It’s been a while, I know. Sam and I have had a crazy busy past week, and I’d love nothing more than to tell you all about it and show you the 177 pictures we took on our trip to Seattle to visit Sandi and Andrew. But instead, I’m hesitant to write much of anything, honestly. My web hosting plan for this website expires this Saturday, and I’m still undecided if I’ll renew it for another year or not (which means I may lose my domain name). It’s sort of expensive, and the specific host company I use has a very hard time keeping my website online. I’m currently weighing the pros and cons, and will let you know what I decide by Friday.
For now, this may or may not be my last post for a while. I’ll leave you with a few of my favorite photos from Seattle:
I knit this cute little Grass for my partner in a Spring themed swap I’m participating in this month. (Sam still doesn’t understand the idea of packing a bunch of random stuff in a box and shipping it off to someone I’ve never met, and then to receive a box full of random stuff from someone I won’t even be able to thank since they basically drew my name out of a hat and I won’t know who actually sent it. Of course now that I said that, I realize it is is bit… well, completely batshit crazy.) My assigned partner appears to be a quirky, somewhat eccentric sort of person, and I have a sneaking suspicion she will appreciate the level of adorable in this little guy.
*As soon as I let him outside, he went straight for my carbon fiber hood. What can I say, he has good taste.
Not to mention he’s made of Mmmmmmmalabrigo - only the softest merino wool ever to grace my knitting needles. This little grass is definitely snuggle-worthy.
*Grass felt most comfortable in it’s natural habitat.
The FREE knitting pattern for this Grass can be found here.
This morning as I made my way across our driveway to start my car, determined to go to work despite fighting off the last of this damn cold, Sam just shook his head and said,
“Baby, you’re leaving a trail of tissues behind you…”
Despite being down and out all weekend with a horrific head cold Sam was kind enough to share with me, I managed to stop knitting and get off the couch long enough to color my hair on Sunday.
I’m very happy with the change, but I’m still sick sick sick.
Here’s hoping I’ll feel better soon; I’d hate to feel this awful during our mini vacation to Seattle this weekend. I booked Sam and I two nights in a jacuzzi suite — we deserve to enjoy it with our health restored!
As soon as I finished knitting Shellen, I started another stuffie. I know, I understand that I’m a bit obsessed right now. Don’t judge me.
Her name is Daphne, and she is knit with a sidekick called Delilah. One of Danger Craft’s adorable designs, Daphne has been great fun to knit. The legs were a little fiddly, but I succeeded in getting them attached to each other and have started the body portion. This is my progress so far:
The colors are much prettier in real life, I assure you. My crappy cell phone camera just doesn’t do it justice, but you get the idea.
I highly, highly recommend the Danger Craft knitting patterns - they’re just too stinkin’ adorable not to love!
I’m so excited (and quite frankly, damn proud of myself!) that I can hardly type. Twelve days ago I wrote about my plans for the 2010 Knitting Olympics. Well, the Olympics are coming to an end this Friday with the official Closing Ceremony — which will also be the end of the Knitting Olympics — but I am already standing proud on my invisible virtual podium!
On February 12th at 7:30 pm during the Opening Ceremony in Vancouver, Canada, I cast on a female version of Ruth Homrighaus ’s famous Sheldon pattern.
On February 23, 2010 at roughly 10:30 am, I finished my turtle. I’ve named her Shellen:
She’s adorable and I already just love her. I won’t be gifting this, she’s MINE ALL MINE. And I love her. (Oh, I’ve already mentioned that? Sorry.)
I have definitely opened a huge can of worms with this project. I am now absolutely obsessed with the idea of knitting hundreds — no, THOUSANDS! — of critters, creatures, and monsters. And of course I want to knit them all RIGHTNOW, thankyouverymuch. But alas, knitting is not a sport for the impatient and must be trudged along at a slow, smooth pace.
This is just a tiny peek of my current knitting queue. Feel free to notice the overload of cute:
I will openly admit right here, right now, that I will never — I repeat, NEVER — be able to knit all of those stuffies. But that certainly doesn’t stop me from fantasizing about doing just that…
I just spent a half hour looking at photos of my sister’s trip to Peru last year. I’ve never wanted to go traveling more in my entire life than I do right now.
