Yarn: Zephyr 2/18 Wool/Silk (1.5 2oz(i think) balls) Approximately 800 yards, I believe. In Pewter. Color card here (pretty accurate on my monitor) - Hey it’s been awhile.
Needles: Size 4 Circs.
Pattern: Leda’s Dream by Pink Lemon Twist for sale on her blog
Time to Knit: September 1 - December 1 (roughly)
Notes: This pattern is fabulous. I loved knitting it. Clearly, I have some distance from the whole extravaganza, because looking back I seemed to think it was a PITA and a time sink, but that’s ok. This was my wedding present to my Mom for all the help she gave me. She has worn it to a party and said that it was very warm and that she got lots of compliments (which is always nice to hear). I would highly recommend this pattern to anyone that already had just a little lace experience and wanted to try something a little more challenging. There is a knitted on edging and a provisional cast on used - both good things to learn if you’re into lace. I love the way this turned out and I would definitely make this again, especially for myself 
And here are a ton more pictures!
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In other news, things are going well with me, but I have been crazy busy. Since I took this new job, I’ve had a lot going on. I also purchased a new camera and it took me awhile to figure getting the images on my computer and sizing them down so I can post them (the same thing had to happen with these images taken with Hubby’s camera). I think it’s all sorted out, and I was blessed with sunlight yesterday, so I have some images to show you. I hope all is well with everyone. I’m sorry that I haven’t posted comments on anyone’s blogs lately, but I have been lurking around. I hope to get more time in the near future to give everyone a shout out. Thanks for keeping me in your feeds, I know I haven’t been very active lately, but I am trying. I think of posting daily, it’s just about making the time. I love you all, but I am, so fond of sleep, that it gets in the way of the blog.
Post Category: Knitting, Finished, Lace
February 25th, 2008 at 01:11pmJes
I know that I have been ridiculously out of touch lately, but things have been beyond hectic. I was in Santa Monica on a business trip last week, which was great, but it did land me with yet another cold. I cannot win lately with my immune system. Damn you public transportation!!!!
Anyhow, I did take some great pictures - well a couple of great pictures amongst the hundreds of fuzzy ones (thank the gods of digital cameras), so since I have knitting pictures, but none on this computer, or anywhere near me, in fact, I thought I would share some pics from the left coast (wow talk about a run on sentence). I hope you enjoy some of these and don’t cast me off completely. I will be back as soon as I get better and can consolidate everything onto this computer (Hubby got me a laptop for christmas - squeee!!!) Alright, enough not making sense, enjoy the photos!
Post Category: Knitting
January 18th, 2008 at 08:10pmJes
That’s the only adjective that I can think of for the way that life has been lately. I have started the new job and it’s been quite a life change for me. New commute, new hours, new people, new everything. I think all of the changes might be what got me sick. I caught a nasty chest cold last week and am still trying to get over it. It’s not a good time.
In addition to all that, my Grandmother passed away last week. She was having a very hard time at the end, so we all are hoping that she has been granted peace.
I don’t think that I will be posting much until next year (not that that is very far away!), but things are way too hectic right now with work and the holidays. I have all of my presents to wrap, and cookies to bake, and my life is sort of falling down around my knees because I haven’t taken care of anything, lately. If I can just make it to the end of the week, I have a week off, so I’m just treading water until Saturday. Wish me much luck, or send me red bulls!
Post Category: Knitting
December 20th, 2007 at 11:31amJes
There was on Halloween!
(Old pics, but still cute.)
She doesn’t mind putting on, but the pup is not a fan of sleeves. This lasted about ten minutes and I felt so bad I took it off. Just enough time for pictures, though!
Post Category: Pets
November 15th, 2007 at 04:33pmJes
do they turn out crappy?
I think we can definitively say yes on this one. Jordan scared the crap out of me while I was taking this picture. The garbage men violated her turf by daring to breach the driveway to gather the trash (the audacity!), and the picture suffered for it. Thankfully the camera is digital, the picture merely a file, and the delete button is easy to use. No one needs to be the wiser
Here is the real picture
Sadly, with it raining, the room dimly lit by one old overhead ceiling fan lamp, and the photographer dumb enough to stand in her own light, it’s not really that much better. Perhaps I should have left it at the “artistic” shot. Alas, this picture is more informative. What it is showing you is those perfect points in the center of the block. This is the first try, sort of crappy cutting, but fairly good sewing. I’m really proud of it because it represents a lot of things to me. I can cut. I can sew a 1/4″ seam. I can iron. I can follow directions - of course whether I do or not is questionable.
This is one of the two blocks that I will be using to make the quilt for our bed. I’ve bought a lot of the floragraphix line to make this quilt, and I’m really excited. Now I need to settle on a block size and sort out how to make the second block, do a bunch of painful math, and I’m ready to roll.
