I Was Knit Together In My Mother's Womb:

Saturday, I learned "tints" are not necessarily colors for your hair.

Katie invited me, along with her Grandma

to ride to Home Depot to browse wallpaper. Kate is a conscientious driver, always careful and safe, never speeds and has never been pulled over. Saturday afternoon, as we passed through the neighboring small town, she was nailed.

Not speeding. Inspection okay. Tires are good. Not talking on her cell phone. Kate was pulled over, with her mother in the front seat knitting, and her Grandma in the back seat, eating an ice cream cone, for "tints."

She politely explained to the officer that she had never been pulled over, and she was driving her husband's car, and that she was going to kill him when she got home. Officer so-and-so, who looked all of about 15 years old, politely asked for her license and registration. Katie had neither.

As the fuzz was doing what the fuzz does in their car, Katie is frantically trying to reach her husband, to give him a piece of her mind.... and Ray wonders why she would even think to drive through Middleport with the windows UP???? A wonderful moment followed as they "discussed" this question.

After getting the ticket, Katie wondered what the heck her husband thought he was...the President of the United States having to travel undetected?????

It was a laughable moment, and a learning moment, as Ray had to scrape off every bit of the $130 he had put on the windows three years ago and thanks to a cop in the family, will not have to appear in court to plead the mercy of His Honor.

JR suggested we just get him a pair of fuzzy dice to ease the pain.

Sunday was a lazy day. Do you you want to browse the gardens?

Another important thing happened this weekend... I made a decision, and this will be my next project.

And this is on the way. Super EBay deal at $6.00 a skein.

I think I also crave this.

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September 17 and 18....Hemlock, NY. For those of us that pine for Stitches, Rhienbeck and others....we have Hemlock. And we are going.

THE FINGER LAKES FIBER FESTIVAL!

Are you Syracuse girls going to be there? So far, we have a nice little contingent planning a day's outing to see what the locals are spinning.

We have my Mom, Lisa, Mar, Heather, Mary ( she's the boss of her employees...she CAN take Saturday off!), Denise and her Lockport gang. Anyone else want to join us? Drop me an email or give me a call...We'll plan van loads if we have to!

Sooooo.....

Do you want to see the whole shawl? Isn't it the funkiest thing?

Rowan Cotton Rope Collection...Moorish Wrap.

Crocheted with Rowan Cotton Rope . My first BIG crochet project!

And what is this? Are we preparing for Autumn and Winter Knitting?

Yesterday's mail brought one of two new books. The Naturally Noro book arrived, and I do love it...I see a few projects for the Kareoke and for a Silk Garden Stash that never became a Klaralund.

I'd like to do this about as long as my fingers show.

Back ordered is the newest Debbie Bliss book...I can't wait to see that. I found her cardigan in the latest Vogue Knitting absolutely wonderful and I want to make that, too. I'm also a slopping drooly mess over the VK cover project by Annie Modisett

So, it looks like I will have enough to keep me busy for awhile.

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Chicks and Butts?

Here is the real story. Our very good friends, Don and Sue

bid on a party at a fund raising auction for CCA. Christian Central Academy. And, they won. The party involved gathering 50 of your best friends and putting up a big tent.

This is John Cunningham.

He likes to be called J.C. John is an interesting dude. He built the replica of an 1800's ship deck on the back of his house, complete with a 40' mast and a cabin under the deck. John calls his wife "Cabin Girl." John sells window treatments. He also loves to cook, and so, as a sideline, he started a catering business barbecuing

Chicks and Butts

John is famous for his chowder, which he calls "Chicks and Butts Chowder."

He put out a fine spread of food, which was very delicious...

And even mingled with the guests in all of his barbecue and sweat smelling glory...telling tales of Chicks and Butts, while he fed the fifty.

So, my friends, that is how we spent Saturday night...stuffing ourselves silly, and sitting around having a good old time. Even though there was a DJ, there wasn't any square-dancing....but it gives me an idea for a party........

ANOTHER good thing happened this weekend. My Secret Pal sent another wonderful box of goodies...

There were two things in that box that are especially(?) special.

Noro Cash Iroha, which I now CRAVE for a sweater...

And, these beautiful handmade stitch markers that she fashioned from sterling silver and Saworvski crystals.

I would also like to wear them as earrings! Great package, secret pal. You are so excellent.

In my fiber world.... I'll give you a sneak peak at an almost finished object.

Give someone a hug today that may need it more than you do.

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We had a Knit Night last night at our LYS, "A Knitter's Corner" and I finally had my camera with me. We talked knit, shared knit, did knit. And we just plain old had a good time enjoying each others company. Some projects got passed about. You may find this intriguing...a felted flower vase by Mar...

Incredible baby booties knit by Mary, using a pattern from the Spring IK, using Lorna's Laces. Isn't it the sweetest thing? I believe Mary is knitting them with toothpicks.

Oh...this is interesting. Heather showed off a new bag she just got at a local Amish market. It is made from hand-woven Amish rugs. The handle, however, is muskrat, in it's raw, unwoven form.

