Did I ever say how lucky I am to be with Yannick?

Who else would come all the way into CSL from the WI at 9:00pm just to pick me up from a knitting meetup, AND would park the car and come in because he thought I’d rather him come in and say hi than call my cell and say “I’m outside”?

Who else would not mind stopping on the way home so I could go tan, AND decide that rather than just sit there waiting for me, he’d run into the pharmacy and buy me tampons so we didn’t have to stop afterwards?

And now, who would let me explain all the different ways I thought of to attach straps to the knitting bag I’m designing, then add one unique twist to make the bag so damn special and unlike all the other felted bags out there, AND remind me of a change I forgot to make which means I have to undo and reknit about 1/8th of what I’ve done so far but it doesn’t matter because the new way will make the bag a million times cooler?

Only Yannick. I love him.

I’m on black overload.

The Perfect Knitting Bag is black. Black wool. Black wool knitted up in summer in a (thank Gd) air-condition house, but while sitting on a HEATED waterbed. Is it any wonder I can only manage a few rows at a time? The PKB is also my entry for the Knitting World Cup, so I am trying to finish it by July 8th. I’ve been ODing on black wool.

The Lacy Shrug in Kid Merino is black. Well, the name of the color is black. In reality it’s black from far away…but really only a dusty charcoal up close. Whatever, it’s still black. It’s my pleasure break in between miles of stitches on the PKB. It’s currently about 6″ long. It needs to be finished by the wedding weekend, Labor Day weekend, because it is my entry for The Amazing Lace. I don’t get to work on the lacy ruffled border until it’s 47″ long. I’ve got a long summer of black lace knitting ahead of me!

So this morning, while perusing the latest (July) issue of Creative Knitting, I come across a tank top. I’m always looking for tank top patterns, because most of the tank tops I see in stores would not be appropriate for work. So I see this cute tank top, the Herringbone Haze Tunic:
Great, I tell myself. I’ll swatch up a tank top to have on the needles as my “treat” knitting, when I need a break from all the black. Unfortunately I can’t afford to go out and buy more yarn right now. No biggie, I’ve got a sizable stash. There must be something I can knit it with…

There is. A big, no dye lot, pounder bag of Red Heart. I don’t mind using acrylic, I like the idea that I can throw my clothes in the wash. (Especially since I’m a klutz and usually end up wearing whatever I’m eating). I don’t even care that its WalMart acrylic. Or that it was cheap. But guess what color it is?

Black.

So I haven’t posted in a while. In fact, I have to go check my own blog to see when the last post was…brb…

Huh. A week ago (not counting pics of Sam and my Amazing Lace Poetry entry). So I have a week to catch up.

Well, not much happened.

Sunday the 18th I went for my wedding dress fitting. The dress was just how I remembered it, only I didn’t realize how pale I was! I had my shoes, so the seamstress was able to pin up the front so I won’t trip, to show her where to hem it up. We didn’t pin the sides to be taken in yet, because I’m hoping to need to have it made smaller as the wedding gets closer. We had some veil issues, but hopefully that will be resolved soon. There was a minor snafu when the power in an entire 4-block radius went out, but luckily the store had huge windows and we were able to continue with the fitting. After the fitting I went back to my parents’ house and worked on one of the submissions I did for the new SnB book. We had Father’s Day dinner, then a birthday cookie cake for my brother Mike and my cousin Robyn, whose bdays were the 18th and the 16th. Once I got home I stayed up really late sending out the submission via email.

Monday the 19th was spent knitting non-stop for the 2nd submission I did. I’m not happy with what I sent, but I wasn’t able to knit up a full swatch in time for the deadline, so I had to make do. Oh well. If I don’t make it into the book, I will definately shop the designs around somewhere else.

I started tanning…the fake & bake kind, not the lie-out-in-the-sun kind. I’m not a heat person. I don’t really like summer, other than the fact that you can run out and the only preparation that takes is to slip on shoes (providing that you’re already dressed). I would love to live in permanent Fall (you know, kinda like Spring without the mud). In any case, I would much rather spend 6 minutes two-to-three times a week for a few weeks in a tanning booth than a few hours a week out in the sun, sweating and squinting. Don’t send me emails with the horrors of tanning, I’m only doing it until the wedding. Right now I’m the color of my wedding dress, and Yannick has been working outside all summer…so he’s rather…orange.

I went to the Montreal Knits meetup on Wednesday. We had a small group, but it was fun. Robyn brought her ball winder and a large cone of something black-and-white, and wound a cake each for me and Jennie. Yannick showed up just in time to pick me up.

I’ve been working like crazy on the Perfect Knitting Bag pattern since the Knitting World Cup deadline is coming up. I have the body of the bag done, and was working on the sides all weekend. It’s really cool watching something of my own design taking physical form in front of me. Even if this pattern never sells, I know I will use it and love it.

I also recieved stitch markers from 2 of my swap pals during the week- Adriane (sp?) and Jennifer. Thanks so much! I love both sets, and think it’s cool that you both send me glass stitch markers!

I will post pics of both the markers and the perfect bag progress tonight, hopefully.

So I haven’t posted in a while. In fact, I have to go check my own blog to see when the last post was…brb…

Huh. A week ago (not counting pics of Sam and my Amazing Lace Poetry entry). So I have a week to catch up.

Well, not much happened.

