Simple FO's

Amanda had a great time with her friend Tara snow tubing on the weekend. I had a great time sitting in the chalet knitting & watching them!
It was a perfect day - sunny & just cold enough for Friday & Saturday to make the slopes super-slick after the low temps & rain for the few days previous.
There are a bunch of rubber mats at the end of each tubing run to slow & stop the tubes & then the rider(s) can get out and walk to the line up again. Watchers can hang out in the chalet or along the ends of the run - not all parents are into it, but are there for the kids.
Well, one unlucky/unthinking mother was standing at the end of one of the steeper runs when a group of 6 tubers (holding on to each others tubes - it's totally allowed & done) gathered enough speed to shoot right over the rubber mats, wipe out the unsuspecting woman and stop when they hit the protective fence (built for just such unlikely yet planned for occasions).
Everyone felt really bad for her, especially the group that ran through her, but really ... you're standing at the end of a long, steep & fast snow tube run. Do you not think that you should be watching what may be hurtling towards you?!? She was fine - ice on her shoulder & I'm sure that it hurt like the dickens the next day & if she was not completely addled she will have come away with family passes for life ...
It was totally a no-fault mishap. The tubers could not have possibly have slowed or stopped their progress, Snow Valley couldn't have predicted that kind of speed and the nice lady was probably just like a deer caught in the headlights. Hindsight is 20-20.

I'm still working on a couple of personal projects that must remain uber-secret for now, but I've managed to finish a couple of seriously simple projects. Amanda now has legwarmers that I hope will be fashionable for at least the next week (I'll try to get a picture when I come home tomorrow), and I have a new pair of socks. Sock Hop yarn in the Ain't no Mountain High Enough colourway. I love them!

I'm also working on a sweater for Véronik - I'll let her give details when she's ready.

My friend Ada sent me a link to a blogger who is doing a recipe for every leg of The Amazing Race. I love it!!! Check out Savory Spicy Sweet.

Thanks for all your support - Kerwyn is hitting up all of his contacts, contacting every headhunter and turning over every stone on the internet. It'll work out, I can't believe otherwise.

ETA the picture of the legwarmers.

Out with the Old

Proof of Life 2007

1. Fairisle Pullover - Knitting Patterns for Dummies


2. Merino Stripes Cowl - Knitting Patterns for Dummies


3. Colourwork Vest - Elise Duvekot


4. Wild Thing socks


5. Cropped Vero Sweater


6. Shedir


7. Wigwam Kids Sweater - Knitting Patterns for Dummies


8. Checkmark Shawl - Elise Duvekot


9. Purple Vancouver - Artisan Knitworks


10. Block Sweater - Elise Duvekot


11. Bemidji - Artisan Knitworks


12. 2 ChicKamis


13. Silk Shrug


14. Opal Socks


15. Marjaana/Rumba Vancouver - Artisan Knitworks


16. La Luz Camisole - Elise Duvekot


17. Taos Cardigan - Artisan Knitworks


18. Purple Cassidy Cardigan


19. White Cotton Twin Set


20. DKC Knits for a Cure Scarves - 5


21. Hydrangea Lace Scarf - Julie


22. Vivacious - Applelaine


23. Luck o' the Irish mittens


24. Felted Tweed sweater - Elise Duvekot


25. RSC Inside Out Socks


26. Foxy Boxes Jacket - Artisan Knitworks


27. Waterfall Socks


28. Elise's Kaffe Fasset socks


29. Amanda's Shrug


30. Green Cassidy Cardigan


31. B&W Koigu Kersti sweater - Elise


32. Rowan Patrick

Not a bad summary of a year. I know that if I lay off my online euchre habit and don't spend quite so much time Raveling I can get a lot more done! Fiona's Inspired Fair Isle Knits came out along with Knitting Patterns for Dummies.
This year I'm especially looking forward to Joanne Yordanou's Twelve Months of Knitting and Elise's book - as yet untitled. I'm sure that there will also be a lot of excellent projects for some of my favourite designers and clients; I can't wait to find out what they are!

I ROCK!!!

I'm fashionably late, but I Rocked the BMFA Rockin' Sock Club Inside Out socks!!!

Part of the delay was that they bunched fiercely (and not in a nice, Tyra Banks Fierce kind of way) at the ankle. I was determined to make the pattern that had come with the yarn and yet there was no way that I could wear them as they were coming out. Fortunately, being fashionably late I was able to benefit from the wisdom of those that had knit before me. I searched the messages and found some tips on putting in a gusset - these were my first toe-up socks so I had no clue how to modify the design - and things proceeded from there. Not quickly, I've been doing a lot of work knitting, but they are now done and I like them.

I think that I will do my Woolgirl sock club sock next. I'm a great one for starting. Finishing without a deadline - .