Life LackaDaisiCal

In the early days of my knitting career, my reputation was...cast on, knit, knit a bit more, lose interest...pass it on to my Mom to finish.  My Mother, I am sure, despaired at how quickly my enthusiasm turned to empathy;  how a new project would catch my eye and the old project be relegated to a dark corner somewhere.... Then there were the years that I didn't knit at all...life somehow got in the way. When the knitting gene resurfaced back in the late 80's, I vowed to become a monogamous knitter - to cast on, knit knit knit (exclusively) and finish that project! I learned new techniques (stranded knitting), attempted things that caused my poor Mother to gasp. (Gosh, the first time I cut my knitting, I took my Philosopher's sweater to my Mom's house. On her dining room table....we lay the tube of knitting, my Mother handed me the scissors.....and I cut! We both needed a reviving cup of tea.) I know that my Mom was proud of the new knitterly me! I even knit her a ...

Friday the 13th knitters!  You know what that means! Well, this is what happened today...rip rip rip.... because on Monday, while contemplating Clue 4 of the  Follow Your Arrow 2 KAL, I discovered a dropped stitch down in my Clue 3 wrapped bundles! It took until today for me to get down to ripping it out (boo hoo) and yes, now I have a marathon of knitting to do this weekend  to be ready for Clue 5 on Monday! Can I do it? What have I been doing all week then you might ask :) Well, my Earth Stripe Wrap  (the one I am supposed to be knitting 5" a month on) is now....pretty long..... I must say it is addictive...and I love the way the colours work with each other. Did you know that this is the 13th year that  Rowan have produced Kidsilk Haze? 13 years and still going strong! I've also been playing around with Crochet. Yes, the "C" word!!!! My little Tilley  Book of Crochet has large diagrams... which makes it really easy to see what is ha...