Knitting

The one where the first

June 4, 2011 mud&stringLeave a comment

Slippery Sock is complete and I’ve started on the second. I love the cables and the way the colors really pop.

Mr. Iknead got me a new Ipod for Mother’s Day, the newest model with 160 gigs. I decided yesterday to knit a cozy for it, I’d like to keep it looking shiny and new as long as I can. I decided on Doggerell Designs Dragonskin Itouch Cover, which is a free Ravelry download. I’m not clear on the ins and outs of copyright infringement so I won’t post a photo, but it’s easy enough to check it out on Rav. Speaking of Ipods, this is my third one and am still convinced that it’s the best investment electronics-wise (is that even a word?) I’ve ever made. I keep mine going on the average of seven hours a day during the week, usually listening to audiobooks and music when I work out. I’m reading/listening to an intriguing book at the moment, The Boy With the Cuckoo Clock Heart, by Mathias Malzieu. It’s quirky and offbeat, two things I look for in books and now that I think about it, pretty much everything else. The more oddball and eccentric, the better I like it.

I’ve been playing around with the idea of another blog and have just about decided to go for it, posting on Saturdays about things that interest me and grab my attention, freestyling I suppose you’d call it. This idea is sounding better and better. What am I waiting for?

The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart. Helen Keller (1880-1968)

Knitting

The one where the first

April 19, 2011 mud&stringLeave a comment

day at work after being under the weather goes smoothly. I was three days behind but have managed to catch up without too much trouble. Without jinxing myself, I think the Brittany Jumper has been beaten into submission (finally) and the eyelet border is behind me. Now, 6 1/2 inches of st st before the bodice.

I finished The Uncoupling today. Very interesting book, a takeoff on Lysistrata. Without spoiling it, the play is about ancient women who get tired of the men’s warring and go on a sex strike until peace is restored. Like I said, very interesting. The author is Meg Wolitzer. Good read.

Here’s some stitch detail on Brittany. Looks great if I do say so myself.

This is the eyelet picot pattern that nearly drove me batty last week. I think putting the whole project into time out did the trick.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

Knitting

The one where she talks about

April 4, 2011April 4, 2011 mud&stringLeave a comment

the book she just started, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. Just a few pages in, so the jury’s still out but I think it’s going to be a keeper. I do that with books, there are several, both real paper and ink and audiobooks, that I read over and over, savoring. The Stand is one, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is another. Never get enough of those two.

I (finally) truly got going on the Brittany Jumper. It only took me a weekend. My problem was the eyelet pattern around the hem. If you get off even one stitch, then all the eyelets after get all whopperjawed. Since it’s 208 stitches around, well, entire days can be swallowed up in casting on, knitting, swearing, frogging, casting on, knitting, swearing, frogging. You get my drift. Here’s what little I have so far.

A little closer

Here’s the angel I’m knitting it for –

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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The one where she decides

March 15, 2011 mud&stringLeave a comment

to catch her blog up on her current reading/listening material since books are something I wanted to include in my blog. At this moment, I have four books going, two actual paper books, one audiobook and one Nookbook. The two book books (I can’t think of anything more precise than that) are “Madness, A Bipolar Life” by Marya Hornbacher and the Narcotics Anonymous Basic Text. Just noticed how odd these books seem when put together. The third is an audiobook, “The Stand” by Stephen King and I’ve actually lost count of the number of times I’ve read/listened to it, and last is “The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow” by Krystyna Chiger and Daniel Paisner. I know that book titles are supposed to be underlined but I can’t figure out how to do it. If someone stumbles upon this post and can clue me in, I’d appreciate it.

It’s now 9:49 p.m. I’m so glad I got started on today’s post this afternoon because I’ve had computer challenges this evening. My computer and I definitely have a love/hate relationship. Let’s hear it for thinking ahead!!

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. John Updike (1932- )

Knitting

The one where a sock

February 15, 2011 mud&stringLeave a comment

pattern is decided upon: Wollmeise Sock from the Loopy Ewe free pattern.

I finished “A Piece of Cake” by Cupcake Brown today. This one gets a huge thumbs up. Being in recovery myself, I totally could relate to Ms. Brown at the start of her disease, in the middle of her disease and finally coming out into the light in recovery. This memoir screams “WE DO RECOVER!”

No pic tonight. Camera fail.

Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie (1860-1937)

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The one where she notices

February 13, 2011 mud&stringLeave a comment

that there’ve really been no posts about books and since that’s something I wanted to blog about, I decided to get on the stick and give the latest read some blog time. Right now, I’m just a few pages into “Henry’s Demons, Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son’s Story” by Patrick and Henry Cockburn. Don’t have an opinion quite yet, but I’m sure I’ll have one in a day or two. The last book I read was “An Unbearable Lightness” by Portia de Rossi, about her struggle with anorexia and bulemia. It was difficult to read at times, but I found it by turns depressing, scary, exciting and hopeful. Good book.

Here’s the necessary blog picture, since I’m told all entries should have a picture