duchessofgravity

i haven't posted i'm sorry. and now you just have to forgive me for the photo barf that is about to ensue. just realize that my mind, house, and workspace are in the same state of chaos... and in no particular order... quilt blocks quilt top quilt back quilt closeup no comments from the peanut gallery regarding wonky crooked quilting stitches. dave has already informed me of such. dave. dog. this is dave's friend jon. we go to jon's for thanksgiving. this is jon and the hat i knitted for him on turkey day while i was waiting for the others to stop playing video games. i promised the hatwould be finished in time for gathering turkey from the grill. our host was not disappointed. his ears were warm. he was amused. yarn: double stranded red heart. needles: borrowed clover dpns size 10.5. beggars can't be choosers and bored knitters are definitely beggars. thanks brandy for the loans it was better than watching video gaming i promise :) we have friends who are preg...

whew. it was a great trip. i loved seeing everyone, and relaxing and all. but sometimes it is nice to be home and sleeping in your own bed. i have oodles of stuff to show off. finished stuff. shopping stuff. packages received in the mail stuff. early christmas stuff. but unfortunately, that is all gonna have to wait. this house is a disaster and someone has to fix it! oh right, that would be me. sigh.

I hope you all are enjoying your time with your families. don't eat too much and enjoy the opportunity to relax :)

sorry to post twice in one day, but i'm crazy excited cause i get to go home to colorado for 2 whole weeks for turkey! yippee. i'll be arriving this friday night and heading back tuesday after turkey weekend so give a holler (i still have the same colorado cell #) if you're in town and have some knitting time available. i hope to catch up with the boulder stitch n bitchers . and i'm hanging out with cathi and the kids for sure :) but i'd love to see everyone else too. so drop me a line and we'll try to get together ok? when i return i hope to have oodles of finished projects to share with dee and the girls here. all the projects i'm packing may not even fit in my backpack. ack!

so i was waiting to post about my outgoing and incoming hogwarts sock swap (year 2 swap) until after my pal received her socks. and then i was waiting on my package. and then i got busy with work and sleep and stuff. and then i got sick. so here it is. rather tardy. but here nonetheless :) my pal and i had a rather rough road with this round of socks. here emmeline (stacey) is the saga of your socks so i wanted to knit for you the eames pattern that my friend kate designed. and i soon found out that i am not cut out for mosaic knitting. sigh. the stitches were all wonky. the sock was completely inelastic. it looked generally like poo. i'm sure it's not the pattern. it has got to be me! so i sent you my copy of the pattern a new printout that is so a less mangled copy than my working copy in hopes that you will have better luck than i :) and the sole was soooo friggin cute oh well. frog time next i decided that maybe i could replicate my color-work feat of year ...

finally the windows are open and the fans are on and there is not a ton of humidity. its actually bearable. now is summer were like this!!! and if you walk into your local starbucks it looks like christmas. thats right folks i helped out with the dark set for holiday roll out tonight and i've never opened so many cardboard boxes in my entire life. holy cow. the worst of it. out landlord won't provide recycling friendly containers on the property. so it all went into the dumpster!!! sigh. but there are so many cute things it's enough to make you crazy. fortunately i don't think i want any of the mugs this year. which is good. we loaded up on clearance halloween and the cupboards are jammed ;) and i know i've been lax, but i promise i have wonderful things to show you. both things sent and received. for the hogwarts swap. but my camera is on the fritz again. i'm gonna get new batteries tomorrow and see if it works. otherwise i'll be smugglin...

So i was at target the other day to pick up something normal. like a prescription or milk or something and i somehow found myself in the socks. i know crazy huh? and they had these fabulous coordinating knee socks. and i said to myself "you know those would make some pretty darn cool creatures" so i brought 'em home and i looked at my stupid sock creatures book. and i promptly chickened out and headed for the sock drawer for practices socks :) i picked out a pattern. decided he had to have wings. and started chopping. i also decided that he needed a contrasting mouth so i found those instructions too. and while i watched the rockies lose 4 straight games in a row. my creature was born...do yo uthink he soaked up any of that bad luck?

what will prompt a girl to post faster than you can even say post? even after eon's of blog inactivity? hrmmm. well someone linking to her blog without warning for one ;) so here is the update roll in no particular order... the bed and breakfast pullover cabled cardi is on seaming island i have one sleeve seamed and th other is lying peacefully beside it meditating. i hate seaming. i particularly hate seaming when you have to get all that ribbing with increases to line up...why do sleeves have to be shaped eh? sorry no photo but do you have to see the same no progress shot? again? next up dave and i decided to make pizza for dinner this weekend. we had seen yet another episode of alton brown's good eats this one on pizza and dave has been wanting to make it. but it requires preparing the dough the day before. dave doesn't like to do things the day before. he's an in the moment go to the grocery store 10 minutes before a dinner party kind of guy. so when i h...

for starbucks when a great manager resigns because he's getting too much crap from his boss. a shitton of crap from the guys upstairs and not a whole lot of help. we like to try to set our team up for success. but we don't try to set them up for failure. and that is what has been happening! i'm probably gonna hear something 'cause i'm posting this but it's got to be said. since april i've been working in the second busiest store in central florida. until recently we were beating out all the others in our district. this means we have to work hard. really hard. just to keep up. forget about getting ahead. keeping things shiny clean? no way. shoot for passable. cause you can't really do much else. there's not enough time it is impossible to stay on top. when you're understaffed. when you can't get labor hours. when you have only 2 team members in the store for 2 hours at a time! you barely get things done. and the bosse's boss. well she laid...

i've been working on this sweater right? and i've finished the sleeves seamed the shoulders struggled through the collar and tried it on and dave says the collar looks funny. but the colors are really pretty on me... nice after note hon. it's solid any hoo. i need reassurance or the cold hard truth. cables in the collar or no? the patterns calls to continue them but i'm not so sure it looks right. of course switching to ribbing would look wierd too. sigh...

that wasn't enough sewing for you? is this place a sweat shop or something? cause that is what i'm starting to think :) remember my blocking board turned sewing board? well there are 4 pattern envelopes up there. kate and i picked out fabrics for most of those cute little outfits, a quilt, and a crib skirt for her soon to be bouncing baby girl. who we will call batman. parents choice i swear. some people call their unborn children peanut or something cute like that. they said batman one day and well for dave and i it stuck. this kid will be batman til she graduates college so help me! anyhoo i am losing focus here. this bin is full of fabric. my mission (i was silly enough to accept it) is to turn all that into adorable little dresses, bloomers jumpers and overalls. oh not to mention i agreed piece a quilted duvet cover and appliqué on nifty little birds and trees for a bed skirt. oh me oh my what have i done??? but don't you worry. i am having a ton of fun. i have...