It seems that everyone wants to get in the act now:
Thanks honey, that totally makes the scarf look better! Snort. Now, sans obscene finger gesture:
This is part of my WIP’s Wrestlemania for July. Noro Silk Garden in colours 211 & 244 using the Brooklyn Tweed scarf recipe.
Yeah, me too. Brutal week, yes? I realize it was a new moon on Monday but that was not a good enough reason for the level of general weirdness I was encountering daily out there in the world. But that’s all behind us now. It’s Friday and it’s all good. How good? Well, this is my dinner:
Best dinner in the world! Pot noodle (Ichiban, Mr. Noodles, your regional instant noodle soup name inserted here) with broccoli, carrot, and some thinly sliced leftover beef kebab. Nom, nom, nom! I swear, I could eat this every night of the week. Okay, maybe a break here and there for some fried rice or the occassional butter chicken. Oh man, I’m eating dinner and I’m making myself hungry!
Anyway, the papa had a little surgery of a nature I”m pretty sure he wouldn’t want me sharing here. Yes, he reads the blog sometimes. Hi Dad! He’s doing really well and should be home tomorrow. Be nice to Mom! Men make the worst patients.
I’ve been getting ready for the WIP’s Wrestlemania (Rav link) on Ravelry for the month of July. I think I’m being overly ambitious though. I’ve put up four projects that I want to finish, one of them is the Almost Safety Orange Featherweight cardigan in Malabrigo lace weight. Seriously! What am I thinking that I’ll finish that AND three other projects in one month? Meh, hope springs eternal.
I’ve also been sewing lately. I was inspired by the lovely Plae and her super cute fairy bag that she brought to our knitting group last week. Go have a look at it. I’ll wait here. See! adorable, right?
I’ve got one blouse cut out and I’ll be sewing that up tomorrow. I had to get lightweight fusible interfacing today. Look at all those weird words. Yet another new language I’ll have to learn. I’ll let you in on a little secret though, I could absolutely break the bank buying sewing patterns! They are like potato chips, you can’t have just one!
Okay, that’s me done. Y’all have a wonderful Friday night. Avoid the weirdness, unless you’re the cause of it of course. 
I know this because Jane is suddenly shedding an entire dog.
She must be at least a couple of pounds lighter!
Happy Father’s Day to my dad. Love you! I’ll cook you a huge barbecued steak next weekend!
Instead of prcrastinating on that whole plying thing, I decided to git ‘er done! Said in my best Larry the Cable Guy voice. WIthout further ado, here she be:
I don’t even know the yardage/metrage yet. I know that I”m quite smitten with it though, so that’s good. I’ll give it a soak and hang it to dry tonight. 8+ ozs will take a fair bit o’ time to dry I should think.
The big skein is 8+ ozs of two ply, prolly about a sport/dk weight. That wee skein is the leftover from the last bobbin, about an ounce and a half that I did up in Navajo ply. I love the look of the n-ply but it’s just too much work for me to do for an entire pound plus of yarn! Plus, I don’t think I could N-ply for that length of time. I get a bit spastic when I N-ply and tend to treadle so fast it’s insane, giving my yarn a wicked over twist that soaking and hanging almost doesn’t deal with.
Okay, that’s enough of that. Today was a bit challenging, as in I think that pre-pubescent boys should not be allowed on transit unless on a leash or in a box, so I’m going to go have a nice bath now. Happy Tuesday all!
That whole Knit in Public Day that I missed? Well, it wasn’t a total loss. Mr. B worked on Saturday and then was fighting a nasty cold on Sunday so I had a weekend off. Sweet! Look, I spun up a little over 9 ozs of IGOR.
83% Island Grown Organic Romney and 17% silk. You may remember it looked like this last year when I acquired it from Hummingbird Fibre Arts (sadly, no website):
This stuff was fun to spin. I had 2 x 250 grams of it. Turns out they will be more fraternal than identical, but that’s totally okay. Now I just have to ply all that up. Sigh.
Posted in spinning
Um, yeah, every day on transit is knit in public day. Today, I just could not face taking transit for more than an hour each way to hit the sort of local WWKIP event. I know all my knitting peeps (gosh, I’m so hip) were all there. Me? I was here:
Spinning this;
I also had some company:
Then later, there was more company:
Then I was overwhelmed with company:
Turns out, I’m wicked popular with the four legged/hairy set! I think it’s because my opposable thumbs can open their bags of treats.
Oh yeah, we also built the final kitchen island the other day:
We ended up rotating that far right cabinet and made it into a drawer cabinet instead of a shelf cabinet. Now we have a place near the fridge for pop…and chips…and pretzels…and cookies…damn, I just gave away the snack drawer. Didn’t I?
Island? Um no, that’s a continent. I’m going to call it Australia. Wait, that’s not been used, hasn’t it? Hmmmm, okay, how about Beentsylvania? Right, I like it. 
Today we built some drawers and stuff and now it looks like this:
That’s my favourite spot to sit and read, Internet, snack, everything really. I’ve spent more time in the kitchen in the last week than I have in the last year. It’s just so much nicer than it was before and I’m deeply, madly, passionately in love with this little corner of it.
