tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44273466007247986662024-03-13T16:22:19.848-07:00Where Angels Fear To Treadle...... I rush in*Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-85612093669214039082011-01-02T18:08:00.000-08:002011-01-02T18:55:58.183-08:00RecyclingRecycling Resolutions that is. I'm pretty sure that last year about this time I resolved to knit more and blog more frequently about it. That went well....In my defense I offer two excuses. 1) I started a second part time job that eats up a lot of my time that I was already using for other stuff. Which means blogging time and knitting time got cut into. 2) Lots of what I was working on after the Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-59310488070981004652010-09-06T21:02:00.000-07:002010-09-06T21:03:02.108-07:00So much time so little knittingI've been busy with other life aspects lately and just haven't had time to do much knitting. Hence the lack of posting. I have decided I am nicer when I have been able to knit though so from now on, I plan to make finding time to knit more of a priority.Another problem I had was too many projects all scattered about. So this long weekend I finally got myself sorted out. I had an epiphany and Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-57825313010037083302010-06-13T09:35:00.000-07:002010-06-13T10:20:38.859-07:00Ooops I did it againGood grief! Four months! I wish I had a good excuse but unfortunately I got nothing but lazy to defend myself with. And that's not much of a defense.So... Let's see if I can cover what happened in the meantime: I did do Sock Madness again this year. I made it into the 5th round this time but wasn't one of the first 4 in my group to finish so I didn't make it on from there. So I have the Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-32950026355911274572010-02-12T16:23:00.000-08:002010-02-12T16:40:28.927-08:00So not in training....... but I'm going for knitting olympics anyway. I have a couple of Ravelympics projects brewing in my mind, and one Knitting Olympics project for the Yarn Harlot's original version and I will not be at all surprised if I don't finish any of them. But... I am going to try, so for the next just over an hour I am going to be desperately trying to find everything I need in order to do my olympic Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-30713470002515726192010-01-13T16:20:00.000-08:002010-01-13T16:27:09.175-08:00Knitters really are good peopleTo help the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti, Kim McBrien Designs is donating 75% of her proceeds from pattern sales to Doctors without Borders for their Haiti relief effort. You can buy her awesome patterns here on Ravelry. I believe you can do that even without being a Ravelry member but I haven't tried to test that theory.I bought both her cowl patterns and I am going to also go and Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-40267405705638871382010-01-08T19:25:00.000-08:002010-01-08T19:27:05.995-08:00This is ridiculous, you know.For several weeks now I have on a day here or there popped up my blog and had every intention of writing a post. And then not done it. I don't know if it is that horrible pain in the patootie called "perfectionism" or just plain laziness or what. But its never gonna stop if I don't just blog something.It's not like I haven't anything to blog either, I did in fact make more than one holiday gift Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-31612185856956460112009-10-20T20:49:00.001-07:002009-10-20T20:52:32.320-07:00Catching Up or at least not falling too much further behindI 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 fourRonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-26895220059557666632009-10-15T21:54:00.000-07:002009-10-15T21:54:59.428-07:00Oh so very far behind...So 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 Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-42671279409019988852009-10-11T11:41:00.000-07:002009-10-11T11:45:08.234-07:00Wednesday Weasling - or rather Weaseling about WednesdayNo 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 IRonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-70590586577677458532009-10-03T18:56:00.000-07:002009-10-03T19:01:34.412-07:00Well, that good intention went well didn't it?Not.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 Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-28178757236900766312009-06-12T08:10:00.000-07:002009-06-12T08:26:48.541-07:00I really need to do better than once a month...I 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 Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-56660644260057226132009-05-18T09:04:00.000-07:002009-05-18T09:04:03.173-07:00Busy busy busyBoy, 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 Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-88060697801398430522009-05-03T16:42:00.000-07:002009-11-29T10:03:49.960-08:00I think I better give up sleeping...'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 Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-52680512582885701842009-04-17T08:55:00.000-07:002009-04-17T08:56:13.973-07:00It's Sock Madness's faultWell, 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 toRonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-2625223248966547802009-03-26T14:52:00.000-07:002009-03-26T16:50:58.140-07:00Good GriefI 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 timeRonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-43109378329687712572008-12-22T07:54:00.000-08:002008-12-22T08:02:09.716-08:00Still not deadNot 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 Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-30032159001100760352008-10-14T09:53:00.000-07:002009-10-14T09:54:32.969-07:00testing a theoryI 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.Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-25547134597342081032008-10-05T16:02:00.000-07:002008-10-05T16:02:57.773-07:00Shades of Monty Python and the Holy Grail...Like 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 toRonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-6709601820136932052008-07-30T21:34:00.000-07:002008-12-12T19:45:53.735-08:00Doesn't everyone plan vacation around yarn shops?Or 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 Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-61595026868475111322008-07-26T12:04:00.000-07:002008-12-12T19:45:54.301-08:00Like a Bad PennyI 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 Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-14488165213683475532008-06-17T17:33:00.000-07:002008-12-12T19:45:55.141-08:00Whiskey Tango Wednesday reduxSo 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 Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-11659729280779162182008-06-01T21:59:00.001-07:002008-06-01T22:05:21.495-07:00Not Enough Chocolate In The WorldThere'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 farRonnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-71057893519459666552008-05-26T21:21:00.000-07:002008-12-12T19:45:55.313-08:00SWIPs, WIPs, QUIPs and why there's no such thing as a UFOI 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. Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-89694771446091070112008-05-17T08:45:00.000-07:002008-12-12T19:45:55.855-08:00It's Too Darn Hot!I'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 Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427346600724798666.post-16726742750073034762008-05-07T20:48:00.000-07:002008-12-12T19:46:02.576-08:00Binge WeekendHa 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 Ronnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178754139908735976noreply@blogger.com4