top. You can find one on any given weekend between May and October. Last weekend, we hiked up the mountain in back of the kids' week-day home, the Walberla (the link is in German, but there are more pictures and even a photo of the church on top), for the annual

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I know, I know.....major slacker points here, lately. I have a great excuse - I've been totally run off my feet lately. My two classes at the university immediately doubled, but it's still only part time, so I'm not quitting my day job any time soon. Which makes for a very busy knitter. Happy, but busy :)So to keep you all updated on what's been happening around here lately (that you actually

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Just finished Erika's jacket for her first communion. At the beginning, I wasn't sure if I had enough white for the trim, so I perused the other colours in my stash. This lead to the great idea of using a contrasting colour for the trim. I just didn't realize it would look so much like icing on a cake. I spent last Sunday at my friend Claudia's house so that she could try and twist my fingers

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There's a dead frog under my sofa. I'm sure of it. He was hopping around last night - well hopping as much as a one-legged frog can hop - dragging what was left of his other leg-guts behind him on my newly mopped floor.The cat didn't know what to do - he loved that the toy moved on its own and was perfectly happy to swat at it every time it attempted escape, but couldn't figure out why he kept

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Turns out that the Drops Jacket can be knit in one piece - yippeee! I'm planning on finishing the right front tonight and kicking some left front ass before Sunday. My work colleague, Claudia promised to teach me how to crochet the edging. Not making any promises, but my niece might be wearing her new jacket sometime this year (a new personal best!!).Even more exciting is how I spent my Easter

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I give up - I don't want to knit an ecru tea towel with linen on 3.25 mm needles. It's Spring and I want color and instant gratification.I figured a baby knit would be the perfect fix. I have the gorgeously soft blue from Italy and I lovingly patted it in my hands as I searched through every kid/baby book I have only to realize (duh!) that four balls is perfect for a small infant knit and I don't

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We visited Donegal for a couple of days and while perusing my handy hotel guide to nearby attractions, I was delighted to find the National Knitting Center was just down the road.National! Knitting! Center!It promised a light-hearted look at knitting through the ages, the story of wool from sheep to shawl and a shop full of Irish yarn. What we found was slightly different. First, there was a shop

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Finally back home and still getting back to normal life. Just popping online for a quick photo essay. I've got so much to tell and don't know where to begin. So, for now.....Our whirlwind tour of Ireland included a visit to the Dublin Zoo and Giant's Causeway,a great view from the hotel room in Donegal, the National Knitting Center in Buncrana and hanging out with friends. Lots more details to

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Landed in Ireland yesterday, getting settled now and have brought loads of knitting to keep me busy. Until I get my butt back in gear to blog again, I've got updates from Canada.Flurries were forecasted and received, but they came in very large numbers. Not to be stuck in the house, Mum and Dave made the best of a snowy situation and packed a picnic of sorts......Time in the house was well-spent,

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The Irishman gets major brownie points for being all sorts of romantic on Valentines Day. There were long stem roses, a new knitting book and wonderful dinner arrangements, but I was too busy wiping my nose and feeling sorry for myself to get off the couch and get dressed.Dinner was postponed and substituted with an authentic Irish hot whiskey with lemon, cloves and honey.Whataguy!The book is

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That's what you're all here for, isn't it? You little woolly vultures, you! First, I will torture you with more pictures from the trip. But it's okay, they're really interesting.....Like a Portrait of an Irishman standing at the top of the Arena in Verona. I like this one better, when he's giving me the Come Hither, hehe. An artsy fartsy shot of our hosts. Really, I didn't do this on purpose, it

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The town we visited, Rovereto, doesn't so much have yarn shops as Haberdasheries. A general handy-work shop, heavy with fabric, buttons, stitching arts like cross-stitch and that stuff they do with silk thread that looks so cool on pillows and wall hangings. The first yarn we found in a fabric shop. There was a small bookcase with wool and alpaca-wool skeins. Believe it or not, the 100% wool was

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This is the time in Sprockets : where we gloat about our recent weekend in Italy, gorgeous Italian yarn and contemplate moving house to the Italian Alps!The Irishman's bestest college bud moved to the Italian Alps last fall with his sweetheart. We've been trying to get down to visit ever since but stupid vacations and holidays (like Christmas) kept getting in the way. This past weekend, we

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Just got back from Italy - ate loads of food, drank loads of wine and bought loads of yarn.Will type soon!!

