Tuesday, October 31, 2006

A Worthy Cause

Hey, is anyone out there? If you are, you should know about an extremely worthy cause that you can knit for. I usually like to knit, or crochet or whatever for me and my loved ones because I know it is appreciated. In this particular case, you will not find any people who will be more greatful. Check out the Dulaan Project here:
http://www.nwkniterati.com/movabletype/mossycottage/
It will help so many people and it may be the one time in your life that you can actually say you may have saved someone's life with your knitting. Or at least their dignity. Today is the last day to sign up for the official list, so go and email Ryan. Thanks.

Monday, October 30, 2006

And this sweater shall have sleeves

The gray sweater has one sleeve started. I have determined that it will not fit on my circular needles until it gets to the increases after the cuff. Hopefully then I can go round and round. The weekend was busy unfortunately, and not a lot of knitting got done. I did get the body of the sweater to the point where the sleeves will attach though. That's good news. I spent the day yesterday driving around the state of Minnesota to take my husband to work so I could have his car and then going to my mother's house. We had a fun time and then I had to go pick up hubby and go home. Busy but altogether wonderful and I am looking forward to much knitting time while watching television tonight. Hopefully by this weekend at the latest I will have at least a couple of pictures for anyone who reads this. Until Later. Hopefully with much more progress.

Friday, October 27, 2006

Ah, Glorious Friday

Well, I have to say that this Friday is going much better than last Friday. Always good news. Hopefully I will get the picture problem sorted out and do copious amounts of knitting. That's the goal anyway. I'm hoping to finish up a couple of things so I can work on a couple of hats for the Dulaan Project. I think it's a very worthy cause and highly recommend you check it out.
In the meantime, have a good weekend and I'll hopefully be back with wonderful photos on Monday.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Thursday Already

I have been too long absent from the blog. This is due to ickiness of the ear. I thought I had an ear infection but it is just fluid in the ear that is making me dizzy and generally feeling yucky. I will survive. In the meantime, I did a great deal of knitting. I have some funky orange yarn that I am using to make a sort of table runner for the coffee table. I have not yet de-mystified the use of pictures but I hope this will work soon, so I will try again. Maybe tomorrow. I know you will be on pins and needles until then.

Friday, October 20, 2006

Friday and a ball of stress

Well, It's Friday. Shouldn't that mean it's a great day? It normally is. I mean, it's payday and it means the weekend is so close I can almost taste it. The trouble today? A new phone system at work. As the receptionist who answers all the calls, you'd think I would be given decent training. Of course not. I am given the same tiny bit of info as everyone else, but who do they ask when they have a question? You guessed it. Me. Oh well, the day will be over soon and then I have two whole free days to knit. You will have to pardon the lack of pictures as I am still in the process of working out how to get them up here. So far no luck. Suffice to say I will be working on a gray sweater. Said sweater is for my husband for Christmas, but it is by no means a surprise. We will be doing some travelling around the state with various activities going on and so the sweater will travel too. I tend to over-plan everything and so I have packed 3 skeins of the gray yarn that is the main body and two of the colors that will be stripes across the chest. There will actually be 3 stripes of other colors but I can't find the yarn I am using for the 3rd color. This is another story of frustration. Meanwhile do I really think I will need 3 skeins of gray and the colors for all 3 stripes? Probably not. I knit fairly quickly, but it's not like I'm a turbo speed knitter. I have to have it with me though, I am so terrified that I will run out of yarn and not have anything to knit the whole weekend! Not that I could run to the store or anything. I have a problem. When we were on vacation I didn't want to read my book too much because I only brought one and thought that I wouldn't have anything to read if I finished it. Again, I am weird. Oh well. I shall return Monday to tell the tale of the weekend knitting and hopefully have a few pictures to prove it.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

This is the Start of Something Grand

Well, hello, thanks for stopping by. My name is Kalkette. I am also called Sarah in certain circles of the world and I like to knit. I like a lot of crafts actually and I have been reading many other blogs and I thought it would be fun to have my own. So, here I am blogging. How fun. Hopefully I can get my not-very-computer-savvy brain to figure out how all this works. In the meantime. Sit back, relax and enjoy the show.