tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:20:27 +0000... I rush in*http://waftt.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Ronni)Blogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-3161218585695646011Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:49:00 +00002009-10-20T20:52:32.320-07:00I finished one of the gift knitting items! Are you excited? I sure am. And I think the FoUI is too because he has successfully bemoaned the cold as he bicycles to work so he's getting them early. Which sort of leaves me short a present. But I think I will print out a photo and wrap that up rather than trying to add yet another item to my already scary list.But look! A FO!And now I am off for fourhttp://waftt.blogspot.com/2009/10/catching-up-or-at-least-not-falling-too.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-2689522005955766663Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:54:00 +00002009-10-15T21:54:59.428-07:00So according to the Holiday Knitting Plan by today I was supposed to be done with 1 pair of mittens, at least one sock of a pair of socks, a good half of a vest, and working on the knitting for a stuffed toy.And where am I? I haven't even looked at what I need for yarn for the stuffed toy, I haven't gotten any further than the swatch for the vest, so there's nothing to show for that.I do have http://waftt.blogspot.com/2009/10/oh-so-very-far-behind.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-4267127940901998885Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:41:00 +00002009-10-11T11:45:08.234-07:00No offense intended to actual weasels of course. But on Wednesday I had planned to employ some weasel words to imply I got more done than I did since Monday. Only then I fell asleep early that night instead of finishing a blog post. And again on Thursday and then other life issues intervened as they will and so on... So now we're at the point where I need to employ weasel words to cover for why Ihttp://waftt.blogspot.com/2009/10/wednesday-weasling-or-rather-weaseling.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-7059058657767745853Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:56:00 +00002009-10-03T19:01:34.412-07:00Not.Still no completed knitting to show off. Lots of mucking about in the real life areas since June what with packing for moving back home to California and then unpacking once we got here. Not to mention getting through the first month of school etc. It all just left much too little time for my hobby life. Which is annoying as all get out. And nearly equal amounts of tinking to knitting means http://waftt.blogspot.com/2009/10/well-that-good-intention-went-well.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-2817875723690076631Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:10:00 +00002009-06-12T08:26:48.541-07:00I hope that will be easier soon. By this time next month I think I will at least know when I will be able to move everything back home. Can't recall if I've mentioned here that we have been spending the last few months mostly in Texas. The FoUI (the Fount of Useless Information - aka my husband) is doing some work for a client of his company there. The carrot that got homebody me out of my house http://waftt.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-really-need-to-do-better-than-once.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-5666064426005722613Mon, 18 May 2009 16:04:00 +00002009-05-18T09:04:03.173-07:00Boy, time flies when you're busy. Nothing much to show for it I'm afraid. Most things I have been knitting on over the last two weeks have ended up frogged. Or not appreciably further along. But I'll show them off anyway. I've got nothin' else that I've done.A Very Late Birthday Present:That's not that great a photo but that might be ok, since this pattern is going to need some rejiggering I http://waftt.blogspot.com/2009/05/busy-busy-busy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-8806069780139843052Sun, 03 May 2009 23:42:00 +00002009-11-29T10:03:49.960-08:00'Cause that's the only way I am ever going to be able to come close to catching up. Or even keeping up were I to get caught up.Since my last post, knitting has just not been going well. That's all there is to it. I didn't manage to make it through the third round of Sock Madness this time. Which is not necessarily bad. But isn't necessarily good either of course. But the attempt meant that other http://waftt.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-think-i-better-give-up-sleeping.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-5268051258288570184Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:55:00 +00002009-04-17T08:56:13.973-07:00Well, by dint of ignoring everything else I was supposed to be doing, including getting back into a proper blogging routine, I managed to make it through both Round 1 and Round 2 of Sock Madness in time to move up. I'm now in the gap just before the start of Round 3 and finally catching up on other things again. Since last year I almost made it through Round 3 I feel a dreadful despairing urge tohttp://waftt.blogspot.com/2009/04/its-sock-madnesss-fault.