Knitting Cybrarian

Second tulip baby sweater

  tulip 2 001 
  Originally uploaded by lauragayle

As promised -- a photo of the finished Tulip Baby Sweater (original colorway) and matching hat.

Knitter's notes

• claps instead of ICord ties
• I was running low on the border color when knitting the hat.  I used the border color at the very top of the hat and did not use it in the main color sequence.

Hope the hat fits -- it's looking a little big!

Weekend update

Warning:  actual knitting content included!

I had big plans for Friday.  However, a necessary meeting at work intervened, resulting in part of a day off.  The meeting included a presentation from a company we'll be working with during our renovation, and I thought it would not be a great idea to skip that meeting.  I did get some housework done, but not too much. 

Saturday morning we got up early.  Joel took his vehicle in for an oil change and we went out for breakfast.  I worked at the Studio, and came home to find that Joel had done some cleaning too, which was nice.

Sunday I worshipped at the Bedside Church of God (sorry, Brett, but that phrase just makes me laugh).  Sleeping late every so often is a treat, so I savored it yesterday morning. 

Knitting content?  I finished knitting another Tulip Baby Sweater (photos to come) for my niece, and this time I had enough yarn leftover to knit a matching hat.  The sweater and hat are blocking, and I'll probably post photos later today. I love this pattern, but I don't think I love it enough to knit more of them.  The Yarn Harlot got hooked on this pattern and yarn and knit 6 or so of them, I think!

Today I have an 8am meeting, a 9am class, lots of work to get done, then I'm off  at noon for the rest of the day.  Our pest control guy comes at 3pm, and I've got to move some yarn before he comes to spray!   We don't have any pest problems, and i want to keep it that way!

about the vignettes

Monday night's post is not necessarily about real life.  I'm trying to flex my creative writing muscles after a very long time, and I thought I would test those flexings on my blog. 

I won't be quitting my day job!

It was...

all because of the iced tea discussion.  That alone should have tipped her off.  She liked her tea sweet, because she was a born and bred Southerner.  Some folks like their tea so sweet that it bites on the back end and there's a puddle of sugar left in the glass.  Not her.  She and the other women in her family had developed their own time-tested way of brewing tea, adding just enough sugar to make it sweet, but not so much that the liquid was over-saturated and wasted good sugar.  Considering how many women in that family grew up poor, it's a wonder they didn't convert to unsweetened tea.  But they knew how to cook, how to make something good out of a little of nothing, and they also knew how much sugar to use.   No formal lessons, but Southern women visit in the kitchen, even the tomboys, once past a certain age and can no longer get away with climbing trees.  The informal lessons, the watching, the "come, help me with this," taught a girl much in the kitchen.  "Here, taste and see if it's like Mama's," gave better direction than any cookbook.

He turned his nose up at sweet tea.  Couldn't understand why people would spend the extravagance, and of course, have that waste in a puddle of sugar and tea at the bottom of a glass.  Never mind he wanted her to take the sugar packets home from the restaurant, whenever they'd go out.

She should have known, but she didn't.  He was so different from any of the boys she grew up with. 

Why can't we

stop the madness?

Lack of communication

I seldom blog much about my day job.  For a variety of reasons.  But today is an exception.  I work at a university and this is spring break week.  A major project involving the cooling lines has been going on since the fall, and there has been very little communication regarding traffic disruption.  Today's example is the parking lot surprise as pictured below.  Yes, many of the available spaces have been taken up with heavy equipment.  All of the parking lot traffic is one way, so it might be an adventure to just get out of the lot this evening!

Easter joy!

Alleluia!  Christ is risen!
The Lord is risen indeed!  Alleluia!

Guilty pleasures no. 21

Hot, homemade blueberry muffins.

Rental car saga continues

Enterprise car rental called this afternoon.  The Chrysler 300 with HEMI I'd been driving?  It'd been sold.  Could I bring it by this afternoon?  I filled it up, dropped it off and got.... another Chrysler 300.  Sans HEMI.  Sans seatwarmers.  Sans satellite radio (I think, haven't tried).  Sans automatic lights.  Sans automatic rear-view mirror night adjustment.  Sans automatic side mirror night adjustment.  Sans temperature control for driver and front passenger.  Sans automatic seat adjustment.  But still leather seats, nice roomy interior.  Different color.

I view this as a transition to my Corolla, which I hope will be ready Tuesday or Wednesday.  Which has automatic somethings, but not automatic everything.  But great gas mileage!

I'll take good news where I can get it

Two pieces of good news came in yesterday:

• 'lil Red (my poor Corolla) should be ready to leave the body shop on Tuesday.  I'm more than ready for my 32-35 mpg.
• as I wondered about where that $500 deductible will be coming from, Joel called me at the Studio to tell me that he took the liberty of opening a piece of mail from Nationwide.  It had the $500 reimbursement check.  Whoo hoo!

I've still got the rich-old-man-mobile (or the pimpmobile as some of my friends call it).  That would be the Chrysler 300 with a HEMI.  My mother said, "You don't like riding around in luxury?"  My response was along the lines of, "It's just not me."  Yeah, I'm liking the seatwarmers, the automatic everything, the leather seats.  But I feel really obvious in it, especially given part of my route to work.  I don't like getting under 20mpg either. 

But it was fun when several of us went to lunch the other day and we rode in the pimpmobile!