Archive for the 'knitting' Category

10 Great/Awful Things About TV Today

Please excuse the brief post. I am all conflicted about something in my personal life right now and therefore have no brains to think any otherwise profound thoughts. I am having a hormonal meltdown and somehow it’s like when your dog goes into heat and every male dog in the neighborhood is coming round. Only [...]

Monday, October 6th, 2008

*cough* earning some street cred.

This actually is a knitting blog. So, here are some pics.
Hat Attack 2– my death hat (the one I made)

yorik, batman and connor macleod — they all agree:
As far as death hats go, “there can be only one!”
 

look at that lovely tasty sparkly alpaca silk yarn.
((if the pattern weren’t such a PITA I would knit [...]

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

way late: 10 on Tuesday

10 things that scare me or freak me out (in no particular order)

 white noise, more specifically “snow” on a television set. Thanks to the digital era it’s harder to actually receive snow with all sorts of peripherals plugged in and I generally get a nice blank #cccccc (med gray) screen with the words “no signal” [...]

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

2008: The Year of the Zombies

Reports of zombie sightings are sweeping the nation, panic is widespread and the government is warning that if you are in a safe place to stay there until help can arrive.

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Goodbye winter, hello spring. Quarter.

So it’s Easter Sunday and after all the egg finding and stuff is over, I am going through the office and prepping for tomorrow.
Spring Quarter starts tomorrow, so soon after Winter Quarter finished. I got a head start on my reading for the Ethnic Lit class and read “Six Degrees of Separation” which was [...]

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

10 Favorite Drinks

It’s been forever and a day since I’ve participated in 10 on Tuesday…

Pineapple Orange juice: I got hooked on this in Hawaii, and post gastric bypass, the pineapple cuts the acid of the orange juice so it’s a citrus juice I can drink without pain.
Pepsi.  I took the Pepsi challenge a looong time ago, LOL. [...]

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

More Gushing Over Debbie

Debbie went above and beyond what I expected from an angel.

the package was huge!
there was  enough yarn in it to induce a coma… remember how when I went to la knitterie parisienne I got all dizzy and overwhelmed?!(and NOT just because nothing has a price on it in that store)
bunny yarn
sheep!
and just the fact that [...]

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Ten on Tuesday: Christmas edition

Happy blogiversary to me! I have been blogging on this site for 3 years now. The archives for my wordpress blog don’t go back that far, but the rest can be found here: http://theknittingdiva.com/blog to December 8, 2004. Since  then, not including posts I have deleted… I have made 408 *this will be 409* posts, [...]

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

….. no good title ……

First, the J4M sweater, I am officially ready to take the sleeves off and stick them on holders– finally!! Yeah! Pretty soon I will be joining the sweater in the round, which will be awesome.
That was my sole good news for this post.**** except for something about Jennifer from  yarnpie*** I am no longer riding [...]

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Sweaters & Zombies & Penguins! OH MY!!

I’ve been lax in my computer time, it’s actually quite nice. I am trying hard to enjoy my time away from school, especially now that I have looked at the academic calendar and figured out that there’s only a week between winter quarter and spring quarter. That is just horrific. Oh– that week happens to [...]

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007