Charity Knitting 2010 – and so it begins
May 2, 2010 | Category: random thoughts, woolgathering | 1 Comment
When Disney announced their 2010 promotion of Give a Day, Get a Disney Day, I knew I wanted to volunteer on some level, even if I only re-gifted the ticket to another charity. Luckily, there was an opportunity to knit something for my volunteering, so I signed up to make a Project Linus blanket.
So… with no further ado, here’s the blanket I knit.
Log Cabin blankie, complete with applied i-cord edges. Not my usual knit, but it’s soft, washable, and will hopefully help make some child’s life a little cozier.
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on the road… celebrating a centenarian & other new things
April 27, 2010 | Category: off the top of my head | Leave a Comment
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of helping my Gran celebrate her 100th birthday.
It was a wonderful party, and I got to catch up with family I hadn’t seen in a while, which is always fun.
Gran lives in Guelph, Ontario, which is about 8-9 hours’ drive from here. I’ve never done so much driving in one day, so on the way up I stopped to visit the Corning Museum of Glass, which is something I’ve always wanted to do. While there, in addition to getting tons of inspiration from old millefiore patterns, and shopping in their gift store (dangerous!), I also took advantage of one of their workshops, and made a glass bead of my own. 
On my way home, I took some time to drive down the Niagara Falls Parkway, in hopes of getting a glimpse of the Falls, since I’ve never seen them when they weren’t frozen. It was too chilly to venture out on the Maid of the Mist, but I did manage to get a few pictures from the drivers’ seat. Here’s my favorite: 
it’s ironic
March 17, 2010 | Category: is it polymer or polymerde?, random thoughts | 1 Comment
Working on a creative space has effectively been cutting off my creative time. The basement project is coming along, but it’s slow work, weekend by weekend, and it leaves me very little in the way of free time to create.
That said, I took a couple of weekends off to meet up with new & old friends at the IPCA Synergy event in Baltimore at the end of February. And… because I couldn’t go to Synergy without new baubles for myself and the Gallery, I burned a bit of midnight oil and made up a bunch of pairs of earrings. Here are a few of the pair I made for myself.
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I like them, and they seemed to be popular in the Gallery as well.
Ah well, back to the grind. I also have a finished pair of socks (the ones I was knitting away on in Baltimore for anyone who saw me at Synergy) to show off one of these days. So maybe I’ll be back sooner than usual. =)
In honor of St Patrick’s Day, I leave you with a bit of an Irish blessing.
May you be blessed with warmth in your home, love in your heart, peace in your soul and joy in your life.
more mittnz – and goal reached
September 27, 2009 | Category: woolgathering | 1 Comment
Last post, I said I wished I had 18 pair of mittens for the Cheyenne River Reservation, and this post, I’m happy to say that I met my goal.
Here are the latest additions to the mitten mountain:
And this is the final stack:
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I think I’m going to move on to knitting something else. No more mittens for a while. =)
a mini-mountain of mittens
September 20, 2009 | Category: woolgathering | Leave a Comment
A good family friend passed away last month, and in her honor, I wanted to continue her tradition of charity knitting. I already have one scarf knit for the Red Scarf Project, but I knew there had to be more ways to share out there!
When I saw Ann at Sheep Shots’ challenge to the knitting community to help warm the hands of the children at the Cheyenne River Reservation this winter, and seeing as I’ve always liked knitting mittens (or Mittnz as she calls them), I thought that perhaps I was up to the task.
Here are my completed Mittnz
The challenge was only to make 9 pair in ‘09, but I kind of went overboard. I’d have liked to have made 18 pair, 9 for me, and 9 for my friend, but time is slipping away. It might still happen, though. If not, I’ll have a good head start on the 2010 challenge. =)
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
AA Milne
