Hello again!

Hi! I haven't posted for a while, but life's been crazy. New school, new house, all in one week - what can you do? Anyway, I'm back again. I've been spinning a bit on my spinning wheel, and I've made one skein of yarn, but that's it. Right now it's somewhere else than where I am, so I can't use it. Anyway, bye!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

So, the first snow of the year (well, we passed through some snow in the swiss alps, but the first snow of the year here) fell two days ago, on November 27th, which happens to be Thanksgiving, which also happens to be my birthday. So, there was a dusting of snow then. Yesterday, though, it snowed maybe three inches or so, and I started a snowman, got tired of it, and moved onto a snow fort. Which didn't get finished either. Ah well. The snow's melting right now, but maybe it will snow again later.

The Christmas tree has been up since Tuesday, and we're all ready for Christmas to come. Most of my presents for people are going to be knitted or crocheted this year, but some are store bought. Next weekend we're going down to Oregon for my Grandpa's seventieth birthday, which means that I really really need to finish his birthday scarf. Oh well, it's an eight hour drive, so I'll have plenty of time. The scarf is knitted in Red Heart Soft Yarn, in a wine red colorway. About five inches from the end there's a one inch black stripe, and there will be the same on the other end. The stitch pattern is pretty basic - just k2 p1. Its called "squishy scarf", I think? I don't know.

Oh dear

Oh dear, I've got a hamster. I just clicked on the link from the fish, and I found everything else... So now there's a hamster too. To feed him, click, and click in the wheel center to make him go back on it.

Fish

I can't think of anything of any interest to say today, except that I have begun making a pig, so I thought I'd take this post to draw your attention towards the fish. I've noticed that people seem to enjoy the fish, and so I've changed them a bit. Those of you who saw the previous fish might have noticed that there were five, maybe six - well, now there's ten, in all the colors of the rainbow. The food is also a different color. Thanks for feeding the fish!

As well as the fish, I'd like to point out the guestbook, underneath the blog archive. If you pop by, please sign your name - I love to know who's been visiting. (Yes, by the way, I have been searching for gadgets recently.)

I haven't done much knitting today, but I was going to go and look at a spinning wheel. Sadly, I couldn't go today, so I'm going to go and look at it this weekend. It's a Ashford Traditional, and comes with a niddy noddy, lazy kate, and a bulky head (I think that's the word.) Have you ever used this wheel? What do you think of it?

To purchase a sheep

I'm back again for the second time today, interrupting my regularly scheduled novelling to bring you this. Produced by my Grandpa (an avid tracer of our family tree) and written on a typewriter, I personally find it incredibly amusing.

Goodnoe Hills, Washington
May 11 1933

Mr. William Kennedy,
Portland, Oregon.

Dear Mr. Kennedy:

I have your literature concerning your sheep company, and I am quite interested inasmuch as I am thinking I would like to get a sheep and go into the sheep business this summer.

I wonder if you have and sample sheep you give away. Even a small one would be all right, as I will have to keep it in my office until I can get some pasture for it, where I can put it out and have it pasturized.

I would like a nice medium-weight, all-wool sheep in stripes, if you have them - one I can skin and make a Pendleton jacket out of later on.

When you skin a sheep once is that the end of it, or can they be skinned regularly like a human being?

I have an old sheepskin in my office I have been living off for twenty-seven years, and I thought that if I had a whole sheep I might do better.

I see by the papers that there is a lot of trouble these days about the tariff on wool; so, if you can pick out a sheep that hasn't any tariff on the wool, it might save me cleaning it when it comes here. Does this tariff come back after you have once got rid of it?

And another thing, don't send me a U sheep because they have signs on the street here that say that you can't make a U turn and I couldn't get one to the office very well if I couldn't make it turn.

Write further particulars.

Very respectfully,

Wooden U. Liketono (sgd)

This is exactly as I got it - maybe the 1933 version of a trick email?
Annie

A little doggy and friends

Ok, today I'll post pictures of some of the other little toys. I started them in Malta, and have been going ever since! Some of them have Christmas gear, some don't. Here's the little dalmation


as in the title, sorry about the picture quality.

Next, there's a tiny tiger, swinging from a white piece of yarn, because I couldn't think of a better way, and the light is dreadful.



Again, not a very good picture at all, but you get the idea. Here's the very first one that I made, posing on a white ball of yarn.



A little dolphin, far away from the sea. There's more, though... of course there's more. Only one of the acrylic little critters is left within easy reach though - three have gone to new homes, and one is somewhere. But here's this one, which is actually the only one shown so far that is mine, although the elephant may become so. But anyway, here's Albert.



He's huddled up in a corner, trying to hide from the unfamiliar light which is blowing out his beak and nose - really, they're much more orange.

Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed seeing these pictures - there's more on the way tommorow!

Oh, and one more thing - see my fish, over on the sidebar? If you come by, please feed them by clicking. They'll like it.

Hey, I'm back!

Greetings to the world out there who probably isn't even reading this. I'm back. I've been gone for over three months travelling Europe with my family, and it's been a blast. I returned to the blog today, and I noticed it covered with cobwebs and mothballs. Ah well, at least I haven't got any moths in my yarn! So, here I am, and I'm going to do my best to post more frequently. I'll post lots of pictures of everything that I've been doing (at the same time as updating my ravelry profile) soon, probably tommorow. In the meantime, here's a lousy picture of a little kitty I made, with a christmas hat and scarf. I took the picture with my webcam, so it's pretty rubbish, but it's better than nothing.


