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i love this chick- how generous is she? whoa.
mad respect here.

ps- it makes me mad that i made spelling and grammatical errors and can't go back and fix them...grrrrrr!

ahhhhh shit!

I have a new love...

knitting badges?

B A D G E S!?1?!??!!1!

OMGPONIES!!!!1!

clap back on the needles!

lucy got me back on the needles with the Clapotis! all I needed was some encouragement, and commiseration that the pattern is written badly. well...not badly for everyone, just for my brain. I think I have it down now, we will see. I wish I always had a pattern coach - it makes a big difference. (thanks Lucy!)

I have new lovely stitch markers to use, those make me so happy!

no camera yet, that sucks. I do have my phone, but the usb is on back order, so I can't even take pics with that for posting here.

maybe a camera will find it's way into my hot little hands over the weekend and I can post my progress with clap... until then no pics. sorry bout that.

my camera and my phone died the same weekend.

it's really sad.

my phone died, I didn't really like it, but was hoping it would live until my contract with the devil runs out. it was my fault, I dropped it a lot, and it survived so many times that I didn't worry about it anymore. One million and one falls was apparently one too many. :-( the screen went kaput, so I am back to my old phone with no camera, archaic texting, and my sim card contact list (so it's all screwy).

my camera was murdered by a teenager. we went to the beach and i told her three times (my 13yo cousin) that she needed to be careful, because if sand got in the lens area it would lock up and not work anymore. Guess what happened? I snatched the camera out of her sand covered hands a moment too late. Now the lens is fucked, won't come out at all, can't focus. :-( Poor thing, at least she felt bad, and i didn't do too much to assuage her guilt.

so- no pics for a bit, until I get a new camera or phone or both, or get the camera fixed. at least no NEW pics...here is an old one for shits and giggles.

This is squeak- one of 5 kittens and the momma I fostered a few years ago. They were a blast. :-)

I suck at knitting, apparently!

I had to frog clapotis several times. then I just bound off the six inches I had done incorrectly and made an impromptu bag out of it. I need 100% solitude and a completely rewritten pattern to do it right. I will post the pattern when I finish it, because I can't be the only one who needs a stitch count on every row for insurance reasons, and a 'slip marker' to offer guidance that I am on the right track occasionally.

grrrr.

busy weekend and week coming fast. we have teenagers visiting, two of which I taught to knit last year, we will see if we get any done while trying to see all of the bay area in two days. then we have grown boys coming next week and a bad ass concert to go to, Rage Against the Machine, mos def, The Roots, etc... can't wait.

except for lack of available time to rewrite clapotis, it should be a good time. :-)

55 sets of straight needles...

i am a sick individual.

I just did my ravelry needle organizer thingy, and input 55 sets of straight needles. unless I counted wrong, which is possible, but still, I have a shitload of needles.

there was a time when I never saw a craigslist posting i could pass up, especially when it came to knitting. I also had the wonder purchase of 10 sets for 2$ back in '04 at a thrift store. I have way more than i need, but i hoard them.

I have some of the long ones in a pretty blue vase on my window sill in the living room (the vase was also a thrift store find), and all of the shorties are in my knitting case (the rolling bag from JoAnn's- I am a huge dork, but it was half off!)

What is really scary about this (besides confronting my addiction head on) is that there are holes in my inventory! ACK! Now I need to fill the holes!

so if anyone actually reads this, and has a similar addiction, and would like to merge our collections to make two full ones, I am game. Some of mine are new, some are very old, I will be totally upfront with condition (with pictures) if anyone wants to trade some of my multiples for theirs.

I also haven't even added my dpns or circs yet. oh my. I have an illness.

I also have knitting hint-I have seen yarn holder thingies, kind of a mesh tube for keeping a ball under control while still being able to knit from it, and resisted spending the money because I always think...'i should knit something that would work just as well'. Well, even better, I found a way to re-purpose plastic! I sometimes buy cherry tomatoes on the vine, which come in a little mesh sock, open at one end and bound off with a cardboard label on the top. I cut off the cardboard (throw it in the recycling bin) and slip the pretty red mesh onto a center-pull ball of yarn. I know I am not the first person to think of it, but I had never seen the hint anywhere else, thought I would share.

add 'repurpose' to this list, and feel your crafty side merge with the urge to do right by the planet.