“When I grow up…I will be a great knitter.” So you say, how old is this girl anyways? I’m old enough to be a parent of a soon-to-be high school grad (see below for more grad info and announcement pic).
For the one or two people that visit my blog, you may have remembered me saying a long while ago, that I was tired of chunky, fast knits. I wanted something more classic, more involved. Friday I was chugging threw a few blogs, of course, went to Eunny’s and it hit me again. Damn it. Why do I knit? What or who am I knitting for? After the moment of finding my yarn splice was not good on the back of the vest I had started last Sunday, I decided to start on the Veste Everest. This was my first choice last weekend, but then decided to do something quick…with only a 16 st cable in the front. Now really, do I need a vest, right now, that fast, giving me cause to knit the plain and functional? No. I haven’t ripped the back out yet, but as you can see I started on Veste Everest. Very simple cable stitch pattern…lots of ribbing though.
I believe I also did myself a disservice when I cleaned out all of my knitting needles and giving all the long straights to my daughters. I’m now finding I am asking for needles back, digging through DD#2 stash (she’s camping). I ended up with aluminum needles, which tend to have the ends constantly go up and down, as they are quite weighted. We may need to reestablish a community area for these needles so those that have a project to knit up and need them can get to them.
I may or maynot pickup some bamboo size US 6 after taking other two kiddos into town to their Dad’s. My luck will be the stitches slide better on the aluminum vs. the bamboo.
Went to the Yarn Garden yesterday, after the Tacoma Metro Parks annual plant sale, where DD#1 (A), girlfriend Mary and I went to. A and I each picked up a gallon lavendar plant with flowers on them…can’t wait to harvest those little buds for sachets. Oh, the Yarn Garden was nice…the new store is a great little layout and in a great little spot with parking available. The yarn prices are a killer though. I spent just under $5 for another cable needle and a box of 35 blocking T pins. Whewhew…big spender. We proceeded to walk around looking for a cafe’ for lunch, but I was running out of time as neighborhood BBQ was happening and I needed to be home for that. We hit Wendy’s for a chicken sandwich and fries, went to JoAnn’s to get Sally Melville’s Knitting Experience Book 1: The Knit Stitch for coworker Debbie. They didn’t have it, so off to Michael’s we went. They had several copies and they take JoAnn coupons. Nothing like a good 40% discount.
Here is Jake’s grad announcement card. It has the announcement inside printed on vellum paper and then tied in with ribbon. It took all day last weekend to make 18 of these. Girlfriend insisted I send announcements out to everyone. I didn’t purchase them as they were a ridiculous amount of money. His last day of school is June 9 (eight school days left for him) and he graduates on June 16th. WWU here he comes.
Today, I would like to stay home, but the kids will go see their Dad and I hear from the BBQ last night, that I will be spending today and tomorrow with the neighbors again. OK…I will be bringing my knitting then. I can’t just sit there. Too boring…though I can sit and knit and chat and be very, very happy.
You sound rather frantic. Stop for a moment. Does spending dollars for a pre-fab photo or giving away stuff because you “should” make sense right now?
Have a nice cup of tea and relax for five.
“WWU here he comes”
Yay! He’ll have a nice time up here. I’m only at WWU for these last two weeks and one more quarter (fall 2006) and then back down to Puyallup/Federal Way I shall go after a nice graduation ceremony and a bachelor’s degree đŸ™‚
— Alicia, WWU student, anxious to graduate and move on