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Today, F is for fascinating. I've seen people doing some sort of alphabet thing in different blogs and haven't exactly figured out the pattern, but I decided today was an "F" to amuse myself AND because I'm really freakin excited about this whole modular knitting thing. Sunday night I finally started something I've been eyeing up for a while, the Tamareh shawl/scarf/drapey wrap. I read the

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Here's a shout out to all UGA fans! I found this Dawg-coloured sock yarn in the Czech Republic a couple of years ago and the spirit finally moved me to cast on last month in Canada. I knew I wanted to call them 'Tween the toes, so I waited until I could figure out a pattern to fit the name (one where I didn't have to knit individual toes).I used a basic rib pattern from Nancy Bush's Knitting

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I totally won the Has The Best Sister and Got The Best Knitter Gift award all in one holiday.My awesome (and incredibly talented) sister Helen sewed up a bedside-hanging, stuff-holding caddy out of tea towels. How cute is this??? But my bed is a tad wonky (Europeans don't get too excited about box springs - I have a mattress and then slats) and the caddy doesn't fit on my bedside. So I

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No, I didn't drop off of the face of the earth, but my camera did for a while. This is how my Fleece Artist socks turned out. A tad unusual as socks go, but the 2.25 circular needles gave me a denser fabric that was begging for gloves. This ensures maximum warmth if the temperatures over here ever reach something resembling winter.I'm finally taking my new 2.25 circs on a true sock-making

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I've been dwadling on the socks, because I'm trying to finish up a couple of Christmas things.....Like the stocking I started for Ciara last year. The lettering is all puckered and I can't believe I ran out of red tweed in the middle of it, but she's absolutely delighted. I say take praise where praise is given... And get a nice Irish stocking for the Irishman.... It's the Aran Stocking from

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Ciara and Cian's first time handling icing:We spent this weekend getting into the Christmas spirit. The tree was trimmed, windows were lighted and decorated, presents were bought and hid and cookies upon cookies were baked. We even went ice skating in the town center - even though it's still 3 degrees above 0 Celsius, we bundled up and braved the crappy rental shoes and show-off kids flying past.

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Here's the last view out of Mum's house until this summer. I flew home this past Saturday/Sunday and am very busy catching up on my Christmas decorating.

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My step-dad, David, gets up every morning before 6 to have his coffee, boy-gossip and business transactions down at Tim Horton's. Earlier this week, he ordered 26 pounds of lobster during such a visit (I suspect it was before the coffee properly kicked in) and we had us a lobster party.Preparations.....Here's a photo of what I like to call the Little Yummies (is it weird to name your dinner?)

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Got a cool picture of the moon rising over the lake. I had to take about 10 pictures before I was happy with the result, God bless digital cameras!

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My sister Louise came from Bar Habor, Maine to visit on the weekend and we spent Saturday afternoon out at the Fish Camp. Mum's getting the fire started. Note the new tradition of building fires in drum from an old washing machine. It's a great way to recycle, it keeps the fire contained and the holes let air in to feed the flames (AND you can fit a grate from an old barbeque across the top). Dem

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Just in time for Mum's Birthday!It's snowing buckets and buckets - here's a photo taken 1 hour after the above picture. Mum and I are wrapping ourselves up in mittens, scarves, etc and going for a snowy-birthday walk :)Update photo from the walk. Check out Mum's outfit, hat and scarf knit by me and thrum mitts done by her - we are one knitting family!

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Step-father had me up at 6 this morning to go to Tim's (Tim Horton's Doughnut shop) to get coffee and make eyes at the fisherman. I would have made eyes (coquettish and all) if my eyes had been open. But the coffee kicked in once we got home and I did manage a picture of the sun coming up over the lake.

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Y'all can all stick your Saturday Skies and Sundays skies where the sun don't......um, well, what I mean to say, is this is the sky that rocks my world. It's from the porch on Mum's barn-converted-house I've never slept as well anywhere in the world as when the fog has rolled into Yarmouth. And this is only slighty-misty-fog, not the real stuff where you can't see the hand in front of your

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Monday was the first day that the lobster fisherman "dump"ed their lobster traps. Mom woke me up nice and early because everyone runs down to the Yarmouth Light at 6am and watches the boats go out. They also line up their cars and flash the headlights.It's pretty dark here at 6am, so my picture came out a bit dim. But you can see a little bit of the view; there're so many lights from the

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Landed in Halifax Saturday night and drove 3 hours to get to Mum's in Yarmouth. I love this place....just look at the kitchen.Pictures like this make me relax and think all is right with the world.

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I knit this top the last couple of weeks before the wedding, but didn't sew it up until last week. Some people have a fear of commitment or fear of the unknown, I fear an evening of sewing up. I chose the largest size, 10 years, but Ciara says it fits funny. Denisa loves it and it makes her boobs look loads bigger. Dontcha just love the benefits of hand-knits?! Gotta go, I'm busy making some

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Too cute????Also got a cool pic on the way to work today......I still can't believe the sun wasn't up and I was driving to work!!

