Archive for July, 2010

July 2nd, 2010

Ginger Leaves Shawlette

by Christina

I recently have had the pleasure of designing a shawl for Knitpicks’ Independent Designer Program!

The shawl is available in two sizes, neckerchief (34″ x 15″)  and shawlette (52″ x 20″) and is worked from the center neck to the bottom edge. The concept for the neckerchief came after designing the Woodland Spring Shawl and receiving so many requests for a smaller version – so you will notice this is a “variation on a theme.”

More information is here

To purchase you can go here or here

enjoy & happy knitting!

July 2nd, 2010

Getting things done

by Christina

I stopped the other morning to look at a few of my projects scatter on my downstairs desk in John’s play room…

…on the kitchen table…

… and on the kitchen counter next to my ironing.

People ask how I accomplish my knitting and I guess this is how I do it. I leave projects all over so that when I have a moment (i.e. in between bites of feeding John, while the iron is heating up, while John is playing) I put in a few stitches.

how do you all fit your knitting time in?

July 1st, 2010

A Year In Provence …uh…Indiana

by Christina

Have you ever read “A Year In Provence” by Peter Mayle? It’s a hilarious book with great stories about the adventures he and his wife have while living in France. Some of the adventures include delays on their house repairs.

Well, I can COMPLETELY understand what Peter Mayle’s point of view. I need to write a book about it just to keep up some good humor. The mold remediation crew has been wonderful, but the roofing company has been a nightmare. We have been waiting on them to fix a portion of the roof they fixed but fixed over a rotten section. We waited 4 days and each day they said they would come out the next day. The mold remediation guy can’t continue work on the bedroom until the roof in the bedroom is fixed so it looks like this:

The mold remediation guy encouraged me to call. He said, “I don’t get excited until the wife starts calling. Then I know it is serious.”

So with that, I walked inside, got the phone numbers from JK and put on my nasty voice. Yes, I have a very nasty voice. The roofing crew was there within an hour and a half. I was amazed. Wow!

I just can’t believe how worn out I am from all of this … oh, well. Such it life. It will just make me stronger. I’ll have to post pictures of the mold in the bedroom another day — you just won’t believe it!