Archives for April 2005
two books
Yesterday was my birthday, and last night my boy gave me two books:
I saw the Yarn Harlot’s bookbookbook first and immediately asked, “Did you know I wanted this book?” He didn’t! He just saw it and thought it was funny! The timing was perfect – I’ve almost ordered it from Amazon several [...]
no attention span
This morning I wrote (but didn’t post) this:
Unless my blog is the only knitting blog you visit (hi George!), you know how Clapotis is all the rage. When it really started taking off, I was happy to have already made mine and confident that I wouldn’t get sucked in (again). But then today [...]
zippers and other assorted purse things
Thursday night I sewed on my first zipper. It was slow and hard on my fingers, but I’m pretty pleased with the results. I don’t want to sew a zipper on every purse I make, but it sure is nice to have the option.
One of the things I bought with the zipper was [...]
wine and sweater dreams
Last Friday, we were invited to another couple’s house for dinner, which ended up being postponed to Saturday. This was good because I didn’t need to worry as much about rushing across town (which wouldn’t have been a worry as traffic was unusually light). It also gave me time to knit something to [...]
a week later…
I am still in Sophieland and enjoying it. I finished and felted a light blue one, finished but haven’t felted a red/pink Cascade Quatro one (did you know that the yarn is made up of four different colors? how clever!), and am almost finished with a pinky purple Petite Sophie. I was [...]
my first Sophie
Here she is!
The bag is made of Cascade 220 Wisteria (9345), and the straps are Purple Jewel Heather (7811). I made four-stitch i-cords instead of three-stitch ones as I’ve seen others do, and I made the straps a bit longer. She was intended to be a gift, but now that she’s complete I [...]