Where ya been?

I've noticed that I've been titling most of my blog posts with Questions. Rhetorical? Yes. :-) But necessary? Nah. Either way, it's always enticing...and I don't think of things in song-lyric fashion enough to apply to most of my posts.

Thanks to Bonnie for this most excellent website resource, MyWorld66.

Now I can show you where I've been...and where I have yet to go!


Touch-Finish!.

- Thanks to World66.com - create your own personalized map of the USA here.


In other news: I have a sinus infection that's somewhat lodged in my lungs. *sigh* Just what one needs during the summer - illness. Luckily I caught it soon enough and have procured antibiotics in time. Thus, the doxycycline week-long trial begins. In addition, thanks to a nurse Mother, I'm schooled in the folly of self-diagnoses and self-medication! Doxycycline + sudafed + ibuprofen/acetaminophen + loratidine + the occasional Benadryl(TM) = a Happy Yarn Bob!

"It's only a flesh wound!" :-)


On the knitting front, I've yet to finish the first half of my large Lisa bag. It's in a heathered blue Cascade 220. Ask Laura for the exact yarn name, model, make, year, and dye lot. She's good at genomic identification and gel electrophoresis. *wink* It also has two stripes of Colinette fuzzy-something-or-other. I'll post the particulars later. Once the first part of the bag (comprising the body and 1/2 of the strap) is finished, a second part of the bag must be made. Then everything is stitched up (except for the opening...and I'm even considering making a flappy-flap-thingummy too!), thrown in a washer, and felted/fulled.

I'm still working on Jeff's "laptop bag" - ala Stitch 'N Bitch Nation, pg. 152. It's in 3 colours of Manos Del Uruguay (Purple variegated, Purple/Green/Teal, & Grape) + some Pink/Fuchsia/Purple

The socks are...well, tubes. And cuffs, and collars. 1 is slightly sock-ish. The prognosis is still out.

The rainbow sock scarf is still about 10" long - not quite scarf-ish, though definitely tube-ish.


Cotton-Ease - a new Hoarding Disorder(TM*) - has its own collectors Yahoo! Group here. Bonnie is the group's Moderator and Coordinator. If you find that you must succumb to daily or even weekly CEHD, please join this support group as soon as possible. There can only be progress and rehabilitation through group work, a strong support system, and time-proven professional standards of collection, documentation, and personal investment. :-) So join as soon as you humanly can!

*Thanks to Laura for coining the new disease, soon to appear in your newest updated edition of the DSM-LXIX!

Felting/fulling on other fronts has stopped. It will continue soon enough. My friend Susan is gone for all of next week. I have to stop by and let out her big dog, "Moose" as is her affectionately-given moniker, 3 times a day. If it doesn't rain, then I'll have to water the newly planted(?) sod and plantlife in her front and back yards. (How I get myself into this, I don't know! In the past, every time I stop to let out the dog, she pees all over the floor/rug/wherever she's standing. Either I have some magical Kegel-/Urethral-releasing power over canines, or the dog is really excited to see me. If she's really excited, perhaps I should stick to cat-sitting?)

Because Susan has a house and a top-loading washer, all my felting occurs there, unbeknownst to Susan. (Unless she's read this blog! *uh-oh!*)


And...to get into BWDs which I prefer NOT to do, I have started this baby - Shimmer from Knitty.Com - in Cotton-Ease Popsical Blue. Since I don't do BWDs, keep in mind that I have absolutely no sense of gauge or actual sizing. To that effect, I have chosen to make the Medium-size (which is the first #s on the left inside the () parentheses. I have no one really in mind to whom I will gift this crazy experiment. I have also done the entire back using Clover US9 circulars and the arms in Balene US6 DPNs. We'll see how the arms connect (as I've only got 1 cuff so far). The back is almost finished with 2 repeats of the "lozenge" pattern + 3 more rows.

Pics soon.

SKSK