So, we discussed color. How brown is with pink, brown with blue, how brown is the new black, how now brown cow....

And when you can't pick a color, you pick 'em all.

So Mary and Traci knit. Mom knit. Lisa knit.

And what did I do? I didn't do much knitting. Can you say "Soy Silk and Wool blend?" Can you say "pink and every beautiful color of pink in one skein?"

Now, just tell me...would you have been able to resist?

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these people are geniuses... package vitamins for women in a soft, chewy, chocolatey caramel treat.

can you overdose on vitamins?

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sharing....

It is finished. I like it much better...can't you tell by the smile on my face? There is one thing I noticed.

Do you see the lighter colored "rugby" band across the chest area? That is within a skein of yarn! I didn't notice it until the whole front was knit, and I am NOT knitting this again. I have to say, the disappointing thing about this yarn is that there can be different dye lots in ONE SKEIN!

Again...it is DEE from Rowan Linen Print, in the color "crush."

I discovered a place near my work, into which all the tech guys seem to be drawn several times a week to the lure of "burrito.....burrito.......burrito......." I brought home the jumbo for Ben for a birthday treat. It measures 10" long and about 3" wide and high. I'd guess a good pound and a half.

And. one size larger is the "Glutton" which, no lie, I think would feed a family of six! There is something about a burrito this size that you have to share with your friends.

I came home yesterday to a new deck.

Fresh, clean, sturdy new deck boards....something about that you have to share with friends, too.

Does anyone square dance anymore? I must admit....I was a middle-school closet square-dance lover. I'd never share that with my friends back then, but I will confess it now. I am looking for square dance music. In a hurry. We have been invited to a "Chicks and Butts" party this weekend, and if I can find the music, the DJ will play it. It seems like the right thing to do at a "Chicks and Butts" party, don't you think?

I am hoping to get my Crocheted Morroco Shawl done by then....just in case there is belly dancing at this party, I guess.

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All right! All right Lisa! Did you read that last comment? I know it's been a few days, but there has been alot going on!

Katie bought a new house.

The new Vogue knitting never arrived in the mail and I had to buy it. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

Meghan and the boys were in town all week.

Continuing teen crisis.

JR moved Amelia to Raleigh for her first shot at real grown-up life, and she got a job with IBM.

The biggest burrito I've ever seen in my life.

I reknit that entire Rowan sweater.

We got an Ipod, and I discovered the cardiovascular benefit of dancing around my house to salsa and marenge.

We finally got our Advantage Flea Treatment in the mail....JR ordered from a company with free shipping, and it cost less than 1 800 Pet Meds. The catch was, he didn't notice that it came all the way from Australia!

Now I know you are absolutely intrigued about the Big Burrito and the Re-knit sweater, and perhaps you may even be intrigued by the thought of me dancing salsa (instead of seeing Kathy Smith's rock hard butt) but my husband has the camera and I can't post pictures until tomorrow.

So, tomorrow, it will be!

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The "Other Side" of Kathy Smith, Fitness Guru.

I often have to struggle in the morning with whether or not to get out of bed to walk. For years, I have used the Kathy Smith walkfit system as my motivator...she has encouraged me to tighten my buns (the glut soot), breathe deeply and walk the line to a fitter me. I have depended on this tape series...

A strange thing happened this morning as I was entering my first aerobic cycle. Kathy Smith started playing backward! Think Beatles..."White Album". I kept the beat, kept walking, but I swear to you, I amidst the garbled backward voice of Kathy and the beat of the backward music, I heard her say things like... "you'll never look as good as me... feel the burn... in HELL... nice try fatso... cellulite....cellulite...cellulite..." It was as if "Evil Kathy" was in one ear bud, and "Good Kathy" was in the other! And the tape went on and on. To the beat of it's devil drums and her twisted voice, I fought on, I made it home, and I told JR...

Get me an Ipod today.

OOPS! I forgot to share the belt pattern info!

Design Source Cotton Collection 2. It was pretty easy for a beginning crocheter, like me. I needed the pattern, but I"m sure the experienced among you wouldn't need to spend 12 bucks on this book. It started as a 9chain, joined into a loop.

Some dc and ch6 loops later:

And a second round of dc's into those loops...

You get the picture...you could probably create your own flower belt!

A heaping pile of Dee... my Rowan sweater...

As I ponder my next project......

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feelin' groovy....

There is something about summer that takes me back to the day...gowing up in the sixties and seventies, when I wore crochet stuff and peasant tunics the first time around....

I just get in the mood for a little "flower power"

I'm feeling hip, groovy, now, love. peace....

I even bought fabric for Lisa's bag with the whole theme going on...

I had beads hanging in my closet doors when I was a flower child !

Flower Power Belt , knit with

Manos Cotton Stria

How fun is that?

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I get such a kick out of some of the camera shots for the more "trendy" pattern companies... I decided to go for a more playful and youthful layout to introduce my new sweater.