Knitting, with Dogs

I aten't dead

Just busy doing other things right now, like channeling Granny Weatherwax.

We leave Monday for the annual "Take the dog to the beach" trip.  Pictures when we return.

Spinnin' and grinnin'

One of the nice things about doing spinning demos over at Stone Mountain is that you get to meet and know the workers and the regular visitors.  One of the regulars that I always enjoy chatting with is Richard, who's also a good photographer.  Sometimes he sends me pictures he's taken there, like this one, where I'm almost surrounded.  You can just see the top of my head.  (Pictures used with Richard's permission.)

And other times I'm just spinnin' and grinnin'.

Progress pictures, as promised

Out of the snowflakes (mostly) and into the trees.

Snowflakes in Cedarwoods.  Chart F completed, and 10 rows into chart G. Over 700 sts on the needles.  Yeah, it's a lot of sts, but there'll be lots more before it's done.  :)  It's an easy knit, though.  I did switch to my ludicrously long Addi Lace Turbo needle, and that helped immensely, mostly because it's pointier.  I'm not fighting those k2togs and ssks anymore.

And though I can't match ESC with her pictures of stuff on Sadie, we do occasionally put Stuff on Jasper. 

Bouncer is bemused.  Or maybe disgusted.  Or just thinking about something else.  :)

A good day

Today was a good demo day at Stone Mtn.  There were lots of interesting people and the weather was great -- cool and dry, though the day started out drizzly.  It was one of those days I was really delighted to be able to sit outside and work.

And one lady told me a funny.  People often come up and just bluntly ask "What are you doing?"  I normally answer patiently, just saying "I'm spinning yarn out of wool on a spinning wheel,"  because honey, you wouldn't BELIEVE what people come up with on their own:

"Look, she's sewing!"

"Look, she's weaving yarn!"

"Look, she's weaving cotton on her sewing machine!"

Seriously.

But this lady today told me that her grandmother had a phrase that she'd use when someone asked her what she was doing when she was doing something that should be fairly obvious.

"I'm sewing buttons on ice cream."

I laughed for 5 minutes.  I swear.  The lady walked away while I was still laughing.  Hell, I'm STILL laughing.

I told her her grandmother was a genius.

New pictures of Snowflakes on Cedars tomorrow.  I'm up to the trees now, after recovering from an "oh shit" moment when I realized I'd hosed up one of the corners.  But laddering down (NOT frogging, yay!) let me fix it, after I thought overnight on how I'd tackle the fix.

No, I didn't take pictures.  I didn't want to jinx myself.  :) 

Found first lines

The caption for the Astronomy Picture of the Day for April 11, 2008 inspired me.  Go look at the picture, then read the poem.  Or vice versa.

 

At first, he couldn't see the Moon
But then, as small and shy
and thin as hope can be,
it came --
the evening's tiny
Mona Lisa smile.