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This is what I spent my evening doing.Yesterday, I swiped the neighbor-kid's keyboard (that he hasn't touched since the month after purchase) and found piano lessons online. I took lessons as a kid (and fought every minute of the way) and then took a course in college and loved it (go figure). When we bought the house, there was a piano here and the owner offered to leave it for a 100 bucks but

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Look Ma! I made a hat in under a day. This is the hand-dyed merino that I've been fussing with for a month or so....... The hat needs some icing though - my neighbor suggested cords with tassels. What do you think? Alternating colours for the tassel and cords?

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My buddy Sheilds went on vacation last month to Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazhakistan and found wool!! A bit lump of it.It's roughly spun, lumpy and includes the usual yard clippings, but also amazingly soft. Not sure what it was or what it's going to become, it hasn't said anything yet...

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Just to torture the eldest with pics, I've got some handspun knit up into Sister Socks. I was so excited to finish my first "nice" wool on the wheel, but disappointed that it wasn't totally and completely perfectly twisted and even. Erica made the great suggestion to knit it a bit tighter and these socks are brilliant. Mohair, wool and spun full of love - whose got lucky siblings?? ;)

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Kimberley posted about Deb's contest and I totally agree. I hate having gray pictures during the winter months (whether it's November or February) and I love my lighthouse calender, cause I always think they look cool. No matter the season, they always make me think about the seaside and visiting Mum's in Nova Scotia. Speaking of which : 2 more weeks and I'll be there!!!!! I can already taste the

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After the shock of my first wool shop find in Karlovy Vary, The Acrylic Heaven (and literally, I mean shock - how many balls of acrylic can you sift through before everything and everyone gives you an electric shock!) and my yummy lunch, my blitz visit to the Handwork store was every wool lovers' dream. In every store I enter in the Czech Republic, I ask if they speak German or English. Few

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Mini breaks are my new favourites.One tends to get a lot more out the time away (it's a mini-break - break is the biggest part of the description - I don't have to "do" anything other than be on a break)The cat can take care of itself for a day or two - big ol' bowl of food, a pillow in the sun and a cracked cellar window keeps him plenty happy.Travel time is minimal. Just enough time to catch

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One day, in a small Gulf Coast town in Texas, when I was about knee-high to a gnat, I was colouring with my cousin Jeannie. I was jealous as all get out because she was easily chatting away while outlining pictures in dark crayon and shading the figures and mixing colours - I, on the other hand, had half a tongue hanging out of my mouth (Charlie-Brown-style) and sweat on my brow as I simply tried

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New Favourite Soap Opera: All My Chins LOLnot the most flattering picture of me, but it captures the sweater on my first try. It's a bit tight around the tetas (the 2nd try only made it a bit looser, so the third try is going to include another round of phases 1 and 2 of the South Beach. Yea veggies!!) Wish me luck!

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I finished my prototype Luxury Sock Yarn Glove. For those of us who have absolutely beautiful feet, but are reluctant to wrap expensive merino and mohair around them (yes, I know, this too shall pass....but until then, I want to knit and wear some of this great yarn!)Also, a close friend and annoying Reminder of Things Unfinished, brought to my attention the fact that I've blogged a lot more

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Head! Shoulders! Knees and Toes!! Knees and Toes!! I was a very shoppy girl this week :)First, Erica (yes, it's all her fault!) got me a beautiful purple colourway from Sunshine Yarns for the birthday I'm pretending didn't happen. And let me buy another off of her that she had two of - that's the pink colourway! Purty, idn't it? I'm weird about putting luxuriously soft wool on my feet. Sure,

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This photo is so old that Cian's still in diapers! Yikes.Dave and I visited some friends south of Stuttgart and we spend a day hiking in France. I shopped my first ever Phildar boutique and found a lovely thick cotton that became a sommery-buckety hat.Voila! More spoils of the hike :)

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There is a yarn that is durable, washable, can give as well as it takes and is still wool!!Introducing Schoeller & Stahl's Teflon coated wool. What do you want to bet that someone at DuPont plays with needles and string in their spare time???I'm knitting up a hat and scarf set for my nephew Bubba (name changed to protect the innocent and to better match his personality). He's just started a

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Somehow Miss Erika Anne got my birthday present. She brought Blaze home on Monday.But I'm pretty sure I was meant to get a dog for my birthday. I mean, I got a kitten last year. Isn't the only possible follow up a puppy? ;)

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I'm sitting here watching an Animal Planet / Australia Zoo farewell to the Crocodile Hunter and crying. and hating myself for being so well-behaved. I finished the blue sweater and it's a bit tight, but I'm dying to cast on all those brown hues from England for a vest. Got it all mapped and everything. But some stupid part of me decided I have to rip and re-knit the blue sweater first.

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One of our days in Tunisia, we took a ride on a pirate ship to Island. No flamingos and it wasn't really an island, but we had a great time.   We found this sign on the ship and grabbed a quick photo.

