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Back to knitting. Having finished the munchkin dress at last. Is this the cutest little munchkin ever or what? She is the daughter of a friend. I am very contentedly knitting away at my bee stole again. I probably won't finish in time to take it to Atlanta for Agnes Scott parents weekend, and I'm not going to injure myself trying. But if I did, well, it would be nice. Wearing it, I mean, not injuring myself. The dress will be worn here Y'all come. Bring the kiddies! I'm also swatching bambu 7 and trying on pattern ideas. I should be attacking UFO's. I'll think about it.

juliet on juliet

Juliet on my daughter (who is also Juliet), and Juliet on a hanger. The colors of the pic on the hanger are more true. Yes, that is concert merch under the momknit.

I am sewing a munchkin dress for a local production of "oz" now. The munchkin is 5 years old, and the daughter of a friend. They need the costume by Wednesday, so I'll have a picture of it around then. Then I can at last get back to my Bee stole.

a little voodoo

Just got back from seeing Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at the Carolina Theatre in Durham. You can see them here: http://www.bbvd.com/mainhall.asp They do put on a good show. Play "Mr. Pinstripe Suit." For you knitters, Juliet is finished 2 days ago, I have a pic on a hanger, haven't made the model stay still long enough to get one on a person. Will post it in the morning.

iblogatory web expression for knitters

After a few more rows I've decided to stick with this center join even though I'm not thrilled with the extra large yo's in the edging at the join row. This picture shows the color of the yarn better.
I have several things on the needles right now (imagine that!) and I may even finish them someday. Here's my first KAL with sexy knitter's club. I'm using stash yarn that I didn't have enough in one color for a solid Juliet, therefore the stripes.
Also a pic of some yummy yarn I got at knitch in Atlanta. Artyarns Silk Rhapsody! Feels like heaven. Only two skeins, but enough for a lace shrug of my own design with the help of sweater wizard.
I've been thinking about why I blog, and I think the reason is simply that I knit, therefore I blog. It's iblogatory . . . umm . . . obligatory, isn't it?

my honeybee stole center join works?

I am knitting the honeybee stole which can be found at knitspot.com. It's a breathtakingly beautiful and clever design by Anne Hanson, and probably the most ambitious lace I've knitted so far. Pattern calls for provisional cast on at center back, knit down to edging, cast off, pick up prov cast on stitches, start with wrong side row 2. Anne has suggestions for a pretty join on her website.

I always have to do things my own way, and I tried something different. I knit row 1 again, which makes the faggotting in the edging come out right, and allowed me to do a spit roll (there must be a more appealing term for that) join with the cast on tail, (nothing to weave in later), incorporated Anne's suggestion to pick up the bar between stitches in the ctr of the yo motif, and add another decrease. my sequence for the pertinent part of the row was k2tog, yo, pickup bar and knit, yo, slip one as if to knit, slip 2 as if to purl, put left needle in the backs and knit the three together.

Can you tell from these pics whether or not that's a good idea? I haven't decided yet.
I am using jaggerspun zephyr in color curry, and addi lace circ size 3.

I've spent a lot of time curled up with a good book (apparently!) but I am new to Memes.

What's a meme? learn everything you want to know (or not) at http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/ .

This Meme was found on http://wordsandwool.wordpress.com/ who got it from kim’s blog, http://kbshee.blogspot.com/, who got it from rosy’s blog, http://poetfamiliares.blogspot.com/
who confesses she pinched it from a random blog.
Instructions:
Look at the list of books below.Bold the ones you’ve read.Italicize the ones you want to read.Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.
Movies don’t count!!!!!


1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)

3. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

4. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

5. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

6. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)

7. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)

8. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)

9. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)

10. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)

11. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)

12. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)

13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)

14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)

15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)

16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)

17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)

18. The Stand (Stephen King)

19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)

20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)

22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)

25 . Life of Pi (Yann Martel)

26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)

28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)

29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)

30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)

31. Dune (Frank Herbert)

32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)

33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)

34. 1984 (Orwell)

35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)

36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)

37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)

38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)

39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)

40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)

41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)

42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)

43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)

44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)

45. Bible private edit: not the whole thing, but a lot of it!

46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)

47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)

48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)

49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)

51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)

52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)

53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)

54. Great Expectations (Dickens)

55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)

56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)

57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)

58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)

59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)

60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)

61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)

63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)

64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)

65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)

66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)

68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

69. Les Miserables (Hugo)

70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)

72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)

73. Shogun (James Clavell)

74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)

75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)

77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)

78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)

79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)

80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)

81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)

82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)

83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)

84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)

85. Emma (Jane Austen)

86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)

87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)

89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)

90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)

91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)

92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)

93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)

94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)

95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)

96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)

97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)

98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)

99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)

100. Ulysses (James Joyce)



I was astonished to see how many I put into boldface, and how many I don't have any interest in. I do read a lot, just finished The Return of The Native by Thomas Hardy. Hardy's always a good read if you don't mind tragedy. Wonderfully fleshed out characters, great descriptive narrative, engaging plots. It always ends badly for someone.

I read a lot of garbage that isn't on this list, too. But I try to spend more time knitting and sewing.

recent finished objects: belt pattern found at yarnmarket.com. yarn is noro daria multi 1 skein. Blouse is shaped lace tee from Knitting Lingerie Style (with a few modifications) in knitpicks shine sport turquoise.

Post number 1

My first blog, my first post. Who would want to read my stuff? Can't imagine. The name is carpoolknitter because I grab my knitting minutes when I can, and I spend a lot of time waiting in the car for my offspring at their various activities, appointments, etc. It sounded catchier than lobbyknitter or waitingroomknitter. I have a chronic condition -- obsession with collection and reconfiguration of various fiber media (I have to have yarn and fabric). I'm much more about process than product (sometimes I finish things, but it's much more important to have my hands busy in luxurious, colorful, addictive yarns and fabrics).