Dot Jots

• Bought the Ridgeline. Love it. Am going to marry it. Big Love Northern Style.
• I have a passport now & I feel very grown up.
  
• Veronik's sweater in the mail.
  
• CPH will travel to Knit Out '08.
• Artisan Knitworks Victoria will travel too. Had to reknit a bit and making notes on the pattern.
• Elise's Tofutsie socks will travel too. Don't try to tell me that you don't take this much!!
  
• Packing delayed by trip to the hospital. Amanda has an ear infection but I've handled it and Kerwyn just has to make sure that she gets the medicine. Trip not cancelled.
• I think (and I am using that term rather loosely at this time) that I have everything that I need, may need and probably won't need. There are a few things in one of my bags that other people may need.
  
• I'll make sure that I make up for the lack of pictures today with extras over the next few days. If you see me, please remind me that I have a camera and that I know how to use it!
  

Thank you so much to everyone for your support and well wishes!! I'll do my best to represent with honour and do us all proud.

The Next Generation

I was invited to speak to & knit with a knitting club at a Barrie school on Friday. Their mentor, Christina O'Neil, had contacted me through my blog and said that the kids had a good luck card and wanted to mail it to me. How could I not go see them & pick it up in person?!?

They had all just learned to knit about 5 weeks ago - Christina started them from casting on. She said that they all went home and did their best and practiced before the next weeks meeting. They were in varying stages of garter stitch scarves but they were all enthusiastic and persevering and loving it! The boys were especially keen and Matthew was talking about turning his scarf into an afghan. When I suggested that he could make several strips (his "scarf" was quite wide) and sew them together, rather than being daunted he got this "aha" look and said, " ".

They gave me a bouquet of tulips along with the card - tulips are my favourite flower and I really love this soft pink. Thanks guys - knit on!!!

Athlete of the Week

Mike D'Aprile came by today to interview me as Rogers Local Athlete of the Week!! It'll be on the 6:00 news, towards the end of the sports segment, tonight on Rogers Cable 10 in the Barrie, Alliston, Angus area and channel 53 in the Collingwood area.

Isn't he cute? I caught him by surprise, but still ... He wore Amanda's Thorpe hat and a scarf that she knit (I know!!!) for her teacher for a humourous bit at the end.




And I can tell that a lot of you are not voting - it's just a click of the mouse. Just do it!!

Colour Me Beautiful

I've added a little poll - I am really undecided about what colour of highlights to put in. I love the look of blue with the black hair, but red would be fitting as I'm representing Canada at the Knit Out. So - HELP ME, PLEASE!!!

ETA: I've had all of these colours at one time or another and I love them all. The red is a blue-red and totally fakey!! The blue is deep and almost subtle with the black until it starts fading.

Daytime & Deb James

Well it's in the can and after reading the waiver that they had me sign I can pretty much guarantee that it's not going to show up on YouTube!! I was really nervous and while I tried to pay attention to every little detail I may have agreed to let them take my firstborn. Sorry Kyle, I'm sure that they'll be good to you. The show is repeating at 4PM and 11PM today, so if you're on Rogers in Simcoe County and can record it and make a copy - let's talk. Rogers suggested this to me - honest!!!

Or what I could do is get a list of interested people and send the DVD (which I have to buy) on tour, one friend at a time and have everyone send it on to the next person on the list. Email me kwp AT sympatico DOT ca if you're interested. Or you could contact Daytime (their email address is on this page) and order your own copy.

Here is a picture of Deb wearing the scarf that I knit using Vero Tweed doubled, 12mm needles and 130 sts. I knit it on the bias (increasing one stitch at the beginning of the row and decreasing one stitch at the end of the row) and it took about 45 minutes from cast on to sewn in ends, but I had to set it aside for a bit while I was off camera so that I didn't finish early. I don't know but I'm sure that the catastrophic ripples of finishing early would have been felt around the world. I knit on Beth's CPH while Deb interviewed me so that I could knit while I was talking and not worry about missing a strand or dropping a stitch.

I can't wait to see myself!