MysteryStole 4 Knit-Along Swatch
13 Aug 2008 Leave a Comment
Blogging and Life
12 Aug 2008 Leave a Comment
Life and blogging haven’t been cooperating. Hubby has been sick, he’s having a carotid screen tomorrow. Old cat lady is not feeling well, either. So between cuddling them and keeping the rest of the house going and me in one piece. The blog has suffered. I hope to get a picture of the winning swatch for the MysteryStole4 up, soon. As well as some happier thoughts.
Change is the one constant in life.
Swatching-grrrr
05 Aug 2008 Leave a Comment
in Knitting Tags: knit-along, Knitting, mystery
Well, got all the yarn put into center-pull balls, got some US 3 20″ circular needles, KnitPick Options, lovely points for lace and needed them, more about that in a minute. Anyway, decided to start with the Shine, found it has a loose ply so knew it would take concentration to not throw it for the cats. Cast on 29 stitches and started knitting the 27 rows. The garter stitch went well, attention kept me from having too many split stitches to repair, but the lace, oh the lace, somewhere about row 4 I dropped a stitch, one between yarn overs it appeared, didn’t see it until row 7. So, after the good intentions, found my concentration wasn’t up to Shine’s requrirements. I ripped the 10 rows out, and put everything in my project bag. I’ll try again, I’ve had my first cup of coffee, God has been praised for a new day and life is good.
Mystery Stole 4 Knit-a-Long
04 Aug 2008 1 Comment
in Knitting Tags: knit-along, Knitting, mystery
Yesterday, started gathering the materials needed for the mystery stole knit-a-long being held by Pink Lemonade Knits.
Looking through my stash I found two candidates: Joslyn’s Fiber Farm, Shine “Copper” (50% fine silk/50% fine wool) and Cherry Tree Hills, Suri Lace Alpaca “Peacock“. Since the item has beads as integral item to the design, of course, I bought enough beads from Fusionbeads.com, for either/both yarns. I bought #8 Japanese seed beads in Silver lined amber, Hex (12SB0019) and Metallic green/Purple Iris (10SB0512)
World of Warcraft-Hunter’s Lament
04 Aug 2008 Leave a Comment
in World of Warcraft Tags: Alliance, Hunter, World of Warcraft
Yesterday, I retrained “WhiteWind” (Rak’Shiri), for the second time. With the second trip to the pet trainer after several “Cannot Learn Any More New Skills”, I filed an in-game bug ticket. The GM then tells me we can’t train more than four skills and cats have five. So “WhiteWind” now has Dash, Claw, Rend, and Prowel. He does not have Growel. This certainly made no sense to have animals with skills they can’t equip but so says Blizzard, Only Four.
