LaLa | May 2, 2010
It’s been a long weekend. For those of you not in the Memphis area, we had a period of a little over 48 hours with multiple tornado and flash flood warnings. A tornado warning means that radar or a human has spotted an actual tornado headed to or in the area. What did this really [...]
LaLa | April 15, 2010
You may notice that the “On Fire” project is gone from the sidebar. That’s because the Lady Bertram is done! Here’s an up close picture of her blocking. I always seem to block my iteams inside out, and I can’t explain why. Pattern Notes: Pattern: Lady Bertram by the wonderful Wendy Johnson. Available on ravelry [...]
LaLa | April 10, 2010
See the nifty little bars on the right side that tell you the progress on each of our projects? When they first went up, they were all the same color and that drove Leslie crazy (secretly, I still think it drives her crazy, how many green ones are over there). So red equals Leslie’s projects, [...]
LaLa | March 17, 2010
The week before Spring Break I got quite a bit of gift knitting done. First, I finished the Sockhead Hat for a teacher’s daughter from work. Her school colors are purple and gold, so it just had to go to her. Here it is being modeled by Abbey at Kobe’s Birthday party: Abbey was not [...]
LaLa | March 15, 2010
I had a very large list of things to accomplish during the Winter Olympics. First, I wanted to knit a February Lady sweater: Pattern: February Lady Sweater modified by Flintknits from an EZ original Needles: Size 8 circulars. My Knitpicks cord broke, luckily I was at Hanks and had the ability to buy some lace [...]
LaLa | February 10, 2010
We got several inches of snow in Mississippi this week. It looked a bit like this: There was no school Monday or Tuesday. Unfortunately, it looks like we will be going on Saturdays to make it up. As long as I can wear jeans to work, I really don’t care. I enjoyed knitting on my [...]
LaLa | November 10, 2009
I’ve been resisting a lot of things this week; the lure of my spinning wheel in favor of knitting, an impulsive buy at the Loopy Ewe (for example this or this or any of these or these), or the siren call of casting on new projects to finish up some ufos instead. Last night I [...]
Leslie | October 27, 2009
My knitting funk continues. I brought out some handspun to make the Mustard Scarf that Jackie has raved about, but 10 rows in and I’m justnot feeling it. It’s not a good mix for my handspun. What do you think? In other news – I made a wordle! I love these things – this one [...]
LaLa | October 25, 2009
Leslie has accused me of being lame since she has blogged twice in the past week and I have not blogged at all. Chez LaLa has been pretty quiet lately. I finished the purple Feather and Fan Socks. And won a wonderful prize in the Wendy Knits toe-up KAL for them. It is a lovely [...]
LaLa | September 18, 2009
I’ve had a red week. First, I finished two presents for a baby shower: This is an adaptation of Anne Norling’s Apple Cap. I knit this out of Dream in Color Smooshy, so it will be superwash for the new bundle of joy. I also knit a soaker (they are cloth diapering) in a newborn [...]