Entries from September 2008

September 29, 2008

Forgive me knitters it has been 36 hours since my last tessallation…

Looking for the contest?  Here you go.
I brought my knitting.  It didn’t happen.  I am going to make up for my lost time this week.  Tessellation was beat out by the following weekend adventures:
Scrappy’s fish tales of how the big one got away:

Gator rides through the woods and by the lake:

Picking wildflowers (I especially like [...]

September 25, 2008

can’t blog…too…busy…tessalating…

Looking for the contest?  Go here:

Don’t think that because I have a little contest going on that I’m not keeping my end of the tessellating bargain…this pic is proof.  And… I received my first two-fer donation from nittingram (Scrappy’s future grandma in-law) and her name has been added to the giant drawing fishbowl…twice!  I’m keeping with [...]

September 22, 2008

A Tessalating Contest

I introduced the pattern to my mom last Saturday.  Gave her some size 8s and a buttload of yarn balls.  While the boys went down for their nap and knowing grandparentals were in charge, I took a nap.  I figured I would wake up and see a minimum of two fish complete and laid out [...]

September 16, 2008

You CAN dress a girl up..

I always dreamed about modeling a handknit sweater in an open field, showered, and with makeup, and wearing clean underwear, and no kids, and the day finally arrived!  Who cares that the kids are on the side of the photo strapped in their carseats in a minivan screaming and tossing Cheese Nips out the window. 

The [...]

September 15, 2008

“I’M FELTING!!!!”

Here we are, my co-conspirator and maker of Knitterpalooza Staff GhettoFab t-shirts and one of the staff posse, organizer of name tags and anal-retentive spell checker :
 

The drive to the East-Side was wet and foggy.  The yarn crawling was even more wet and with all the agitating arms and legs running in the rain, I was certain [...]

September 11, 2008

Knitterpalooza Passport

Here is the passport and details for Knitterpalooza.  PLEASE print this out and bring it with you if you plan to attend.  Without it, you will not be able to obtain special discounts and other yarnified decadence.  And no, Amby and I as well as the participating LYS will NOT have extra passports printed, so take the [...]

September 5, 2008

circles fried my motherboard

Circles- our latest discovery.  We have discovered that just like mama likes to knit in the round, boys like to run in circles.  It began innocently enough, a father teaching his boys the dynamics of running bases:

This little event of running bases over and over resulted in an almost 3 hour nap.  We were on [...]