Before I do all this, though, I need to get some borders on these guys. I want to be done with them. They are bad fabric, inconsistent sewing, and questionably cut and they were not fun to sew together. But they are nearly done and so are the babies they are for, so I got to finish them - which means a trip to joanns to find border, backing and binding. I have to buy more fabric?? Poor me.
Post Category: Sewing, Quilting
November 13th, 2007 at 04:00pmJes
Knit Once, Purl Forever is hosting a knit along - well more like a finish along - to get the needles free and clear by the end of the year. I have been doing a fairly good job of clearing out some old projects, but I’ve started casting on more than I can reasonably finish, and I’d like to get everything either done or frogged by the end of the year. As part of my “wish list” of things to get done is cleaning up my knitting bags, boxes, and baskets so that only WIPS remain in them and all the other miscellaneous yarns go into the boxes I bought for them. That’s really THE MOST important bit here. Getting everything cleaned up! It sounds a lot easier said than done, especially right now. My asthma has been positively horrific in the last couple of weeks. I’ve been exhausted and bewildered by it. This is the worst year I’ve had with it since it started about 3-4 years ago. It’s allergy induced, worst in the fall, and it’s been unbearable. I’ve barely been able to contemplate heating something up for dinner, let alone working out, cleaning up, making dinner, cleaning up again, knitting, watching tv, and going to bed in a decent mood. Add to that, that the house is a disaster of free range fur buffalo and loads of things left unput away and you can see why the knitting, though relatively reasonable for a normal me, is like requesting me to climb Mount Everest.
And so below is the very reasonable (for a normal breather) list of things that needs to be done by the end of the year!
Here I bring you a very odd colored clapotis. I took this pic this morning and it didn’t look nearly so dark at the time. I’ve auto corrected so you can actually see it on the black chair. It’s rolling along pretty well, but I swear it takes eons to grow. I guess it’s because there’s over 100 stitches a row. I doesn’t seem like it should take so long, but it sure manages to!
Here’s a much better shot for color - which i LOVES.
Baby cable sock, magic loop, SIZE 0s! May the knitting gods help me, what was I thinking? Tofutsies is great, I love it, love the pattern, love the color, hate how long this is taking. This is the sock that I patterned on the bottom of the foot. I’ve since ripped it out and I’m slightly further along than this fuzzy/crappy picture. But alas, this is the first sock. It’s going to take serious motivation to get me to do a second one. And yet, every morning as I get dressed all I want is a larger assortment of wool socks. Oh the irony.
And while this sh&%*y photo doesn’t look like a project, it is. Or, at least, it will be tonight! This is some purple mainline that I bought a long time ago from Knit Picks. I used it to swatch for Mr. Greenjeans. The yarn came yesterday and it’s absolutely the right color, so I want this done yesterday. I don’t often knit for the FO, but baby, it’s all about the finish line for this one!
Juliet needs a clasp sewn on
This red sock needs ripping
This turquoise sock needs ripping (or at the very least the toe needs ripping and reknitting and it needs a mate. I like ripping and forgetting more since lovelier sock yarns have come into my life in the past month)
And finally all that excess yarn needs to be gathered and put away. (I might even have to buy another bin to sort everything into 
)
Post Category: Knitting, Socks, Life, Y0rn
November 7th, 2007 at 04:08pmJes
Don’t worry, I’m not quitting knitting or quilting or crafting or blogging, but I did quit my job yesterday. I have been frustrated with my current employer for a very long time and finally found a new job last Friday. I gave my (nearly) two weeks yesterday and I start my new job the Monday after Thanksgiving. It’s just starting to sink in, but I think hope that it will be a good move and that I’ll be happy there. It is very close to Husband’s work and I can ride the metro to work if and when I like which is great for my poor little over used car.
I knitting knews, I’ve finally jumped on the clappy bandwagon. It’s passed me several times now, but I decided to give in. It’s a lot of fun and I think I’m really going to like wearing it. I’m using SWTC 100% bamboo yarn - very nice and it won’t be itchy. I’ve dropped 4 stitches so far and I’m merrily rolling along.
Also, I should be getting some Mainline from Knit Picks (it’s still on sale!)today. I bought it to make Mr. Greenjeans. I’m in terrible need of a wear-with-all-clothes cardigan that I can leave at work for when I’m cold (which is always). Of course the new employer’s offices were exceptionally warm when I went to interview, so now I may not need it, but I’m making it anyway!
And lastly I will leave you with some pictures of the furry ones in an uncharacteristically (yeah, right) desperate attempt for attention . 
Enjoy!
Someone didn’t want to get out of bed this morning.
Taking pictures of a dog with black eyes and a black face, in the morning when it’s raining, without a flash (to avoid glowy eye dog) is not very easy.
However, it is easy with a pissed off orange cat.
