So last weekend I went to Wild Fiber in Santa Monica. It was my second time. I will have to unearth my camera and show you some pics of what I got. Let me just say for the record:

yarn stores are dangerous

Very. Very. Dangerous

First time out I got 2 balls of Rowan Cashsoft DK in a very pale pink and a very pale purple. I also got Knitted Embellishments and a teeny set of size 3 dpns. I spent $60ish. It made me giddy. Like the time I had some wierd desert cocktail and by the time the waitress brought it the kids were fussy so I had to down it in 4 great big sips and by the time I made it to the car the world was a happy place. (sidenote: what a cocktail!! it was called Like Strawberries for Chocolate, and I simply did not taste the alochol. I felt it though hehehe)I giggled every time I peeked in my little purple bag.

Then last weekend I went back for more Cashsoft. I am using it for my TKGA MK swatches and I didn't realize that several of the squares had to be the same color. So I got 1 more of each and threw in a contrasting green color but I think it might be too pale. Oh yeah and I skien of Socks That Rock from Blue Mountail Fiber Arts in the Jewel of the Nile colorway. I was going to make my next pair of socks for my sister out of some sock yarn I got online, Filatura Cervina Calzetteria. But I am too damn greedy, I must have a pair of short socks in this gorgeous jewel toned sock yarn. Even if they are small, its just so pretty. I left on a high again. If I am not careful, I am going to become a junky.

This is me, "Come on, man, you gotta just give me one more skien..." either that or I will start hitting the ladies at my guild meeting up, "ooh, let me touch it..." no, I already do that! Crud.

I will say one thing: the colors about blew my mind. I am used to "slave"mart acrylics and such-- the colors pale, literally, in comparison.

Ok, creating and designing a nice, informative knitting website is about as much fun as knitting a lace shawl with 320 rows, written out, with not a single row repeating itself, using sewing cotton and 0000 needles.... and throw in some cables while you are at it... and give it a flipping deadline too.

argh argh argh.

plus the whole cross platform funk is really teeing me off. grrr.

days like today I don't wanna think about going to college, MUCH LESS transfering for a bachellor's. grr.

want to see what it looks like? I will make a screen cap @ home.

Which will be soon, cuz I am out of here!!!

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I am so freaking tired today and I have only about a gazillion things to do today... pretty soon my website is due, my creative writing portfolio is due, a paper on Jamaica Inn is due... you get the picture. I have the end of semester blues and what's worse is I have just up and lost any taste for knitting.

I think this is due to the fact that I have just recieved the Master Knitter's program thing and it is kind of intimidating, plus I have like 5 squares due for a 10 inch square group of mostly So Cal lady's (this is memorial day) and I was trying to use stitches for my pattern page of the website for their squares so I would have pictures... but then I realized I would have to bang out 13 ten inch squares before memorial day and it kind of scared me.

Angela

Wow, I am getting on the band-wagon like a decade plus late. I just got A Knitter's Almanac and it's amazing how much like a blog this book is. You feel like EZ is just talking to you, and I love it. It kind of sucks that I was just getting back into knitting around the time she passed away.

:(

Oh, and if you haven't checked this out, I am listening to knitcast while typing this, which has proved to be very interesting (except the Lily Chin thing, don't everybody hate me but I am not a big LC fan) and the most recent podcast is an interview with Kristine Kirby Webster of KnitHappens. Very interesting.

Go check them out.

Last night I dreamt of Timeheart* again...(unfortunately they haven't posted Timeheart yet). It was very wierd because it's been about a year and a half, scratch that I read A Wizard's Holiday in January. Ok, it's been several months since I have read any of the Young Wizards books. Anyhow, I am walking around in Timeheart and I just KNOW it's Timeheart, and it's beautiful and wonderful, then I see a dead whale on a sidewalk, walk up to it and it turns into a dog and the dog is talking to me and slowly I start making out about every 4th, then 3, word until I can understand perfectly what the dog is saying. It was a really profound moment, and then of course I woke up thing, "Holy crap I dreamt I was in Timeheart."

The quote thing-- Last night I dreamt of... yeah I have to read a book by Daphne DuMaurier(and yet I disliked Rebecca) The book is Jamaica Inn and it's for my special topics in literature- the sea, class. Excellent teacher. Very entertaining.

And now for something completely different...

I got Colette's package but am currently to lazy to take a picture of the cool squares and pretty stationary she sent. I have yet to send out Marcie's squares and have finally begun squares for the 10 inch acrylic squares. YIKES!

AND

AND

Finally. My tkga membership is through and I have recieved my level 1 master knitter's packet. I promptly opened it, read it, fainted, revived myself and panicked. Holy cow. There's way more work in here. So, I am gathering my resources and getting ready to do it. I am excited. :)

The site is coming along ok. I am going to leave the old site up and link to it from within the new so that my instructors can see progress.

TTFN

Angela

This is a non-knitting rant/fan squeal whatever. So, I am a huge Star Wars fan... yep that's right. I even used to have a starwars screen name, Lt Kettch, kudos for any of you who know who he is. Yep he, but such a kick ass character. (if you're into that sort of thing.)

Anyhow, let me first state that this is what I am soo freaking excited about:

YAY! Midnight tickets to the VERY FIRST SHOWING THEY HAVE @ my local theatre! Whooooooo! AND! It's on our biggest screen. I am so happy I could cry. They are on my front door (I am blessed with steel doors, the only cool thing about my cardboard box called home). Yippee.

Now onto rantville-- why did he name it Revenge of the Sith? Is anybody as disgusted by the lack of ingenuity, lack of creativity, lack of style that is summed up in this nearly as awful as "Attack of the Clones" title? Why am I so disgusted? Revenge of the Jedi... nah, can't do that, Jedis know no such thing as hate or anger, so let's call it Return of the Jedi. So (in 30ish years... lets name episode 3 revenge of the sith, like a dumbass, instead of using the ultra kickass moniker, Rise of The Empire. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO DAMN COOL). OK
Saying that, am I loving the mega use of starwars branded everything? I have eaten more m&ms in the last couple of weeks than the entire year before hand...

MTFBWY

Angela

So last weekend, I got this. Isn't it cool? a pretty nifty turkish spindle. I also got 12 oz of pretty roving, 4 of a twilighty varigated, 4 of a hot fuschia, and 4 of plain. I also got Hands on Spinning as well as the Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook.
Spinning is fun! Not as fun as knitting... and working on a drop spindle is so easy too.