This weekend marked a first for me. My first venture into real-life interaction with knit bloggers!
I was heading to Columbia for a short visit with my parents, for no particular reason at all and thus no timetable. So I emailed Lolly and suggested we meet for some knitting. She opened the get-together up to her knitting group, and happily several people were able to join!
Apology in advance: I’ve been listening to the Cast-On podcast pretty much nonstop for the past few days (on my walk to work, on my walk home from work, sometimes for small stretches while at work (as an editor, it is next to impossible to do my actual work while listening to a podcast, so I’ve been using this as “breaks”), while knitting on the couch, and for the past 3 hours, because I took the day off of work), which means I’m starting to talk a little like her. That is, I’m using phrases like “that is,” and I’m pausing in particular ways–though perhaps that isn’t so apparent in the written word–and I’m using parenthetical comments, and long series of things in one sentence; you get the idea. So I don’t know how I’m going to be writing this blog entry . . .
Today’s eye candy is also mouth candy. Uh, wait, that is a really weird way to put it. What I mean is that not only are the photos nice to look at, but the subjects were tasty to eat. Yes, a food-related eye candy. Nothing absurd or found on the ground on South Street, I promise.
A dear friend from college, for whom I was a bridesmaid, just had her first baby yesterday! I knit the (secret from the blog) purple sweater for her, but I am still at work on the pattern and haven’t mailed it off yet. (It wouldn’t fit her yet anyway.) I couldn’t resist posting the photo that was sent around, however, of Linnea in her adorable knit hat–what a fabulous pattern. I didn’t knit it, and I don’t know who did, but is this not the cutest thing!?
The final Amazing Lace challenge is to find an unlikely model. I didn’t participate in the last challenge, due more to forgetfulness than anything else, and I have been racking my brain to think of a good unlikely lace model. I thought about statues, colonial people (though I didn’t see any the day I went looking), etc. Eventually, I went with this:
The other day, our computer’s hard drive was looking dangerously full, and in a somewhat brash move I decided to delete all of the music I had on the computer. In truth, this was not a horrible decision, because all the music I have was already on the ipod, and I don’t burn CDs ever. But this meant that when I opened my iTunes to listen to Tim Gunn’s Project Runway podcast, it was the only thing in my iTunes! Since it was feeling lonely, I decided to investigate the whole world of podcasts more.
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