whiney

Watch out - I'm going to whine again. I was at work on Sat and some knitting friends came in late in the afternoon. E came up to the counter to pay for her yarn and she looked me in the eye and called me "Gladys". ::sob:: I haven't seen E in several months so how could she possibly get us confused? Maybe I need to make all new knitting friends and never introduce them to Gladys. OK, end of whine.

ETA: I publicly apologize to E for mentioning this incident. I did not mean to shame or upset you. ::hugs:: You can call me Gladys anytime you want to :) I do miss you and everyone at TBF but my Dad needs me, too.

I bought Cookie A's Sock Innovation book. It is very, very cool. I like most of the patterns but it's the first bit of the book that's the neatest. It's the part that talks about sock design. I'm not going to run out and start designing socks but it's nice to know how to do it in case I feel like tweaking a pattern.

My Whisper Cardigan is creeping along. I'm past the back gather now.


Poor Ricky has decided that he doesn't like vension. He was eating it at first but it's been a real struggle to feed him the last few days. So I've called the vet to see if he has something else we can try. I think he's feeling a little off because I couldn't find him this morning. He has his favourite sleeping spots but he chose to sleep here instead:


The couch normally doesn't look like this. He had to move stuff around to make space for his butt.

just call me "Glotty"

On Wednesdays, I meet up with a fun bunch of gals at the pool hall. They call themselves the WNKers (Wednesday Night Knitters). Everything was going fine, until a local bridge caught fire & was shut down. That event prompted Gladys to join us rather than going to her 'other' knitting meetup. At that point, everything went downhill. It seems that several of the ladies can't get our names straight. Yesterday night was the last straw. Karen looked at me and called me "Doris" (I look nothing like her) and then later on, she called me "Gladys". Gladys wasn't even there! At that point, I suggested that Gladys and I have one name such as "Glotty" to make it easier for everyone. I'm not picking on Karen - there are others (Gail & Sharon!) who have the same issue. Hopefully, this will solve the problem. Gladys - I completely understand if you no longer wish to join us. I think we've gone off the deep end.

Now that Easter (and in-law visiting) is over with, I'm back to some productive stuff. My crocheted entrelac bag is coming along.


This is a sample for the advanced/intermediate crochet class that I hope to be teaching in the near future. It had a bit of a rough start but it's working out. I was worried the colour repeats would be too short but it's ok. I'm not crazy about the yarn (Noro Yuzen). In some places, it's so thick that it's hard to grab the yarn with the hook and makes the square look lumpy. On the current round, I had to cut the yarn and rejoin it on the other side of the bag because the colours were stacking.

I am almost at the center back of the Whisper Cardigan. And I've just started the second ball of yarn. This thing's going to be soooo light & airy.


I signed up for a Pushing Daisies swap on Ravelry. My swap pal is irishtea (Hi Maria!). She lives in Florida. Do you know how hard it is to pick a yarn for someone who lives in Florida!?!?! I spent some time today scouring the stores for daisy themed items.

Ricky's been sick again. This time the culprit is the "human grade ingredients" cat food. He was sick 5 times in 10 days and it started when I cracked open the new case of food (same flavour as always but it didn't look or smell like the previous cases). I dragged him to the vet Monday morning and his bloodwork came back fine. He's eating vet prescribed venison now and I haven't had to use the carpet shampooer since. Yippee! The cat food people are going to be hearing from me.


Ricky sez, "Take a picture of me! Not the yarn"

(Yarn is Rowan Linen Drape; $20 for the bag - what can I say? I can't resist a sale :)

shhhhh!

Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm knitting Whisper (the cardigan). I'm using some Naturally Dawn that I won in a contest last year. Lovely stuff. You're probably shaking your head - casting on yet another project!?!?!?!?! But I did finish something over the weekend. It's one of the seekrit knits. You can check out the project on Ravelry if you can't wait for the end-of-the-month reveal (Anna - do not click on the link). I also cast on the second seekrit knit but I didn't get very far because it was a little too fiddly.

It has been a glorious weekend! The sun was out and it was warm. I worked on Sat and then I taught the second half of my crochet class. What a bunch of keeners! One student had finished 2 scarves and started a third. Another student finished her scarf but frog'd it after she realized that she'd made a mistake. They had a heart attack when I handed out the Japanese Tawashi pattern. Ha ha! We talked about charts for a bit. Some of the students continued working on their scarves and the rest of the class was a Q&A. After talking to this class, I think I have an idea as to what I want to do for an intermediate/advanced class. This will involve some designing because I couldn't find anything on the internet about this technique.


I spent a lovely 2 hours this morning doing some garden clean up. Hubby cut the lawn yesterday so I needed to whip the flower beds into shape. Many plants are dead from the weird winter (very cold, very snowy). On the dead list: hebe, variegated English lavender, several rock roses, and osmanthus (I'm really sad about this one). On the "there might be hope" list: Grace Ward, miniature climbing rose, and Himalayan honeysuckle. I'll wait a few weeks to make sure everything's dead before I dig them up and replace them.

Time for a little lunch and then I have to pay some bills and do my taxes. Blech!