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May 26, 2003
Finally, a Meetup
We finally actually had a meetup this month! That was fun, it was myself, a woman from New Zealand that is a new transplant to Orange County, a woman from Anaheim, and a woman from Fullerton.
The NZ'er knits in the pencil-style which I have never seen in action, only in photographs. The other two are also jugglers. Pretty cool! I didn't get to see anyone purling though, to see if I can find a better way to do it than the way I do. One of the women brought a Threads publication, I think it's Knitting Around the World which I had previously borrowed from the library and I liked a lot. I told her not to leave it lying around - it might disappear! It's not available from the publisher any more, but it still shows up in stores. I will have to keep my eyes open.
Posted by adnohr at 04:20 PM | Comments (0)
I'm Back
Not sure anyone noticed I was gone, but I wasn't very bloggy for the past few weeks. Life is busy! Made an offer on my (hopefully) first house this weekend. Much of my normal knitting time has been spent doing drive-bys of potential houses, and we happened to be driving by one and the tenant came out and offered us a tour, so we made an offer. It's got a lot of potential and the price and area is right, so we decided to go for it.
There will be a place to store my slowly growing stash. And a place to put all of my other closeted items, the record collection, the tape collection, the book collection. I see so much potential in this place, I hope the seller takes our offer.
Posted by adnohr at 04:00 PM | Comments (0)
May 15, 2003
Great Ideas... elsewhere
Joe's talking about winding yarn into balls over here: QueerJoe's Knitting Blog (If that link doesn't work, try the link in my sidebar)
I love it when I read one of those 'smack in the forehead' great ideas on someone's blog or on a listserv. He mentions that while winding yarn, he tucks the ball band in the last dozen or so loops around the end of the ball. I have always put the label in the center of the ball when I start winding it. But of course, as soon as I start knitting, I pull out the label. Putting the label on the outside of the ball means it stays with the yarn until it's almost done. Great Idea.
Posted by adnohr at 08:29 AM | Comments (0)
May 12, 2003
Still Here
OK, I didn't fall off the face of the earth, I just got really, really busy!!! Life happens. I finished the socks and have gifted them, and they were well received. Still working on the shawl, but as it gets bigger, it takes longer to go around so it seems like it's taking forever!
I snapped a photo of the socks before gifting them, so I will put that up soon.
Back to the daily grind....
Posted by adnohr at 05:28 AM | Comments (0)