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Le Clapotis… she isa vera fun knit.
I wore it out to the bus stop this morning and I came back in looking like I’d wrestled with an Angora goat. The mohair is shedding like crazy. Anyone have any tips on that?
Have you seen Professor Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture?! People like this amaze me. Where do they get their strength? If you haven’t seen it, it’s very inspirational.
Another place that I find inspiration from is Tracy at Wool Windings. She posted about a little box she knit and felted from the Mason Dixon Knitting book. I cast on right away. Here’s my before and after:
We were pounded with snow last Friday so it was a pretty lazy weekend. I finished the Clapotis just haven’t gotten a picture of it yet.
My new “little” cousin, Nelson, in the sweater I knit for him last month. I think this is the last time he’ll be wearing it. lol.
We went up to New Hampshire over the weekend. Got to meet up with Kim (Woolen Rabbit) and hubby again for lunch and a trip to Patternworks. What fun but I can’t believe that as many times as we’ve met up, we don’t have a picture of us together. I’m sure it’s because neither of us really like to have our picture taken but we’re going to have to remedy that next time. And she wasn’t lying about the snow! It’s exactly the kind of snow I remember as a little girl up there. There’s a picture somewhere in my grandparents basement of me standing on the sidewalk in front of the house we lived in with snow piled way over my head on either side of me. I remember my grandfather and uncles having to climb out the 2nd story window to clear the snow from the front door and the 1st story windows. As soon as we hit Highway 16 our jaws dropped as we saw the several feet of snow get deeper and deeper.
The Texas boy got a little taste of New England life as he helped my cousin get the snow off of her roof. This was after we’d just gone up and helped my grandfather clear off his workshop and garage. My 82 year-old grandfather swore to us that he wasn’t going to worry about the roof of the house because he’d shoveled it a few times over the last month and it didn’t have the accumulation the workshop and garage did. Yea. When I went out to take the above picture of Dan and Muria on her roof they just pointed up the hill at my grandparents house:
See the guy in the red jacket on the roof? That’d be my very stubborn grandfather. See the the yellow wood in the foreground? That’d be the fence that Joe could just step over because of the snow.
Crazy. Just crazy. I’m glad we won’t be around when all that melts. What a mess.
Aggie is the most vain dog I’ve ever met. Pull the camera out and she’s in front of it. She actually came running over and put her face in the shot. Yeesh.
So yesterday I was so excited about Tracy’s (Wool Windings) little felted box that I cast one on of my own. I found some Noro left over from these and some Lopi Lite left over from Hues in Horizontal and cast on with a strand of each. I was cocky and cast on the largest size. I wasn’t even through the first side and realized there’s no way I had enough of the green Lopi so I ripped it all out and started over. I crossed my fingers and cast on the smallest size. I knew it was gonna be close but this is ridiculous. Six stitches left to cast off and see the little inch of green yarn left. I will not be defeated. I’ll just take a little from one of the cast on ends. See? There’s plenty here:
We’re driving up to NH this tomorrow so I’ll have to finish it when I get back. I’ll post a picture then. Thanks for the inspiration, Tracy!
I’ve been working on the Clapotis (finally) and I needed a little change for a bit so the box was perfect.
I’m using Brooks Farm Duet that I bought at Rhinebeck. I don’t know the color name because it’s not listed on the labels. LOVE this stuff. I do wish that I’d alternated each couple of rows with each ball of yarn because I’m not crazy about the way it’s pooling. I’m half tempted to start over again. I’d mentioned on the Elann chat site that this one’s been on my to-do list for a long time and wham-bam!
I’ve also been working on my photography. I’ve been following along with Two Peas in a Bucket’s course that’s ongoing online. Yes, folks, you *can* take your camera off of Auto!! This coming from a professional photographer’s daughter who’s had an awesome camera for a couple of years now. The only thing I dared to do was take a picture without the flash. Now I actually know how to METER it! Can you imagine? The freedom of it all is mind boggling. Oh how I’d listened to my father when he tried to teach me about f-stops and composition. He even made me take photography in HS but let’s face it… that was a couple of years ago… ehem… so I remember zilch. Since Aggie was so obliging and right there anyway I took these of her this morning.
And here’s what I’ve learned. The first shot I love. Look at those catch lights! I’d just cleaned her eyes so I wish I would have waited until they dried and it would have been perfect. The second shot… I should have had the focus on her nose, not her ears. Still…. kinda cool.
And a serious improvement from the pictures I took of her a couple of years ago.
Lucky’s not so easy. He’s almost afraid of the camera. I guess I would be too if I saw a huge cyclops in my face all the time.
A virtual dozen roses to you. No chocolate because Dan and I started Weight Watchers on Monday – tell me how stupid is to try and start losing weight Valentine’s week?
Happy Valentine’s Day!!