Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego?

Or more importantly, where the hell have I been? Lost in space. Too busy working and knitting to blog. That and I was increasingly irritated by blogger.

This will be short. I have finished that interweave knits sweater. I only have "in progress" pics.

I know, they are both oriented strangely. When I tried righting them with the editor, the looked askew and wrong. So turn your head to get a better idea. This sweater has been finished for months. I wore it a million times and it needs a good washing and de-fuzzing. It is knit using Brown Sheep's "Top of the Lamb". I love the yarn. Warning, it pills...a bunch.

That is it for now. Here are Q and I over last summer and a picture of Lupine on the Summer Solstice.

Coffee Thieves Must DIE!

I doubt that it would surprise anyone that it would take getting really pissed off in order for me to finally post. That being said I will rant on.

This morning I woke up early because I needed to write a site description for my soils project (turning it in 3 days late). As a reward for actually hauling my ass out of bed to go to school and write, I stopped at Starbucks Tenbucks and purchases a low fat venti vanilla latte.

My morning is off to a fabulous start and so I head over the the McLean computer lab to fix up my paper. I leave the coffee outside the lab as is called for by computer nazis everywhere. It takes me about an hour and a half to finish up and pack up my things to leave. I exit the computer lab and I see that someone has made off with my coffee.

Whoever you are that stole my coffee, you are a heartless bastard and I hope you choke on your next meal.

Done.

As for knitting, of course I have been knitting. A sweater from Interweave knits winter 2005 issue and one from the Spring 2006 issue. The red is from the winter issue and the light blue from the spring one. The latter is the one that I have knit the most. I give it two to 3 more weeks to be finished.

I finally knit a booga bag that I love. I won some stuff at the fair back in August. I'll have to post pics sometime soon.

I apologize for not being more up on my blog but I must KNIT!

Knit on crazy folks!

Ciao.

Hello Dad. I'm In Hell!

It's official. I'm in hell. It was 111 degrees F here in Sacramento. Crap-olla.

ATTENTION! Knitting news...knitting news...knitting news....

Friday I turned in my entry form for the county fair. I am entering ten items.

This is a beaded bag I made as a sample of the kits Janice bought for Handmade Memories. I think the company is Swallows Nest or Hill or Robins egg or something like that. Can't remember. Anyways, it was DMC rayon thread (don't know the guage) and size 10(?) beads on 000 addi's.

This next project is the Amelia Earhart Aviator hat. It calls for size 8 needles but I think either she has a small head or...she is an even more uptight knitter than I am. The first one I did was way huge. It looked like and Amish hat. This one is done on size 7's and it turned out super cute. The flower is from S & B's Happy Hooker.

This is the Sheep's Butt Boucle Bag (on the right) from way back. I need to de-fuzz the whole thing because I have used it a fair bit.

And this bag, entitled Blueberry Truffle, I am quite proud of. It looks simple but the real beauty is in the construction of it. I am hoping it will win a ribbon (blue, please let it be blue), and then that people will want to buy the pattern.


Here is my second set of Wyvern's (pattern by Marnie MacLean). These are out of Paton's Grace and were done on size 2 addi's. I did a picot bind off to make them extra cute.

This las bag is called Toffee Delight (don't blame me, Q came up with the name). I made it out of the leftover yarn from the felted clogs I made my Dad for father's day.

I will also be entering my take on the Melon Ball Bag pattern by Anastasia Knits. Mine is a watermelonball bag. The seed are needle felted.



Finally, Q and I are on again. Hopefully he can keep from making me mad or hurt again. Here we are on the 4th of July. Pretty sad when you have to wear a shrug and turtlenecks to keep warm in the middle of summer. Although, I suppose it is preferable to the hell that is the central valley.

Oh well, you can see that even though I haven't posted for almost a month, I have accomplished much in knitting. And, I finished two summer school classes to boot. I am in Sac this week helping out my Gram because her normal helper is on vacation. I did warn her though, if the AC gives out, I'm going back to the coast.

Keep cool y'all.

Ciao.

Lingerie Crochet-- And other tantilizing news from the North Coast.

How is everyone out in the great blogosphere. After my last post I bet y'all thought I got taken away to a secret interrogation prison in Syria or something. HA. Not.

Okay. Loads 'o stuff, news-wise and knit-wise (crochet too, but it leaves my hand a hurtin' so I don't think I'll be brining that up.)

I suppose I'll begin with.... I was in Sacramento for a week and a half towards the end of May helping my Gram look through old photos and I found what I believe to be my first FIBER ARTS lesson. I'm about 7 years old in this pic and that is my Mommy (love you MommY!) showing me the art (and agony) that is... crochet.


Mother's Day came at an extremely inconvenient time of year. The weekend after finals. LAME-O. I made these cards. One for my Gram, one for my Mudda, and one for Janice(the ownerof MLYS because she is so sweet to me). I cannot believe I stamped. The real problem with making cards (aside from the fact that I'd rather light myself on fire that do paper arts) is, now when I need a card for a holiday, I feel guilty if I don't MAKE it myself. UGH. Can you perhaps guess what the result is? I end up not giving any card because I hate making them and I can't buy them. Do you see my predicament.


Here I am with my Mom at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee. We both volunteer. She has for like 8 years and I have for 4. I played in a jazz band back in 91 and 92. Anyways, I tried taking this picture like 10 times and we couldn't get one with both of us with eyes open.

Additionally, there was a totally bitchin' band there by the name of Bonerama! A rockin' funk trombone band. They totally rock! Any band that plays Jimmy Hendrix and Black Sabbath is alright in my book.

Blogger has stopped wanting to cooperate so I guess it is time to say adios for now. More in knit later. Embossed leaves are finished (Hooray!)

Happy Summer Solstice. I'm off to the beach for the sunset.