knit-addict

Sleep Deprived

I can't complain.. Saturday was hectic, but in a good way. First, was the haircut I am not a very girly girl but I have to have my haircuts on schedule or forget it. Then I visited one of my favorite shops, knitting shop that is. I was looking for the new Vintage Knits from Rowan, and I was kind of disappointed. They had all of the new books except for that one. So I managed to walk out of the store without purchasing a thing. That was amazing..... just ask my friends.

Now the really fun part of the day began, I headed over to Menlo Park to a friends house and we stopped for lunch and hopped on Caltrain and headed into SF for the Curiousa festival. If you live in the bay area and use Caltrain or think about using Caltrain... always by your ticket BEFORE you board the train. By sheer luck we followed this rule. The conductor chewed some people out and handed them a citation, so the 4 dollar ride turned into a 50 dollar ride.

Once we got to SBC park, we had to find our seats.. That was pretty funny no one knew where the Field Club was. We ended up on the 3rd level then back down to the 2nd level before we found the magic door. I was hoping we weren't going to be the oldest people at the concert and we weren't by a long shot!!! I did not realize what an age group they span. We were seated by a 3 year old and across from a 60 year old. The 3 year old was adorable and yes she was wearing massive earplugs. It was a great time, even if I didn't know 1/2 the bands in the festival.

Needless to say I did not get home till 2am and Sunday was busy with chores and birthday preparation. My moms birthday was this week and my brother came down. The luck guy lives across the street from Imagiknit, of course he doesn't appreciate the proximity of one of my favorite knitting stores. However, my mom appreciated it when she opened her present.

Saga of the Boomerang Box

Well we joined the SSRP and were lucky enough to be 3rd in line to receive the gamma box. All of the participants were great and the box was sent to us within a couple of weeks. So we open it in and wallow in the stash .. not really we just looked at all of the yarn that everyone was trying to find new a new home for. We both took some and added some and taped the box up like you would not believe. The box was then trotted down (actually lugged is more like it) and mailed off. Well imagine our surprise when the post office dropped off a note saying we had a box from Linda. Linda was the person who sent us the SSRP box. My mom was thinking there's another box, I was my 1/2 empty self thinking hrrmmm the box is back. Sure enough it was. The label that had Emily's address on it was gone but the label from Linda was there. And that's the way my week has gone.

But here are some pictures of the box:

Heres what I took:

It's some Rowan Linen Drape and some Mission Falls Cotton. I didn't take pictures of what we put in but there was some Di Vie Mohair, Mondail Glamour, the Sweater Workshop book, Interweave Spring 2004, and more....

And here is the long awaited picture of my grandmother in her Noro Entrelac Jacket.

On my actual knitting update, Audrey's back is almost complete. I am scared of the sleeves though, on the Audrey blog there have been quite a few instances where the sleeves turned into very long sleeves aka pant legs.

Weekend Browsing

Well this is a different entry, it's just a list with comments of my weekend browsing.

Adriafil
Rebecca
Lana Grossa/Filati Free patterns from their magazine. Also great knitting tips, the aritcle on pattern conversions was pretty interesting.
Crystal Palace You have to check out Poof!!
Gedifra The new collection is definitely interesting.
Marnie MacLean A designer for ArtFibers in San Francisco. Deinitely patterns for the modern girl.
Webs Sale For those of you not on a yarn diet....
ChicKnits Great patterns and don't forget to stop by the blog..
Knitting-and Links to great tips.
Practical Knitting Tips Things I never even dreamed of. For example when knitting with angora or mohair put it in the fridge for a bit to cool the yarn. What does this do you ask? Of course it helps keep the fluff down. It's like tips from Heloise for knitting.
Tips from Wendyknits Great practical tips

Well I am done browsing for now. I need to head out and pick up the the Vogue International.

Audrey News.. I must admit I finished the back of the sweater watching Breakfast at Tiffany's. I almost died with laughter when I saw the Red Sweater/Dress she was making. It definitely looked like she was "knitting a ranch house".

Kitty news.. My old kitty is doing ok. She is on a special diet which some days she likes and some days she hates. This gets frustrating on the days she turns up her nose as she is a very small cat and needs to keep the weight on.

Package Saga Continues

We are still trying to retrieve on of the packages mentioned below. The good news is that it's not the iPod. My husband received that package and has had it somewhere on his person since it arrived. And that makes me happy, since he seems to love his birthday present!

Still plugging away slowly on Audrey. I second guessed Miss Hargreaves on the armhole shaping and ended up frogging as usual. I just want to knit one sweater that only gets frogged once. That would make me happy. I guess all this frogging means I am learning something right?

Oh and my husband took the camera on his trip to Nebraska so pictures will be posted soon I promise.