This may sound like a very strange request but I am looking for a knitter, preferably outside the UK who would be willing to knit to me. A friend is doing this with her friend in USA and they use Knit Meter to track how much yarn they have used in their knitting and they track how close to each other.
Would you let me knit to you and I would knit to you? Ravelry membership preferred but not necessary. Just leave a comment. Thank you in advance!
I’m happy to say that I’ve had my first finish of the year. Sure, it still needs a wash but it’s still a finish. This one has been on the needles for a while. I had started on it and then I hurt my wrist for a month and I couldn’t knit.
Here’s the details
- Pattern: Habitat by Brooklyn Tweed/Jared Flood
- Yarn: Dream in Color Classy in Grey Tabby, less than one skein
- Size: Large
- Date Started: November 29 2011
- Date Finished: January 12 2012
- Ravelry link
I thought it might be fun to write up here my trip to see 100 Monkeys last week. Precious memories to be remembered!
I remember when they first announced they were going to do a European tour I screamed so loudly that Mouse thought I had done myself an injury. I booked tickets straight away – about six months in advance. No way would I miss this chance. I had been following the band for a couple of years and had expected to wait another whole year before they considered coming overseas but I was rewarded for my fandom.
We got to the o2 Islington early so we went to have something to eat at The Breakfast Club (if you are ever in London you have to go have something to eat at one of these. The portions are huge!) then got back to the venue just as they were starting to let people in. Since I was in my wheelchair we had to be escorted through a different door but the staff were nice and friendly. There were two people in wheelchairs there already so I had to behind them to be actually able to see the stage.
We didn’t have to wait too long for the opening act to come on stage, Caro Salimando. She and her guitarist/drummer/accordion player were pretty good and we got her cd after the show. Even asked her to autograph it which I think made her day. Well she played a ukulele – she gets points for that!
Once the band came on stage I was absolutely transfixed. We couldn’t see all of the stage but we could see enough to feel close to them as were only about 10m away from the centre stage. They started on a song that Mouse and I listen to when we are driving in the car so it couldn’t be a better start. I wish I had a setlist for the show but I don’t have one and no one seems to have put one up anywhere yet. I do know that they played a lot of my favourites, an improv based on ‘Special Lady’ and they closed the show with my absolute favourite of their songs, ‘Keep Awake’. Mouse moved from where we were stuck with a difficult view of the stage to a place with a better view to record the song for me. I think it annoyed one of the people in the wheelchair in front of us but they were being rude to me so I don’t mind ;)
One of the things I love about live concerts is the possibility of actually interacting with the band. Having them look you straight in the eye, or wave. In the middle of the song called ‘Thank You’ Jackson Rathbone came down from the stage and worked his way along the front row, holding hands and kissing people on the cheek. Then he came over to where we were sitting and he gave the two women in front of me a hug each and gave them a kiss on the cheek. Unfortunately he didn’t include me :( I get it, he had to get back to the stage but I was so upset to be so close and yet so far. We made up for it later though. The band were nice enough to hang around to do a signing session. Even better the staff of the place got the disabled people at the front of the queue. When the boys came out it was Jerad first and he asked if we had had a good time, to which he got an emphatic yes! Next was Jackson, and I had to open my big mouth and complain that he had given the other two ladies a hug but not me. His answer “I’m sorry, I didn’t see you darling” in that gorgeous Southern accent of his. Mouse asked him to kiss me on the cheek to make up for it but he couldn’t but he took my hand, fixed me with that stare of his and kissed me on the hand. I think I blacked out for a few seconds because I don’t remember seeing the two Bens. I only remember seeing Uncle Larry and him asking us if we had enjoyed our self. So I guess that made up for the lack of hug. I hope he didn’t have to kiss every other girl’s hand who were in the very long queue behind us.
So another night (second to seeing Amanda Palmer) that will be forever emblazoned on my mind. I just needed to get it all written down. I am probably going to write a letter to the band telling them how wonderful it was. I’m just that kind of person. I already emailed the venue to tell them how great they made it.
I can’t wait for the next concert. Who will it be? Who knows!
I just got Monkey to agree to a blogging pact for new year. We both blog at least once a week, like it or not. We may end up with posts full of gibberish but it will be done!
Not much here yet, but I haven’t forgotten about it. Just nice to have my Knit With Cat Hair domain back. Subscribe in the sidebar and you will get an email when the site is working properly!
New Url
By Hazy | July 21, 2011
I am really sorry about this but I have decided to move this short lived blog to tumblr.
If you want to save yourself actually going there, and just want the new rss feed, it’s here.
It’s time that I admit that I am done fiddling around with the plugins, etc for this site and actually blog on it. For a knitting blog it has definitely take my time away from my knitting. DH and I were out one day last month and it was so hot and I had just short sleeves, and the first thing that popped into my head was ‘I must make a summer shawl for days like this for keeping me out of direct sunlight!’ It took me a while to find the right pattern but I ended up on one that I have tried a couple of times before but got into a mess with my counting. Now that I am better at counting (and better at using stitch markers) I think it will be a lot easier. I have many many stitch markers on hand and I will be counting and checking every second row, I might even put in some lifelines just for drastic measures. Wow, I forgot to tell you what the pattern is. It’s the Diamond Fantasy Shawl by Sivia Harding. I’m hoping to do a little larger than the large size, using Dream in Color Smooshy in Butter Peeps, a lovely yellow with a kind of dark orange colour in sections. The pattern is simple in that it is the same thing over and over again but still I don’t want to get too ahead of myself, so I shall stop blogging here and get back to my shawl!
I have to admit, I’ve been on a yarn buying spree lately. It didn’t seem that dangerous since a lot of the time I was selling yarn to buy the new yarn, but still it seems to grow more and more. Yes, I have SABLE – Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy. It doesn’t feel like that when I buy the yarn. It is very rare that I don’t buy the yarn for a specific project but I am one of those knitters who change their mind a lot, and suddenly in the time in between the yarn is bought and the yarn arrives through the door (especially now when the post is taking so long) I have either fallen for another projects, or thought of a better colour. I do my best to return yarn when this happens, but when it turns up it’s pretty and you think of all sorts of other projects for it. I can’t help it – it’s a compulsion.
Today was a day for a spree. My DH had promised me that I could kit a project, Juneberry Shawl by Jared Flood. Now my first order of Shelter yarn is on its way to me. In addition to that, I had decided that the yarn I had bought for my mum’s (late) Christmas present was more ‘me’ than ‘her’, so I had to buy more yarn to replace that.
Now I know I will be stopped from buying any more yarn for a while, unless I fund it through selling yarn I already have, or trading. But my stash run was fun while it lasted!
I’ve been playing about with this blog for a couple of weeks now. Plugins, themes, all sort of stuff. I’ll get to knitting later I hope.
Older than 30, should know better to start up silly blogs. Gets a big kick out of eating ice cream with a fork and telling everybody every time I can. Obsessive of 100 Monkeys, Amanda Palmer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mouse (DH) and cats (not in that order). Oh, and knitting, and crafts in general. I also love taking photos, occasionally playing the ukulele, and dying my hair bright colours.