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-262522324896654780Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:52:00 +00002009-03-26T16:50:58.140-07:00I have been appallingly neglectful of the blog. I do apologize. It's partly that things weren't blog-able for a while there. And partly that moving only some of your stuff is so much more complicated than moving all of it. And partly that I just didn't think I had much to say I guess.Anyway, I did Christmas knitting. Some of which was actually finished in time to give on Christmas but not in timehttp://waftt.blogspot.com/2009/03/good-grief.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-4310937832968771257Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:54:00 +00002008-12-22T08:02:09.716-08:00Not a lot bloggable in the fiber sphere though. We are now in our rental house in Houston Texas which is driving my DH up a wall because since it is a rental he can't fix any of the many issues with it. He picked it so you'd think he'd have come to terms with it by the time I got here but apparently not. We'll be here through the summer so I think I better get knitting on some shawls for air http://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/12/still-not-dead.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-3003215900110076035Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:53:00 +00002009-10-14T09:54:32.969-07:00I thought I would test a theory. My apologies if you thought there was a real post. There will be later today (I hope!) but not just yet.http://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/10/testing-theory.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-2554713459734208103Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:02:00 +00002008-10-05T16:02:57.773-07:00Like the "Dead Body That Claims It Isn't" in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I'm not dead yet. Indeed, I am feeling much better although possibly I shouldn't say that in order to avoid getting conked on the head in 7 more lines. I am touched that Lynne worried enough to ask though. Thanks Lynne!I have however, been awfully busy with not fun stuff. The busy-making-est of which is getting ready tohttp://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/10/shades-of-monty-python-and-holy-grail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-670960182013693205Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:34:00 +00002008-12-12T19:45:53.735-08:00Or is that just me? We got the oddest look from the Canadian customs officer...But first, we have to back up a bit to the domestic vacation. AKA a weekend in Oregon. I went to Black Sheep Gathering for the first time this year. I highly recommend it. I had such fun. I took three classes with Judith MacKenzie McCuin. I love taking classes from Judith but I learned something about taking classes http://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/07/doesnt-everyone-plan-vacation-around.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-6159502686847511132Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:04:00 +00002008-12-12T19:45:54.301-08:00I just keep coming back. I've been up to a lot since last posting. Most of it not bloggable until now. Besides, vacationing and knitting for others and panicking about possible moves has taken up so much time lately that by the time I remember I need to do a blog post, it's so late I really need to get sleep more than I need to post a blog entry. Particularly since blog entries created when I am http://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/07/like-bad-penny.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-1448816521368347553Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:33:00 +00002008-12-12T19:45:55.141-08:00So the other day, I'm driving home from dropping the FoUI off where the car was finally done being repaired and I see this young man bicycling with a small pack of, one assumes, his friends. What attracted my notice was that while all of them were buzzing along on the busy busy street sans helmets, he actually owned one. He had it with its straps clipped around the strap of the backpack he was http://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/06/whiskey-tango-wednesday-redux.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-1165972928077916218Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:59:00 +00002008-06-01T22:05:21.495-07:00There's not enough chocolate in the world to restore my equanimity after discovering that gauge has once again lied to me. The fickle rat-b@stard. When I started the Loopy Ewe swap socks, I checked gauge and chose needles that gave me gauge. I rechecked it after I finished the first set of toe increases and still it was good. I just checked it now (starting the second heel gusset) and it's so farhttp://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/06/not-enough-chocolate-in-world.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-7105789351945966655Tue, 27 May 2008 04:21:00 +00002008-12-12T19:45:55.313-08:00I decided earlier in the week that it was past time to sort out some goals for my knitting time in the future. I have projects I want to finish, some I want to start, and some that I want to design. And I spend too much time thrashing about among them all. So, I decided to make myself a list. I do have a Ravelry Queue and a projects page there as well but that doesn't cover everything. http://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/05/swips-wips-quips-and-why-theres-no-such.