See, isn't he cute? The kitty is actually one of my least favourites, but more pictures tommorow. All right, one more...



Well, there we go. I'll show more pictures tommorow, hopefully, and then I'll be caught up. Anyway, if anyone reads this, then thank you very much. Please come back.
Annie

Oops, I forgot to add this little thingy ma bob from the nano wrimo site . Yes, I'm doing nano again, for the second year. I'm doing pretty well, and unless something major comes up, I should be good! Anyway, sorry to have to add this on. Here it is!

Annie

Ravelympics!

FO

I finished my first socks!
They're made in Opal Zwerger Garn ( I think)

They're a bit itchy...

Some pretty pictures

Ok.... Here is a picture. It is of some hand dyed yarn that I did at spinning class.



This is the start of the bunny for Sara. It's a goodbye present. Now I just need to make another arm and two legs. I love how it's turning out! The pattern can be found here: http://www.jesshutch.com/bunny.html
I changed a few things, like the mouth and the postitioning of the ears.




New sock yarns.


This is a beautiful RAK from jojackson.

Magical self fixing post thingy

My "new post" thingy has fixed itself! I'm back!

Well, we finally found out that we're definately moving. I'm upset, but quite excited. I'm making goodbye presents now!

My socks are getting there... Slowly....

I'll post some photos of the gifts-in-progress soon.

I really am meant to be doing homework now, so bye!

I won!

Today in the mail, a package arrived. I had no clue what it was, but when I opened it, I got a big surprise! A pack of 10 50g balls of Wendy Peter Pan yarn, in pure white. I'd won a contest in Simply Knitting! I was so happy! But now... What do I use them for?

Yay! Spinning!

Alas, I did not win the Knitty contest. What? How does that work? The prizes were too cool for me NOT to win! Ah well. Well done to the person who did win! (Yes, I've forgotten the name already. Apologies)

Anyway, I'm going to learn to spin! I'm going on a course, five weeks, once a week for two hours. It covers spindle spinning, and various types of wheel spinning. I am happy!

Blog meme

I was just tagged with a blog meme by Monica Silvia in this post on her blog: http://1knitscarf.com/2008/04/04/tagged-with-a-blog-meme-6-things-you-like-to-do-and-tag-6-other-knitting-bloggers.aspx

This is the first time I've done this, so I'll give it a go. The way I've understood it, I have to write six things I like to do, and then tag six other bloggers with a comment on their blog. Six things I like to do, besides knit, are:
~Read. When I find time away from knitting, I like to find a chair, curl up, and get away from the world in general.

~Play piano. I can't stand new songs, but I love playing complex ones that I've got down pat.

~High jumping. I don't get to do it very often, but when I do, I love the thrill that I get when I clear the bar.

~Singing. Especially singing songs that I like.

~Listening to worship music. It really helps me get my priorities back in line.

~Eating chocolate. What more can I say?

Now I have to find six other bloggers. I'm onto it. I'll update as I find them.

Ok - Number 1) Kim at http://kbshee.blogspot.com/

More projects done!

I've finished lots of things this week. Firstly, there was the bag - my mom kindly did the sewing up for me. Above you can see the outside and the lining - very lovely (It's the white 
speckly one with the red velvet inside, if you were wondering) It fits a small knitting project very nicely.

Above there is also a small egg case - I put a creme egg inside for my sister Gracie's easter present. From a pattern in Simply knitting, as was the bag.

Another Simply Knitting pattern is the fingerless gloves, which worked really well. My first project on DPNs. I'm wearing them now, and discovering that typing isn't so easy. Ah well, such is life.

My current project is cell phone covers, and socks. Yup, I'm knitting my very first socks. I was going to try them in the Fall, but I got a sock knitting kit for Easter - beautiful yarn (a little scratchy, but I'm sure that will work out with wearing. So far I've just started the ribbing on the first one.

Experimenting!

I've decided that I like this layout better. I don't like scribe so much.

In knitting news, my fingerless mittens are flying along. I'd better abandon the computer in a few minutes to keep working. I might be able to finish one of these today, it depends. I also have two more cell phone covers to sew up - one brown, like below, and one a candy kind of fluffy pink. If I finish the mitten, and get those two covers sewn up (and maybe a third, if I finish 
the knitting), then I'll probably make another pink one, because I think those will go down well at school.

It was palm Sunday at church today, which was fun. I've just got my braces tightened on Friday, and had elastics put between my teeth, which is no fun.

There's not much going on this week at school. We've got Friday off, for Good Friday, and then Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It was only going to be till Tuesday, which was an inset, but then the clever authorities finally realised that because of Leap Day, we would be one day over the set amount. So, Tuesday is an official holiday, and Wednesday is the inset. I'm 
hoping to get my mittens finished, and I'm going to see if I can get some cotton yarn to take to Italy, because I'm making dishclothes for my Grandma while I'm there. Knitting mainly, but I'll probably do one or two crochet, so I can put them in my carry on and work on them while waiting for flights. I can't think of any way that I won't be allowed to carry on a stubby wooden crochet hook.

Cell phone covers

Recently I've been knitting cell phone covers. Some were gifts, but most were for sale. It went very well. Here's some of the ones I've made. I've made many others as well. It was really fun. I'm getting kind of bored with these, so I'm just going to
finish the ones ordered and some pink ones to sell next week, and then I'll move onto another project.

Hi!

Well, that sure took long enough, but here I am, blogging. Welcome to my blog!