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I’m a Bad, Bad Blogger

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.


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I’m a Bad, Bad Blogger

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.


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I’m a Bad, Bad Blogger

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.


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Amazing Lace Challenge # 3 – The Poetry Challenge

*Sung to the tune of Madonna’s True Blue*

I’ve had other knits
I’ve looked at a thousand kits
But I never knew love before
‘Til The Kid walked through my door

I’ve tried all the charts
Your simplicity stuck me through the heart
I can work on you no matter where I go
You’re the one for me baby this I know

‘Cus it’s
True love
Your YOs are what I’m dreaming of
Your lace fits me like a glove
And I’m gonna be
True blue baby I love you

I’ve put in all the lifelines
I’ve k2tog oh so many times
Those complicated charts don’t scare me now
I’m with you ’til the end baby this is my vow
So if you should ever doubt
Wonder what my love is all about
Just think back and remember dear
Those words whispered in your ear, I said

True love
Your YOs are what I’m dreaming of
Your lace fits me like a glove
And I’m gonna be
True blue baby I love you
‘Cus it’s
True love
Your YOs are what I’m dreaming of
Your lace fits me like a glove
And I’m gonna be
True blue baby I love you
No no more cables / I kiss them goodbye
The chart was memorized / on my first try
I’ve searched the whole world / for lace like you

Don’tcha know, don’tcha know that it’s

True love / oh baby
True love / oh baby
True love / oh baby
True love…

I have to say…I’m sitting here giggling like a maniac for no reason other than I’ve managed to add sound to my blog. For some reason this amuses me to no end!
And to those sticklers out there who say songs aren’t poetry…to you I say 😛 thththththt Yes, that’s right. I spit at you with lots of drool!

Ok, for you guys here’s a limmerick:

There once was some lace yarn from Toronto
Whose pattern I had to knit pronto
The pattern drove me insane
I had no choice but to proclaim
“What trouble have I gotten myself onto?


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Silly Cat

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?


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long boring post with no pictures

I didn’t do much this week, other than knit my little butt off on some swatches. I’m still unsure about Court, but Plunger is coming along swimmingly. I keep meaning to take some vague photograph that doesn’t show anything, but haven’t yet. Maybe soon.

Last night I stopped in at Jackie & Kevin’s to see Jackie and Bradley. He’s so cute! He just started crawling, and has got two adorable little teeth poking in on the bottom. I swear if I wasn’t already engaged… ;P

Then Yannick and I met Julie and Rich at Scores for some dinner. Funny moment: the waitress was slow. I mean you can get ketchup out of a bottle faster. We sat around for at least 40 minutes after eating waiting for her to come back to bring us refills, gd forbid she bring the check.* 15 minutes AFTER that when we got the bill, she presented it to us, saying, “Here you go. Take your time in paying, I’m in no rush.” REALLY? YOU THINK SO? We managed to wait a split second after she’d left the table before all 4 of us burst out laughing.

Tonight I’m going out for dinner with Robyn and some of her friends for her birthday dinner, then going home after to knit all night. The submission deadline is ACK! Monday and I need to have everything photographed by tomorrow night.

Oh- speaking of Robyn…her blog is now open to the world! So please go and visit my cousin over at
http://www.knitpurlknitpearl.blogspot.com and say hi!

In case I don’t get to blog tomorrow, here’s the plan:
-go for my first wedding dress fitting! ACK
-wish my brother Mike a happy birthday! (ok, maybe this will go first)
-go to my parents’ house for Father’s Day dinner
-go for coffee with Steph and Steph
-go through all the swatches and photograph and prepare and send out my SnB submissions

*I have nothing against service staff, I was a waitress and barista and bartender myself. But in an almost-empty restaurant at 10pm there’s no excuse to bring us our meals and then disappear for over an hour.


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Sharing

I’m very excited right now. I should be knitting, but I’m popping over just to blab because Yannick’s not home.

There are 2 designs I want to submit to the next Stitch ‘n Bitch book by Monday. One design is being worked through, but is taking some time as it’s…well…unique. Did I ever give this one a nickname? I think so but can’t find it in my archives. Assuming I never named it, I’ll call it Court from now on.

The other design is the one I called Plunger, the one that was delayed by the Superwash wool fiasco. By dipping into my stash to have a temporary solution, not only did I end up with a working pattern, but I managed to solve some things that were bugging me about the original design! Yes, I changed it a bit, so it’s not the first thing I had pictured in my head, but so what? I’m beginning to understand that designing is not only about creating the vision, but at times requires adaptation for what is actually possible. And I’m totally ok with this design being adapted, as I am very proud of the finished result. Go Plunger!

Ok, back to knitting!