Yarn Party

Was awesome!

I'll hopefully have pictures to download tomorrow, and a few stories to share.

Here's hoping they do it again next year.

Look what I got!

because I seem to have all this free time and nothing better to do.

Amigurumi

I want to make the monkey, but I guess i should start with the food...

Happy Easter

I survived 40 days with no yarn purchasing, coke or chocolate.
Honestly, the last few days have sorely tested me, but I survived.

Happy Easter to all believers.


My blogging might get even more sporadic in the days to come since I’m focusing on some other issues, but I promise to keep knitting and actually producing/posting SOMETHING soon!

The new Knitty is here!

And yet again, it didn’t disappoint me!

I finally have a new sock pattern to knit with my JoJoLand!

Yay me!

I suck.

I just looked at my FO list and realized that I haven’t been able to finish ANYTHING lately.
Granted, there’s a reason I call this place Casa Chaos, but really!
I can’t even say that I finished sample knitting ‘cause the feb shop sock was knit by Dip Cindy.

THANK YOU Dip Cindy!

I did knit up a bunch of WIP’s for the Feb workshop at the Guild that was cancelled because of weather.
And I did start another pair of socks, as well as working on a stole or two, but I haven’t even gotten very far on that.

I vow to re-group and dedicate more knitting time.

CCD ends tomorrow for the year. I’m free till September, so I’m thinking of setting up a knitting night somewhere all by myself. I haven’t been able to make any other knitting nights anywhere for ages, so I think I need to do this for me.

Who knows, maybe I’ll actually get something finished.

Check it out!

I'm so very excited it's the weekend after Easter!!!

What:
Yarn Party! Check out local yarn vendors, sit and knit, meet new people!

Who:
All your favorite local yarn dyers and spinners, plus some extra crafty goodness!
And all our knitting/crocheting/spinning friends (you!) of course!!

Where:
7500 Maple Avenue Takoma Park, MD 20912 -- Metro accessible, plenty of parking!

When:
March 30, 2008 - 2 PM to 6 PM

Why:
Who needs an excuse to get together and craft?! We wanted to get together and spread some fiber love!


Vendors
C*EYE*BER Fiber Yarns
Crafty Snargle
Dragonfly Fiber Designs
Insubordiknit
Loop
Sanguine Gryphon
Storm Moon Knits
Woolarina

For more information go to their blog
http://homespunyarnparty.blogspot.com/

How do you say goodbye?

We lost a great person a week ago today.


It feels really stupid to say that I wasn’t expecting our 86 yo neighbor to pass away last Sunday, but I really wasn’t.
Everyone was surprised at his passing, I mean honestly, dude landed on the beach at Normandy and lived to tell. His youngest son and I were talking about the bizarre feeling of it all. He had a great sense of humor, and was never a real grown-up. We kept expecting him to sit up and say “HA!” at some point at the viewing today.


This was a great man who loved his country, baseball and life in general. He lied about his age to be able to enlist in WWII. When you read his obit, it marks the day he made his first and only hole in one.



August 3rd, 1969.


He was in the hospital because of an asthma attack. I was expecting him to come home and be sitting at his usual post this 4th of July keeping the cops away.

But instead, I’m on my way to his funeral tomorrow. Everyone is simply devastated at his passing.


Good bye Mr. Russ. Independence Day won’t be the same without you.