Knitting the Blues

What He Puts Up With.....

Her:  I looked and I can check two bags on this airline.
Him:  You need two bags for four days?
Her: Well, one with my clothes, shoes, cosmetics, knitting, book and all that....
Him:  And?
Her:  One for my electric water boiler, oatmeal, green tea for the morning, white tea for the afternoon, black tea to wake up by, tea to make good iced tea with, a real mug to drink tea from, a cold drink cup to carry the iced tea around with, a bowl, spoon, tea infuser.....

Him:  Enough! (and while this conversation took place over the phone, she could sense his head shaking over the airways as though he was standing right  there.)

Thirty-one. All packed and headed off to that magical place. I plan on knitting and listening to books and watching my kid march down Main Street. This is the last school trip we'll be taking. I'm pretty sure how I feel about that, and it is good!

YouTube Saturday

You know warm weather can't be too far behind once all of your favorite Red Sox have reported for Spring Training.

Thirty. I don't know about anybody else, but I for one didn't even miss the "Will Manny show up this year?" drama.

Ten on Tuesday

Ten Songs That Describe You or Your Life.

1. Crazy Train by Ozzy Osborne
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, U2
3. Crazy, Patsy Cline
4. Spinning Wheel, Blood, Sweat and Tears
5. Tangled Up In Blue, Dylan
6. Anticipation, Carly Simon
7. Summertime, Gershwin
8. Fighter, Christina Aguilera
9. Here Comes the Sun, James Taylor (okay, and the Beatles)
10. Tapestry, Carole King

Twenty-nine.  Heh.

YouTube Saturday

Ooops!  I almost forgot YouTube Saturday!  My Valentine to you is the sharing of a jazz singer that I saw the other night at Sculler's Jazz Club in Boston.  I hadn't heard her before, but had the chance to go in and boy am I glad I did!  I'll be looking for her in the future and thanks to iTunes she has made it to my iPod. 

Twenty-eight. Did you get some romance out of this day?

Ten on Tuesday

I've decided to take a different path on the Ten on Tuesday this week. Maybe you will recall my feelings about having too much stuff. Or not, so I'll briefly remind you. I hate it. I find it not inspiring or in any way conducive to creativity, but mostly paralyzing. Even when I have it all organized and safely stored I feel the presence of the stuff clogging my mental and spiritual arteries. So, without sermonizing on that, let's just say that I have surpassed complete saturation and am drowning in stuff of all kinds. The fiber stash has exploded and it's mere presence is preventing me from spinning. A change needs to happen. So this morning I decided that I would find ten batches of fiber and offer them as my Ten on Tuesday list. This was not at all easy, I still have a dream for all of the fiber I have and this doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. Who knows, once I get started I tend to keep rolling. There could be more gorgeous stuff added here in another list.  Just email me from the sidebar.  All prices include shipping, first come, first served.

1. 
   Just under 8 ounces of Merino/Silk, 80/20. I think it is a Louet dyed blend.
   $20.
2. 
   Sereknity dyed: 4 ounces of Merino in Spectral blues.
   $11.00   SOLD.
3. 
   This is a 4 ounce bump plus what is left of a second of Superwash Merino in the Spunky Club Dandy Lion colorway. I had spun up some of it, but as a beginner spinner and it is really overspun and has been sitting on bobbins for too long. The fiber is gorgeous.
   $14.   SOLD.
4. 
   8 ounces of BFL in the Spunky Club color Tulip.
   $19.00    SOLD.
5. 
   8 ounces Superwash Corriedale in the Spunky club color, Party Dress. I love this one!
   $16.
6. 
   8 ounces of Shetland Wool in Spunky Club color, Celebration.
   $12.00    SOLD.
7. 
   4 ounces Superwash Merino Top in Spirit Trail Fiberworks special club colorway. This fiber is very vibrant, with turquoise and kelly greens. It is lovely!
   $14.00.
8. 
   Two 3.5 ounce Grafton Fibers Corriedale Batts. The photo does not tell the color story very well. There are deep purples and turquoise with black and blues. Very pretty.
   $30.    SOLD.
9. 
   4 ounces Superwash Merino/Tencel, a Spunky Club color, Aspen.
   $15.   SOLD.
10. 
    2 rovings, 4 ounces each of different colorways. I cannot remember who I purchased these from or what the wool is (it is definitely wool). The greens on the left are a little bit yellower with beautiful blues and the one on the right is a bit brighter than pictured, gorgeous.
    All 8 ounces, $12.   SOLD.

Twenty-seven. I am seriously hoping that getting rid of stuff will mean more spinning around here. Having less to choose from should help. Being able to breathe should help. There is much more, I am working on not being so attached to it so that it can go. Keep checking back.

YouTube Saturday

Another reason to have a video camera on you at all times.  We all want to witness the first the only time our kid get high, right?

And here, once again, is proof that some people have way too much time on their hands:

Twenty-six. Then again, now I'm thinking it is a good thing that video cameras weren't around when I was getting high a kid. No really. I was a goody two-shoes. I never got high. Well, except at the dentist.

 

Ten On Tuesday

Ten Favorite Children's Movies.

1. Mary Poppins. I don't even have to think about that one.
   
2. The Lion King. I get chills at the beginning of that movie that never diminish, no matter how many times I see it.


3. Beauty and the Beast. I mean! One of the main characters is a TEAPOT!


4. The Wizard of Oz.


5. The Princess Bride.  Inconceivable!


6. Fly Away Home. This movie brings memories of the girls and the first time we saw it. Nobody wanted to go, but we did and they all loved it.


7. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. The first film Gillian saw in a theatre, and I remember my nana taking me to see it.


8. The Fox and the Hound. I don't know why.


9. The Little Princess. I love the Shirley Temple version just as much as this one.
   
10. Pocohantas. My girls can not go for a hike without singing the songs and pretending they are the movie the whole way. Really, they pretend out the movie. They are entertaining.

Twenty-five. Honestly, Erin and I were just saying that this list should be a top fifty. What about The Newsies? Tarzan? Finding Nemo? (I love that one.) 101 Dalmations, THE MUPPET MOVIE! I can't believe I forgot that one. I could go on all night.......

Silent Poetry Reading

Fragmentary Blue

Why make so much of fragmentary blue

In here and there a bird, or butterfly,

Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,

When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)--

Though some savants make earth include the sky;

And blue so far above us comes so high,

It only gives our wish for blue a whet.

~Robert Frost

Twenty-four.  Thanks for reminding me Cara!  She was passing on the poetry love via Deb.

YouTube Saturday Sunday

It has been crazier than you know lately.  I did have some calm in the storm yesterday, a nice lunch, tea and friends.  It was just what the doctor would have ordered after my week.  So, YouTube Saturday was delayed, but I thought I'd let you in on what I have been listening to these days.  I love the blues and who better than Etta James or Ella Fitzgerald to listen to? Okay, I have a list, but this is what my iPod is bluesing to this weekend.

Twenty-three. Did you have any doubt that I would be a fan of the blues? Seriously.