Post Category: Knitting
November 6th, 2007 at 01:28pmJes
Yarn: Berocco Nostalgia in Gecko sent from the lovely Debi
Needles: Size 7, 8, 9 and 10 needles.
Pattern: Retro Redux Shrug from Lace Style
Time to Knit: A couple of weeks in October.
Notes: This was a great pattern, in general. My only beef was, and I’m seeing this comment a lot, that it does not give a shoulder to shoulder measurement for the sizes. Because of this, I decided that the 38″, the smallest size, was going to be too big. I attempted to make it a 33″ instead. What happened was that when I picked up and knit the ribbing around the edge, it sucked it all in (duh - I wasn’t thinking) and I couldn’t get it on. I ended up ripping out the cast off and taking out a lot of rows. I think it’s a good thing because I didn’t like the way the big collar felt on my neck, nor did I like how it looked. I finished this just in time for it to be too cold to wear. I imagine that I will get plenty of play out of it in the spring. It’s a great springy color anyhow.
About the yarn, it was great. I’m a big fan. I’ve seen some complaints that it fell apart or split or the thread around the ply was annoying, but I didn’t find any of that to be true. Perhaps it’s because I’ve worked with some of the splittyest yarns know to yarn kind, so what it did do didn’t bother me. It was starting to get a little world wearied after I had frogged it a bunch but I think any yarn gets a little irritated when you knit and rip repeatedly. I certainly think that I would knit a garment with it in the future.
Post Category: Knitting, Finished, Lace
October 31st, 2007 at 12:22pmJes
Yarn: Dale of Norway Sväle color 4612 (pink) (I can’t tell you how impressed I am with myself for getting the dieresis on the a! Instructions here and here)
Needles: Size 3 24″ knit picks fixed circs
Gauge: Spot on! 24sts and 24 rows in 4 inches in lace pattern
Pattern: Orangina by Stephanie of Glampyre
Time to Knit: Sometime in May to sometime in June. Just seamed this passed Sunday!
Notes: This pattern was easy and fun. It looks great on. The only change I made was to add more length to the ribbing and to the lace. I would have knit even more if I hadn’t run out of yarn. I am all torso, so I usually have to knit forever to get the length I need. I think 1 more ball would have done it. I bought 6 and I believe I used up my swatch and everything. About the yarn - it’s gorgeous, it’s soft, it’s comfortable, so therefore you must know it’s a pain in the a$$ to knit with. It’s a bunch of loosely plied strings. If you can keep it together, it’s fine, but if one ply gets out of place, convincing the lot of them to hang together again is like….well….something really unfun. Sorry, not feeling too clever today. I would use it again in something that didn’t require a lot of stitch manipulation and probably use blunter needles.
None of these are good representations of color. Here is a good one.
More pictures in my Flickr album
Post Category: Knitting, Finished, Lace
October 29th, 2007 at 02:51pmJes
Heather and I went to Stitches East a couple of weekends ago and I may have acquired some more yarn. I was really there to find some yarn for Something Red, but there were virtually no pickin’s in the aran weight non-wooly yarn department. So to quell my disappointment I might have acquired more sock yarn. I’m getting to the point where I may have what some might call a sock yarn-holism. Of course the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem, and there’s no way in hell I’m doing that any time soon, so I will simply have to learn how to knit faster. I fail to see the problem here.
First up we have some Fleece Artist. I have never been in the presence of fleece artist sock yarn before, but have been rather interested since it’s rumors of greatness are far-spread. I’m here to tell you, the rumors are true, it is lovely. So lovely that the skein simply would not leave my hand. So I bought it. I mean it was seriously stuck. My thumb could not stop petting it. And since I’m not into misdemenors, I simply paid the shop owner and went on my merry way. Really, what other choice did I have?
And second we have some STR lightweight in Jaspar. Heather and I went in the afternoon on Sunday and there was still lightweight STR to be had. Seriously, how is that possible? How were they not bought out in the first five seconds that the marketplace was open? It was clearly a sign. I HAD to buy something. For them to take any of the lightweight back with them, unsold, would have been a travesty of justice. A break in everything that is right with the world. I couldn’t let that go unnoticed. I refused to be part of the problem. And so this little lovely went straight into my purse (after I paid and all)
And lastly, this one was not bought at Stitches, but it was bought while stitches was going on, so I say it counts.
I bought three skeins of Berocco Comfort to knit Sizzle. As Heather was buying some cotton based yarn for Green Gable and I was fondling the softy goodness of this yarn and thinking about a tank top, she noted that we were buying summer yarn for short sleeved knits on the first really cold day of the season. I told her to shut up (well played, I think) but the truth is, we’re so ADD (usually) and so busy, what are the chances either of us will be done these knits before it warms up again? The truth is, I don’t know and I don’t wanna know.
Post Category: Knitting, Y0rn
October 26th, 2007 at 01:50pmJes
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