Randomly Favorites Tuesday

Favorite Soda Pop: Orange Nehi
Oh yeah, old time soda! A special treat, good with chocolate dipped Twinkies! You want some? (and you know you do!) They can be found here.

Saltwater Taffy

Look! The mini Twinkle BFF cardi is fini!

Big, and twisty.

Oh and did I mention toasty?

Lovely big cables. Reminds me of taffy.

Goes great with my cupcake necklace.

Lets just hope I don't get too hyper from all this sugar!

Randomly Favorites Tuesday

Introducing: "Randomly Favorites Tuesday"! Just little random snippets of my favorites.

Favorite Writing Utensil: Pen
I like pens the best. Pencils don't even compare! Pens move smoothly across paper and are best for doodling and scribbling.

Old and New

My Mom's B-day was yesterday and guess what she got,
a Kindle!

Oh so cool.
Lately I have been working on a fair isle project.

Fair Isle Rapids by Kieran Foley (you can find the in-the-round version on ravelry, that's the one I'm using,) I just edited it a tiny bit to make it a cowl.
It has a really old world feel to it. Like something a fisherman would wear out on the water.

What do you think Lewis Carrol thinks of my cowl?

Or Emily Dickinson?

I'm sure she adores it. How cozy she looks!

That gives me an idea! Knitted Kindle cover? You never know.

My Kittens Are Trekkies!

My kittens,
Billie (as in Billie Burke, because she reminds me of her.)


and Jackie,

like to sit on my lap when I watch TV with them. They are not really into the TV, but there is one show they do like; Star Trek the Next Generation! Smart cats.

So when they were lonely today (Freddie and Sam where taking a trip,) I put on some music for them. But they didn't like The Bare Necessities, yes I have that on my iPod. So I put on a book on tape, The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis as read by Patrick Stewart. They like it! Haha! These cats are Trekkie's!

Did you know?

I was watching Jeopardy tonight and they had a whole category on lace making! Did you know that the word lace comes from the Latin word "laqueus", meaning noose? Well! You learn something new everyday.

Feelin' Like Frankenstein...

(...or Fraunk-en-steen. Just sayin',)

Behold! My creation!

(Sorry for the poor picture, my camera died right as I was taking it.)

My latest project I just found reminiscent of Dr. Frankenstein's monster, with all it's loose ends and crazy proportions.

Well this is the Best Friend Cardigan by Twinkle gone (horribly wrong!) small. I meant to do that. So now I have a new shrug. Great for those cool summer nights in Transylvania. Come Igor! To the lab! We must finish my creation! Muahahaha!

The Estate of the Nation

Today my friend from Bumbershoot Designs/Supplies and I went to our first estate sale.

(These are some buttons from her supplies shop, which I refer to as "my buttons". You can not sell "my buttons"! They are mine! How many looks have there been on "my buttons"? No one can buy them! They are "my buttons"!)

(She graciously gave me some for my birthday.)

It was our very first estate sale but it was a treasure trove of stuff!

Like these,

two complete sets of vintage plastic dpns!!!

Can you believe it! Both are complete! Wow.

Some stunning vintage gloves. (Let's play "Who Wants To Look Like Audrey Hepburn?"!)

And a really pretty 40's photo that I really liked.

Last but not least,

a 1950 pattern book with fifty two patterns in it! Most of which are still really quite wearable.

It was loads of fun!

Right after we finished and were heading out I asked my friend when the next one was, "Two weeks," she said. Two weeks, I'll be ready.

Fun things

Yesterday was a day full of fun stuff!
First, we got a new washing machine.

Oooh shiney! And it makes noise when you push buttons!

Second, (and arguably better)
I bought some vintage french fashion magazines! (where? I will not tell you. Haha! ...oh, okay, fine! here. just don't hog the magazines! I only have three.)

They are so awesome! There are two from 1947 and one from 1943. All of them have knitting patterns in them.

All I have to do is translate them out of french, and convert the vintage knitting terms, then I'll have my very own vintage pattern! When I write it down it sounds really easy, but it isn't. I do not speak french and I am not familiar with vintage patterns.

This will be my summer adventure!

Up and away

I saw the movie "Up" last weekend.
Whoa there were a lot of hand knits in that movie! Well, they might not actually be hand knits but that's not the point! I couldn't stop staring at Charles Muntz's sweater, and Carl as a little kid has a wicked vest on! Oh yeah, it was a good movie.

My bad

Two things:

1. For not being at knitting group today. I completely forgot! Duh! Yeah, I'm still alive, and yeah, knitting group will go on as planned.
2. For neglecting the blog! I will make it up to you the only way I know how, with lots of pictures of yarn.

Here are the pictures of the rainbow shawlette.

It's wonderfully drapey and curly.

And bright happy colours!

I even got a complement on it from one of my very stylish friends! (KNITTING IS NOT LAME!!! not that it ever was but it's nice to be reminded of that by cool people.)

I'll be wearing this one all summer long.

Too Hot

I was going to start a sweater this week, but it's just to dang hot! I was going to keep myself busy until Saturday (Upcoming event yet again stressful, and involves a lot of second guessing that I would rather keep my mind off of). I was going to finally use up that Twinkle Soft Chunky I have hanging around. I was thinking about one of these two sweaters: Miss Moneypenny (Because it looks easy and I might be able to get away with not buying any more yarn. Why oh why did I only buy five skeins?) or the Best Friend Cardigan (It's very cute. Also lots of people seem to have had success with it).

But I am not going to be doing any of those things. Extreme heat and super chunky wool yarn to not go together.

(There is something you can do if you're interested, check out the patterns I mentioned and pick which one you like! I'd like to hear someone else's thoughts before I pick one. Yes, no, maybe?)

Note to Self

Despite the comfort of hand knit wool socks, they should not be worn after the temperature exceeds 70.

Swiftly

In Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines, they have a pattern for a swiffer cover.
And since nothing traps all the little bits of dirt better than a swiffer, I have made one.

I know this is sort of a lame thing to be blogging about but nothing has really been happening.

But it's a nice pattern and it works really well. I'd show you the underside but trust me, it is really gross. That's great though! It's a broom for goodness sakes!

Freddie loves to ride the swiffer around the room. We have some crazy cats on our hands!