Sunday the 18th I went for my wedding dress fitting. The dress was just how I remembered it, only I didn’t realize how pale I was! I had my shoes, so the seamstress was able to pin up the front so I won’t trip, to show her where to hem it up. We didn’t pin the sides to be taken in yet, because I’m hoping to need to have it made smaller as the wedding gets closer. We had some veil issues, but hopefully that will be resolved soon. There was a minor snafu when the power in an entire 4-block radius went out, but luckily the store had huge windows and we were able to continue with the fitting. After the fitting I went back to my parents’ house and worked on one of the submissions I did for the new SnB book. We had Father’s Day dinner, then a birthday cookie cake for my brother Mike and my cousin Robyn, whose bdays were the 18th and the 16th. Once I got home I stayed up really late sending out the submission via email.

Monday the 19th was spent knitting non-stop for the 2nd submission I did. I’m not happy with what I sent, but I wasn’t able to knit up a full swatch in time for the deadline, so I had to make do. Oh well. If I don’t make it into the book, I will definately shop the designs around somewhere else.

I started tanning…the fake & bake kind, not the lie-out-in-the-sun kind. I’m not a heat person. I don’t really like summer, other than the fact that you can run out and the only preparation that takes is to slip on shoes (providing that you’re already dressed). I would love to live in permanent Fall (you know, kinda like Spring without the mud). In any case, I would much rather spend 6 minutes two-to-three times a week for a few weeks in a tanning booth than a few hours a week out in the sun, sweating and squinting. Don’t send me emails with the horrors of tanning, I’m only doing it until the wedding. Right now I’m the color of my wedding dress, and Yannick has been working outside all summer…so he’s rather…orange.

I went to the Montreal Knits meetup on Wednesday. We had a small group, but it was fun. Robyn brought her ball winder and a large cone of something black-and-white, and wound a cake each for me and Jennie. Yannick showed up just in time to pick me up.

I’ve been working like crazy on the Perfect Knitting Bag pattern since the Knitting World Cup deadline is coming up. I have the body of the bag done, and was working on the sides all weekend. It’s really cool watching something of my own design taking physical form in front of me. Even if this pattern never sells, I know I will use it and love it.

I also recieved stitch markers from 2 of my swap pals during the week- Adriane (sp?) and Jennifer. Thanks so much! I love both sets, and think it’s cool that you both send me glass stitch markers!

I will post pics of both the markers and the perfect bag progress tonight, hopefully.

So I haven’t posted in a while. In fact, I have to go check my own blog to see when the last post was…brb…

Huh. A week ago (not counting pics of Sam and my Amazing Lace Poetry entry). So I have a week to catch up.

Well, not much happened.

Sunday the 18th I went for my wedding dress fitting. The dress was just how I remembered it, only I didn’t realize how pale I was! I had my shoes, so the seamstress was able to pin up the front so I won’t trip, to show her where to hem it up. We didn’t pin the sides to be taken in yet, because I’m hoping to need to have it made smaller as the wedding gets closer. We had some veil issues, but hopefully that will be resolved soon. There was a minor snafu when the power in an entire 4-block radius went out, but luckily the store had huge windows and we were able to continue with the fitting. After the fitting I went back to my parents’ house and worked on one of the submissions I did for the new SnB book. We had Father’s Day dinner, then a birthday cookie cake for my brother Mike and my cousin Robyn, whose bdays were the 18th and the 16th. Once I got home I stayed up really late sending out the submission via email.

Monday the 19th was spent knitting non-stop for the 2nd submission I did. I’m not happy with what I sent, but I wasn’t able to knit up a full swatch in time for the deadline, so I had to make do. Oh well. If I don’t make it into the book, I will definately shop the designs around somewhere else.

I started tanning…the fake & bake kind, not the lie-out-in-the-sun kind. I’m not a heat person. I don’t really like summer, other than the fact that you can run out and the only preparation that takes is to slip on shoes (providing that you’re already dressed). I would love to live in permanent Fall (you know, kinda like Spring without the mud). In any case, I would much rather spend 6 minutes two-to-three times a week for a few weeks in a tanning booth than a few hours a week out in the sun, sweating and squinting. Don’t send me emails with the horrors of tanning, I’m only doing it until the wedding. Right now I’m the color of my wedding dress, and Yannick has been working outside all summer…so he’s rather…orange.

I went to the Montreal Knits meetup on Wednesday. We had a small group, but it was fun. Robyn brought her ball winder and a large cone of something black-and-white, and wound a cake each for me and Jennie. Yannick showed up just in time to pick me up.

I’ve been working like crazy on the Perfect Knitting Bag pattern since the Knitting World Cup deadline is coming up. I have the body of the bag done, and was working on the sides all weekend. It’s really cool watching something of my own design taking physical form in front of me. Even if this pattern never sells, I know I will use it and love it.

I also recieved stitch markers from 2 of my swap pals during the week- Adriane (sp?) and Jennifer. Thanks so much! I love both sets, and think it’s cool that you both send me glass stitch markers!

I will post pics of both the markers and the perfect bag progress tonight, hopefully.

So I woke up this morning and was wondering why Sam wasn’t asleep at my feet like usual. That’s when I saw it…the open closet door could only mean one thing…
Evil Genius, Stick-Fetching AND The Ability To Open Doors…is there anything this cat CAN’T do?