LYS Tour & Why I no longer will watch the CW Network

This weekend is the May LYS tour (that’s local yarn shop tour for all of my non-knitting readers). I can’t make it due to the fact that I have non-knitting company staying with me this weekend! Although, if we’re out and about, and just “happen” to be in the neighborhood, then they are just out of luck. But the may be on to me if we just “happen” to be in the neighborhood of several yarn shops in a row.

In other news, its official, the CW has no taste. They are dead to me.

Just what I need...another obsession

Rebecca sent me the link to purlsoho today. It's amazing I got any work done today. Maybe the apple doesn't fall far from tree.... (I'll have to get my mom to send me a picture of her fabric room and the fabric annex for those of you who haven't been to the fabric section of our house really appreciate this post.)
P.S. For those of you who asked at knitting tonight, I posted the info about the pictures below.

Checked off the list!

Here's the quilt my mom made for me! It is so beautiful! I love it!

My fabulous free time weekend has proven to be very productive for me! Not only did I finally finish the flower wash cloth I've been working on for, um, well over a month now (I can finally hold my head high at PG!) but I got a lot of wedding stuff done too! And I finally downloaded the pictures of my wedding shower weekend a few weeks ago! Here are a few of my favorites!


Me and the fabulous bridesmaids (minus Amy in Tennesse) plus their adorable babies!

Girls night out!

Whew!

It's been a busy couple of weeks. There's been traveling and folks here to visit on the weekends. Now it's Friday night on the eve of a weekend where we have no travel plans and no one coming to visit! I'm really excited to just be home. Now I'm hoping to finally get some knitting done! I won't even bother posting a picture of my current project because I'm too ashamed of the fact that its pretty much in the same shape it's been in forever. I don't think I'll ever finish it. I've not only been a slacker knitter, but been a slacker at visiting everyone else's blogs. I feel very out of touch! I read several on-line newspapers, but without the knitting blogs, I'm just not fulling informed in the ways of the world!

Depths of despair

My fellow t.v. addict sent me this story to let me know that my favorite show was being cancelled. I was pretty sure this was the last season for Gilmore Girls, but even more distressing was the indication that my new addiction - Veronica Mars - was also going to get the boot. It's sad really. I've done a lot of knitting with these ladies over the years. They've seen the knitting progress from crappy dishrags, to long scarfs, more scarfs, then there was the felted purse phase, let's not discuss the Rosie incident, and the numerous, numerous projects started then put down when the plot lines got interesting. I only hope the CW will be kind and leave me Veronica Mars to knit with on Tuesday nights. But since I've just finished watching what could possibly be the new Grey's Anatomy spin off with Veronica Mars' new love interest as one of the resident hotties on the potentially new show, I'm not going to get my hopes up. It's almost like my Friends have left me all over again.

"It's safe to drink, but don't do laundry"

That's what the city of Seattle said about our water after this happened today. It's not near my place, but affects my water. It's particularly annoying this Wednesday night, because I'd planned on doing several loads of laundry while catching up on some DVR'ed Grey's and Ugly Betty's. I'm also a bit concerned because they said the water was OK to drink, but not to do laundry because bits of dirt could get in your clothes. Now I'm thinking, if the waters not good enough for my clothes, then it's not good enough to drink. But that's just me.

A general observation

As much as I enjoy planning my wedding, and I'm really excited about getting married, but the planning is beginning to seriously cut into my knitting time.

Earth-friendly knitting

Tonight's SKG meeting had a presentation on earth-friendly yarns! It was really interesting to hear about all of the new ways yarn makers are reaching out to do their part to help the environment (and us enviro-knitters!) Mary from Earth-Friendly Yarns and the Fiber Gallery gave the presentation. Did you know yarn is being made from the by products of Tofu? Or what about crab and lobster shells? It's just fascinating!

Tip-toe through the tulips!

On a beautiful sunny (somewhat rainy) Sunday, we headed up north to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival! It was so beautiful to see the fields and rows of brightly colored tulips! I snapped several pics and here are some of my favorites!

Kellan's sweet style (& smile!)

Isn't he just the cutest thing (I mean next to the sweater of course....)!

Political propoganda or just scary shit?