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I finally got a picture of my current "pulli" project. I'm working on more pictures and updates...you all will be the first to know when my computer decides to talk to blogger again :) 

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The Red-Headed Step-SweaterOnce upon a time there was a Yarn Hunter who found a great sweater pattern. She had two colourways in her stash to choose from, but, being a libra, found the decision quite difficult. She cast on the first and was excited to see the brilliant turquoise toned down to a sea foam green with the heathered-grey sock yarn she mixed in. As often happens in these cases, our

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My final single minutes. Here I'm pretending not to be a bit nervous, posing with my sister and Matron of Honour Peggy and my two step-daughters to be Ciara (left) and Megan (right).There's a story about this kiss...Now sure how much you can see in this photo, but Father Aschenbrenner shocked and delighted me by including knitting into his sermon. He had the yarn hidden, so we had no idea it was

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As the fearless Yarn Hunter was casually strolling through the market on Sunday, she was surprised and delighted to see a stall full of sock wool (same one that's been there the past two once-a-season-Sunday-markets - Direct Hit!! Woot! Woot!) I scanned over the new colours and styles, was glad to see she had the Hot Socks cotton with elastic and lots of Boot Sock Stretch from Trekking and

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So much to tell, I even cranked out a few washcloths.More to come soon :)

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Behold: All my wonderful unblocked washcloths in their wrinkled glory. I'm loving the colours and did I already mention the softness of the denim?? Cause they're really super soft. I think they look like something that should be decorating the coral reefs, swaying with the tides. Like instead of being freshly knit, they're freshly picked :)I adjust the Mason-Dixon Washcloth by one row - I

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Another new favourite. This little receiving/snuggle blanket knit up incredibly fast (uhh... when I had the time to work on it) and only took two skeins of Red Heart Soft 5 oz doubled on US size 15 needles. After I knit the first block like twenty times because the first 19 were too stiff, the one block looked absolutely huge! I was thinking if I knit up 6 of those, as planned and sewed them

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This is starting to get a little embarrassing. I mean, making a couple of things out of a book after first seeing it is one thing. Even deciding to knit only log cabin quilts for the rest of my life is understandable. But I cannot tear myself away from the Mason-Dixon book at all. I'm knitting washcloths as part of my Bridesmaid Thank-you's and found this gorgeous Denim from Schachenmayr at IDEE

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Combining the childhood penchant for building with blocks and my incurable desire to log cabin my way to happiness, I present you with the first piece of the Block Cabin quilt for Miss Shannon Anne. Brand new daughter to Jim and Chelle and beautiful sister to Kerry Elizabeth.I'm thinking of doing about 6 of these blocks to and sewing them together with them all facing the same way. Just trying

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Freshly cast-off (ends not yet tied in). Burp Cloth sounds much better in German. Spucktuch - where you make the ch's with soft sh sounds without putting your teeth together. C'mon, try it - you know you've always wanted to learn German ;) It sounds more like Spooohhk Tooohh.Did I mention already how much I love the Mason-Dixon Knitting Book??? I worship this book and it is now one of the titles

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I don't think, ever in my life, that I would have linked knitting to depression. Originally, I learned to knit when I wanted to give up smoking in the Fall of 2002. Mom taught me to cast-on and off, knit and purl and sent me back to Germany with a bag of needles and a scrap of practice yarn.I quit smoking quite successfully and became fascinated with knitting. As I sat in front of the TV all

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First we spent a lot of energy cheering on Team USA in the World Cup.Italy GameGhana GameIn the middle of all of that, I've start an itsy garden, I've got zuchinni, tomatos, beans and peppers - but no produce yet :)I whipped off my first pair of Jaywalkers with Hot Sox stretch. Tiffany has them and promised me a picture asap. I also finished a Burp Cloth for Baby Marc (Erica) and start another

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From Kim: "Please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me — it can only be one word long. Then copy and paste this in your journal so that I may leave a word about you."

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Been doing lots of away-from-the-computer things. We grilled the entire weekend, through and, since we have the most central yard in the neighborhood, everyone and their brother sees us sitting in the garden, chilling with cold drinks. They naturally agree with our good judgement of how to spend the first non-freezing temperatures of the summer season, gather chairs and beverages from their own

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I have been totally remiss in not blogging about my great visit with Erica last weekend. Me and my log cabin quilt pieces (and the Irishman) were invited to a Memorial Day Weekend Barbeque and to meet Marc (seen below at my house). The burgers were superb and company even better. I proved that my quilt squares do exist and she donated all her sock-yarn leftovers to my little project. Woohoo!!This

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Yea! My big sis Helen likes her birthday socks!! I love that she emphasized the deep sea colourway with her dress :)And please ignore that I forgot to sew in the ends of one of the socks.....normally, I sew in the ends as soon as I finishing kitchenering the toe. But this time I forgot and never even dreamed of checking. That would be something responsible like swatching, wouldn't it???

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