Saturday, June 20, 2009

NOPE.


Nope, I didn't bake this.

Nope, I'm not gonna eat another one today; maybe tomorrow I'll treat myself -

It's a white choco-chip and cranberry cookie from Chris's Cookies - probably the least calorific of all their products - HA! at least the canberry bits are healthy ...

On another rainy weekend day from the Drowned Apple, I'm happy to finally be able to sit home, knit, pay bills, and eat sweets!

This is on the blocking board, from the ever-genius Kate Gagnon ... I was so in love with Springtime Bandit, that I was happy something else came down the pipeline - I predict that it will become the "chick" version of Jared Flood's scarf - only two skeins of Noro Silk Garden necessary!

thanks, Kate!


Monday, June 15, 2009

Ulmus - Almost!

The main reason that no one's heard from me lately is that about a week ago, I got myself a Palm Pre. I was excited beyond belief to get it and learn it. The night before I got the Pre, I waterboarded my laptop keyboard- clumsy me, a large glass of ice water to my right, I reached up with my right hand, it tumped over into the keyboard - horrors!

Many attemped drying techniques ensued -- even broke out my shamwow (yes, I own a pack of 'em - actually they're quite useful...) - after a couple of days, I seem to have permanently lost the use of the following keys (all on the poor right side):

period
forward slash
left arrow
delete
and the bluetooth mouse connection seems to have shorted out.

Luckily, Windows Vista has something called an on-screen keyboard , which certainly provides a convenient workaround until Froggy and I decide on what to replace my beloved red Inspiron with - no, I can't get a Mac (I could spill water on that as well) for work reasons -

But my poor pointer finger is killing me because I have to use the touchpad as opposed to a mouse.

All during this technomisery, I knit like crazy on my first Ulmus shawl - if you will notice, there's no picture there - so I'll put one here on the blog - the problem with that one was not the yarn at all - the Malabrigo sock yarn


is beyond soft and smooth, the colors are enticingly exceptional, but my gauge was WAAAAAYYYYY OFF -
coulda been a sweater, instead of a "lacy" shawl...

so, I think this one will be totally ripped out - it was good mindless knitting for most of the time.

So I started on my second Ulmus, this one using Starry by Dream in Color, which is technically Smooshy with a bit-o-glitter. The two colors I'm using for this one are Gothic Rose and Cloud Jungle, and the needle size I'm using is 10.5mm - just to get the gauge.

Life is really tough sometimes!