Last week the Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) released two You Tube clips based on scenarios that could cause SR 520 to break apart and fall into Lake Washington.

The first scenario has the bridge closed due to high winds (something that happens every once in a while around here). The second scenario is what could happen if "the big one" strikes the Puget Sound area.

Many say the clips are just a new way in spreading the message to get a new bridge built, others are calling it political propaganda. What do you think?

In other news, the new Martha Stewart site was launched recently....must say, I do love Martha!

The Turkey trip!

My camera came back from Turkey this week and look at all of these fabulous sites it saw!

All of these pics are from Istanbul, though I'm not sure of what exactly. Then there is this picture which cracks me up!

I guess we all need our Grey's!

It's time to get serious

No more procrastinating. It starts this weekend.

Swing your partner

This morning I heard this story on NPR about how Square Dancing was the new hip thing to do in bars. They interviewed a bunch of people who have square dancing nights at a local Seattle bar. They've updated the music, have a younger crowd to do the calling and teach you the moves (in case you can't remember them from 5th grade P.E.). I'm intrigued and I think I may have to check this out.
In other news, Crosscut, a new online newspaper designed to cover local issues in the Pacific Northwest (including Idaho), premiered today.

Rippin' out & startin' over

Yeah. That's what I'm doing. Perhaps it was a sign when I started the Hilltop Twin Wrap by using a different pattern. A mistake early made in the lace/cable pattern is hard to recover from so I just sucked it up and ripped it out. I'm a few rows back into it and it looks pretty good. I'd post a picture, but my camera is in Turkey. No, that's not another excuse (too tired to get the camera, can't find the connector cord-thingy) my camera is taking a trip to Turkey. I hope it's having fun. I can't wait to see the pics and share them with you.

Mom's Sock!

This weekend my mom came into town for a fun girls weekend visit! She brought along her knitting too! She and a friend took a sock knitting class and after many weeks, some ripping out and swearing (like all good projects require) she's got an FO (that's finished object to you non-knitters)!

It fits and looks fabulous! Now she's half way finished - just one more sock to go!
She's also been whipping up these cute and soft washcloths for people!

She inspired me to pull out my first pair of socks - and I use the term "pair of socks" loosely as I've only made it this far with the first sock:

I measured my sock and I'm only 6 inches into the leg and decided I wanted to go another inch before working on the heel flap. Then I put it back in the knitting bag for another day.

Tonight I took mom to Purly Girls and she had a great time! She loved chatting with all the fun, creative and talented knitters! Now she wants to start her own Purly Girls in Boise!

Just like a grown up!

Why is that even though I'm no longer in my 20's (but not too far in my 30's thank you) I still don't feel like a grown up sometimes! Today was different though because our new couch arrived (our chair came in a few weeks ago)! Nothing says "the adult world" like new furniture that wasn't
a) owned by someone else
b) inherited because someone was too lazy to move it when they moved away
c) a cheap piece of furniture that you bought for your "first real piece of furniture" that really was a piece of crap because you really couldn't afford anything else

(Editor's note: picture to come later... too tired to go get camera and want to really test out the couch by knitting on it!)

Guess what I found??!!

My knitting mojo!

That's right - I found it! I made this cute flower wash cloth for a gift and I'm planning on making a few more!

Now I'm working on the Tweed Wrap from Hilltop Knits. After a bit of a challenging start (for those of you who missed Purly Girls, that meant me swearing quite a bit after I realized I was about 10 rows into the other pattern in the booklet.) But now I'm back on track! It's a fun and challenging lace and cable project which is just what I need right now!

Still searching for inspiration....

The knitting inspiration is still pretty much nonexistent. It's really beginning to suck. I feel comforted by the thought that I'm not alone. Several other blogging knitters are feeling this way too I've discovered. The new Knitty came out and while it was pretty to look at, still nothing.

Baby Isha's Fashion Show!

Here is Baby Isha sporting the latest looks from Auntie Meg. Isha looks stunning in the Child's Placket Sweater from LMKG in a pretty spring green color. To complete her look are Isha's new khaki pants her mom bought to go with the sweater.

She is wearing the "it" outfit every Virginia baby needs this spring. Check out what else the highly adorable and oh' so trendy Isha is up to on her very own blog!