Clogs, Blogs and Bitches

I know, I know. I've been neglecting this blog for a couple of weeks now. It hasn't been so much that nothing is going on as much as there hasn't been any knitting going on. That damn Debbie Bliss yarn still hasn't shown up and it's been a whole five weeks now.

But thanks to a very sweet guy who sent me the Fiber Trends felted clog pattern, I am off this afternoon to choose some yarn and start that project this holiday weekend. Finally I will have something back on the needles.

And with something back on the needles I am going to attend my very first SnB tommorrow! I have wanted to go several times the past couple of months but it's pretty embarrassing to show up at a SnB empty handed with nothing to knit! (boy would I feel stupid) So we shall see how that goes.

Have a great holiday weekend!

Meanwhile... Charlotte and Miranda Were Sipping Cocktails at the Newest Hotspot in Manhattan....

....... (since I got the laptop, I've always wanted to write that.)

Well folks, all is NOT Bliss. Nope, it's been four weeks now and she still hasn't coughed up that yarn! I wonder if she's sick that would explain things. I hope so. And I'm beginning to hope that it's catostrophic.

With that not happening, I think I'll take this time and maybe do a couple of other things I have in the works. The first is sewing up this set of 1941 underwear. I got the pattern off ebay and think they would be kinda nice to lounge around the house in.

The next, is perhaps making a new knitting bag. I have used the pattern in SnB but this time I want it a bit wider than the measurements she gives. Also I think that I'll put in a couple of interior pockets, one wide so that I can slide a copy of my pattern in and one on the other side for the catch-all Altoids tin that houses stitch markers, yarn needle, tape, etc.. It's a pain in the ass to keep fishing around the bottom of the bag for it.

Well I hope all you mother's out there (and you know who you are!) had a great Mothers' Day.

And as we like to say here in Texas.........

Arrivederci y'all!

So I Wait and Wait and Wait

Yeppers, still no sign of the yarn yet, I wanted to be able to knit in my old age but I didn't imagine getting there waiting to start this project!

In the meantime, I thought I would take on a simple fast weekend project whilst the yarn commeth, so I decided on doing a quick Harry Potter bookscarf for the Potter freak in my life.

That's the pattern pic not the one I'm working on.

It called for knitting in the round with cotton. I knit a few rounds and ended up frogging it as it was not turning out to be a bookmark at all....but a thick-assed book wedge. So I changed it to a 1x1 rib, so it would lay flat and have about 10 rows to go. (there are only 16 stitches to a row).

And speaking of the Harry Potter Freak............. HERE HE IS!!!!!

Yes ladies and germs. It's the husband! All 190 pounds of cuteness of him.

Folks, believe it or not, we have not had one argument in 6 years. And how do we do that you ask? We simply ignore each other! (kidding) We actually ENJOY each others company and, at least for me, want to be together as much as we can.

Yesiree, I love the guy. Each night, when we go to bed, I put my head where his chest would be, if he had one, throw my arm around his manly stomach and thank ____________(fill in the blank to suit your own purpose) that he was thrown my way and that I didn't throw him back!