There are shelves and doors for the left hand open space and an end cover piece for that light coloured bit on the right. The entire thing is something like 6 feet by 5.5 feet. We’re prolly going to cut it down to about 5.5 by 5.5 feet. That seems somewhat more logical for a household of two people! That way we can seat 6 comfortably. ‘Cause we’re always having dinner parties for 6. ANYWAY…
We absolutely over planned and over built this entire kitchen. Story of our lives. You should see when I make chili. I could feed a football team.
Okay, I’m going back outside to spin some more. I have 8 ozs of that fibre and it is calling me and begging to be made into yarn so I can knit it up for something lovely.
No, it’s just the cleverly disguised packaging of a new kitchen step stool.
Posted in renos
I forgot to take the late spring blog contest prizes with me to work this morning so I could post them on my lunch. Mind you, it was so busy I didn’t get lunch anyway. I’m sorry guys. I shall remember them tomorrow for sure. See, they are already in my bag! This ensure I shall not fail tomorrow.
What else? Hmm, oh yes, the Terminal City Yarn Wranglers met up yesterday for an afternoon of food (and champagne!),
very cute socks by Mrs. Quimby:
And attempts to nick skeins of yarn the size of, well, about 40 weeks actually:
A wonderful time was had by all. Everyone brought amazingly yummy food and then we had a wee yarn sale & swap and I came home with a completely different bag of yarn than I took there. Total win! The festivities were held at Damselfly’s abode. A veritable garden of Eden in an urban city. It was gorgeous and I so want to go and live with her. I didn’t get picis of her looms & wheels, because I was all gobsmacked with fibrey lust. It was basically Disneyland for fibre junkies. I kid you not!
Then when I got home from work today it was a fibre bonanza from Canada Post! Thank heavens, seeing as today was a dentist day!
Anyway, there was a puffy package waiting for me. A most spectacular gift from Heather. We’ve done a couple of fibre trades, dontcha know. You must check out her spinning! I don’t know how she does such gorgeous work, particularly considering that she has a wee one on her lap sometimes when she’s doing it! Look at the pretty she sent me:
Mmmmmmmm! Finn! In all the colours of the sunrise! Heather, how did you know my colours! LOL. Thank you so much, I love it, love it, love it! I sense it becoming something wonderful and firey for winter wear. It’s from Gnomespun. I’m so jealous, he’s in her knitting group! Can you imagine having access to that level of lovely in your knitting group? We’d be eating mac & cheese every day! Okay, dinner time, must go.
And it is markedly cooler today! A win win situation for sure. I’ve got some things that I kept forgetting to blog about, so today it’s catchup.
Here is my Klaralund in Noro Yuzen:
Understand that I am cheating on my Featherweight Cardigan to knit this. Mind you, I cheated on my Charlotte’s Web to start my Featherweight. Oh, and then I was cheating on my Noro Scarf to start my Charlotte’s Web. Wow, project monogamy is really hard!
Also, I forgot to tell you about the best stitch markers in the world. They are made by Suann and they are fantastic!
20 to a set,(18 matching & 2 contrasting) and they come in a tonne of colours. I chose four sets (this time, I had previously bought two sets that are currently all involved in other projects). Now, if you’re ordering from Canada, just send her a message telling her what you want and she’ll set up a reserve order for you with Canadian shipping. She does special orders and is super great to work with. I love these bad boys for lace & socks especially, they are not bulky and don’t get in the way.
Hmmm, okay what else. Oh yeah, I finished reading The Wars, by Timothy Findley last night. Amazing book set during WWI. I’ve not read much about WWI, I’ve always been more interested in WWII, but this book has definitely made me want to do some more reading on the subject. Findley’s writing is fantastic and I was crying like a baby as I was finishing the book. Been awhile since I cried while reading a book. Especially while sitting in the backyard on the deck. Then I noticed that the kids next door were all staring at me. Awesome! I’m so cool it hurts sometimes.
Also, as an aside, to the lady who read over my shoulder three mornings in a row? It’s not bad enough that you read my book over my shoulder every morning, but you insisted on making little disgusted gaspy noises at any naughty bits. Seriously, get your own book and sod off! I swear, next week I’m going to take something truly nasty to read and watch your head just explode from the shock of it all.
Now, I’ve started reading Cowboys are my Weakness, by Pam Houston. Short stories are so perfect for commuter reading.
Whoo hoo! A huge round of applause everyone! Y’all need to email me your snailmail addies and I will send out your lovely yarns, post haste. You can email me at beentsy at telus dot net, correcting all the odd bits in that addy. Or, just click on the email button on the right sidebar.
Thank you all for entering and for all your suggestions! I just got an email from the library and my first set of requests based on your entries are waiting for me to pick them up. Some of them sounded so very interesting! Also, ikkinla mentioned that they would choose to take the dictionary as their desert island book. I like this idea. It also made me think of a book I read last year called, The Know It All by A. J. Jacobs. He read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica. It was a lot of fun to read and I really kind of have to take my hat off to that level of obsessive compulsiveness with regard to learning & knowledge. Very cool.
Okay, it`s 32 degrees here today so if you need me, I`ll be here:
I don`t plan on entering the house again until after sunset. The heat and I, not so friendly with each other.
