http://rycrafty.com My knitting (and sometimes other crafts) blog. Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:39:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The first Annetrelac sock is now done, but the pictures are a day or two old. It's grey and gross today, and not good for photos. I just wanted to showcase the crazy pooling that is going on: Crazy, spiraling stripes. I like how each stripe is shaded as well, light ... http://rycrafty.com/2008/09/01/pooling/ Banff is one of those places I just seem to keep going back to. Summer 2004, summer 2005, Jan-Aug of 2006 and now summer 2008. I only ever go for work, I've never been to Banff for 'vacation'. The work is fun, I always meet great people, and the mountain scenery ... http://rycrafty.com/2008/08/23/my-banff-trip/ I know, I know, I disappeared again. Work tends to do that. I find it harder to blog (for whatever reason) when I'm away from home. I like routine I suppose. :) I didn't get much knitting done over the summer, but I have since I've been home! I finished ... http://rycrafty.com/2008/08/19/return-from-the-summer/ So recently, I've become obsessed with the idea of buying a spinning wheel, and spinning my own yarn. I did take a spindle-spinning class once, and I really enjoyed it. It felt very natural for me. I just sort of left it alone though, after I finished the initial fibre ... http://rycrafty.com/2008/06/27/can-you-have-too-many-hobbies/ I took a couple crappy camera phone pictures yesterday, after I parked my car in the bank parking lot. My car is plenty of car for me. I am very happy with it, with its size, with everything. And yet it only comes up to the door handles of a Hummer. Why ... http://rycrafty.com/2008/06/10/a-car-and-a-monster/ Not only do I have yarn for sale on Ravelry, I recently went through my closet and various cubpards and storage spaces, and I have 75 items go be donated to a thrift store! The purse above and 3 others are on eBay. I thought I may as well see ... http://rycrafty.com/2008/06/08/the-de-stash-continues/ This evening I got to see Tom Jones. Live. For free. TOM-freaking-JONES!! I don't have a life list or anything, no checklist of stuff I want to do in my lifetime, but if I did, you can bet that 'see a Tom Jones concert live' would be high up on that ... http://rycrafty.com/2008/06/06/it-was-not-unusual-it-was-great/ Clementine Shawlette, started April 19th, 2008, finished May 22nd, 2008 Pattern: Clementine Shawlette, Spring 2007 Interweave Knits Yarn: Rowan Cashsoft DK Needles: 3.25mm Pattern Notes: I made 0 changes! Would I knit it again? It was quick, and easy to memorize the pattern (once you've done the fiddly bit at the end), but I don't ... http://rycrafty.com/2008/06/05/finished-clementine-shawlette/ You may or may not realise this about me, but I am addicted to lolcats. I check the site pretty much daily to see what funny new grammatically-incorrect cats have to say. I have now discovered something one better: lolgraphs, otherwise known as GraphJam.com. I love geeking out in Excel almost ... http://rycrafty.com/2008/05/24/the-next-step-of-teh-intarwebs/ I live in a condo. This means I don't really have a yard. I have a balcony, and due to being on the ground floor, it is twice the size of anyone upstairs, but it still isn't a yard. My parents were all about gardening when I grew up, our ... http://rycrafty.com/2008/05/22/my-garden/