Entries from September 2008

September 29, 2008

Knitting Time – I Think

irst of all an ankle update. The ankle was started to hurt pretty bad Saturday even though all I did was to sit at the LYS and knit all day. So I went to urgent care and this time it was x-rayed. The doctor saw what looked like a small fracture but he wasn’t sure [...]

September 28, 2008

Sad Day

Early this morning a Maryland State Police medivac helicopter crashed in route to a hospital carrying a victim of a car crash. The pilot, medic and a Charles County EMT were killed in the crash. The survivor was the victim in the car crash according to published reports. The MSP medivac helicopters are [...]

September 26, 2008

Bad Kitty

The pretty kitty in the post earlier this week has been a bad girl. No, she did not attack my knitting. Although she likes to play with circular needles. She escaped out the front door last night just before 8 pm. My dad called me to say that she had escaped and that he could [...]

September 25, 2008

Ring Around the Rosy

Strange title, I know but it has to do with something I was reading in a book last night. I managed to finish yet another cowl last night. I was making one for P out of some Malabrigo in Stone Chat. She wanted it to be at least 10 inches long and I managed to [...]

September 24, 2008

Cowls and More Cowls

Finally photos of the 3 finished cowls that I have kept. Okay they are not the greatest photos but my model is in school and if she sees the purple one, she will want it. I have enough left over from my purple one to knit a second one. I may just go ahead and [...]

September 22, 2008

Grace is Not My Name

The fair ended Saturday night. The sheep to shawl contest was canceled. The reason given did not really seem valid to any of us who were working in the tent. But the person who made the decision is the person who was in charge of the tent. I have tons of photos that need some [...]

September 19, 2008

Friday!!!

Only one more day of the fair!!! There is supposed to be a sheep to shawl demo tomorrow but whether or not it happens is another story. But I will have some photos hopefully over the weekend of the monster tomato I just picked. I picked 9 pounds of tomatoes up in my neighbor’s garden [...]

September 18, 2008

Cowls

Okay I have a photo of one cowl at least. It is the one that I have made for my LYS owner. She is always cold in the winter and hates wearing scarves. And I need ed a project to work on while I was at the fair so we pulled up the pattern I [...]

September 17, 2008

Busy Knitting

I have gotten hooked on knitting cowls. I just haven’t been able to take a decent photo of the one finished one I still have yet. I finished two up over the weekend while working at the fair. I gave them away. Apparently the boys thought they were great for working in the barn in [...]

September 15, 2008

Bloglines?

Is it just me or is Bloglines having some problems? I have been having some problems for the last several days. Anyone else having the same propblems?