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-8969477144609107011Sat, 17 May 2008 15:45:00 +00002008-12-12T19:45:55.855-08:00I'd like to knit on my cardi tonightand turn the heel on my Leaflings tonightI'd like to knit on my cardi tonightand turn the heel on my Leaflings tonightbut I ain't up to my knittin' tonightcause it's too darn hotIt's too darn hotIt's too darn hotWith profound apologies to Cole Porter who I adore, that pretty much sums up the last week in terms of knitting. Our daytime highs have been in the http://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/05/its-too-darn-hot.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-1672674275007303476Thu, 08 May 2008 03:48:00 +00002008-12-12T19:46:02.576-08:00Ha bet that got ya wondering. It sure has taken me a long time to recover from this last weekend. Much fun was had.Sat May 3rd I went to the Maker Faire in San Mateo and finally got to hear Stephanie Pearl-McPhee speak. Proof:I think my favorite bit (after the knitters aren't patient people, knitting creates an artificial patience zone around them bit) was when she enacted the "what do they http://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/05/binge-weekend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-7229025742418436498Thu, 01 May 2008 04:46:00 +00002008-04-30T21:46:22.994-07:00The other day the FoUI and I had to run out to the grocery at the last minute because we were out of milk (this is a tragedy of epic proportions around here) we arrived less than a half hour before closing and the parking lot was pretty near empty so we parked in the spot closest to the doors and headed in. When we came out again (with our milk, and naturally some chocolate) there was a car http://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/04/whiskey-tango-wednesday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-2994491745973777048Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:23:00 +00002008-12-12T19:46:02.758-08:00Well, I came close but I'm out of the competition now for Sock Madness2. As of the time the 12th place finisher in my division posted their photo I was not quite to here:Missed it by that much!(Please excuse the ugly toes - I usually wear socks well into May so don't need to worry about pedicures. Maybe I should get one... For sure before I do any more partial sock photos.)The FoUI* and I have http://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/04/and-im-out.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-1352055200908648491Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:43:00 +00002008-12-12T19:46:03.296-08:00Quick, "just the facts, Ma'am" update:I'm still, still knitting socks. I got the flu from the kid who got it from her piano teacher. I got over the flu just in time.I finished the Reversai in time to make it into Round 3 of Sock Madness.Gave them to my Mom (that's her in the photo - well her feet).Round three is a fantastic sock knit in two strands of laceweight and if/when the pattern becomes http://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/04/blogging-dragnet-style.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-8046090078825838895Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:38:00 +00002008-12-12T19:46:03.922-08:00Round 2's pattern came out yesterday so I've been madly knitting socks while trying not to succumb to the stomach flu that my daughter had last week (over spring break - how unfair is that? poor little Remembrall).It's a clever completely reversible sock so I suspect strongly I'll be making it again in a size that will fit me rather than my mum.Progress only at this point. But my competitive http://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/04/still-madly-knitting-socks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-9014565107625403820Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:46:00 +00002008-12-12T19:46:05.808-08:00I finished my socks for the first round of Sock Madness 2 Sunday night at just before 10pm. And in sign either of the coming destruction or that I really should just concentrate better, I finished in time to move on to the next round in Sock Madness 2 and in the first half of the pack to boot. This puzzles me no end when I think how long it has taken me to knit other socks. But on the other handhttp://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/03/sign-of-coming-apocalypse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-7278101246992007908Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:45:00 +00002008-12-12T19:46:08.825-08:00I can't keep up with my knitting queue already. So why I would do this is clearly something I ought to be working through with a trained professional. But do it I did. I signed up for...Yup, I'm going to be competitively knitting socks. Go ahead and laugh. I'll wait. I know it'll take a while. It does when I think about it too.Got your breath back? Good. So anyway, I'm not quite halfway to ready http://waftt.blogspot.com/2008/03/it-is-official-i-am-insane.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ronni)10