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Conversations with a Non Knitter

We went hiking today, it was lovely (another post). On the way back home I was ripping off a row that I knitted by mistake and bitching about it half to myself:

Me: oooffff,,,, I knitted almost a whole row (576 stitches’ row), I thought it was only a few stitches,,,
Joe: What Honey?
Me: Nothing dear, I am talking to myself, I knitted too much and I am bitching about it while ripping it off….
Joe: So why do you keep knitting.
Me: I am not knitting, I am ripping off.
Joe: Hmmm,,,, are you sure? this looks like knitting to me!
Me: Nope, I am ripping.
Joe: So, how come you don’t do the pppppppppshshshshshshhstttttttttt,,,,,
Me: Oh, you do that when you have to rip off a few rows, when you need to rip off only a row or so you do what I do right now!
Joe: It sure looks like you are knitting to me!

:)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008:

It Is So Easy to Make Him Happy!

It is so easy to make my honey happy, aren’t I lucky? but this is yet another subject.

Right after I took this photo; in the car, on the way to Flagstaff:

Joe: So, how was your day?
Me: It was OK, I loved it when it snowed!
Joe: Did you manage to knit a lot?
Me: Not really, just after you took the lunch break I realised I made a mistake and had to rip off almost everything I knitted earlier, but it is OK, I knitted most of it back.
Joe: Why did you have to rip off? was it such a big mistake?
Me: I forgot to add a stitch!
Joe: WHAT? you ripped all this work for just one stitch? are you crazy woman? why couldn’t you just add a stitch where you found out about your mistake and sailed right on?
Me: Oh NO! I can’t do such a thing!
Joe: why NOT?!?

Hmmmm,,,, the logic of a non knitter!

To tell you the truth, I think he had quite a good point there! :)

The Boys

I meant to show you Joe’s helper yesterday but forgot, I talked so much about those socks, sorry about that.

Joe has so much work he recruited Saki to help him:
Joe’s Loyal Helper

Isn’t Saki the best assistant?
Assistant Hard at Work

The spring is here but not for long (unfortunately), flowers are blooming all over the yards around us (weeds too of course, are at their best), I had to have some at home:
Yellow Flowers

We plan to go look for some wild flowers this weekend, what are your plans? Have a great weekend whatever your plans are!

Sock Roll

Yes, I still knit but nothing very exciting these days. While in Israel I finished my Gust, it turned out really lovely, I gave it as a very early birthday present to a friend. I only have a not very good photo of its beginning and before the blocking that did it a lot of good:
Gust Scarf

After that I started a sock for my nephew (he is a trance artist, the long haired half of Exaile), I used the yarn I won in Claudia’s MS Ride Raffle from Woolarina. Mine was a happy combo of yellows and greens and blues similar to the one in the link but not the same colorway. I knitted a simple rib 1×1 with a short row heel and it was a fast fun knit. Unfortunately I don’t have a photo of these bright lovely socks that may be in Osaka, Japan even as we speak.

I was knitting those socks while visiting my mother in Jerusalem, I thought she was kind of interested in them so when I finished I made a quick calculation, decided I have enough time to finish another pair while in Israel and asked her if she wants me to knit her a pair too. To my surprise she said YES (her usual answer these days is: I don’t need this or that,,,) so I chose a lovely Fleece Artist yarn that I bought in Lettuce Knit awhile ago, the colour is similar to jester. I knitted her a pair of Anne’s Pave Socks. I knitted them looser than I usually knit socks and I went one size up half a pattern repeat before the heel and kept it on the larger needles for half a pattern repeat after I finished the heel to make room for her swollen ankles and the result was really lovely. Like any other Fleece Artist yarn I knitted to date, the socks came out quite different but not as different as Sam’s birthday socks. My mother loves them, when she went to put them away she said: they are too nice to put in the socks drawer, I am going to put them with the sweaters, so I can see them all the time!

As I finished my mother’s pair just a few days before my long flight back home I had to start a new pair cause I couldn’t take my very neglected cardigan (I did finish the sleeves while in Israel and got ahead with the fronts, I am afraid I will not have enough yarn, some ripping and reknitting may be needed,,,) on the flight with me – such a good excuse, isn’t it? So, I started a pair for me:
My Fleece Artist Sock

It is another Fleece Artist sock yarn I bought in Toronto awhile ago. I love the colour variations and stitch definition in their yarns:
A lovely detail of a sock

Although my flight was LONG, it didn’t include a lot of knitting time as it was a night flight and I slept a lot, oh well. Since my return I was fighting the jet lag and then the monstrous paper pile on my desk and celebrated my birthday too, so knitting time was very limited but I am already at the heel of the second sock (I am determined to finish the pair and not have another half done pair!) so soon it will be decision time: will I be good and finish UFOs that are waiting patiently for some TLC or will I start something new,,,, hmmm,,,, maybe I will take advantage of this sock roll and finish my Sideways (I knitted the first one so fast and take so long to finish the second, shoosh!) and the other half of Joe’s Kaffe Fassett Simple Pair and will at least finish the sock part of my UFOs – good idea I think!